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    Good Food

    The Market Report: Kohlrabi

    This week at the Santa Monica Farmers Market, Laura Avery talks to Nguyen Tran, chef-owner of Starry Kitchen and Button Mash , about using kohlrabi in their Singaporean chili crab gumbo. At Smith Farms in Costa Mesa, McKay Smith plants green and purple varieties of the spiky space-age-looking veggie alongside rows of sugar snap peas.

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    By Evan Kleiman • Mar 10, 2017 • 1 min read

    This week at the Santa Monica Farmers Market, Laura Avery talks to Nguyen Tran, chef-owner of Starry Kitchen and Button Mash, about using kohlrabi in their Singaporean chili crab gumbo. At Smith Farms in Costa Mesa, McKay Smith plants green and purple varieties of the spiky space-age-looking veggie alongside rows of sugar snap peas.

    Music: "I Need a Dollar" (instrumental) by Aloe Blacc and "Action Bronson" (instrumental) by Shiraz, produced by Tommy Mas

    The full episode

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    Supermensch, Pi Day, farming at Tule Lake Segregation Center
    1. 0:00Becoming Mr. Vergé's grasshopper
    2. 12:15Happy Pi Day
    3. 24:40The Market Report: KohlrabiYou’re reading this
    4. 32:39Farming behind barbed wire at Tule Lake
    5. 44:41'The Saffron Tales'
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      Evan Kleiman

      host 'Good Food'

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      Laryl Garcia

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      Abbie Fentress Swanson

      Independent reporter and producer

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    The full episode

    3 of 5
    Supermensch, Pi Day, farming at Tule Lake Segregation Center
    1. 0:00Becoming Mr. Vergé's grasshopper
    2. 12:15Happy Pi Day
    3. 24:40The Market Report: KohlrabiYou’re reading this
    4. 32:39Farming behind barbed wire at Tule Lake
    5. 44:41'The Saffron Tales'
    Back to Good Food