Good Food
The Red Rooster, Fidel the Foodie, P.Y.T.
Laura Avery gets schooled on macadamias and walnuts, then The Red Rooster takes root in Harlem, and Chef Marcus Samuelsson shares his fried yardbird royale recipe. Writer Darien Cavanaugh and filmmaker Rodrigo García wax poetic about Fidel Castro's food obsession. Plus, Jonathan Gold reviews P.Y.T. in LA, and we hop over to Tokyo for a convenience store food crawl.
By Evan Kleiman • • 56m ListenPhoto: Bobby Fisher
In this episode
6 storiesThe nut report
Laura Avery's all about nuts at the Santa Monica Farmers Market this week. Jim Russell has a grove of 200 macadamia trees on six acres in Fallbrook, California. We learn how a severe heat wave in June hurt his crop and the backstory to how macadamia nuts ended up in Hawaii.
Read the story8 minThe Red Rooster
Chef Marcus Samuelsson has a new book out, The Red Rooster Cookbook , named for the restaurant he opened six years ago in Harlem. Samuelsson discusses his efforts to build The Red Rooster into the community, his favorite items on the menu, and the woman who inspired his supper club .
Read the story13 minDeath by chocolate milkshake
Fidel Castro's ashes were laid to rest in Cuba last Sunday. The bearded revolutionary often seen with a cigar in his hand had a particular fixation: ice cream. Darien Cavanaugh, a writer based in South Carolina, fills us in on Castro's " bizarre obsession with milk ."
Read the story6 minRemembering Fidel the Foodie
In 1975, Gabriel García Márquez met Fidel Castro, and the encounter was the beginning of a long friendship. Márquez's son, Rodrigo García , recalls Castro eating some of his favorite foods, like chocolate and vanilla ice cream, and salted cod with leeks and potatoes.
Read the story13 minHow I fell for convenience store food in Japan
More than ever, on-the-go eaters in Japan are stopping by convenience stores for breakfast, lunch and dinner. On a recent trip to Tokyo, our supervising producer Abbie Fentress Swanson took a food crawl to convenience stores all over the city.
Read the story9 minJonathan Gold dines (mostly) on vegetables at P.Y.T. in DTLA
Chef Josef Centeno recently converted half his restaurant, Ledlow, into a new vegetable-centric eatery called P.Y.T.
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