Good Food
The Tomato; Hunger in America; Beef Tendon
This week, a look at hunger in America, coffee alternatives and our complicated relationship with the tomato.
By Evan Kleiman • • 1h 0m ListenThis week on Good Food, host Evan Kleiman talks with writer Barry Estabrook about America's most prized, and tormented fruit: the tomato. Kris Morningstar of Ray's at LACMA thinks beef tendon is the new pork belly. We'll hear about coffee alternatives like Cascara and Postum from Kevin Sinott. Jonathan Gold takes us to a new Middle Eastern restaurant in West Hollywood. Marion Nestle explains how the USDA turned their food pyramid into a plate and what that means for Americans. Plus, cooking with taragon from the Farmers Market with Chef CC Consalvo. And, Debbie Shore gives us an update on how hunger is affecting American youth.
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Private chef CC Consalvo of Clean Plate Meals is buying lots of herbs from Coleman Farms. She especially likes using tarragon, which she uses on broiled sole with tarragon. Find her fish recipe here . She also blends tarragon with Extra Virgin Olive Oil and then strains it through a fine sieve for a tarragon-flavored oil.
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Dr. Marion Nestle is Paulette Goddard Professor in the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health and Professor of Sociology at New York University. She is the author of numerous books and publications and makes public appearances on the topics of nutrition and health. Her blog is Food Politics .
Read the story7 minBeef Tendon
Kris Morningstar is the Executive Chef at Ray's at LACMA. He is using beef tendon, which he slow cooks, sometimes in a sous vide oven.
Read the story7 minCoffee Alternatives
Kevin Sinnott is a nationally recognized coffee expert and the curator of Coffee Companion . Cascara is a coffee byproduct made from the dried "cherries" that are cast off during bean harvesting. It is also known as coffee cherry tea. Kevin recommends using a French press device for brewing cascara.
Read the story7 minSpaghetti Tacos
Deep End Diner and Good Food contributor Eddie Lin visited the set of iCarly to interview with inventor of the spaghetti tacos. Read the full interview on the Good Food Blog .
Read the story3 minThe Tomato
Food writer Barry Estabrook's latest book is Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit . His website is Politics of the Plate . He's written extensively about the plight of tomato workers in Florida. Read an excerpt of the book here . More about the tomato workers' fight for better wages .
Read the story11 minJonathan Gold on Mezze
Jonathan Gold is the Pulitzer Prize-winning food writer for the LA Weekly . This week he reviews Mezze in West Hollywood. He likes the fattoush, tabbouleh, the foie gras terrine, manti dumplings with almond milk, lamb shawarma, a crudo of salmon and cream cheese, shakshouka with sweetbreads, and lebne cheesecake for dessert.
Read the story7 minNo Kid Hungry
Debbie Shore is the co-Founder of Share our Strength, which aims to end childhood hunger in America by 2012. Their annual fundraiser is Taste of the Nation , this Sunday, June 12 in Culver City.
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