Good Food
Vegetable Cooking with April Bloomfield, LA Beer Trends, Pyrex Turns 100
Chef April Bloomfield is known for her love of the "odd bits" of animals, but in her new cookbook she turns her attention to vegetable cookery. Beer writer Jolie Myers spotlights local beer trends in advance of LA Beer Week and we celebrate Pyrex turning 100.
By Evan Kleiman • • 57m ListenPhoto: Pyrex One-Quart Covered Casserole, "Blue Floral" or "Willow", made by Corning Glass Works, Charleroi, Pennsylvania, 1970. 2010. Courtesy Corning Museum of Glass.
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7 storiesRobert Sietsema and Jonathan Gold Talk NY Pizza and Pastrami
LA Times restaurant critic Jonathan Gold grabs the Good Food reins and chats with Robert Sietsema, the senior critic at Eater New York and longtime critic for the Village Voice. His new book, New York in a Dozen Dishes , paints a portrait of New York’s food landscape and shares a life spent discovering good food.
Read the story10 minApril Bloomfield: A Girl and Her Greens
April Bloomfield is the Michelin-starred chef behind five restaurants from New York to San Francisco. Known for her love of meat and a nose-to-tail ethos, she turns her attention to vegetables in new cookbook, A Girl and her Greens: Hearty Meals from the Garden . Music: "Sing Me to Sleep"
Read the story8 minMarket Report
Santa Monica Farmers' Market manager Laura Avery visits Carlsbad Aquafarm , a sustainable aquafarm cultivating Mediterranean blue mussels, Pacific oysters and ogo. Their shellfish can be found at Whole Foods, Sprouts Market, and Santa Monica Seafood. They will return to the Wednesday Santa Monica Farmers' Market in the coming months.
Read the story7 minA Year on the Beetlebung Farm
Chris Fischer is a chef and farmer at Beetlebung Farm on Martha's Vineyard, where his family's roots date back twelve generations. He documents a year of hauling in lobster pots, cultivating vegetables and butchering his own meat on his five acre farm in The Beetlebung Farm Cookbook .
Read the story7 minTapping into LA Beer Week
Jolie Myers covers the Los Angeles beer scene for Liquid LA, Los Angeles magazine's online outpost for beer, wine and cocktail stories.
Read the story9 minPyrex Celebrates 100 Years
The cookware giant Pyrex was originally developed and introduced by Corning Glass in 1915. To commemorate the 100 year anniversary, the Corning Museum of Glass presents America's Favorite Dish: Celebrating a Century of Pyrex .
Read the story7 minJonathan Gold Review BS Taqueria
Jonathan Gold is the Pulitzer Prize-winning food writer for the LA Times. This week he reviews BS Taqueria , a modern taqueria in the former Mo-Chica space in Downtown LA.
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