Good Food
Wild Foods of Central Park; California Wines; Pet Food Scare
While Pulitzer Prize-winner Jonathan Gold shares his latest restaurant review, Steven Brill discovers the wild foods of New York's Central Park. Kara Zuaro meets the challenge of finding quality food while traveling on a band's tour bus, and Kim Stewart learns what it takes to live on food-bank handouts. Food educator Marion Nestle studies the food supply for people and their pets, Nicolette Niman reveals the ingredients in animal feed and Mira Advani Honeycutt highlights the new regional wines of California's central coast. Laura Avery talks natural pest control with Tony Peltier in the Market Report.
By Evan Kleiman • • 1h 0m ListenWhile Pulitzer Prize-winner Jonathan Gold shares his latest restaurant review, Steven Brill discovers the wild foods of New York's Central Park. Kara Zuaro meets the challenge of finding quality food while traveling on a band's tour bus, and Kim Stewart learns what it takes to live on food-bank handouts. Food educator Marion Nestle studies the food supply for people and their pets, Nicolette Niman reveals the ingredients in animal feed and Mira Advani Honeycutt highlights the new regional wines of California's central coast. Laura Avery talks natural pest control with Tony Peltier in the Market Report.
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8 storiesThe Market Report
Laura Avery talks to Tony Peltier of Ladybugs Forever about natural pest control. Worm casings are rich in nutrients and work as a natural repellent to white fly, aphids and other pests. Tony also reveals the secret of killer snails -- these seashell or corkscrew shaped snails eat the eggs of the vegetarian snails that take over gardens and…
Read the story7 minStrictly Sushi
Jonathan Gold visits one of the most dependably delicious sushi restaurants in Los Angeles, Hiko Sushi. The restaurant has strict rules -- patrons must order a minimum of four dishes, anyone who sits at the sushi bar must do Amakase (chef’s choice) and when you are served sushi you must eat the accompanying rice. The house policies create an…
Read the story7 minBorn To Be Wild
“Wildman” Steven Brill is an expert at foraging for wild food in one of the most unlikely places: New York City’s Central Park. When arrested in 1986 for “destruction of park property” (for picking and eating a dandelion on a jaunt through Central Park), Brill publicized the arrest, the city dropped the charges and the parks department hired…
Read the story7 minRecipes That Rock
While touring on the road, a common lament for band members is “I’m tired and I’m hungry and I can’t wait to go home.” When truck stops and roadside diners no longer fit the bill for traveling musicians, their creativity can be channeled towards inventing their own tour-bus meals.
Read the story7 minLiving on Handouts
While preparing to write her book, Eating Between the Lines: The Supermarket Shopper's Guide to the Truth Behind Food Labels , author Kimberly Lord Stewart, her husband and her teenage son agreed to live on food rations for one week. The food they received was from a non-profit food bank in her hometown of Denver, Colorado, which distributes…
Read the story7 minFood Contamination
The recent pet food scare has shed light on both the human and pet food supply. Marion Nestle talks about food contamination: what’s happening and why it’s getting worse, and what we can do in our own homes to increase food safety.
Read the story7 minAnimal Feed
If you are what you eat, then what about the animals we consume and their diet? Can it affect us? Nicolette Hahn Niman is an environmental lawyer and the wife of rancher Bill Niman, who produces humane beef and pork products . Nicolette reveals the surprising ingredients of typical animal feed, which can include arsenic, dyes, poultry manure…
Read the story7 minCentral Coast Wines
In her new book, California’s Central Coast: The Ultimate Winery Guide: From Santa Barbara to Paso Robles , Mira Advani Honeycutt features the largely undiscovered wine region that is gaining popularity for its wineries, down-to-earth communities and close proximity to Los Angeles.
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