Good Food
Evan Kleiman is your guide to the best cooking and eating
Episodes
This week on Good Food:
- Growing up in wartime Beirut, Jad Youssef's family table was a refuge. In Lebnani, the chef shares the dishes that got his family through.
- Date farmer Alvaro Bautista explains which of his seven varieties are "juicy juicies" while pastry chef Steph Chen of Sugarbear Bakes adds Medjools to a carrot cake.
This week on Good Food:
- Chef Meherwan Irani sold cars and imported jewelry before finding his true calling — bringing India's street food to the masses.
- Khushbu Shah surveys LA's vanishing Indian lunch buffets for her new series, Value Meal.
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This week on Good Food:
- After decades of covering famine abroad, journalist Roger Thurow asks why we allow hunger to persist in the world's wealthiest nation.
- Chez Mar chef Wesley Barden poaches Asian pears for a French salad while farmer Phil Rhodes explains why this year's harvest is so small.
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This week on Good Food: Move over, kombucha.
- Ken Albala travels the world to explore how fermentation transforms cuisines.
- Paul van Ravestein and Monique Mulderlook at the history of New York City through its pickle vendors.
Sharing an episode of the new podcast Expense Account. We all know eating out in New York has become an extreme sport. If you treat dining out like a full-time obsession—and care about the ...
This week on Good Food:
- Tucked away in the hills above Los Angeles, Richard Christiansen creates an almanac for gardening, cooking, and home projects at Flamingo Estate.
- Chef Joshua Whigham of Casa Leo visits the farmers market where Christine Brown of Rincon Tropics sells passion fruit from her coastal farm.
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This week on Good Food:
- Tchelly Moise helped lead the first American slaughterhouse strike in nearly 40 years. He and journalist Ted Genoways explain how JBS, the world's largest meat producer, relies on vulnerable immigrant labor, and what's happened since the US government terminated Temporary Protected Status for many of the workers who keep the plant running.
This week on Good Food:
- Pierce Abernathy makes vegetables the heroes of the plate.
- Matt Biancaniello turns the farmers market into a cocktail menu while Cirone Farms sees its earliest apple harvest ever.
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This week on Good Food:
- Marion Nestle and Lisa Sutherland argue that if you want to understand the American food industry, start in the cereal aisle.
- In preparation for the High Holidays, Leah Koenig explores 2,000 years of Jewish baking.
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This week on Good Food:
- From bossam and brats to carne asada and miso black cod, Noah Galuten commands the grill.
- TikTok darling Claire Dinhut has a thing for condiments and finds creative ways to use them.
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This week on Good Food:
- Food preservation evangelist Kevin West puts his home garden to work in the kitchen.
- With the sale of Andy’s Orchard, we revisit Tyler Boudreaux's report on the history of the Black Republican cherry.
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This week on Good Food:
- Chef Pim Techamuanvivit breaks down traditional techniques to create simple Thai dishes.
- Farmer Jason Chang explains how his purple corn comes to farmers markets while chef Giles Clark turns it into tagliatelle.
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This week on Good Food:
- Khushbu Shah discovers that vegetarian sushi in LA has come a long way from cucumber and avocado rolls.
- Šárka Otevrel Camrdova and Marek Bartoš explore food preservation in the Czech Republic, where pickling has become a symbolic faith.
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This week on Good Food:
- On Orcas Island, farmer Doug Bullock has been putting the "cult" in permaculture for the past 45 years.
- With decades of experience covering pivotal moments in history, from the fall of the Soviet Union to the current war in Ukraine, journalist Felicity Spector looks at world events through a culinary lens.
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This week on Good Food:
- Sultans, street food, and pickles — Özlem Warren brings the diverse flavors of Istanbul to the home kitchen.
- Sloane Crosley explains misophonia, a neurophysiological disorder characterized by a severe aversion to sound with its own set of triggers.
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This week on Good Food:
- Paul Greenberg goes fishing among deep sea oil rigs and explains how the forces that built these unlikely oceanside ecosystems are now causing their downfall.
- For 65 years, Fisherman's Outlet has remained mostly unchanged. On "In the Weeds," Sheri Kopelowicz shares the ups and downs of running the seafood market her father started.
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This week on Good Food:
- Kelly Dobkin beats the heat with her rundown of LA’s best frozen yogurt stops.
- Julia Child Fellow Janek Schaller reports on agrivoltaics, which fuse old school farming with solar power to offset utility bills and protect crops.
- At the farmers market, look for figs from Murray Fa...
This week on Good Food:
- Nokx Majozi heads home to South Africa to explore the many cultures and dishes that inform the cuisine.
- Between October 2025 and April 2026, the US took in 4,499 refugees. All but three were from South Africa. Boyce Upholt discovers thousands of Afrikaners in the Mississippi Delta living and working on agricultural visas.
This week on Good Food:
- Cathy Park of The Infatuation feasts on her favorite part of a Korean meal.
- Chef Chuy Cervantes from San Damian shops the farmer's market for lemon cucumbers.
Connect with Good Food host Evan Kleiman on Substack.
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