Good Food

This week on Good Food:

• Vivian Howard's love of the freezer has never thawed and she uses it as a secret weapon for meal prep.
• Sophie Sadler proves that German home cooking is more than pretzels and brats.
• Natasha Pickowicz prepares for a communal Lunar New Year over a bubbling hot pot.
• Kate McDermott shares a recipe and tips for the quin...

Laissez les bon temps rouler with a bit of food history.

• Looking toward Mardi Gras, historian Ashley Rose Young explores the vibrant street food culture of New Orleans, with roots stretching back to the city's origins.
• Food writer Adrian Miller enlists the help of Deborah Chang to share the story of Asian heritage chefs cooking in the...

Plus: A powerful pie documentary, Puerto Rican party food, a loverly chocolate tart, the best Mexican restaurants, and hydroponic tomatoes at the farmers market.

• KCRW's PieFest & Contest is back! We talk to Iowan Beth Howard about her documentary Pieowa, which brings together church ladies, state fair contestants, farm wives, and historians to explore the power of a fl...

The good, the bad and the ugly about our new dietary guidelines.

• Marion Nestle reconsiders her seminal book What to Eat Now, two decades later.
• Polina Chesnakova sneaks in a few comforting, cool weather recipes from the Caucuses.
• Pyet DeSpain drew on her Native American and Mexican heritage to find a deeper purpose.
• Cha McCoy shines a lig...

Would you pay $1,500 for dinner?

• René Redzepi explains how he's orchestrating Noma's LA residency and why it comes with such a hefty price tag. 
• Anna Ansari follows flavor down the Silk Roads. 
• Khushbu Shah knows where to get the best veggie burgers. 
• At the farmers market, Walter Manzke finds fun uses for chanterelles.

Connect with Good Food host Evan ...

AI might be making your groceries more expensive.

• Reporter Eric Gardner explains how grocery stores are exploring "dynamic pricing," charging different people different prices for the same items. 
• Sean Sherman, the Sioux Chef, links the natural environments, traditions, and histories of Indigenous peoples across North America in his latest cookbook. 
• Krystle Hickman journeys through ...

Amid the loss and devastation, there is resilience and hope.

• We remember our friend Christine Moore, owner of Little Flower, who unexpectedly passed away this week.
• Leah Ferrazzani of Ferrazzani's Pasta & Market tells the tale of multiple fires, pointing out the disparities in how Altadena residents were affected.
• Teddy and Andy Leonard weigh in on the challenges of rebuilding the Reel Inn...

New year, new ideas.

• We revisit a conversation with Austin Frerick who shares the stories of seven agricultural titans, their rise to power, and the consequences for the rest of us. 

• Nancy Matsumoto celebrates the women who are fighting Big Food by building sustai...

A year in the life of food. 

• Michael Shaikh tells the stories of people preserving their culinary traditions amid war and violence.

• Ted Genoways considers José Cuervo's colorful history, from eluding Pancho Villa's death threats to bringing tequila north of...

Generational family recipes take center stage.

• Kathy Fang spent her childhood shaped by 24 square blocks of San Francisco, where her father manned a wok, feeding hungry customers at the House of Nanking.

• Forager Pascal Baudar hunts down wild seeds and grains.

A breakfast odyssey begins. 

• Food & Wine contributing editor Khushbu Shah shares where to grab the best stack of pancakes in Los Angeles.
•  Hetty Lui McKinnon puts salad at the center of the table for intimate gatherings. 
• Molecular biologist Nik Sharma tests taste buds ...

Fire up the oven and get creative with your holiday baking. 

• Kat Lieu offers 108 Asian cookie recipes that you can bring to your next cookie exchange.

• Maureen Abood unlocks memories as she finds inspiration in the Lebanese bakeries of Dearborn, Michigan.

It's a cookbook bonanza!

• Celia Sack of Omnivore Books on Food shares a roundup of the year's best cookbooks, including graphic novel memoirs and one of the only Cambodian cookbooks written in English.

• Bee Wilson explores how quotidian kitchen items become powerful symb...

All the best food with people you actually like? We're in!

• We kickstart Thanksgiving with Nashville chef Arnold Myint, author of Family Thai, who joins Evan Kleiman to co-host a special Thanksgiving episode about chosen family.
• Although Minneapolis chef Yia Vang cooks Hmong food that's rooted in his f...

Raw fish reaches its apex on a stretch of Ventura Blvd. that's home to the highest concentration of sushi restaurants in the US. 

Brant Cox of The Infatuation surveys the sushi restaurants of Ventura Boulevard.

• Chef and TV host Andrew Zimmern imparts lessons from his time on the water to set up home cooks for seafood success.
• Ixta Belfrage cre...

Pull out that package of ramen and get ready to dress it up!

• Instant ramen is most frequently associated with tired clichés about quick dorm room eats but Peter J. Kim wants us to rethink the dried noodles.
• Beloved baker Dorie Greenspan takes the cake in a new collection of recipes.
• LA Times restaurant critic Bill Addison pays a visit to Cafe 2001.
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Exploring African flavors, Japanese fermentation, and a Paris farmers market.

• Ruby Tandoh traces how our culinary tastes have transformed in our 24/7 food obsession.
• Yasmin Khan manages stew recipes without meat.
• Kenji Morimoto was tasked with making pickles in his family's kitchen an...

Hosting a Halloween party, veganizing Korean cuisine at home, and the horrors of labor throughout the food system:

• Elvira, Mistress of the Dark AKA Cassandra Peterson IRL dons her towering black beehive and blood-red lipstick for a collection of hair-raising recipes just in time for Halloween.
• When we last talked to her, three years ago, Rosie Grant had already gone...