Special extended episode! For the very first episode of The Pickle Shelf Radio Hour, Mike and Jan celebrate the Lunar New Year in Washington, D.C. and rural West Virginia. Mike joins a good friend on an epic winter road trip through the mountains to procure ingredients for a special Cantonese feast. Kentucky chef AuCo Lai stops by Lost Creek Farm to prepare a spread of New Years dishes steeped in Vietnamese tradition, with plenty of influences from AuCo’s time in the Bluegrass State’s Appalachian coalfields.

Heads up: this episode contains mild and infrequent use of adult language