Chewing

Louisa and Monica talk to Dr. Andrew Weil and Upton’s Naturals founder Dan Staackmann about healing and navigating sensitive feelings at the gathering table this season. Plus a vegan BBQ jackfruit sandwich and al pastor tacos but Will She Eat It?

Monica Eng and Louisa Chu talk home cooking with Rodale CEO and blogger Maria Rodale about her new book Scratch; plus go to a Chinatown basement food court for WCPEWCPGTCR (What Chinese People Eat When Chinese People Go to Chinese Restaurants) with Sauced in Translation host Howie Southworth; then the inaugural Strange Foods Festival Chicago for grilled brains and mystery egg but WSEI (Will She Eat It)?

McSweeney's founder and best-selling author Dave Eggers does premiere Drive Thru interview, Dr. Maya Shetreat-Klein talks The Dirt Cure, plus Cheetos chicken fries and exotic Midwestern fruit for "Will She Eat It?" but will they?

Christopher Kimball, best known for America's Test Kitchen talks his new Milk Street Kitchen, and plays Delicious Combo. Plus a visit to a Filipino food festival for balut, duck egg embryo, for "Will She Eat It?"

Pizza, Chinese food, plus vegans, vegetarians, and omnivores get unstuffed. Monica debuts What Chinese People Eat When Chinese People Go to Chinese Restaurants. And Louisa talks to the Nancy herself of Nancy’s Pizza, home of the original stuffed pizza in Chicago. Then Monica chats with food filmmaker and author Anna Thomas about her newest book “Vegan Vegetarian Omnivore: Dinner For Everyone At The Table”. Plus Monica brings Louisa a tropical cocktail cheddar cheese but Will She Eat It? (Photo: stuffed pizza at Nancy’s Pizza on Golf Road in Niles, Illinois by Louisa Chu)