Food Thieves: Missing Cows, Fake Fertilizer and Heisted Almonds

Detective Rocky Pipkin is a private eye in California’s Central Valley, where the billion-dollar farming industry has made investigating agricultural crimes his specialty. He tells us how truckloads of nuts can vanish into thin air, why you might be eating stolen citrus and how one man scammed dairy farmers out of millions of dollars with a cow Ponzi scheme. Plus, Ed Levine explains why the diner is one of America's most enduring culinary establishments, Grant Barrett and Martha Barnette examine the language of soup, and we dress up a steak with miso-infused butter.

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