Good Food

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Evan Kleiman is your guide to the best cooking and eating

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October 03, 2025Fixing our broken food system and the glory of tacos
How do you fix a food system that isn't simply broken but has been captured, top to bottom, in the name of profit?
Our food system isn't simply broken, it has been captured, top to bottom, in the name of profit. Austin Frerick shares the stories of seven agricultural titans, their rise to power, and the consequences for the rest of us.
For almost a decade, renowned Mexican chef Enrique Olvera veered away from serving tacos at Pujol, his Michelin-starred Mexico City restaurant. Now, he celebrates them with taco omakase at the bar.
Oaxacans claim if you eat chapulínes (grasshoppers), you will return to Oaxaca. Anthropologist Jeffrey H. Cohen looks at the consumption of these insects and the women who make a living selling them.
Travel and food writer Caroline Eden hiked between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, discovering recipes along the way.
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September 26, 2025Chef Jeremy Fox moves from vegetables to meat
Passionfruit, overlapping food crises, and what federal spending cuts mean for local food banks
Seven years after chef Jeremy Fox released On Vegetables, he offers a cookbook with a different focus, On Meat.
Michael Flood of the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank explains what the massive cuts to SNAP, USAID, and DOGE mean for local food assistance programs.
Dr. Stuart Gillespie analyzes the cascade of overlapping crises impacting our food system — and he proposes solutions.
At the farmers market, passionfruit from Carpinteria goes into an LA mole.
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September 19, 2025The fight to raise minimum wage for tipped workers
The real story behind "no tax on tips" and the best vegan cheese
Eyal Press reports on the fight to raise the minimum wage for tipped workers
Animal and food activist Miyoko Schinner prides herself on making dairy-free butters, creams, and cheeses
Chloe Sorvino exposes the hidden corruption and corporate greed within the meat industry
Mike Cirone travels from See Canyon near San Luis Obispo to share his apples with farmers market shoppers.
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September 12, 2025Going garden-to-table
Going garden-to-table and how immigration raids are impacting LA's restaurant workers
Canning evangelist Kevin West puts his home garden to work in the kitchen
Journalist Andrew Lopez reports on how ICE raids are impacting Boyle Heights
Rudy Espinoza shares how Inclusive Action supports communities affected by the immigration raids
Journalist Kim Severson explores the creation of the perfect peanut
Vannak Tan serves Cambodian-style seafood at A&J Seafood from a shack in San Pedro
Alvaro Bautista brings dates from Mecca to the farmers market in Santa Monica
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September 05, 2025Unpacking the MAHA agenda
Is America any healthier, yet?
Mother and son Jyoti and Auyon Mukharji stay rooted in their Indian heritage while living in the Midwest.
Journalist Lisa Held sorts through the details of the recently leaked draft of the MAHA strategy report, a year after Make America Healthy Again debuted.
Public health advocate Marion Nestle was cautiously optimistic in the early days of MAHA. What's her perspective now?
Lior Lev Sercarz explores the many varieties of peppercorns.
The weekly market report features chef Zach Pollack's use of sweet peppers.
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August 29, 2025Cool down with paletas, ice cream & room temp food
Elizabeth Mateo expands her family's 40-year-old paletas business.
Filmmaker Eddie Schmidt weaves together scenes of the men and women who drive ice cream trucks from in his documentary, Popsicle Culture.
Adrienne Borlongan of Wanderlust Creamery makes ice cream inspired by travel and adventure.
On a stroll, David Owen uncovered the remnants of Berkshire Ice Company, a century-old business which shipped ice around the world. His curiosity sent him on a journey investigating the history of refrigeration and cooling technologies, which along with convenience, harbor harsh impacts on the environment.
Bee Wilson embraces room temp dishes while acclimatizing food temperatures to the weather.
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August 22, 2025Any which whey: America's protein obsession
The protein powder boom, anchovies, ancient Roman recipes, and more!
Whey, the liquid byproduct of cheese making, was once considered waste. It's now a key ingredient in the protein powders that dieters and weightlifters are downing in ever-greater amounts — and that means big changes for the dairy industry, reports Kevin Draper.
Horror film producer turned food historian Christopher Beckman chronicles the anchovy's place in the European cooking canon.
Sally Grainger reinterprets Roman recipes taken from Latin texts.
As students head back to school, we catch up with Jack Bobo, Executive Director of the UCLA Rothman Family Institute for Food Studies.
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August 15, 2025The greatest grocery store eats
Grocery store feasts, eggplant, the Jonathan Gold menu project and more!
Ukrainian chef Olia Hercules shares family stories and recipes passed down through four generations
Tien Nguyen opens the LA Public Library's archives to explore vintage restaurant menus and remembers Jonathan Gold's crucial essay about eating on Pico Blvd
Vanessa Anderson — aka the Grocery Goblin — profiles grocery stores where you can grab a great meal
Meera Sodha has low-effort, high-reward dinner ideas that use summer vegetables
When eggplant hits farmers markets, chef Evan Algorri knows what to do with it
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August 08, 2025What's behind the historic honeybee hive die-off?
You better bee-lieve it, we're talking about honeybee headaches.
Former beekeeper Adam Novicki explains the causes of this year's historic honeybee die-off
Sawdust covered floors, free peanuts, and stiff martinis are hallmarks of Chez Jay, which celebrates 66 years along Route 66
Jenny Linford explores cooking, eating, and drinking through objects in the British Museum's collection
Chef Katie Reicher of legendary San Francisco restaurant Greens shares vegetarian recipes from her repertoire
Baker Nicole Rucker adopts a fruit tree and sets her sights on a glazed peach pie
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August 01, 2025Preserving culinary traditions amid war and violence
When everything falls apart, food is sometimes all we can cling to.
Michael Shaikh looks to those who are preserving their food and culinary traditions in the aftermath of war, displacement, and global violence
Lee Svitak Dean and Linda Svitak are Minnesota sisters who collaborated on a book that highlights people from vastly different circumstances all over the globe
Toni Tipton-Martin showcases the creativity of women who bring soul to Southern cuisine
In his new novel, Mark Kurlansky explores how an ancient cheesecake recipe and a conniving landlord change one Manhattan block forever
Get happy, it's tomato season at the farmers market!

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FAQs about Good Food:

How many episodes does Good Food have?

The podcast currently has 635 episodes available.