Good Food

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Evan Kleiman is your guide to the best cooking and eating

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The podcast currently has 644 episodes available.

Good Food episodes:

May 16, 2025Roy Choi, Caribbean flavors, cherries
The joy of cooking with Roy Choi...
Kogi king Roy Choi has health on his mind in a new collection of recipes
How do you become a restaurant critic? Besha Rodell explains in her memoir
Marie Mitchell shares dishes from the Caribbean and its diaspora
It's cherry season at the farmers market and which means the lines are long at the Murray Family Farm stand
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May 10, 2025The multigenerational Korean kitchen, night fishing, cooking seafood
It's Mother's Day weekend and we head to the sea
Sarah Ahn's viral food videos of her mom have captivated millions of viewers with their behind-the-scenes look at Korean cooking and multigenerational life
Environmental photographer Arati Kumar-Rao goes night fishing alongside dolphins on the Brahmaputra River
Tyler Harper dons a wetsuit, often during storms, and heads out into the turbulent surf to fish for striped bass in the secretive and dangerous sport known as "wetsuiting"
Ari Kolender of Found Oyster and Queen St. Raw Bar & Grill has tips for cooking fish and shellfish with confidence
The Santa Monica Farmers Market says goodbye to longtime vendor Kandarian Organic Farms
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May 02, 2025Tequila, margaritas, salsa, and food dyes
It's a perfect party trifecta of tequila, margaritas, and salsa. Plus, we dig into the latest on food dyes.
Ted Genoways considers José Cuervo's colorful history, from eluding Pancho Villa's death threats to bringing tequila north of the Mexican border
Caroline Pardilla serves up 60 recipes for your next batch of margaritas
Rick Martinez chops, blends, and crushes more than tomatoes for endless variations of salsa
Dr. Jessica Knurick deciphers fact from fiction in the MAHA agenda.
Although they're available year-round, blueberries actually have a season and they're ripe for the picking.
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April 25, 2025Baking basics, Torture Orchard, Iranian food, sorrel
What baking beliefs can you do without?
Nicole Rucker rekindled her love for baking by tinkering with her favorite recipes and eliminating the fuss
Gabriela Glueck visits the "Torture Orchard," where California's nut trees are pushed to the brink so they can withstand the curveballs thrown by climate change
Nasim Alikhani spent decades working various jobs before realizing her calling — opening a restaurant to showcase the food of Iran
Evan Kleiman recalls the crazy ride of the 1980s LA restaurant scene with Francis Lam, host of The Splendid Table
Often overlooked among springtime greens, chef Dashiell Nathanson is anything but sorry to use sorrel in his cafe dishes
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April 18, 2025Buying in bulk, Trader Joe's, Costco
What do we buy? And what does that say about us?
Emily Mester examines what happens when consumption begins to consume you
Journalist Ada Tseng visits Costco twice a week for gas, deals, and hidden Asian treasures
Benjamin Lorr explores how the sliding doors at American grocery stores stay open
Patty Civalleri tells us about the man who created Trader Joe's, which started in Pasadena in 1967
Gustavo Arellano recalls the legacy of Frieda Caplan, who introduced Angelenos to all sorts of exotic produce
LA transplant Vanessa Anderson, aka The Grocery Goblin on Tiktok, documents the city by visiting its markets.
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April 11, 2025Matzo, Joan Nathan, Italian Easter desserts
Passover and Easter are here — and we have food ideas for both holidays.
Hèléne Jawhara Piñer unravels the thread connecting the Spanish Inquisition to modern Jewish food practices
In a new memoir, Joan Nathan reflects on her life through the lens of food
Jeff Chu abandoned his career as a journalist to work the land and attend seminary, tilling up life lessons as well as a sense of calm
Great British Bake Off alum Giuseppe dell-Anno celebrates a sweet Easter with Italian desserts
Chef Nestor Silva plucks leaves from the fava plant for a new dish at French Japanese bistro Camélia
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April 04, 2025Restaurant kids, Balkan & Hungarian recipes, green almonds
From takeout boxes to feeling boxed in, growing up as a "restaurant kid" is a unique experience.
Curtis Chin and Rachel Phan share memories of growing up in their parents' Chinese restaurants
Cookbook author Irina Georgescu finds inspiration east of the Danube River in Romania, Serbia, and Bulgaria
Jeremy Salamon reconnects with his Hungarian Jewish heritage and the charming childhood created by his grandmother
Chef Harry Posner takes advantage of the short window for green almonds
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March 28, 2025Sacred meals, absinthe, undercover dining at the CIA
Explore the spiritual side of food and modern Ghanaian recipes.
Jody Eddy spent two years visiting sacred spaces and meeting the people who cook in them
Inspired by childhood visits to Ghana, Eric Adjepong debuts his first collection of recipes
Andrea Nguyen questions the accuracy of those Prop 65 warning labels on many foods
Evan Rail plays detective, looking back on an absinthe enthusiast who became a con artist
Restaurant critic Tom Sietsema blows his cover in the CIA dining room
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March 21, 2025The legacy of Edna Lewis, birria, microplastics
A Black chef and cookbook author finally gets her due!
Deb Freeman traces the life of Edna Lewis, author of "The Taste of Country Cooking," in a new documentary.
While some people spent the pandemic starting sourdough, Jesse Valenciana got busy perfecting his birria.
Memo Torres visits an Inglewood backyard, where three generations of the Sandoval family make birria using an abuela's recipe.
Carolyn Kormann shares alarming facts about how microplastics have made their way into our bodies.
Chef Caroline Leff of Stir Crazy turns up at the farmers market for a favorite root vegetable.
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March 14, 2025Nowruz, cabbage, agricultural policy, whales vs. crabs
Celebrate the Persian new year with fresh herbs and new recipes
Known to his followers as the Caspian Chef, Omid Roustaei prepares to celebrate Nowruz.
Economist Betty Resnick lays out the reasons behind the US's agricultural trade deficit.
Alissa Timoshkina ventures beyond cabbage in a new cookbook dedicated to vegetables in Eastern European cuisines.
Whales that get caught in Dungeness crab fishing gear have left fishermen and environmentalists scrambling for a solution.
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