Kitchens are getting "smart." And kitchen gadgets, high tech. We're here to fill you in.

We're veteran cookbook authors Bruce Weinstein & Mark Scarbrough. We've written over three dozen cookbooks, many of them about gadgets, like FROM FREEZER TO INSTANT POT: THE COOKBOOK and THE LOOK & COOK AIR FRYER BIBLE.

After talking about new, high-tech gadgets for your kitche, we've got a one-minute cooking tip about Meyer lemons. Bruce interviews culinary legend Nancy Baggett about her love of lavender and her cookbooks on her favored ingredient. And we tell you what's making us happy in food this week.

Here are the segments of this episode of COOKING WITH BRUCE AND MARK:

[00:40] Our thoughts on the new high-tech cooking gadgets.

[20:12] Our one-minute cooking tip: how to make a substitution for the ever-popular but hard-to-find meyer lemon.

[21:18] Bruce interviews culinary legend and the queen of all things lavender Nancy Baggett.

[40:44] What’s making s happy in food this week? Waffle cones and fried chicken!