Good Food

KCRW’s Good Food partnered with Grocery Goblin for “In-Store Stories,” a series of readings this fall. The first in the series centered around the theme of lunchtime, where listeners filled the aisles at Sabzee Market in Encino. Vanessa Anderson shares why she chose the themes for her five storytellers. Chef and political activist Angel Dimayuga reveals their father’s uncredited idea for the McDonald’s Extra Value Meal and journalist Lauren Bethke eats nachos with a dominatrix and her gimp at an LA diner.

Egg is the theme for our next In-Store Stories event at Fresco Community Market on Sunday, October 18. Purchase tickets here.

This week on Good Food:

Growing up in wartime Beirut, Jad Youssef's family table was a refuge. In Lebnani, the chef shares the dishes that got his family through.

Date farmer Alvaro Bautista explains which of his seven varieties are "juicy juicies" while pastry chef Steph Chen of Sugarbear Bakes adds Medjools to a carrot cake.

Connect with Good Food host Evan Kleiman on Substack.

This week on Good Food:

Chef Meherwan Irani sold cars and imported jewelry before finding his true calling — bringing India's street food to the masses.

Khushbu Shah surveys LA's vanishing Indian lunch buffets for her new series, Value Meal.

Connect with Good Food host Evan Kleiman on Substack.

This week on Good Food:

After decades of covering famine abroad, journalist Roger Thurow asks why we allow hunger to persist in the world's wealthiest nation.

Chez Mar chef Wesley Barden poaches Asian pears for a French salad while farmer Phil Rhodes explains why this year's harvest is so small.

Connect with Good Food host Evan Kleiman on Substack.

This week on Good Food: Move over, kombucha.

Ken Albala travels the world to explore how fermentation transforms cuisines.

Paul van Ravestein and Monique Mulder look at the history of New York City through its pickle vendors.

Connect with Good Food host Evan Kleiman on Substack.