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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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But since he wants to hear everyone else’s take, J will talk to chefs, writers, musicians, actors and more. Like writer Molly Baz, chef Carla Lalli, and PBS host Pati Jinich. You’ll hear about their best meals and worst meals. Favorite spots around the world. And you might even get a peek inside their fridges to find out how they’re really eating. The conversations will start with food, but will always wind up somewhere else, because food is culture, and everybody eats.

I’m going to play the first episode for you now. In it, J Lee talks with chef and author Carla Lalli about her journey from Shake Shack to Bon Appetit, her new cookbook, and why we should eat our feelings.

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• Tucked away in the hills above Los Angeles, Richard Christiansen creates an almanac for gardening, cooking, and home projects at Flamingo Estate.
• Chef Joshua Whigham of Casa Leo visits the farmers market where Christine Brown of Rincon Tropics sells passion fruit from her coastal farm.

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• Pierce Abernathy makes vegetables the heroes of the plate.
• Matt Biancaniello turns the farmers market into a cocktail menu while Cirone Farms sees its earliest apple harvest ever.

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• Marion Nestle and Lisa Sutherland argue that if you want to understand the American food industry, start in the cereal aisle.
• In preparation for the High Holidays, Leah Koenig explores 2,000 years of Jewish baking.

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• From bossam and brats to carne asada and miso black cod, Noah Galuten commands the grill.
• TikTok darling Claire Dinhut has a thing for condiments and finds creative ways to use them.

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• Food preservation evangelist Kevin West puts his home garden to work in the kitchen.
• With the sale of Andy’s Orchard, we revisit Tyler Boudreaux's report on the history of the Black Republican cherry.

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• Chef Pim Techamuanvivit breaks down traditional techniques to create simple Thai dishes.
• Farmer Jason Chang explains how his purple corn comes to farmers markets while chef Giles Clark turns it into tagliatelle.

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• Khushbu Shah discovers that vegetarian sushi in LA has come a long way from cucumber and avocado rolls.
• Šárka Otevrel Camrdova and Marek Bartoš explore food preservation in the Czech Republic, where pickling has become a symbolic faith.

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• On Orcas Island, farmer Doug Bullock has been putting the "cult" in permaculture for the past 45 years.
• With decades of experience covering pivotal moments in history, from the fall of the Soviet Union to the current war in Ukraine, journalist Felicity Spector looks at world events through a culinary lens.

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• Sultans, street food, and pickles — Özlem Warren brings the diverse flavors of Istanbul to the home kitchen.
• Sloane Crosley explains misophonia, a neurophysiological disorder characterized by a severe aversion to sound with its own set of triggers.

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• Paul Greenberg goes fishing among deep sea oil rigs and explains how the forces that built these unlikely oceanside ecosystems are now causing their downfall.
• For 65 years, Fisherman's Outlet has remained mostly unchanged. On "In the Weeds," Sheri Kopelowicz shares the ups and downs of running the seafood market her father started.

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• Journalist Frank Shyong dines at sacred spaces that happen to have world-class eats.

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• Kelly Dobkin beats the heat with her rundown of LA’s best frozen yogurt stops.
• Julia Child Fellow Janek Schaller reports on agrivoltaics, which fuse old school farming with solar power to offset utility bills and protect crops.
• At the farmers market, look for figs from Murray Family Farms, which grows close to 40 varieties. Chef Luis Sierra of Picala grills them over a fire and serves them with lamb and mojo rojo sauce.

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• Nokx Majozi heads home to South Africa to explore the many cultures and dishes that inform the cuisine.
• Between October 2025 and April 2026, the US took in 4,499 refugees. All but three were from South Africa. Boyce Upholt discovers thousands of Afrikaners in the Mississippi Delta living and working on agricultural visas.

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• Cathy Park of The Infatuation feasts on her favorite part of a Korean meal.
• Chef Chuy Cervantes from San Damian shops the farmer's market for lemon cucumbers.

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In this bonus episode of Good Food, Marion Nestle and Helena Bottemiller Evich unpack the current state of public health amid the nation’s collective stomach bug  – cyclospora.

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• Emiko Davies builds the backbone of the Japanese pantry.
• Chef Tadashi Ono and food writer Harris Salat have spent nearly two decades exploring that soulful side of Japanese cuisine together, compiling simple seasonal recipes that generations of families have relied on.

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• Chef Saeng Douangdara on the dips, ferments, and family history behind Lao cuisine.
• At the farmers market, RVR bartender Nina Wongsuwat shops for plums for a seasonal negroni.

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• Time traveling to 1980s New York, Dylan Gottlieb explores how Yuppies forged the food culture we now take for granted.
• Chef Eddie Huang discusses the pain of writing his first novel and the joy of seeing his beloved Knicks win it all.

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• Khushbu Shah wakes up our wanderlust with global breakfast across LA.
• At the farmers market, Wilde's chef Natasha Price shops for Jimmy Nardello peppers while Beylik Farms shows off a gorgeous array of peppers.

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