Plenty Epicurean Pantry

I was thinking that I'd like to give everyone who reads this blog a gift of some sort and wondered what I could send out to each of you through the ether.  

I've decided to share one of my favourite internet destinations: KCRW's Good Food with Evan Kleiman.  I wish we had something similar on the CBC (perhaps Don Genova back on the air).  Good Food is my favourite podcast (actually it's one of two that I get - the other is Sesame Street's Word on the Street for Anton).  Good Food is worth a listen - I always find it inspiring.  In the past we've put the podcasts on cd and played them during car trips.  I generally play it while doing paperwork for the store - makes me look forward to it.  Here is a recent video from them on truffles (or select previous episodes by moving your curser over the left-hand side of the box and selecting the box that pops up):

SAT DEC 26, 2009  Today on the show, the best of Good Food from 2009.  Jon Reiner is the man who couldn’t eat.  The treatment for his Crohn’s disease forced him to stop drinking or eating anything for several months.  Rachael Sheridan of Cube Marketplace on La Brea muses about her love of pie.  Good Food listener Mars Berman is living and Poland and continues to be amazed at some of their food customs.  She describes the concept of the Polish second breakfast.  We take trip to the Lower East Side of New York City and Russ and Daughters’ Appetizing Store. Nikki Federman is a fourth generation Russ and runs the store with her cousin.  Novella Carpenter is farming on a dead end street in the middle of the Oakland ghetto.  What it means to be vegan before 6 pm.  Mark Bittman of the New York Times explains.  Amy Stewart reveals the deadly nature of some plants.  Scott Gold, the Shameless Carnivore eats the Peruvian delicacy of cuy, or guinea pig.  And Laura Avery has a rhubarb margarita at the Santa Monica Farmers Market.