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Good Food

Good Food

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Everything you wanted to know about good cooking and good eating from LA chef, author, radio host and restaurateur Evan Kleiman.

KCRW 2024
Social Sciences
Episodes
  • ICE raids on taqueros, Creole cooking, the food of displacement
    Jun 20 2025

    From the latest on ICE raids in Los Angeles to the legacy of Creole cuisine:

    • Memo Torres reports on how immigration raids are impacting local food businesses
    • Hawa Hassan, who escaped civil war in Mogadishu, shares stories of displacement in eight other regions of the world
    • Nina Compton makes a case for New Orleans and the Caribbean sharing a similar "self of being"
    • Journalist Christina Cooke visits Patrick Brown on his farm in North Carolina, where he is reclaiming his family's history and land

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    1 hr
  • Barbecue, condiments, pozole
    Jun 13 2025

    When the going gets tough, the tough go for pozole.

    • Tony Ramirez dusts off the barbecue for summer grilling and adds Filipino flair to live fire
    • TikTok darling Claire Dinhut has a thing for condiments and finds creative ways to use them
    • Casey Elsass helps you decide what to bring to the party based on what type of guest you are
    • Memo Torres discovers a pozole palace in the San Fernando Valley
    • Charlotte Biltekoff explores how the public's mistrust of processed foods and the food industry's misunderstanding of these concerns

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    1 hr
  • Queer food, the Pan-American Highway, chorizo
    Jun 6 2025

    This week, we take physical and historical journeys to East Africa and South America.

    • John Birdsall traces the evolution of queer food through the 20th century
    • In her new series Panamericana, Pati Jinich travels the roads and highways linking North and South America, connecting with people along the way
    • As a child of East African immigrants, Zaynab Issa uses her suburban childhood to create a cooking style all her own
    • Humberto Raygoza took his family's chorizo recipe and built a business, one link at a time
    • At the farmers market, chef Ed Cornell prepares for summer with apricots and soft serve

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    1 hr

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