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Evan Kleiman is your guide to the best cooking and eating

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  • Bonus Episode: Vanessa Anderson aka Grocery Goblin brings storytelling to the aisles

    October 5, 2026 · 31 min

    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…

  • Hummus Is Just the Front Door

    October 2, 2026 · 25 min

    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…

  • The Indian Food America Was Missing

    September 30, 2026 · 36 min

    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…

  • The Hunger We've Learned to Live With

    September 25, 2026 · 26 min

    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…

  • Around the World in 140 Ferments

    September 23, 2026 · 33 min

    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…

  • Carla Lalli Says Food Is A Feeling, from Expense Account

    September 22, 2026 · 54 min

    Sharing an episode of the new podcast Expense Account. We all know eating out in New York has become an extreme sport. If you treat dining out like a full-time obsession—and care about the scene just as much as what’s on the menu—you need…

  • Mother Nature Is the Last Great Luxury House

    September 18, 2026 · 22 min

    This week on Good Food: 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…

  • One Beef Plant, A Century of Immigrant Labor

    September 16, 2026 · 33 min

    This week on Good Food: Tchelly Moise helped lead the first American slaughterhouse strike in nearly 40 years. He and journalist Ted Genoways explain how JBS, the world's largest meat producer, relies on vulnerable immigrant labor, and…