Sin City Chocolate; French Baguette; Belgian Beer; Wines

Hosted by Evan Kleiman Mar. 01, 2008 Food & Drink

This week, we explore French baguettes and country cooking, Belgian beer and the Las Vegas chocolate scene. We also decant some new sparkling wines, sample spicy Northern Thai cuisine and look at vintage grocery lists and the secrets they reveal.

Hillary Carlip collects shoppers' grocery lists. Dr. Steven Kaplan bakes good French bread, Anne Willan celebrates French country cooking and pub owner David Farnworth serves up Belgian beer. Writer Lark Ellen Gould checks out the Las Vegas chocolate scene, Stacie Hunt decants new sparkling wines and chef Jet Tila samples spicy Northern Thai cuisine. Plus, Laura Avery has a fresh Market Report.

From this Episode:

French Bread

Preeminent bread scholar Dr. Steven Kaplan , a professor of history at Cornell University, discusses how to bake the sublime baguette and other French breads in his book,...

7 min

French Country Cooking

Anne Willan, has run the legendary La Varenne , cooking school in France, is a leading authority on French cooking and its culinary history. Willan, who's just moved to...

7 min

Grocery Lists

Performance artist and writer Hillary Carlip collects grocery lists that she finds and "creates" a writer to go with each list. Her book, A la Cart : The Secret Lives of...

7 min

Belgian Beer

David Farnworth serves up Belgian beer at the 9th Annual Belgian Beer Festival at Lucky Baldwins Pub in Pasadena and Sierra Madre. The event features over 80 different...

7 min