Making music with vegetables, and mastering Indian cooking technique

Hosted by Evan Kleiman Sep. 09, 2017 Food & Drink

Listen to the sweet sounds of the Long Island Vegetable Orchestra. Then find out how to cook Indian food with time-trusted techniques. Visit Vermont to hear about efforts to tackle pollution caused by ag runoff. Plus: Great broths and stocks, scarlet runner beans at the market and Jonathan Gold reviews Felix.

Pizza making at Felix (Photo by Alan Gastelum)

From this Episode:

Listen to the Long Island Vegetable Orchestra

In 2008, Long Island University music professor Dale Stuckenbruck started the Long Island Vegetable Orchestra . Three orchestra players -- David and Solomon Elyaho, and...

12 min

'The Indian Cooking Curse'

Chef Monisha Bharadwaj runs a successful cooking school in London. Her new book “ The Indian Cooking Course ” is like Jacques Pepin’s “ La Technique ” for Indian food.

9 min

Jonathan Gold reviews Felix

Jonathan Gold reviews the Italian food made by Chef Evan Funke at Felix in Venice Beach. Find out which dishes Jonathan recommends and read his LA Times review ....

4 min

How farms are tackling ag runoff and cleanup

Know the old adage “farmers need to feed the world?” Maybe so. But where does that leave us on the issue of ag runoff? Because whether you like it or not, pollution from...

16 min

The Market Report: Scarlet Runner Beans

Laura Avery talks to Bruce Kalman, chef and owner of Union in Pasadena and Knead & Co at the Grand Central Market, and to farmer Lori Heal, of 2 Peas in a Pod in Arroyo...

8 min

How to make perfect stocks and broths

Next, we pull Rachael Mamane away from vats of simmering bones to talk about her new book, “ Mastering Stocks and Broths .” The company she runs in New York is called...

7 min