Asparagus; The Psychology of Eating Meat; Grilled Cheese

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You can take the most basic things for granted until you suffer a stroke. How one young woman used the kitchen as her therapy for recovery.  Get some good bread and cheese and get ready to toast it because April is grilled cheese month!  Portland is home to an amazing array of food carts. It's gourmet street food. Water bottles. Should you use a plastic one?  The solution to this dilemma. Plus how to turn your neighborhood into a food co-op. And we go to the Santa Monica Farmers Market to taste fresh asparagus.

Laura Avery gets an Easter/Passover recipe from Amelia Saltsman plus a taste of seasonal asparagus.  Adrienne Kane suffered a debilitating stroke at age 21. How food gave her a path to recovery.  Clementine owner Annie Miler celebrates Grilled Cheese Month.  What level of denial is involved in eating meat?  Former Freudian psychoanalyst Jeffrey Masson analyzes.  Jenn Savedge resolves the dilemma of reusable water bottle vs. disposable plastic. Korean porridge is just right according to Jonathan Gold.  Lataco.com has a March madness best-taco-place contest.  Vote for your favorite.  What kind of flour to use is important in baking says Cindy Mushet.  And Hynden Walch started a co-op out of her neighbor's backyard gardens.

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Credits

Host:

Evan Kleiman

Producers:

Bob Carlson, Jennifer Ferro, Candace Moyer, Connie Alvarez, Holly Tarson, Harriet Ells