Good Food Cast iron skillets, corn, slaughterhouses, Azerbaijani food Hosted by Evan Kleiman Jul. 09, 2016 Food & Drink Listen 58 min MORE Photo courtesy: Salt & Straw From this Episode: Escargot, My Car Go...to Spring in Downtown LA If you’re on the hunt for cuisine Provençal and a menu that epitomizes the essence of summer, motor over to Spring in downtown LA. That’s the word on the street from our... 7 min Pomegranates and Saffron In Azerbaijan, “a house without a guest is like a mill without water,” or so the saying goes. You don’t hear about Azerbaijani cuisine every day but Feride Buyuran hopes to... 10 min We Love the Funk Much of the food and drink we love is fermented, from beer and wine to bread and chocolate. But what makes a fish sauce ice cream a good idea? The Willy Wonka of Salt &... 7 min Corn and Tomatillo Salad with Crispy Pig Ears It doesn’t get much more summer than corn-on-the-cob. But don’t be alarmed if you find a worm crawling in an ear, says the chef at Miro , Gavin Mills. Finding little... 7 min A Love Affair with the Cast Iron Skillet “Each time a Southern cook hefts a skillet to the stovetop, he or she is not alone,” writes John T. Edge in A Gracious Plenty. “Trapped within the iron confines of these... 10 min Dangerous Jobs, Cheap Meat Next, onto a subject that the entire Good Food team spends a lot of time talking about: the price of our meat. In America, we eat more beef, poultry and pork than almost... 11 min All Hail to the Neon Catfish God We close out this week’s show with a steaming bowl of fish pho and Gustavo Arellano , editor of the OC Weekly and host of KCRW’s Orange County Line. "If someone says... 4 min Credits Host: Evan Kleiman Producers: Laryl Garcia, Abbie Fentress Swanson, Camellia Tse, Joseph Stone