'Eat Your Science,' decriminalizing street vending, 'Generation Chef'

Hosted by Evan Kleiman Feb. 18, 2017 Food & Drink

TV food show host Alton Brown gives us a taste of his new culinary variety show while LURN's Rudy Espinoza breaks down a proposal to change street vending regulations in LA. Then, Jonathan Gold heads to Agoura Hills to eat Kurdish food at Nîroj and Karen Stabiner shares the stories of the millennial chefs featured in her new book, Generation Chef. Plus: a leek tart recipe from Chef Mark Peel of Bombo.

Photo: Alton Brown outside the KCRW Studios (Dustin Downing)

From this Episode:

'Eat Your Science'

Food is to Alton Brown as the mob is to Martin Scorsese. "It's a bottomless pit of ideas and connective tissue between people." The former host of TV programs Good Eats,...

20 min

A vote to decriminalize street vending in LA

Spurred on by President Trump's immigration policies, the Los Angeles City Council voted 13 – 0 on Wednesday to decriminalize street vending. It will take months to finalize...

10 min

Jonathan Gold eats Kurdish food at Nîroj

If you've been hankering for a good mezze plate, it's time for a trip to Nîroj in Agoura Hills. Follow the requisite hummus and baba ganoush with a fire-roasted red pepper...

5 min

'Generation Chef'

At age 26, Jonah Miller was living in New York City, $700,000 in the red ahead of the opening night of his East Village restaurant, Huertas. Sounds terrifying, we know, but...

13 min

The market report: Leeks

This week at the Santa Monica Farmers' Market, Laura Avery scores a crème fraîche leek tart recipe from Mark Peel , the chef and owner of Bombo in Grand Central Market....

8 min