Hats of Meat; Hot Dogs; Beer-Can Chicken; Italian Eating

Hosted by Evan Kleiman Aug. 25, 2007 Food & Drink

We savor tasty antojitos, barbecue beer-can chicken, try on hats of meat and relish hot dogs. We travel to Napa Valley for wines, meet an Italian food lover, get real about healthy eating and the poor, and make ice cream from scratch.

Jonathan Gold savors tasty antojitos; grilling guru Steven Raichlen barbecues beer-can chicken; Steve Bean Levy tries on hats of meat; and Bob Schwartz relishes hot dogs. Rick Kushman sniffs and spits through Napa Valley. Faith Heller Willinger makes friends with Italian foodmakers. Nina Planck gets real about healthy eating and the poor. Owner-chef Bret Thompson makes ice cream from scratch and Laura Avery with this week's Market Report.

From this Episode:

Antojitos

Antojitos, literally "little cravings", are masa-based fried appetizers typical of Mexican cuisine. Masa is dough made from corn or wheat flour. Jonathan Gold savors tasty...

7 min

The Market Report

Laura Avery talks with private chef Dave Rubell about an easy way to cook flat, green Romano beans, the flattened cousin of traditional green beans that can are also found...

7 min

Healthy Eating and the Poor

Food writer Nina Planck gets real about healthy eating and the poor. With an increase in heart disease, diabetes and obesity affecting the poor in higher rates, is it...

7 min

Hats of Meat

A man of many hats, Steve Bean Levy loves meat. His Hats of Meat is a tongue-in-cheek tribute to fashionable headpieces. Some of his meat hats are the cow-boy hat (see...

6 min

Hot Dogs

> Chicago is known for its deep-dish pizza, sausage and hot dogs. Chicago-based Bob Schwartz of Vienna Beef relishes hot dogs.

5 min

Italian Eating

Chef-author Faith Heller Willinger pays tribute to the friends, meals and recipes she has collected throughout her 30-year career in Adventures of an Italian Food Lover ....

7 min

MILK

Bret Thompson, chef-owner of MILK , serves up fresh ice cream from scratch. His gastronomic philosophy is to combine fresh, local California ingredients with European...

7 min

A Moveable Thirst

Rick Kushman sniffs and spits wine through Napa Valley. In his book, A Moveable Thirst , he chronicles his travels to over a hundred public tasting rooms over a year. He...

7 min

Beer-Can Chicken

Grilling god Steven Raichlen knows barbecue. He enjoys experimenting with flavors, tools, rubs, and sauces, thereby taking American barbecue to new heights. One of his...

7 min