'The Gefilte Manifesto,' Christmas pickles, holiday cookies

Hosted by Evan Kleiman Dec. 17, 2016 Food & Drink

Laura Avery learns about Japanese turnips and other legumes de saison, and author Dorie Greenspan gives us a nibble for the cookie-obsessed. Editor Jane Lear hangs up the Christmas pickle, and we dive into The Gefilte Manifesto. Trine Hahnemann serves up Scandinavian comfort food for the soul. Plus, Celia Sack’s annual holiday cookbook gift guide and Jonathan Gold’s top 10 dishes for 2016.

Photo: Legumes de saison (Camellia Tse)

From this Episode:

Japanese turnips

Laura Avery sneaks a peak into chef DJ Olsen's shopping basket this week at the Santa Monica Farmers' Market. He's inspired by chef Tony Esnault's legumes de saison at...

6 min

A little nibble for the cookie-obsessed

Dorie Greenspan 's prodigious new cookbook is Dorie's Cookies . This isn't a regular cookie book. It's a tome: an encyclopedia of one baker's obsession with the cookie,...

10 min

Hanging up the Christmas pickle

There are plenty of traditions surrounding the holiday season, but perhaps one of the most obscure is the Christmas pickle. Jane Lear , the executive editor of CURED ,...

7 min

Scandinavian comfort food for the soul

The Danish have a word, "hygge," which chef and food writer Trine Hahnemann describes as "trying to find all the little moments during the day where you can relax and feel...

8 min

'The Gefilte Manifesto'

Before gefilte fish was sold on supermarket shelves, jarred in its own jellied aspic, it was a labor-intensive dish prepared at home in the name of Ashkenazi tradition.

9 min

Cookbook picks and trends for 2016

Each December, we head north to Noe Valley in San Francisco, where we find the ever-helpful Celia Sack behind the counter of one of our favorite independent bookstores,...

8 min

Jonathan Gold's Top 10 dishes for 2016

From Chengdu-style noodles at Mian in San Gabriel to chef Tony Esnault's legumes de saison at Spring and LASA 's Pinoy-Californian version of pancit at the Far East...

7 min