February 2012
February 4, 2012 | Listen | Download
This week is the launch of our new series, The Key 3, conversations with good cooks, (not just chefs), about the three recipes they feel every good cook should know. This week it's Thai food expert Andy Ricker. Jane and Michael Stern are at Sylvan Park in Nashville, TN. We take on homemade mustards with Los Angeles Times reporter Noelle Carter and we look at the food world through its knives with Allegra McEvedy author of Bought, Borrowed & Stolen, Recipes & Knives from a Traveling Chef.
February 11, 2012 | Listen | Download
We look at the food life of Thailand with David Thompson, author of Thai Street Food. Then, it's the mysterious eel with James Prosek, author of Eels, An Exploration, From New Zealand To The Saragasso, of the World's Most Mysterious Fish. And Gilt Taste's Francis Lam teaches us to make Ginger Milk Pudding.
February 18, 2012 | Listen | Download
This week we meet up with Erin Byers Murray, author of the memoir Shucked, Life on a New England Oyster Farm. We look at low alcohol wines with Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl, author of Drink This, Wine Made Simple and play another round of Stump the Cook with Top Chef's Padma Lakshmi.
February 25, 2012
This week we meet up with chef Gabrielle Hamilton author of Blood, Bones and Butter. Jane and Michael Stern are eating at Flip's BBQ in Wilmington, NC. We learn to corn our own beef just in time for St. Patrick's day with John Kowalski of the Culinary Institute of America and author of The Art Of Charcuterie. Veterinarian Gary Weitzman, animal advisor for WAMU's The Animal House tells us what we really need to be feeding our pets.

