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Episode 164: Michael Pollan, Halloween Candy, and Geno’s Cheesesteaks

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As usual, Michael Pollan explains it all.

This week, we allocated more time than usual to our “Food News” segment because we wanted to really get into Michael Pollan’s recent story for the New York Times magazine “Why Did the Obamas Fail to Take on Corporate Agriculture?”

On a decidedly lighter topic, we talked about meatballs in our “What’s for Dinner” segment. Specifically, how to break meatballs out of the meatballs-and-spaghetti mold.

Halloween is on Monday. We talked candy.

Geno’s Steaks in Philadelphia recently made a big change. And we like it.

Finally, at the market we’re buying up all the broccoli right now.

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Episode 163: Breaded Chicken, Restaurants, Garlic

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A story on the website New Food Economy covered “big food’s” incursion into plant-based foods. Tyson Foods–a major player of the factory farming game–has invested in alt-meat maker Beyond Meat (whose product we talked about back in episode 149)

In our what’s for dinner segment, we talk about an all time classic: breaded chicken cutlets.

Dining out–reports from Talula’s Daily, Charlie Was a Sinner, Double Knot, and Mission Taqueria.

We dive deep into the stinking rose–garlic.

At the market this week, we’re buying quince.

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Episode 161: No-noodle Lasagna, Nutrition Upgrade Challenge, Cooking with Chickpea Flour

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This week in food news, we learned that stress overrides the benefits of healthful eating on NPR’s The Salt blog. Not cool, stress. Not cool.

Joy sings the praises of a recipe from Modern Potluck, whose author Kristin Donnelly we had on a short while back. (It’s the No-noodle Lasagna made with celery root instead of pasta!)

If 30 day challenges like “The Whole 30” are not your speed (and they are certainly not ours) but you are into improving your nutrition, try the Nutrition Diva’s 30 Day Nutrition Upgrade Challenge. You will definitely eat more vegetables and you don’t have to eliminate anything. It’s a food-positive, weight neutral approach to nutrition.

Joy and Marisa trade tips on cooking with chickpea flour and talk socca and crepe making.

We hope we aren’t bad feminists but we pack our husband’s lunches. We think our tips and strategies could help you pack your own, your kids’, your husband’s too.

At the market we scored some honeynut squash–reported to be more than 10 times sweeter than butternut!

Here’s that link to Joy’s lentil and chicken soup recipe.

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Episode 160: Delicata Squash, Old Cookbooks, and Running a Love Story

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In the food news, we all recently learned that decades back “big sugar” paid off the scientific community and that’s how those of us who grew up in the 80s and 90s came to eat our weight in Snackwells.

In our what’s for dinner segment, we talked up the many pleasures of the ultra seasonal, blink-and-you’ll-miss-it delicata squash.

Joy’s getting ready to move. As she declutters her basement she’s finding forgotten cookbooks that have been packed away for years–and loving them.

Marisa talks to the amazing Jen A. Miller about her new memoir, Running a Love Story.

And we leave you with a snack-size discussion of one of autumn’s most splendid treats: Asian pears.

Episode 159: Welcome Autumn Special!

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We decided to welcome the new season with a whole episode dedicated to all our favorite food fall things.

Tell us your seasonal favorites in the comments.

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Episode 158: Breakfast for Dinner, Immersion Circulators, Kristin Donnelly

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In food news, the Associated Press published a story Massimo Bottura using leftover food from the Olympics to feed the homeless in Brazil.

Love it or hate it, breakfast for dinner remains a hot topic in home cooking.

We both have immersion circulators but we tend to use them in very different ways. We compare and contrast.

Joy talks with Kristin Donnelly about her wonderful new book Modern Potluck.

And at the market this week, we’re buying grapes.

Episode 157: Cold Soups, Instant Pots, and My Kitchen in Rome

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In food news, why are rotisserie chickens so cheap?

In our what’s for dinner segment, we talk up cold soups.

Now that we both have them, we rehashed the topic of the Instant Pot.

We dished about the summer Cookbook Club pick, Rachel Roddy’s My Kitchen in Rome.

And at the market, we are shopping with Primal Supply Meats.

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156: Dinner Special!

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Today we’re concluding our series of meal-themed specials with an episode dedicated to dinner.

Did you miss part 1 (breakfast)? Or part 2 (lunch)? You can find those here, and here.

This special episode covers:

Go-to dinners
Restaurant dinners
Family dinners, now and then
Having dinner guests
When is dinnertime?
Tables, dining and coffee
Weekend dinners versus weeknight dinners
Cooking with others
What we drink with dinner
Second helpings
Doing the dishes

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155: Cauliflower Pizza, Our First Podcast Birthday, Emily Pastor

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In food news, we talked about reports on what the Olympians are eating in Rio.

In our What’s for Dinner segment, Marisa teaches everyone the secrets to cauliflower crust pizza.

We celebrated our podcast’s first birthday by discussing our favorite topics of the first year.

Marisa interviews Emily Paster, author of the new book Food Swap.

And this week we are buying local peppers and talking about how we love to use them.

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154: Bluefish, Aprons, Iced Coffee

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We read an interesting and disturbing story in the New York Post which was basically highlights from the excellent book, Real Food, Fake Food. Be warned though if you do read it you may never enjoy sushi again.

We extoll the virtues of a favorite local and strong-tasting fish, bluefish.

For two women who spend so much time in the kitchen, we both have trouble wearing an apron to protect our clothes from spatters, but Marisa recently discovered an apron she wants to wear all the time.

We talk about the pleasures of ice coffee, at home and from shops around Philly.

And at the market this week, we are grabbing all the corn.

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