Cooking Issues Radio: Live, Tuesday January 25th

Howdy listeners! Cooking Issues Radio  will be coming to you live on the Heritage Radio Network tomorrow, Tuesday, January 25th. From 12:00pm-12:45pm EST, Dave will be answering all of your cooking questions, so call in at 718-497-2128.  If you can’t get to a phone email thoughts and questions to Nastassia at:  lopez.nastassia@gmail.com before the show. Thanks for listening! […]

Fantastic Stochastic Masa: Finally a Good 3-D Food Printing Application

by Dave Arnold Last year Cornell University’s Fab@Home program gave us a 3-D printer (read the post here)  that uses syringes to make any 3-D shape you like –out of any paste you like.  Fab@Home asked me to find a great application for 3-D printing food.  Last week, I finally did. Problem: CNN Money was […]

Umami Nation 2: Kelp-a-Go-Go — Plus Bonus Demo with Chef Suzuki

by Dave Arnold This is my second post on Kombu –the MSG laden, super-seaweed bedrock of Japanese cuisine used to make kombu dashi (seaweed stock).  Read the first one here. The first post dealt exclusively with Ma Kombu, the most popular type of seaweed used for dashi.  This second post will compare varieties of Kombu, […]

Cooking Issues Radio Live, Holiday Edition

Cooking Issues Radio will be live on the Heritage Radio Network tomorrow, Tuesday, December 21st from 12:00pm-12:45pm EST. Call Dave with all of your holiday cooking questions – from deep frying your Christmas goose to pressure cooking your fruit cake -  at 718-497-2128.  If you can’t make it to a phone, email questions directly to Nastassia at:  lopez.nastassia@gmail.com. Thanks for listening […]

Pear Enlightenment and The Brogdale Farm

by Dave Arnold My new favorite place on earth is the Brogdale Farm in the town of Faversham, county Kent, England. It’s Disney World for fruit lovers –if Disney World were almost free and completely deserted. They have the largest collection of culinary apples in the world, and Nastassia and I went to taste them […]