We love Ani Phyo here on Good Food and we’re so excited that she is KCRW’s current Guest DJ.

Visit their ingredients of course!  Monday a group of about 40 of us trekked out the 60 fwy to Ontario to meet Dan Drake and his lovely bevy of ladies and gentlemen at Drake’s Goat Farm.  Dan currently sells to restaurants through LA Specialty.  Jen from LA Speciality organized the visit for us.
Starting in June Drake will be at the Sunday Santa Monica Market.  Currently they are in several OC Markets:  Tustin, Chino Hills, Costa Mesa, Orange, Laguna Hills, Rancho St. Margarita, Huntington Beach, Irvine, Temenula, Murrieta, Laguna Niguel.
In …

Every Tuesday I answer a question from a Good Food listener. You can email me a question, leave one on Facebook or add one in the comments section here. This week’s question comes from Kevin:
I love your show! Quick question–can you recommend a place in LA that has decent beef bourguignon (or the like)?

Beef or Boeuf Bourguignon is the famed French stew in which beef is braised in red wine (Burgundy) with garlic, onions, bouquet garni and sometimes mushrooms.  Perhaps watching Julie & Julia brought on this craving of yours. …

Hear Jonathan Waxman, Saturday on Good Food.

We’re holding our next Good Food Happy Hour at Stark Bar, the new hot spot at LACMA.  They’re creating a one-of-a-kind cocktail for us and there will be a specially priced beer and flat bread pairing.
WHAT: Good Food Happy Hour
WHEN: Thursday, May 12, 7-9 pm
WHERE: Stark Bar at LACMA, 5905 Wilshire Blvd., LA
LACMA is the home to the 3rd Annual Good Food Pie Contest, to be held September 18 on the lawn.  This happy hour is kicking off our “Summer of Pie.”  Stay tuned for special pie-themed podcasts, recipes, …

Yesterday on Which Way LA? host Warren Olney spoke to Michael Flood on the LA Regional Food Bank and Philip Browning of the LA County Department of Social Services.
Los Angeles County has 1.7 million hungry residents, so many that food banks are struggling to keep up with the need. Because of state laws, almost half don’t know they’re eligible for food stamps the federal government pays for. We hear what the County’s doing to make some improvement.

Every day this month we’re going to be featuring a photo of street food from around the world.  It’s all part of our celebration of Global Street Food, culminating in our  event on May 1 at the Broad Stage.  Email us your photo and we’ll post it on our blog.
These photos of a traditional Danish hot dog vendor were sent by Ronny, who works with us here on Good Food.  They were taken by his friend Steffan in Copenhagen:

Every day this month we’re going to be featuring a photo of street food from around the world.  It’s all part of our celebration of Global Street Food, culminating in our  event on May 1 at the Broad Stage.  Email us your photo and we’ll post it on our blog.
These photos from Poland come from Adair of the blog Lentil Breakdown:
I photographed this bagel vendor in Krakow, Poland and thought her hanging bagel wreaths scored a 12 on the cute bagel meter. I wanted to ask her for 18 mini …

Guests:

Maryn McKenna: Wired.com
Guy Loneragan: Texas Tech University, National Cattlemen’s Beef Association
James Johnson: University of Minnesota, Infectious Diseases Society of America
Brad Spellberg: UCLA, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute

Links:
McKenna on Translational Genomics Research Institute study of drug-resistant staph in meat samples
Slaughter on emerging public health crisis, legislation

I received 2 bits of great news this morning:
1. Jonathan Gold of the LA Weekly and a contributor to Good Food is a finalist for this year’s Pulitzer Prize in Criticism.  Jonathan won the Pulitzer back in 2007, the first restaurant critic to win.  Congratulations, Jonathan!
2. Jonathan will be joining us at the Broad Stage on May 1 for our Global Street Food event.  No doubt Jonathan will add some zing to our already lively panel, which includes Evan Kleiman (of course), Gustavo Arellano and Jet Tila.  Lesley Tellez and …