Tomorrow, New York Times food columnist Mark Bittman will be on “To the Point” with Warren Olney.
Warren asks him, “Whatever happened to cooking?” The answer: The microwave… and a billion dollar marketing campaign to drive us out of the kitchen.
The clip below is a sneak preview. Listen to the show in it’s entirety tomorrow at 12 noon on KCRW and KCRW.com.
New York Times Mark Bittman on “whatever happened to cooking?” by KCRW

Writer Gay Talese was on To the Point today to talk with Warren Olney about the iconic eatery Elaine’s.
Gay Talese on the Closing of Elaine’s in New York by KCRW

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

Yesterday, Wayne Pacelle of the Humane Society spoke to Warren Olney on KCRW’s To The Point about the new bill in Iowa making it a crime to produce and distribute photos taken without farmers permission.  That means that all of those undercover videos of downer cows and abused pigs would be illegal.  Here’s the clip:
Wayne Pacelle of the Humane Society on To The Point by KCRW
What do you think?  Should farmers be protected against undercover investigations?

Mark Bittman of the NY Times was on To The Point with Warren Olney today, talking about why he fasted last week in protest of proposed cuts to the Federal budget.  Last week he wrote about in his NY Times Op-Ed column.
Mark Bittman on “To The Point” by KCRW

The New York Times’ Kim Severson was on KCRW’s To The Point with Warren Olney today, talking about Wal-Mart’s efforts to promote healthy eating by making their packaged food lower in salt, fat and sugar.  Kim said that, while those efforts can help, the goal really should be to get Americans to stop eating so much processed food.  Take a listen (it’s about 44 minutes into the show).

Warren Olney tackled the egg contamination story in today’s To The Point.  What do you think needs to happen to prevent this from happening again?  Have you stopped eating eggs?

Today’s To the Point with Warren Olney covered this hot topic.  I’d love to hear what you think about the issue.  Leave a comment below…

From today’s To The Point:
“One billion adults are overweight worldwide and obesity is a major public health threat in the United States, especially to children. We hear about a growing problem, what’s being done to deal with it now and what might be required in the future.”
Guests include:

Barry Popkin: Nutrition Epidemiologist, University of North Carolina’s Interdisciplinary Obesity Center
Kevin Keane: Senior VP of Public Affairs, American Beverage Association
Claudia Kalb: Senior Writer, Newsweek
Nia-Malika Henderson: White House Reporter, Politico.com
Sean Kershaw: Executive Director, Citizens’ League