Cooking Issues

Howdy listeners!
Cooking Issues Radio  will be coming to you live on the Heritage Radio Network tomorrow, Tuesday, April 5th. 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!
-The Cooking Issues [...]

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Howdy Readers,
Our buddy Harold McGee is going to be Cooking Issues Radio’s special guest this week!  The show will be coming to you on MONDAY at 12pm EST, instead of  our regular Tuesday spot.   This is your chance to call in and ask McGee anything your heart desires.  Dave and McGee will be at: 718-497-2128. If you can’t get to [...]

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by Dave Arnold
Becoming a Mexican grandmother is one of my lifelong goals. I am proud to say I’ve achieved one of the major milestones: learning to nixtamalize corn and make tortillas from scratch. Along the way I’ve uncovered some cool facts and developed a eurotortilla made from nixtamalized rye.  Next step: learn Spanish.
Nixtamalization is the [...]

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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!
- The Cooking [...]

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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 coming to [...]

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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, and [...]

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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 and [...]

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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 in [...]

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Cooking Issues Radio comes to you live on the Heritage Radio Network tomorrow, Tuesday, December 7th from 12:00pm-12:45pm EST. Please probe Dave with all of your cooking issues live at 718-497-2128 or have Nastassia relay them by emailing her at:  lopez.nastassia@gmail.com.
Thanks for listening to/downloading the show!
- The Cooking Issues Team

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