Flax is an amazingly versatile food and fiber crop. In fact, it’s one of the oldest fiber crops in the world, known to have been cultivated in ancient Egypt and China. If it seems like flax is good for everything, that’s because it is. Its Latin name is usitatissimum, which means “most useful.”
On this episode, Kat talks to Harry Rosenblum, host of Feast Yr ... Show More
Jul 2017
Episode 7: Nutritional Yeast
If someone offered you a "bag of nooch," or a "sprinkle of hippie dust," would you take it? If you’re a pizza-loving vegan, you probably would! This episode of Fresh Pickings explores the world of nutritional yeast (and reveals its various street names). Nutritional yeast is the ... Show More
8m 29s
Apr 2025
Katarina Cermelj: Cookbook Author, Food Writer and Creator of The Loopy Whisk, an Allergy-Free Baking Blog
Katarina Cermelj (Kat for short) is an award-winning cookbook author, food writer, photographer and creator of the popular 'free-from' baking blog, The Loopy Whisk. She has a PhD in Inorganic Chemistry from the University of Oxford, having previously completed her undergraduate C ... Show More
33m 26s
Dec 2025
816: Crumbs with Ben Mims and Wild Chocolate with Rowan Jacobsen
It’s the holiday season, and we’re kicking it off this week with some sweet treats. First, food editor and recipe developer Ben Mims joins us with his latest project, covering over 300 cookie recipes from Asia to the Levant to Scandinavia to the Caribbean. The varieties are aston ... Show More
49m 24s
Feb 6
820: Cooking Questions with Lisa Donovan and We The Pizza with Muhammad Abdul-Hadi
This week, food columnist for The New York Times Magazine, Lisa Donovan, joins us to talk about what she's been cooking up recently and help answer our listeners' kitchen conundrums, from making the best tomato paste despite out-of-season tomatoes to using unsweetened chocolate i ... Show More
50m 18s
May 2023
Dame Prue Leith, Jeremy Lee’s spring salmagundi and herby rack of lamb
It’s Coronation week and Nick and Angela are joined by food royalty, Dame Prue Leith.
Prue Leith, DBE is an octogenarian with no intention of slowing down. Her illustrious career in food includes restaurants, cookery schools, writing and TV. She has published eight novels, a m ... Show More
37m 30s
Jul 2024
The Glory Days of In-Flight Dining: From Smorgasbord to Baked Alaska
<p>Is airplane food bad on purpose? Historian Richard Foss takes us through the turbulent history of food in flight, from extravagant meals aboard zeppelins, to the flaming Baked Alaskas once served en route to Singapore, to the truth about mediocre food service on planes today. ... Show More
51 m
Oct 2024
Food Network Star Sunny Anderson Always Has Cookies On Tap
<p>Katie talks with her Food Network co-host of The Kitchen, Sunny Anderson. They reminisce about their audition for the hit series, in which they had to give a how-to on making peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. The two share more hilarious and heartfelt memories on the show, i ... Show More
40m 20s