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Good Food

Ottolenghi comfort food, croissants, lettuce

Good Food

KCRW

Society & Culture

4.51K Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Sylvio Martins gives us a glimpse into The Infatuation's blind taste test to determine the 10 best croissants in Los Angeles. Yotam Ottolenghi and Verena Lochmuller craft globally-inspired comfort food in a new cookbook. Seeking Turkish cuisine, LA Times restaurant critic Bill Addison finally finds it in a Santa Monica coffee shop. Chef Juan Ferriero creates inspired salads for his menu at Great White.

 

Transcript

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0:00.0

From KCRW, I'm Evan Klyman and you're listening to good food.

0:04.6

As a culture, we've become obsessed with the best.

0:10.8

Ask anyone in media why the general public is flooded with top ten lists and it's

0:16.4

because well you dear listener you just can't resist that click everyone

0:22.3

wants to know what number one is,

0:24.2

and everyone wants to argue when their favorite

0:27.3

didn't make the cut.

0:29.1

I, too, am a consumer of this content,

0:32.3

and I am curious how the sausage gets made.

0:36.6

How do you create an objective taste test on something as subjective as taste?

0:42.0

Sylvia Martins is a staff writer for the infatuation,

0:45.0

and today he takes us behind the scenes

0:47.7

of the infatuation's recent blind taste

0:50.3

test to rank the best quasants in Los Angeles.

0:54.7

Hi, Sylvia.

0:56.4

Hi, Evan.

0:57.0

Thanks for having me.

0:57.8

Oh, it's a pleasure.

0:59.2

OK, set the scene for us.

1:01.3

How many quasants descended on the

1:03.8

infatuation's office in service of a blind taste test.

1:08.6

So a little kind of behind the scenes about how we do things here at the infatuation.

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