Episode 261: Food in Jars with Marisa McClellan

03/27/16 • 31 min

Eat Your Words Presents: Saved by the Bellini

On this week's episode of Eat Your Words, Cathy speaks with Marisa McClellan, a full-time food writer and canning teacher, and the voice behind the blog Food in Jars. She is also the author of the books Food in Jars (Running Press 2012), Preserving by the Pint (Running Press 2014), and Naturally Sweet Food in Jars (Running Press 2016). In her new book, she offers a comprehensive response to fans’ frequent requests for canning and preserving recipes that utilize natural sweeteners in lieu of refined sugar, opening up the world of canning and preserving to home cooks who follow sugar-restricted diets.

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Episode 260: The Bowl

On this week's episode of Eat Your Words, Cathy is joined in the studio by Lukas Volger, author of Bowl: Vegetarian Recipes for Ramen, Pho, Bibimbap, Dumplings, and Other One-Dish Meals. He is also the editorial director and co-founder of Jarry, a print magazine that explores where food and gay culture intersect, and the owner of Made by Lukas, a Brooklyn-based company that makes veggie burgers. Tune in to hear Lukas and Cathy discuss how changes in eating habits are being reflected in the very vessels from which we eat.

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Episode 262: Response to Calvin Trillin's New Yorker Poem on Chinese Food

On this week's episode of Eat Your Words, host Cathy Erway speaks with Karissa Chen – a writer who is currently a Fulbright Fellow in Taiwan – on the importance of being responsible when writing about another culture's food. Specifically, they tackle food writer Calvin Trillin's controversial poem "Have They Run Out of Provinces Yet?" which was recently published in The New Yorker. While major news outlets have interviewed various food writers who are critical of this situation, very few have bothered to ask Asian American writers what they think.