Archives: 2018

Pepperoni rolls, the pride of West Virginia

In the 1920s, a coal miner from Calabria, Italy who resettled in West Virginia coal country opened the Country Club Bakery in Fairmont, and introduced the pepperoni roll, a portable meal that miners really dug into. Conor Knighton talks with food writer Candace Nelson about why West Virginians can’t get enough of their delicious, utilitarian snack. Categories: National, US &…

The Sioux Chef’s indigenous menu

Chef Sean Sherman, who belongs to the Oglala Lakota tribe, spent a couple of decades cooking in fancy kitchens around Minneapolis before deciding to apply what he knew to native foods. He is on a mission to celebrate and showcase native cuisine with “The Sioux Chef’s Indigenous Kitchen,” which won this year’s James Beard Award for Best American Cookbook. Martha…

Pizza by the deaf

Mozzeria is ranked among the top pizza places in San Francisco, and it is also notable for being entirely owned and operated by people who are deaf. Tracy Smith reports. Categories: National, US & World News

A toast to Irish coffee

The Buena Vista Café is a San Francisco institution, and it’s where for more than 40 years bartender Paul Nolan has been making the drink that made the Buena Vista famous: the Irish coffee. He demonstrated for John Blackstone the mixture of coffee, Irish whiskey and heavy cream that has kept locals and tourists coming back again and again. Categories:…

Jim Gaffigan on a favorite topic: Food

Seventy percent of Americans are overweight. Commentator Jim Gaffigan suggests that, really, 30 percent of Americans are just lagging behind the rest of the country by being too thin. Categories: National, US & World News

Meet the food designer with a perfect palate

As the director of Product and Process Development at the Oregon State University’s Food Innovation Center, Sarah Masoni uses her uniquely-qualified taste buds as a “food designer” to help chefs and food companies perfect their products. Lee Cowan reports on someone with most exquisite taste (buds). Categories: National, US & World News

Nature: Wild turkeys

“Sunday Morning” takes you this Sunday before Thanksgiving to California’s Marin County, just north of San Francisco, where wild turkeys might consider staying out of sight. Videographer: Lee McEachern. Categories: National, US & World News

The Sioux Chef

Native American chef Sean Sherman’s goal is not just to produce a healthy meal based on indigenous cultures, but to feed the soul of a nation Categories: National, US & World News

The last straw: Seattle’s drinking straw ban

Millions of plastic drinking straws end up as litter, often in the oceans, which is why this summer Seattle became the largest city in America to ban plastic straws in restaurants, to be replaced with compostable or paper options. Tony Dokoupil talks with anti-straw advocates fighting the preponderance of single-use plastic in a throwaway culture, and with representatives of the…

The last straw?

Concerns about pollution have led some communities, including Seattle, to ban plastic drinking straws, prompting a search for alternatives Categories: National, US & World News

The bubbly market for sparkling water

Welcome to the “Age of Effervescence,” when sales of seltzer and sparkling water are positively bubbling over. Serena Altachul talks with seltzer expert Barry Joseph, author of “Seltzertopia,” and with Alex Gomberg, the owner of Brooklyn Seltzer Boys, where carbonated water has been produced for generations. Categories: National, US & World News

Hot sauce has never been hotter

Hot sauce sales are increasing faster than any other condiment. To get a taste of what people can’t get enough of, the hugely popular web series “Hot Ones” features celebrities sampling some REALLY HOT foods, and with about 3 million views per episode, the series shows no signs of cooling off. But could correspondent Michelle Miller pass the hot sauce…

In praise of tater tots

The humble tater tot, that staple of American casseroles and cafeterias, was created in the 1950s when a French fry company envisioned a way to use up all those potato scraps. Today, tater tots are even served in gourmet restaurants. Luke Burbank talks with food blogger Dan Whalen, author of a cookbook devoted to tater tots, and with chef David…

Tater tots go gourmet

Born from the scraps of a French fry factory, the humble staple of American casseroles and cafeterias is now featured in Michelin-starred restaurants Categories: National, US & World News