Yes it is that time of the week for my WLRN/NPR radio show… “A Word On Food”. We air it originally on WLRN 91.3 or 91.5 every Saturday around 8:30 a.m. Did you ever think you’d hear ‘Brown Sugar’ on this station? You all know me as the “Word on Food” guy…
A Word on Food™
A Word On Food™ is my NPR Radio show that airs on the local radio station WLRN every Saturday morning. The shows also lives on the WLRN website. They are my way of sharing both a food word and also some history, cooking, memories and a way I look at … and taste the world around us.
Category: A Word on Food™
Caviar
You don’t eat caviar because you’re hungry. But the portion set before us at a dinner in the late 1990’s was capable of staving off a serious quantity of pang. Hit the link to read or listen! My radio show, “A Word On Food” airs originally on WLRN 91.3 and 91.5 every…
French Onion Soup
Do you love French Onion Soup? We do. Have a look, a listen, a taste. WLRN. ‘A Word On Food’….
Fish Sticks
On Friday afternoons while I was in high school my mother and grandmother would get their hair done at the local beauty salon. My mother worked in the restaurant business so I imagine she did this before returning to the restaurant she worked at for the dinner shift looking like a million…
Posole
Some words are known in Spanish as one thing and English in another. How many …. of you knew that? Pun intended. Read on!…
Shakshouka
Shakshouka. It sounds like a dance. But it’s actually a delicious meal with a fascinating history! Here’s this week’s, “A Word On Food”. Thanks WLRN radio 91.3 and 91.5. Broadcasting from Palm Beach to Key West….
Conch Salad Man!
Back in the day… as we say… there was a really fascinating man that we all knew by his nickname. He was “The Conch Salad Man”. Frank was his first name I learned later. He sold his Conch Salad out of white pickle bucket at the Sunset Celebration each night at Key…
Cornbread
“The best comfort food will always be greens, cornbread and fried chicken”. — Maya Angelou I had the great pleasure of cooking for Ms. Angelou twice. Her voice and her celestial face were simply amazing. Here’s my WLRN show on the subject of cornbread. One of the three in her food trinity….
Fufú
Have you heard words like ‘fufú’ or ‘mofongo’? Want to learn more about them. They lead to delicious things! Here is my WLRN radio show on the subject….
Soccarat
Those heavenly crispy edges on the base of risottos and paellas …. There’s a name for that….