A California road trip with cheese, tuna, and Basque food
Good Food
KCRW
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 18 July 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Good Food explores the Golden State!
- LA Times restaurant critic Bill Addison drove up and down the state to determine California's 101 best places to eat
- Chef Scott Clark left the pressure cooker of Michelin-starred restaurants to cook in a train caboose on the side of Highway 1
- Chef and fisherman Conner Mitchell says "yes" to locally caught bluefin tuna
- Bernadette Berterretche Helton preserves Basque food and traditions at Centro Basco in Chino
- Coming from a family of dairy operators, Vivian Straus honors Northern California's agricultural roots with the Cheese Trail
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| 0:00.0 | From KCRW, I'm Evan Klyman, and this is Good Food. |
| 0:07.6 | Tis the season of the road trip. |
| 0:11.1 | Those of us old enough to remember a Thomas guide traversed the state with a spiral-bound, gridded map. |
| 0:18.7 | LA Times restaurant critic Bill Addison had the luxury of technology as he spent |
| 0:23.7 | the last year driving through California. Many of us think of the Hollywood and the Ventura freeways |
| 0:29.9 | when we hear at the 101, but for Bill, the number signifies his new curated list of the state's |
| 0:36.8 | tastiest spots and most iconic culinary landmarks. |
| 0:41.5 | Hi, Bill. |
| 0:42.6 | Hi, Evan. |
| 0:43.7 | Congratulations on this insane and lofty endeavor. |
| 0:50.3 | Insane is honestly the word that comes most to my own head so thank you for saying it out loud yeah i mean |
| 0:57.8 | covering los angeles is a feat in and of itself but i don't even understand how you go about covering |
| 1:03.7 | the entire state i want to just jump into the list this is the time of year that people hit the road |
| 1:10.6 | yeah and start driving around |
| 1:12.9 | the state. So let's start in Sacramento. Maybe I shouldn't sound surprised, but there are a lot |
| 1:21.7 | of fines in and around Sacramento. Give us a few of your favorites there. Sure. I spent nearly two weeks eating in and around Sacramento. Give us a few of your favorites there. Sure. I spent nearly two weeks |
| 1:30.2 | eating in and around Sacramento because the city's restaurant scene feels perpetually underrepresented |
| 1:36.4 | in the broader conversation about California. And I wanted to dig in, find out for myself. |
| 1:42.7 | Restaurant Josephine in the northern suburbs of Auburn might be the place where I send |
| 1:49.0 | everyone first. |
| 1:50.7 | Incredible bistro cooking, but in a way that has the great produce, the use of the great |
| 1:57.7 | produce that Californians can relate to. |
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