Hey, this is Mark Bitman. You might know me from How to Cook Everything, or from the New York Times, or from the

Bitman Project. You might say I'm obsessed with everything about food.

I'll tell you more about that in a new podcast called appropriately enough.

Food.

I'll tell you more about that in a minute.

But first, here's one of my favorite recipes for grilled blue cheese sandwich with tomatoes.

This is a really nice twist on a classic grilled cheese sandwich.

Take some blue cheese, gorgonzola, whatever you have, and mash it with a little bit of

softened cream cheese, say about four parts blue to one part cream. Some chopped chives in there

are really good also, and just enough milk, just a tiny bit so that it's spreadable.

Smear a layer of that on some slices of good bread,

and then top that with ripe sliced tomato, salt, and pepper.

Make sandwiches and put them into a buttered hot frying pan.

If you're making more than one sandwich,

it might be easier to put them on a baking sheet and just broil them on both

sides. But the pan cooking and butter of course is always good. Cook them as you would any

grilled cheese sandwich. Press down gently until the first side is cooked and

flip the sandwich and keep cooking until it's golden and beautifully gooey on the

inside. Cut into triangles and serve.

That was just a sample of the kind of tips and recipes you'll get on my new podcast, Food. I'll also sit down with guests like Carla Hall, Tom Calicchio, Ted Danson, Jane Goodall,

and important people in the food world you may not know about.

We'll talk about cooking, eating, and how food affects us all, our lives, our health, our planet.

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