Under-the-radar eats, veggie burgers made of actual veggies and the Jell-O revival

Good Food

KCRW

Society & Culture

4.5 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Memo Torres shares three under-the-radar dining destinations on his monthly Apple Maps list. Gloria Swanson is ready for her close-up as a health food advocate (with a little help from LA historian Hadley Meares). Forget meat alternatives. Lukas Volger develops veggie burger recipes using whole foods. TikTok Jell-O revivalist Otto Markel is documenting every recipe from a 1963 cookbook. "Jiggle Daddy" Ken Albala showcases gelatin cuisine using some eyebrow-raising ingredients. Erika Chan visits the farmers market to find melons for a gelatin dessert at Dunsmoor.

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0:00.0	From KCRW, I'm Evan Klyman. You're listening to good food and I hope you're hungry.
0:06.5	Fish and Chips.
0:10.5	Chila Kiles with Cafe Deoia, Molle burgers, and something called a yes-yes.
0:18.0	Memo Torres from Elle Taco is back with recommendations for what we should be eating right now in Los Angeles.
0:25.7	He's the voice behind L.A. Taco's popular neighborhood guides, but today he joins us with four restaurants
0:32.4	across the city that everyone should know about.
0:35.7	Hi Memo.
0:36.7	Hi Evan, glad to be back.
0:39.6	I'm so glad to have you.
0:41.6	So I understand that you have a new partnership with Apple Maps
0:45.8	where you curate a list of 15 restaurants across LA that you think people
0:50.4	should know about. It's a really interesting list. Yeah, you know, I mean, I got this opportunity to be on this platform. I mean, I'm basically going to be curating or I am curating a list on every person's iPhone on their map.
1:05.0	So I, you know, if you look at most lists, it can be very repetitive nowadays.
1:10.0	I wanted to really explore LA and wondering people to find places that do kind of fly under the radar or maybe places that people have already heard of or they do make some lists but people still don't visit.
1:22.7	And I kind of wanted to showcase some of the really
1:25.8	interesting nooks and crannies
1:27.4	in the food scene of LA.
1:29.2	So let's begin with Teddy's Cafe.
1:31.5	Where is it and what is it? Teddy's Cafe. Where is it and what is it?
1:33.4	Teddy's Cafe is a really old tiny cafe that's in the west side.
1:39.4	It's on the corner of Bundy and Pico Boulevard. This place has been there for years, I think since
1:46.8	1988 before that it was a cafeteria, but if you walk in there I mean the food's not exceptional. It's just your average
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