Dan and Laura learn about how changes in the beef industry have affected the meat on your plate, how to select a good cut of beef, and what a lifelong butcher would do if his son became a vegetarian. Then Dan cooks a steak.
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This week on Slate's Table to Farm podcast, Dan and co-host L.V. Anderson talk to Princeton bioethicist Peter Singer and others for an episode about eggs.
Slate's L.V. Anderson joins Dan to debate ideal ramen cooking methods and to explain what curly hair can teach you about ramen. Plus Dan introduces several new techniques for ramen preparation.
Along with Slate food and drink editor L.V. Anderson, Dan is co-hosting a new Slate podcast called Table to Farm. The show reverse engineers the food chain, exploring the origins of what we buy, cook and eat. Listen!
In the annual Thanksgiving show (Ep 145), Dan welcomes Slate's food and drinks editor Laura Anderson, who gives a vegetarian's blessing to the Veggieducken, but challenges some of Dan's stuffing philosophy.
Slate's culture critic June Thomas gets paid to watch TV, so she eats every dinner in front of it. She joins Dan in Ep 142 to discuss ideal plate placement, TV tray technique, and ways in which a greasy remote can be used for seasoning.