Playing With Food

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Fr. Ian Delinger hosts this fun monthly segment of "Issues & Ideas" about unique ways of looking at and preparing everyday foods on the California Central Coast. He travels around our region cooking with and talking with chefs, farmers, distillers, home cooks and more in this entertaining culinary exploration.

  1. 10/27/2025

    Legumes with a surprise

    Beans. They come in so many varieties, and they are absolutely delicious. One local farmer grows many varieties of beans: the kind that you pod and all, like green beans; the kind you have to soak overnight, like pinto beans, and another surprising variety!

    20 min

  2. 09/29/2025

    Playing with Permaculture

    Our Global Family Farm is a permaculture demonstration farm in a corner of SLO City Farm in San Luis Obispo, which is a “whole systems thinking” approach to horticulture and living.

    21 min

  3. 07/28/2025

    Playing With Algae

    Spirulina has been a food source for millennia. It’s been a popular supplement in the US for decades. And it's being produced right here on the Central Coast.

    25 min

  4. 06/30/2025

    Playing With Tariffs

    The on-again-off-again tariffs of 2025 have already had a local impact. The food and drinks industries on the Central Coast feel the pain, not just in the pocketbook, but also in operations.

    20 min

  5. 05/26/2025

    Harvestly: Filling the Delivery Gaps

    A local delivery service fills the gap between the farm boxes, supermarket and restaurants … ordered from one place and delivered to your doorstep.

    20 min

  6. 04/28/2025

    The Art of the Sausage

    What's in a sausage? Dare one look? The owner of Lobo Butcher in Gudalupe shows Fr. Ian just how pure, local and fresh sausages can be.

    19 min

  7. 03/31/2025

    Playing With Caramels in the Kitchen

    Caramels - real caramels - are easy to make and delicious! One Central Coast nurse-wife-mother makes caramels in her kitchen, using honey produced by her bees.

    20 min

  8. 02/24/2025

    Playing With Wheat

    We don't typically associate wheat crops with California, but they are here! And as a part of their Agriculture Enrichment Program, Shandon and San Miguel School Districts are growing wheat to teach kids about where their food comes from, supported by the Wheat-2-School program of the California Wheat Commission. And it's happening right here on the Central Coast!

    21 min
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Fr. Ian Delinger hosts this fun monthly segment of "Issues & Ideas" about unique ways of looking at and preparing everyday foods on the California Central Coast. He travels around our region cooking with and talking with chefs, farmers, distillers, home cooks and more in this entertaining culinary exploration.

Information

  • Creator
    KCBX
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2025
  • Episodes
    20
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Show Website
    Playing With Food