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Playing With Food

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.

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20:29

Legumes with a surprise

Playing With Food ·

2025/10/27

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!

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21:06

Playing with Permaculture

Playing With Food ·

2025/09/29

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.

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24:38

Playing With Algae

Playing With Food ·

2025/07/28

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.

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19:55

Playing With Tariffs

Playing With Food ·

2025/06/30

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.

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20:11

Harvestly: Filling the Delivery Gaps

Playing With Food ·

2025/05/26

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

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19:05

The Art of the Sausage

Playing With Food ·

2025/04/28

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.

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20:28

Playing With Caramels in the Kitchen

Playing With Food ·

2025/03/31

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.

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20:59

Playing With Wheat

Playing With Food ·

2025/02/24

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!

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19:50

Making Wine in the Garage?

Playing With Food ·

2025/01/27

Are you making wine in your garage? Then you may be considered “garagsiste”. But instead of in being a pejorative term, the Garagiste Festival in North San Luis Obispo County celebrates wines from wineries that produce fewer than 1,500 cases annually. (And they aren’t really made in the garage!)

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57:49

BBQ University

Playing With Food ·

2024/12/23

Playing With Food is serving up a 3-course episode for you this holiday season! And it’s all about BBQ! BBQ hero Steven Raichlen hosted a PBS show called Barbecue University. And now BBQ U is now a real, live in-person event right here on the Central Coast. The first course is visit to a class of BBQ U. The second course is to find out how BBQ U happen. And our third course is a sit-down with the hero himself, Steven Raichlen. You will be pulling out your grill by the end of this show!

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19:59

Playing With Food Responsibly

Playing With Food ·

2024/11/25

What does Corporate Social Responsibility have to do with food, and what does food have to do with Corporate Social Responsibility (or CSR)? It has to do with food when a prominent farmer and wine producer in the region operates his businesses on this model…which is having a positive impact on the community.

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20:29

Playing with California Coffee

Playing With Food ·

2024/10/28

Who would have thought that coffee could grow on the California Coast. The Playing With Food Team visited one of the first coffee plantations in California in Morro Bay, and the State's only coffee processing facility in Ventura.

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20:33

Playing With Wine

Playing With Food ·

2024/09/30

Wine. It’s all around us. And there’s so much to learn! There are classes at Broken Earth Winery in Paso Robles which include learning the basics and tasting the varietals, but also pairing food and wine!

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19:52

A Cattlewoman's Journey

Playing With Food ·

2024/08/26

A local cattlewoman is raising grass-fed beef, and she introduced the Playing With Food team to the picanha cut.

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20:07

Playing With Ollaliberries

Playing With Food ·

2024/07/29

Olallieberries are unique to the cool, coastal fog areas of the West Coast. They have long been grown in Avila Valley and Cambria. But few actually know what they are. So, the Playing With Food Team went on a discovery mission.

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20:01

Playing With Bao

Playing With Food ·

2024/06/24

Bao simply means “stuffed bun”. The pillowy white buns hold precious filling! They are super delicious, but they are a pain to make. So, Playing With Food went to SLO Public Market to learn the tricks of the trade.

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20:12

Good Food Goes From Farm-to-School

Playing With Food ·

2024/05/21

Local farmers are giving school lunches a complete makeover thanks to a relatively new program of farm-to-school. Local farmers stop by to drop off freshly-picked, locally-grown fruits and vegetables, freshly-baked bread, kumquats and more!

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24:41

Playing With Memoirs

Playing With Food ·

2024/04/22

Accomplished cookbook author for Williams-Sonoma and other publishers, Brigit Binns, lives right here on the Central Coast. After a career of writing recipes, she has now written a memoir of growing up in Hollywood as daughter of actor Ed Binns. Brigit invited the Playing With Food Team into her kitchen to cook, chat and eat, our favorite pastime.

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20:21

Urban Chicken Run

Playing With Food ·

2024/03/25

First it was the pandemic in 2020 when supply chains were closed off. Then it was avian flu in 2022 when flocks were being destroyed. People bought chickens! The average American eats about 275 eggs each year. So, if they are in short supply or really expensive, someone with a decent backyard may want to build a hen house. Among those in the know, they are referred to as “backyard chickens”, but Playing With Food is focusing specifically on Urban Chickens…ones that live in the city where they might

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20:20

Playing With Pasta

Playing With Food ·

2024/02/27

EVERYONE loves pasta! The Playing With Food Team met up with two Central Coast pasta makers: one commercial, and one in-house restaurant. And we made some delicious discoveries!

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