This week on "Sunday Morning" (November 24): The Food Issue
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TO-DO LIST: "Sunday Morning" 2024 "Food Issue" recipe index
Delicious menu suggestions from top chefs, cookbook authors, food writers, restaurateurs, and the editors of Food & Wine magazine.
COVER STORY: A study to devise nutritional guidance just for you
From the four food groups to the Food Pyramid, the U.S. government has long offered guidance to Americans hoping to eat a healthier diet. But there's growing scientific consensus that when it comes to eating healthy, all of us respond to foods differently. And to prove it, the National Institutes of Health has embarked on the most ambitious nutrition study ever, hoping to finally provide Americans an answer to the question: "What should I eat?" Correspondent Lee Cowan reports.
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ARTS: Good enough to eat: Noah Verrier's paintings of comfort food
Artist Noah Verrier is getting millions of likes on social media for his paintings of comfort foods, like peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, burgers, fries, and jelly donuts – and they're selling like hotcakes on eBay. Correspondent Rita Braver talks with Verrier about how the former Florida State University art instructor came to become known as a "junk food painter."
For more info:
- noahverrier.com
- "Good Enough to Eat 2025 Wall Calendar: The Art of Comfort Food" by Noah Verrier (Rizzoli Universe), available via Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Bookshop.org
- Noah Verrier on eBay
FOOD: Baking an ancient bread in Tennessee
In Nashville, not far from the center of the country music world, you'll find a bakery that produces bread nearly identical to what Kurds have been enjoying for more than 4,000 years. Correspondent Martha Teichner visits Newroz Market, where their bread, which originated in Mesopotamia and is traditionally hand-made by women, is a vital culinary necessity for the Kurdish diaspora.
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- Newroz Market, Nashville (Facebook)
DAIRY: The cream of the crop in butter
The butter made at Animal Farm Creamery, in Shoreham, Vermont, is almost exclusively sold to fine dining restaurants around the country. Correspondent Faith Salie visits the family farm churning out a golden (and expensive) product.
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- A small amount of Animal Farm Butter is sold via Saxelby Cheesemongers
- Acquerello, San Francisco
TRIPTYCH #1: "Sandwiches of History": Resurrecting sandwich recipes that time forgot
Every week, on his blog, "Sandwiches of History," Barry Enderwick rescues sandwich recipes from the dustbin of history. Some of the unlikeliest (and even amazing) historical recipes are now collected in a cookbook. Enderwick is even traveling the country, workshopping sandwiches in front of a live audience. Correspondent Luke Burbank gets a taste.
RECIPE: A sophisticated club sandwich
Blogger Barry Enderwick, of Sandwiches of History, offers "Sunday Morning" viewers a 1958 recipe for a club sandwich that, he says, shouldn't work, but actually does, really well!
For more info:
- "Sandwiches of History: The Cookbook – All the Best (and Most Surprising) Things People Have Put Between Slices of Bread" by Barry W. Enderwick (Harvard Common Press), in Hardcover and eBook formats, available via Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Bookshop.org
- Sandwiches of History (blog)
EDUCATION: "All hands on deck" for Idaho's annual potato harvest
In Idaho, harvest season means some high schools offer students a two-week "spud break," when they help farmers get their potatoes out of the ground and into the cellar. And in some cases, their teachers join in. Correspondent Conor Knighton reports.
RECIPE: Potato recipes from the Murdock family
Sixth-generation Idaho potato farmer Brian Murdock offers "Sunday Morning" viewers some simple recipes for spuds.
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TECHNOLOGY: A new generation of shopping cart, with GPS and AI
At a Price Chopper outside Kansas City, shoppers are test driving the new Caper Cart, featuring digital screens, GPS, cameras equipped with artificial intelligence, and packaging scanners that spit out coupons. Correspondent Jonathan Vigliotti looks at the technology used to "reinvent the wheel" of the shopping cart.
For more info:
- Caper Cart by Instacart
- Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, Washington, D.C.
WORLD: Gazan chefs cook up hope and humanity for online audience
For many in war-torn Gaza, a hot meal has become a luxury. Two bright spots in the midst of displacement and food shortages are 10-year-old Chef Renad, who's gained a following on instagram, and Hamada Shaqoura, who prepares simple dishes online, often relying on humanitarian aid and crude cooking arrangements. They talk with correspondent Holly Williams about the hardships of life in Gaza, and of using cooking as a symbol of hope and humanity.
For more info:
- Follow Chef Renad on Instagram
- Follow Hamada Shaqoura on Instagram
- Watermelon Relief
- World Food Program in the Palestinian Territories
SCIENCE: Dishing up space food
At the Johnson Space Food Systems Laboratory in Houston, NASA scientists develop dishes – freeze-dried, heat-stabilized, or irradiated – to serve on the International Space Station. Correspondent David Pogue checks out what's on the menu in Earth orbit.
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TRIPTYCH #2: In praise of Seattle-style teriyaki
Seattle has more teriyaki shops per capita than any other metropolis in America. Correspondent Luke Burbank talks with the man whose 1976 restaurant, Toshi's Teriyaki Grill, began it all.
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SUNDAY PROFILE: Mick Fleetwood plays to the future in Maui
As a young man, Fleetwood Mac founder Mick Fleetwood dreamed of a place – a club – where he could get his friends together. Twelve years ago, he made it happen in the west Maui city of Lahaina: Fleetwood's on Front Street. But last year's horrific wildfires turned Lahaina into a disaster zone, and destroyed his treasured club. Today, Fleetwood says he's determined to rebuild. Correspondent Tracy Smith reports.
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PETS: Serving up home-cooked dog food
Commercially-produced pet food is a $50 billion a year industry. But some advocate for healthier meals for your beloved pets. Correspondent Nancy Giles visits Just Food for Dogs, in Hollywood, Calif, which sells delicious canine fare that is also USDA-approved for human consumption; and with pet nutritionist Christine Filardi, author of "Home Cooking For Your Dog." Bone Appétit!
RECIPE (FOR DOGS): Hearty Hamburgers
RECIPE (FOR DOGS): Friday Playdate Pizza
RECIPE (FOR DOGS): Bacon and Cream Cheese Muffins
RECIPE (FOR DOGS): Ground Turkey, Quinoa, and Carrots
For more info:
- Just Food for Dogs, Hollywood, Calif.
- "Home Cooking For Your Dog: 75 Holistic Recipes For a Healthier Dog" by Christine M. Filardi, with Dr. Wayne Geltman, DVM (Stewart, Tabori & Chang), in Hardcover and eBook formats, available via Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Bookshop.org
- Christine Filardi (BowMeowRaw)
WORLD: An Italian masterpiece: Cacio e pepe
A centuries-old pasta dish made with pecorino romano cheese and cracked pepper is a tradition in Italy, but getting it right is tricky even for the most experienced of chefs. Correspondent Seth Doane talks with Gabriele Giura, head chef at the famed Roman restaurant Roscioli, about preparing this simple but wondrous dish.
RECIPE: Roscioli Cacio e Pepe
A favorite Italian pasta dish, from a Roman restaurant institution.
RECIPE: Cacio e Pepe Pizza
From chef Stefano Callegari, founder of the Rome eatery Trapizzino, comes this simple take on pizza.
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BEVERAGES: What makes a martini a martini?
There are very few American inventions more American than the martini – a classic cocktail of gin and vermouth, garnished with lemon. But today, a martini's ingredients may be up for debate, with variations and proportions skewed to personal taste. "Sunday Morning" contributor Kelefa Sanneh looks at the history of the martini, with a twist.
RECIPE: Martini recipes from Temple Bar, New York City
Head bartender Samantha Casuga offers "Sunday Morning" viewers some classic cocktail recipes.
RECIPE: Martini recipes from cocktail writer Robert Simonson
The author of "The Martini Cocktail: A Meditation on the World's Greatest Drink" offers "Sunday Morning" viewers two classic recipes.
For more info:
- "The Martini Cocktail: A Meditation on the World's Greatest Drink, with Recipes" by Robert Simonson (Ten Speed Press), in Hardcover and eBook formats, available via Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Bookshop.org
- The Mix with Robert Simonson (Newsletter)
- Temple Bar, New York City
TRIPTYCH #3: Rediscovering the Baked Alaska
Few desserts are so shrouded in mystery as the enigmatic Baked Alaska. While it's thought people were eating baked ice cream dishes in the 19th century, the recipe for the dish that would become known as Baked Alaska was first published in 1894. Correspondent Luke Burbank looks at why this classic, paradoxical dessert that melds heat with frozen sweets continues to captivate.
For more info:
- Castaway, Burbank, Calif.
- Food historian Jim Chevalier (chezjim.com)
- Delmonico's, New York City
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WEB EXCLUSIVES:
FROM THE ARCHIVES: Culinary Arts (YouTube Video)
Enjoy these "Sunday Morning" features in which the worlds of art and food collide spectacularly: Photographer Carl Warner designs landscapes out of food (2011); The "Tiny Kitchen" studio creates bite-sized feasts (2017); Artist Gerard Tonti brews works created with coffee grinds, tea leaves and coffee filters (2015); Roger Rowley arranges fruit plates for the camera (2014); Nathan Myhrvold takes eye-popping pictures of food (2018); In Japan, plastic food teases the eyes (2015); Artist Graham Ottoson creates art out of gourds (2023); Photographer Ernie Button captures tantalizing patterns from the dried remains of single malt scotch in the bottom of a glass (2024); and Instagrammer Lauren Ko posts photos of her remarkable pies (2020).
WEB EXTRA: Extended interview: Cher (Video)
In this web exclusive, correspondent Anthony Mason sits down with the singer Cher to talk about her new book, "Cher: The Memoir – Part One," which explores the "crazy ride" of her childhood. She also discusses her relationship with Sonny Bono, and why their extraordinarily successful musical duo, Sonny & Cher, survived the breakup of their marriage.
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