What’s your favorite restaurant in Columbus? Have you visited a new place recently? This hour of “All Sides,” WOSU News Host Marilyn Smith will discuss the best places to eat in central Ohio, call in with your suggestions.

Guests

• Rich Terapak (WOSU food fritic)
• Rick Terapak (WOSU food critic)
• Steve Stover (food and restaurant writer/contributor, “Edible Columbus”)

Is food prep the most stressful part of your holiday season? Or, on the other hand, is it your favorite part? Either way, we’ll talk with central Ohio food devotees about holiday food and cooking on this hour of “All Sides.”

Guests

• Tricia Wheeler (Editor-in-Chief, Edible Columbus Magazine)
• Faith Durand (freelance food writer, author of “Not Your Mother’s Casseroles”)

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Have you tried every restaurant in town? Probably not, but you should! Join us on this hour of “All Sides” for a discussion of the best food and restaurants in Central Ohio… You could probably hear about somewhere to go for dinner tonight!

Guests

• Miriam Bowers (Restaurant Critic, The Other Paper)
• John Marshall (Restaurant Reviewer, Columbus Monthly)

Lynn Alley is a soup extraordinaire. Her new book, “50 Simple Soups for the Slow Cooker,” contains simple and flavorful vegetarian soups for the slow cooker.

Guest

• Lynn Alley (food and wine journalist)

Book

50 Simple Soups for the Slow Cooker Cookbook by Lynn Alley

Inside 50 Simple Soups for the Slow Cooker Hardcover cookbook you’ll find bold combinations for 50 new vegetarian and vegan soup dishes that are as hearty as they are flavorful.

A few classics such as Ribollita and French Onion mingle with many unique offerings, including Swedish Rhubarb Raspberry Soup, Garnet Yam Soup with Coconut Cream, and Eggplant Soup with Cumin, Yogurt, and Dill.

Do you need a new place to go for dinner this weekend? In this hour, NPR News Host Marilyn Smith discusses the best food and restaurants in Central Ohio.

Guests:

• Rich Terapak (WOSU Food Critic)
• Jon Christensen (Columbus Dispatch Restaurant Critic)

Lynn Alley, a freelance food and wine journalist, is the author of “The Gourmet Vegetarian Slow Cooker: Simple and Sophisticated Meals from Around the World.”

Alley joined All Sides with Ann Fisher to talk about the technique and art in using a slow cooker. Alley said in the past the slow cooker has been looked down on, but more recently, has become more widely accepted.

“I personally do not like digital slow cookers. That’s just one more thing to break down,” Alley said. “I like the good old-fashioned dial ones.”

The book includes recipes for breakfast, soups, main dishes, sides and deserts. All recipes are paired with a drink, all are vegetarian, and some are vegan.

Pledge today!

If you pledge $100 to WOSU, you will receive Alley’s book, “The Gourmet Vegetarian Slow Cooker: Simple and Sophisticated Meals from Around the World.”

“The truth of the matter is, when I’m donating to my local station, I give what I can afford to give,” Alley said.

Also included with the book is the WOSU member card. With this card you can receive discounts at over 200 local businesses and attractions.

Thank you gift for your donations:

• Book: “The Gourmet Vegetarian Slow Cooker” by Lynn Alley = PLEDGE LEVEL $100

Guest:

• Lynn Alley (Food and Wine Journalist)

We’ll engage in a discussion on the best food and restaurants in Central Ohio as we spring into a new season.

What new restaurants are making themselves known this season, and what are some of the old favorites that we can keep going back to?

Guests:

• Rich Terapak (WOSU restaurant critic)
• Jon Christensen (Columbus Dispatch restaurant critic)
• Miriam Bowers Abbott (The Other Paper restaurant critic)

Chef Jacques Pépin was born in Bourg-en-Bresse, Lyon in France. His father and mother owned a restaurant where he credits the beginning of his  his love of food to have developed. Later on, he came to the U.S. where he worked at a French restaurant while learning English at night school.

Now, he is a renowned French Chef, and has appeared on a number of French and American T.V. shows while also writing a number of best-selling cookbooks.

Jacques Pépin finished taping a new series called Essential Pépin which will air in the fall of 2011.

He will also serving as the celebrity gust for the WOSU Chefs in the City Event from Thursday, April 21 to Friday, April 22.

Watch a Preview Clip from Essential Pépin

Read More:

• Jacques Pepin, More Fast Food My Way Website (KQED TV)
• Jacques Pepin, More Fast Food My Way (Amazon.com)