Food Talk

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Food Talk

Hosts Linda Perkins and Merianne Myers talk about home cooking successes and failures, where they find inspiration and what’s for dinner. This locally produced program about life in the kitchen airs twice monthly. Send comments, questions, and haikus to: [email protected]

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    Food Talk – April 6, 2026

    With hosts Merianne Myers and Linda Perkins

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    Food Talk – March 23, 2026

    A special 1-hour live show for KMUN’s Spring Pledge Drive featuring guests Marco Davis and Dulcye Taylor

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    Food Talk – March 2nd, 2026

    Merianne, special guest Marco Davis & home cooking

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    Food Talk – February 2nd, 2026

    For the love of rice cookers and a secret to good vinaigrette. Spoiler : it’s water.

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    Food Talk – January 5th, 2025

    Don’t mess with salmon, laminated pizza – why?!

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    Food Talk – December 15th, 2025

    Cookies, discovering a good chicken recipe, and confessing that sometimes you don’t feel like making dinner.

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    Food Talk – December 1st, 2025

    Dinner pies and nifty way to freeze pie dough.

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    Food Talk – November 17th, 2025

    The perfection of pot roast, Linda’s annual Thanksgiving tips

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    Food Talk – October 20th, 2025

    Linda peels eggs for 5 and a half hours!

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    Food Talk – October 6th, 2025

    Time to fall in love with your oven again. Apples, squash and the dubious need for onion powder.

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    Food Talk – September 15th, 2025

    Join Merianne and Linda on this Fall Pledge Drive Monday!

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    Food Talk – September 1st, 2025

    It’s September! Melon salads, and Linda has extra onions.

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    Food Talk – August 18th, 2025

    Pizza dough secret revealed!

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    Food Talk – August 4th, 2025

    If zucchini is the tofu of vegetables, asparagus is the bacon Can the egg float test be trusted?

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    Food Talk – July 21st, 2025

    Pears, corn and the problem with the ’new’ butter

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    Food Talk – July 7th, 2025

    The perils of not following the recipe. Questionable corn salsa

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    Food Talk – June 16th, 2025

    Some of our favorite recipe developers, crab tacos, miso

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    Food Talk – June 2nd, 2025

    Oregon berries, mashed potatoes and BLT’s

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    Food Talk – May 19th, 2025

    Flagrant recipe substitutions, man salad.

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    Food Talk – May 5th, 2025

    The fallacy of Salad Sandwiches, asparagus the spear of Spring 

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    Food Talk – April 21st, 2025

    Floating eggs & Nerf Carrots

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    Food Talk – April 7th, 2025

    Floor meatloaf and a recipe we don’t like.

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    Food Talk – March 17th, 2025

    It’s Pork Shoulder Season!

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    Food Talk – March 3rd, 2025

    It’s KMUN’s Spring Pledge Drive with Merianne and Linda!

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    Food Talk – February 17th, 2025

    Linda got to cool a pot of soup in a snow drift!

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    Food Talk – February 3rd, 2025

    Fine weather for soup & the brilliance of leftovers

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    Food Talk – January 20th, 2025

    The wonders of fried rice, the vicissitudes of pasta.

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    Food Talk – January 6th, 2025

    Soup fails, and a cougar in Linda’s yard.

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    Food Talk – December 2nd, 2024

    The priceless value of frozen vegetables, Linda’s chubby galette.

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    Food Talk – November 18th, 2024

    Scalloped potatoes and Linda on caffeine

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    Food Talk – November 4th, 2024

    Soup & squash & chocolate bread!

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    Food Talk – October 21st, 2024

    Loco Moco, to stir fry or saute’, the wonders of gravy 

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    Food Talk – October 7th, 2024

    Fish sauce butter, whiskey glaze, Linda’s scary jalapeño encounter 

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    Food Talk – September 16th, 2024

    How butter has changed, Linda’s pledge drive apron striptease 

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    Food Talk – September 2nd, 2024

    Harvest season and Linda’s dubious product availability forecast skills

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    Food Talk August 19, 2024

    Linda and Merianne discuss the poor quality of melons and corn this year. And then there are vinaigrettes….

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    Food Talk August 5th, 2024

    Peanut sauce fail, the fate of vanilla.  

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    Food Talk – July 15th, 2024

    Making 3 dinners from one flank steak and Linda’s new discovery for a better double crust pie.

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    Food Talk – June 3rd, 2024

    Berries, and the mystery of how one can possibly eat 30 vegetables a day.

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    Food Talk – May 20th, 2024

    Linda hates voicemail, and she might take up coffee again! Also, cauliflower shawarma.

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    Food Talk – May 6th, 2024

    Cookbook winners, spring vegetables, smoked salmon 

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    Food Talk – April 15th, 2024

    It’s KMUN’s pledge drive week, and Linda is NOT allowed to have any more cookbooks!

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    Food Talk – April 1st, 2024

    Always wear your apron when opening the oven.

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    Food Talk – March 18th, 2024

    If you don’t like an ingredient, don’t use it!

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    Food Talk – March 4th, 2024

    Broken stoves, landfills of spinach, citrus

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    Food Talk – February 19th, 2024

    Batch cooking and Linda’s delicious recipe mistake.

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    Food Talk – February 5th, 2024

    Pork tenderloin, microwaves & Linda’s dirty apron

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    Food Talk – January 1st, 2023

    Braising, Greek food & Linda’s coffee art apron

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

Hosts Linda Perkins and Merianne Myers talk about home cooking successes and failures, where they find inspiration and what’s for dinner. This locally produced program about life in the kitchen airs twice monthly. Send comments, questions, and haikus to: [email protected]

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