Cooking with Tender Spring Produce

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Published March 10, 2009 at 7:00 AM PDT

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Spring begins on March 20 and with it comes the harvest of tender greens, juicy strawberries and crisp asparagus. We'll talk about buying, cooking and enjoying the foods of spring in our monthly Food

Alan Ray : From fava beans with a fine chianti to spam, spam, spam. Food is entertaining, pleasurable, challenging, daunting and necessary.

It's also one of the things people talk about endlessly, but we only have an hour. Today, with spring time right around the calendar corner, we'll talk about spring cooking.

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Chef Elizabeth Podsiadlo will teach vegetarian cooking at the San Diego Natural History Museum on March 28, 2009.

Guest

Elizabeth Podsiadlo , personal chef and cooking instructor who is known around town at the "Opera Singing Chef "because of her regular performances in hotels and restaurants.