This week Hot Grease gets saucy with Brooklyn's own Saucy By Nature. Co-owner Pzermek Adolf joins Nicole Taylor in studio to talk about his international influences in his delicious artisnal sauces and dips. Tune later for Monica Luczak and The Hot 5: Gift Edition to find the perfect present for the food lover you know. This episode is sponsored by Whole Foods Market.

On today’s THE FOOD SEEN, Naomi Duguid has spent her life exhaustively traveling and documenting the greater part of Southeast Asia. Her cookbooks have introduced the true cuisines of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, greater China, and now Burma (aka Myanmar) Her latest tome, BURMA: Rivers of Flavor, explores SE Asia’s largest country, a rarely traversed region sitting at the crossroad of India and China. Waterways up and down the Irrawaddy river, a year round growing season, plentiful rice paddies, and deeply personal cooking full of crispy fried shallots, turmeric, banana flowers, dried shrimp powder, curries, culminate with simple yet sensational national dishes like Mohinga, rice noodles with fish broth usually eaten as breakfast. Get your flavor passport ready! This program has been sponsored by Hearst Ranch.

"The word 'steamed' is not very appetizing to people when you think about meat... I don't know where this notion of 'bland' comes from in in terms of steamed meat, when in fact, it's succulent." [19:58]

"There's a light-handedness to the flavoring [of Burmese food] that I find very interesting." [24:27]

-- Naomi Duguid on THE FOOD SEEN

This week on Burning Down The House our vocabulary gets big with guests Caroline Bailey, playing vox populi, and Ariana Bain of the company Except, the visionary of the The Polydome, a "revolutionary high-yield sustainable agriculture system for greenhouses" . It's her hope that one day, by implementing the Polydome a city as big as New York could feed itself with minimal negative environmental impact. Curtis & Co. talk about symbiosis by design, integrated stability, quantitative tools for social network analysis, and break it down for you so you can come out more knowledgable about your food, how it's made, how it gets to you and a whole lot more. This episode is sponsored by Hearst Ranch.