This week on Cooking Issues, Dave Arnold is all over the place and breaks down his thoughts on carbonation, DIY circulators, popcorn machines and more. Find out more about meat slicers, food dehydrators cereal puffing and vacuum sealers as he answers your cooking questions yet again. Non-cooking related "Issues" this week include the age-appropriateness of Jurrasic Park, The Beastie Boys and Dave's loud orange shirt. This program was sponsored by Fairway Market.

"If you're going to carbonate a negroni, you must shake it!!!"

--Dave Arnold on Cooking Issues

This week on After the Jump, Grace Bonney chats with Jason Goodman, Executive Director/Co-Founder of 3rd Ward, a multi-disciplinary workspace and education center in Brooklyn, NY. Find out what drove Jason to create a place where you can experiment, practice and polish your craft and creativity and how his artistic background helped drive his vision. Hear what makes Brooklyn such unique place and the perfect setting for a DIY space like 3rd Ward. This program was sponsored by S. Wallace Edwards & Sons.

"Brooklyn is not really about one thing. There are fashion designers, photographers, furniture makers, hackers, and more. That big mixture of people who share a similar DIY ethos makes 3rd Ward successful and Brooklyn very interesting."

"We're entering an age where lots of programing is considered basic literacy."

--Jason Goodman, Executive Director/Co-Founder of 3rd Ward on After the Jump

Today marks Belgium's King's Day holiday and Beer Sessions Radio celebrates the country and it's beer with a Coast 2 Coast Toast with Wendy Littlefield and Don Feinberg of Vanberg & DeWulf, the premier Belgian importers. They talk about bringing Belgium beer, such as the Saison, back from near extinction as well importing Duvel, lambics, and trappist beers. But first, the couple behind Brooklyn Brew Shop, Erica Shea and Stephen Valand, join in at the studio to explain how they came up with their book The Beer Making Book, which contains over 52 different varieties of DIY small batch brews anyone can make in the comfort of their home or even small apartment. Tune in later as Lew Bryson calls in to share his Belgian beer stories from back in the day. This episode is sponsored by GreatBrewers.com.