This week on Beer Sessions Jimmy and Ray sit down with some new players in the wide world of Beer Media. First Will Stephens, creator of the blog Wandering Foodie and writer at Huffington Post, discusses his new ideas for a beer website and how he got in the blogosphere. Next Hagan Blount, creator of Beer Menu.com (an interactive list of beer menus and draught lists that has taken off in popularity as of late) discusses the inspiration and impetus for his new site. Bartender Jen Schwertman weighs in on NYC bar tipping habits, and Kelly Taylor & Sonya Giaccobe of Kelso Brewing Company talk about local beer and the evolution of the craft beer scene. Great Brewers.com: a favorite source for beer information and education and one of the internet's most popular beer destinations.

Kelly & Sonya of Kelso

Erin Jang spent years as a designer in the publishing world, working with Rachael Ray, Esquire, and Martha Stewart. For her apropos project, FOOD SKETCHES, she now illustrates her favorite dishes, seen as abstract shapes, lines, colors, forms, textures, though easily identified if you’ve ever had Flour Bakery’s Boston Cream Pie or the Kung Pao Pastrami at Mission Chinese Food. All this from the girl who wanted nothing more than Lunchables as a child, but instead, was sent to school with bulgogi and perilla leaves. FOOD SKETCHES is the visual feast she could have only dreamed of! Don't miss today's episode of THE FOOD SEEN! This program has been sponsored by Rolling Press. Thanks to Cookies for today's music.

"I love doing design work publications where the writing is super interesting." [10:00]

-- Erin Jang on THE FOOD SEEN

Taste Greece on a Mediterranean-minded episode of Taste Matters, as Mitchell Davis is joined by Diane Kochilas. Diane Kochilas is one of the world’s foremost experts on Greek cuisine, She is an internationally acclaimed cookbook author, chef, media go-to person for Greek food, consultant, and teacher. She has written 18 books in both English and Greek on Greek and Mediterranean cuisine, including the award-winning The Glorious Foods of Greece (William Morrow, 2001) and the forthcoming Country Cooking of Greece (Chronicle Books, Fall 2012). Diane is consulting chef at New York’s most popular Greek restaurant, Pylos, and at the recently opened meze concept Boukiés. She helped open Volos, Toronto’s premiere Greek restaurant, and has a long-standing relationship with Avli restaurant in Chicago and Axia in Bergen County, NJ. On today's show, learn about everything from Mediterranean Diets, the plant based cuisine of Greece and the true meaning of "Greek Yogurt". This program was sponsored by Heritage Foods USA, and break music provided courtesy of Obey City.

"Clinical trials finally proved that the Mediterranean diet reduces heart disease." [02:00]

"Greek cuisine can boast the best variety of plant based main courses of all the cuisines of the Mediterranean." [03:00]

"I'm a Greek kid who grew up in Queens, so I have fond memories of diners as a teenager." [06:00]

"The lay of the land plays the most basic role in what people eat - and that's certainly the case in Greece" [18:00]

--Diane Kochilas, Greek food expert, on Taste Matters