Today on Cooking Issues, Dave Arnold hopes to make your cooking life a beach. Nastassia Lopez calls in from the beautiful beaches of Rhode Island to talk with Dave about the new Booker and Dax Searzall. What does it sear? Everything! Learn more about the safety logistics of their new contraption throughout this installment! Dave talks with some callers about pH and pickling, as well as pizza steels and their ability to stand up to uneven heat. Is it safe to use gases from paintball canisters to carbonate beverages at home? Find out if it's possible to turn Dr. Pepper into a powder, and learn how to make a red velvet cake without using dyes or beets! Can you name five things that Nastassia actually likes? Hear the list on this week's Cooking Issues! This program has been brought to you by S. Wallace Edwards & Sons.

"For preservation, you need a vacuum- and the better the vacuum, the happier you're going to be." [41:00]

"Dehydrating things with sugar can be very difficult because the more you dehydrate things, the more that sugar wants to resist losing that last bit of water." [45:40]

-- Dave Arnold on Cooking Issues

Heavy Seas Beer and Peekskill Brewery are the stars of today's Beer Sessions Radio! Jimmy Carbone is live at Jimmy's No. 43 with Hugh Sisson and Ken Zuckerman of Heavy Seas Beer in Baltimore, Maryland. Tune in to hear how Hugh got involved in the bar business after theater school. Hugh talks about beer and food pairings, and why Heavy Seas focuses on beers that go well with food. Hugh also talks about his love for cask conditioning, and how he learned to drink cask ales in London. Learn about Hugh's "caskerator", and how it keeps cask beer drinkable for up to ten days! Later, Jimmy talks with Jeff O'Neill of Peekskill Brewery at New York City Beer Week's Brewer's Choice. Tune in to hear Jimmy, Jeff, and Tim Stendahl (Union Beer) talk about some of the best beer events at New York City Beer Week! Learn why Jeff started brewing sour beers, and how Peekskill uses a coolship to make extremely clean beers! This episode has been brought to you by GreatBrewers.com.

"Too many IPAs are focused on the bitterness. If an IPA doesn't want to you have another beer, than it's not a good proposition." [3:20]

"Cask beer is the finest possible expression of draft beer." [10:25]

-- Hugh Sisson on Beer Sessions Radio

This week on Farm Report, Erin talks to Fred Magdoff about food security and sovereignty on both the local and international markets. With 1 in 8 families currently food insecure, how will the growing population be affected by the increase in ethanol and biodiesel fuel that is taking away from our food supply? How are government agencies dealing with this issue and planning for the future? This episode was sponsored by Hearst Ranch - the nations largest single-source supplier of grassfed and grass-finished beef.