How do you fry your chicken? This week on Cooking Issues, Dave Arnold shares his fried chicken recipe and cooking techniques! Joined by Nastassia "the Hammer" Lopez, Dave is answering listener questions about the health considerations of carbonation. What is 'duck milk', and how can you use it in the kitchen? Dave offers some suggestions to increase heat in a smoker, and explains how to make a transparent tomato. Later, Dave talks about the many uses of Pectin X Ultra SPL in cooking applications. Hear about the best way to prepare and kill a lobster in order to preserve flavor. This program has been brought to you by The International Culinary Center.

"I have not found any research to show that bubbly water hurts you! Let's separate what's in soda from the bubbles." [13:45]

"If you don't deaerate when you're clarifying tomatoes, you're going to get these solids floating on that the top that are really going to mess with your stuff." [28:00]

-- Dave Arnold on Cooking Issues

On this week's episode of U Look Hungry, Helen Hollyman is in the studio with fried chicken guru Dante Gonzales of Dante's Fried Chicken. If you've been living in Williamsburg for a while, you might remember some of Dante's parties at his Kent Avenue loft, where he fried chicken, invited musicians to perform, and screened films. Hear about how Dante got interested in cooking by helping his grandmother prepare meals as a child. Also, hear about another one of Dante's fried chicken endeavors, Ride or Fry. Dante would fry chicken, and deliver it to people who happened to be in the know about his underground chicken business. Learn more about Dante's branding and design, as well as his new food truck just outside of Silver Lake, Los Angeles. Hear about some of the places that Dante has traveled in the name of fried chicken, as well as his new book, Ride or Fry: The Dante Fried Chicken Experience. This episode has been brought to you by Heritage Foods USA.

"A lot of people are caring about their food. The fact that farmers' markets take EBT is amazing... I love to see a lot of people from different backgrounds being concerned about health." -- Dante Gonzales on U Look Hungry

This week on Let's Eat In Cathy Erway is joined by Owen Taylor of Just Food and Rev. DeVanie Jackson of the Brooklyn Rescue Mission and Bed-Stuy Farm . The topic of this week: chickens and, more specifically, the raising and keeping of chickens in urban New York. Learn about the The City Chicken Project and how you can help out via Kickstarter. This episode is sponsored by Just Food.