'The Big Little' - big flavor, little alcohol! This week on Fuhmentaboudit!, Chris Cuzme and Mary Izett are talking about sessionable table beers with homebrewers Kyler Serfass and Jamie Stafford-Hill. Hear how Jamie enhances flavors in low-alcohol beers, despite scaling down hops and malt. Kyler talks about brewing a Scotch ale with a low ABV, and what ingredients he used to brew his beer. Learn some techniques to get more flavor out of session beers! Mary shares her one-gallon, sixty-hour table beer, and shares how ingredients like aniseed can help increase a beer's bitterness without adding more hops. Are table beers safe for mothers who are lactating? Find out on this week's episode of Fuhmentaboudit! Thanks to our sponsor, Cain Vineyard & Winery.

"Because you're using less malt, you have to be careful of your temperatures because you don't have a big thermal mass." [8:45] -- Kyler Serfass on Fuhmentaboudit!

"You want to mash high so you don't get a lot of sugars that leave a 'wort-y' taste." [20:00] -- Jamie Stafford-Hill on Fumentaboudit!

We're talking science and booze on this week's episode of U Look Hungry. Helen Hollyman is joined by Tristan Willey, the bar manager of Booker and Dax in the Momofuku Ssam Bar. Tune in to learn why Tristan initially moved to New York City, and why he was called back to the food service industry. Hear about some of the techniques and technologies that Tristan uses at Booker and Dax to create a unique brand of cocktails. Learn about Tristan's introduction to the world of spirits with Kings County distillery, and his opinions about coopers. Hear about the state of the cocktail scene in New York City, and hear as Helen and Tristan taste bourbon and moonshine on air! Today's episode has been brought to you by Tekserve.

"We're trying to identify where we can make the process easier, better, more efficient, create better ingredients... rather than re-invent the wheel of cocktails."

"There's a terroir to spirits, which has been wildly debated before because you're not talking earth tones and grapes. But considering how much the process of aging spirits flavors them- we're talking 80 to 90% of the flavor coming from the barrel and how everything sits it- environment plays a big role."

-- Tristan Willey on U Look Hungry

On this episode of A Taste of the Past, Linda Pelaccio is joined in the studio by Rebecca Federman of the Culinary Collections at the New York Public Library. Today, they are discussing the NYPL's old menu collection and the new What's on the Menu? program. Hear about old menus from the inauguration of President McKinley to the dedication of the Statue of Liberty. Help out the NYPL by helping to digitize some of these menus to create a searchable database! Tune in to learn about some of the more obscure NYC menu items, as well as the role of midday lunch in building the restaurant business in the city. This episode has been brought to you by White Oak Pastures.

"There are the everyday menus that I find very graphically beautiful and interesting. Or there are children's menus that I find really adorable." -- Rebecca Federman on her favorite menus, A Taste of the Past

Restaurants are such a huge part of our social history, that to not have these documents is such a loss." -- Rebecca Federman on A Taste of the Past