This week on Cooking Issues Dave Arnold takes your temperature, or more specifically the temperature of your meat to make sure you cooking safely and healthily. After that cool down with a drink, how about a bagel cocktail? Dave goes into the world of bread-infused liquids from pumpernickel raisin scotch to cornbread infused ice cream. Tune in for updates on bluefish filleting, the steps to get the crispiest pickles, humane slaughtering, and find out what the heck a Geoduck is. This episode is sponsored by Modernist Pantry.

Viva Farms is a farm incubator for new and Latino farmers, but they also maintain a large production farm. Produce from the Viva farm and the incubator farms feeds into the Viva Farms "food hub" along with other local products, which is then distributed to a 1,200 member CSA and various wholesale accounts in the greater Seattle market. Chris oversees it all, helping to cultivate new farmers as a relatively young farmer himself. He has worked on farms and ecological preserves for over 10 years, farming in Montana, Ecuador, New Mexico and Washington. Chris is both a hardcore farmer and a teacher, managing production, interns, and a bilingual farm crew while troubleshooting in the field with new farmers. His experience and perspective would make for a great conversation about young farmers--particularly beginning Latino farmers! This program has been brought to you by Hearst Ranch.

"Most of the farmers in our program are Latinos that have grown up as farm workers, and now they have the chance to be farm owners." [8:00] -- Chris Elder on Greenhorn Radio

This week on A Taste of the Past, Linda explores the history of the hot dog with Bruce Kraig, Ph.D, author of "Hot Dog, A Global History". Bruce has traveled the world tasting hot dogs and shares some very interesting variations including Korean batter-dipped dogs. Learn how the frankfurter found its way into American culture, where it got its silly name from and how it helped define our "on-the-go" meal philosophy in this country. This episode was sponsored by Cain Vineyard & Winery.