On the fall season premiere of Cooking Issues, Dave and Nastassia take listener questions about sugar, white zinfandel, truffles, pectin, NYC restaurant recommendations, confit, induction ovens, smoking jerky, and more. Plus, a live on-air cookie tasting, courtesy of Judy from Boston!

This week on Cooking Issues, Dave is joined in the studio by Nick Wong, chef de cuisine at Momofuku Ssäm Bar, and Esther Ha of Cafe Boulud to talk cookies, plums, pumpkin bread, olives, seasoning sticks, shrimp, and the correct pronunciation of "Mianus." Meanwhile, Nastassia is vacationing in Naples (Italy...

It's the Greenpoint beer show! Tune in to a brand new episode of Beer Sessions Radioas Jimmy Carbone and fall co-host Stephen Valand of Brooklyn Brew Shop are joined by a room full of people making their mark on Greenpoint, Brooklyn. hear Chris Prout and Erik Olsen of Greenpoint Beer...

Patrick Martins hosts an eclectic edition of The Main Course starring Chef Goran Ristic of The Meatball Shop, and rare-breed turkey farmer Frank Reese! Tune into this program to hear Goran talk about his decision to move to the United States from his native Serbia, and how he began working...

You Can't Have A Proustian Fruit Moment With A Pouch of Squeezy-Fruit Either — Erica Wides gets ever realer about what foodiness has done to fruit than she did on last summer's fruit episode; how, like Michael Douglas playing Liberace or tourists descending on Chelsea, cherry-flavored sports drinks and watermelon-flavored...

Mary Izett and Chris Cuzme are talking about creative and unusual flavors in beer on this week's episode of Fuhmentaboudit! Tune into this episode to hear from Valter Loverier and his wife, Elena, of LoverBeer; this Italian duo uses grapes from their native regions to start fermentations for their brews...

On this week's episode of Let's Eat In, Cathy Erway is jamming out with Laena McCarthy of Anarchy In a Jar jams. Laena has been a frequent guest on Let's Eat In; this time, Laena arrives in the studio with her new jamming how-to book, Jam On: The Craft of...

Patrick Martins chats with critically acclaimed chefs Mark Ladner and Brooks Headley of Del Posto on this weeks episode of The Main Course. Tune in for an all inclusive interview, spanning from their early culinary influences to their thoughts on modern cuisine and trends in the food world. Find out...

Lotta Jansdotter joins the THE FOOD SEEN today, with studio manager Nerissa Campbell, to discuss her Swedish design sensibilities, which often manifest themselves through food, from taking a mid-day coffee break (fika) or a late night snack (vickning) served after a long night of drinking. Also, find out the truth...

Erica sits down with head mixologist of Back Forty, Michael Cecconi, to cover top shelf drink concepts and seasonal concoctions.