By: Ryder Bell

Are we really inventing better new technologies in food production or is the best tech retro innovation?

On today’s episode of THE FOOD SEEN, for nearly a century, at 8 Rue du Cherche-Midi in the Saint-Germain-des-Prés district of the 6th arrondissement, the surname Poilâne has been synonymous with bread and Parisian life since 1932.

Bob Quinn was born into a family of farmers who grew wheat and raised cattle in Montana. After he left home to get a PhD, he returned to take over the farm and started doing things differently. He transitioned the farm to organic production and began milling his own grain whole in the 1980s.

Modernist Cuisine founder Nathan Myhrvold and head chef Francisco Migoya are back with Jordan Werner Barry and Michael Harlan Turkell for season two of Modernist BreadCrumbs, a special series taking a new look at one of the oldest staples of the human diet: bread.

This week on Cooking Issues, Dave is joined by HRN founder Patrick Martins and no-knead bread originator Jim Lahey. Tune in to hear them talk about the inferiority of Tuscan bread, and hear Jim answer some listener questions about how to be a masterbaker.

Tune in for this week's Food Talk as Mike Colameco welcomes to the studio: Ryan Sutton, Adam Leonti, Jake Dickson and Bill Telepan.

You don't need anybody to tell you Chicago is a food city or to extol the virtues of chicken Vesuvio, deep dish pizza, a jibarito, South Side rid tips or a Vienna Beef hot dog (on a poppy seed bun, of course).

This week on The Farm Report, host Erin Fairbanks is talking grain with some of the folks who know it best from the Maine Grain Alliance plus author of "The New Bread Basket," Amy Holloran.  Speaking with President of the Maine Grain Alliance, Amber Lambke, head miller,