Christina Chaey chats with Sonoko Sakai about making soba and her latest cookbook, Japanese Home Cooking, which the BA staff can’t get enough of. Then Brad Leone waxes poetic on an often-overlooked category of produce: root vegetables. Finally, it's Cook, Marry, Kill with Alex Beggs.

On another note, join us for our next live podcast at the Bell House in Brooklyn! Tickets can be found here.