QUEST: Napa Wineries Face Global Warming
Hey y’all — there is a story on wine in Napa on QUEST tonight that you won’t want to miss. QUEST is KQED’s new TV, radio, web, and education project about science and environment in Northern...
View ArticleQUEST: What’s For Lunch
We’ve all heard the latest health advice: Avoid transfats. Eat more fruits and vegetables. You may notice those changes on grocery store shelves, but for many school children, their cafeteria lunch...
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QUEST: Science of Taste & City Egg, Country Egg
Science of Taste Did you know that about 95 percent of what we think is taste is actually smell? Or that the way we perceive flavor comes from a complex relationship between our senses, emotions and...
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The California Report: Backyard Seed Banks
UC Davis Professor Paul Gepts shows some of the bean seeds he has collected from Central and South America. Most of the beans we eat today are derived from one or two wild plants. Photo by Lauren...
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Science on the SPOT: Secrets of Sourdough
QUEST Science on the SPOT Feature produced by Jenny Oh Eduardo Morrell monitors the internal temperature of the bread to gauge its readiness. Photo: Jenny Oh. Since the Gold Rush days when prospectors...
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QUEST: The Science & Art of Cheese + The Terroir of Cheese
QUEST Producer Sheraz Sadiq looks at the video monitor as cameraman Blake McHugh films racks of St. Pat cheese at the Cowgirl Creamery plant in Petaluma. The Science & Art of Cheese Cheese. It...
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QUEST: Green Eggs By The Gram – Sustainable Caviar
This past spring I traveled with fellow KQED QUEST producer Gabriela Quirós to the Sacramento area to film at Sterling Caviar, one of two Californian companies currently producing this delicacy. This...
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QUEST: Curious About Compost?
How does San Francisco’s 600 tons of compostable waste become a nutrient-rich material that improves the quality of our local wines? Watch QUEST’s Science on the SPOT story, Dark Matter: Inside the...
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Toast To The End Of The Dry Days At Cal Academy’s Prohibition NightLife
Liquor going down a sewer in NYC. Photo Credit: Library of Congress Right on the heels of California Wine Month and the beginning of grape harvest, comes Ken Burns’ latest documentary, Prohibition....
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QUEST: Edible Insects – Finger Lickin’ Grub
Mmmm…a plate full of mealworms, getting ready to be roasted by chef Daniella Martin. Photo Credit: Sevda Eris When I’m not blogging for Bay Area Bites, I work as an Interactive Producer for QUEST, the...
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