Playing With Food

About Playing With Food

Fr. Ian Delinger hosts this fun monthly segment of "Issues & Ideas" about unique ways of looking at and preparing everyday foods on the California Central Coast. He travels around our region cooking with and talking with chefs, farmers, distillers, home cooks and more in this entertaining culinary exploration.

Publisher

KCBX

Category

arts

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

31 Oct 2022

Latest episode

28 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

43 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   28 Sept 2026

   Chinese Hand-Pulled Noodles

   After years of searching on the Central Coast, it wasn’t until well after the pandemic that two Chinese restaurants in SLO offered hand-pulled noodles. The Playing With Food Team visited Shake Shake Fresh Noodle to learn how they are made.

2. 

   24 Aug 2026

   Playing With Dragon Fruit

   The dragon fruit is a cactus and succulent native to Central America – from Southern Mexico to El Salvador. They are now grown in places with similar climates, like Vietnam and Australia. And … you guessed it … right here on the Central Coast.

3. 

   29 Jul 2026

   Glutton for gluten-free?

   Do you think gluten-free baked goods taste horrible? That they are dry and crumbly, hard to swallow, and generally unpleasant? Well, there are people out there who – very much like the sourdough-crazed pandemic bakers – are feverishly working toward tasty gluten-free products.

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

5,059,086,097

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

2 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 41 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

31

Social presence

0

YouTube

93

Engagement

32

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Guest appearances

Does not typically book guests

Based on episode analysis; this does not confirm that the show is currently accepting guests.