Food Talk
Hosts Linda Perkins and Merianne Myers talk about home cooking successes and failures, where they find inspiration and what’s for dinner. This locally produced program about life in the kitchen airs twice monthly. Send comments, questions, and haikus to: foodtalkkmun@outlook.com
Food Talk, April 20, 2026
Food Talk!
Food Talk – April 6, 2026
With hosts Merianne Myers and Linda Perkins
Food Talk – March 23, 2026
A special 1-hour live show for KMUN’s Spring Pledge Drive featuring guests Marco Davis and Dulcye Taylor
Food Talk – March 2nd, 2026
Merianne, special guest Marco Davis & home cooking
Food Talk – February 2nd, 2026
For the love of rice cookers and a secret to good vinaigrette. Spoiler : it’s water.
Food Talk – January 5th, 2025
Don’t mess with salmon, laminated pizza – why?!
Food Talk – December 15th, 2025
Cookies, discovering a good chicken recipe, and confessing that sometimes you don’t feel like making dinner.
Food Talk – December 1st, 2025
Dinner pies and nifty way to freeze pie dough.
Food Talk – November 17th, 2025
The perfection of pot roast, Linda’s annual Thanksgiving tips
Food Talk – October 20th, 2025
Linda peels eggs for 5 and a half hours!
Food Talk – October 6th, 2025
Time to fall in love with your oven again. Apples, squash and the dubious need for onion powder.
Food Talk – September 15th, 2025
Join Merianne and Linda on this Fall Pledge Drive Monday!
Food Talk – September 1st, 2025
It’s September! Melon salads, and Linda has extra onions.
Food Talk – August 18th, 2025
Pizza dough secret revealed!
Food Talk – August 4th, 2025
If zucchini is the tofu of vegetables, asparagus is the bacon Can the egg float test be trusted?
Food Talk – July 21st, 2025
Pears, corn and the problem with the ’new’ butter
Food Talk – July 7th, 2025
The perils of not following the recipe. Questionable corn salsa
Food Talk – June 16th, 2025
Some of our favorite recipe developers, crab tacos, miso
Food Talk – June 2nd, 2025
Oregon berries, mashed potatoes and BLT’s
Food Talk – May 19th, 2025
Flagrant recipe substitutions, man salad.
Food Talk – May 5th, 2025
The fallacy of Salad Sandwiches, asparagus the spear of Spring
Food Talk – April 21st, 2025
Floating eggs & Nerf Carrots
Food Talk – April 7th, 2025
Floor meatloaf and a recipe we don’t like.
Food Talk – March 17th, 2025
It’s Pork Shoulder Season!
Food Talk – March 3rd, 2025
It’s KMUN’s Spring Pledge Drive with Merianne and Linda!
Food Talk – February 17th, 2025
Linda got to cool a pot of soup in a snow drift!
Food Talk – February 3rd, 2025
Fine weather for soup & the brilliance of leftovers
Food Talk – January 20th, 2025
The wonders of fried rice, the vicissitudes of pasta.
Food Talk – January 6th, 2025
Soup fails, and a cougar in Linda’s yard.
Food Talk – December 16th, 2024
Leafy greens, porridge, Linda’s aged quiche
Food Talk – December 2nd, 2024
The priceless value of frozen vegetables, Linda’s chubby galette.
Food Talk – November 18th, 2024
Scalloped potatoes and Linda on caffeine
Food Talk – November 4th, 2024
Soup & squash & chocolate bread!
Food Talk – October 21st, 2024
Loco Moco, to stir fry or saute’, the wonders of gravy
Food Talk – October 7th, 2024
Fish sauce butter, whiskey glaze, Linda’s scary jalapeño encounter
Food Talk – September 16th, 2024
How butter has changed, Linda’s pledge drive apron striptease
Food Talk – September 2nd, 2024
Harvest season and Linda’s dubious product availability forecast skills
Food Talk August 19, 2024
Linda and Merianne discuss the poor quality of melons and corn this year. And then there are vinaigrettes….
Food Talk August 5th, 2024
Peanut sauce fail, the fate of vanilla.
Food Talk – July 15th, 2024
Making 3 dinners from one flank steak and Linda’s new discovery for a better double crust pie.
