Russ Parsons knows how to pick the perfect peach.
Being able to make someone’s mouth water just through a description of a dish is no easy feat, but Russ Parsons has it down.
Russ is a food writer and columnist at the Los Angeles Times, probably one of the dopest jobs we can imagine. He’s been writing about food for more than 25 years, including more than 20 years at The Times. He is the author of the cookbooks “How to Read a French Fry” and “How to Pick a Peach.” He was inducted into the James Beard Foundation’s Who’s Who of Food and Beverage, the hall of fame of American cooking in 2008. So yeah, he’s a pretty big deal in the food world.
Russ was kind enough to give us some serious recipe development hacks, grocery shopping and farmers market hacks, and of course, he gave us the low down on how to REALLY pick the perfect peach.
And not to name drop, but yeah, we’re gonna name drop anyway: he gave us some first-person accounts of the queen of fine food herself, Julia Child. As if you needed another reason to download this interview pronto!
Until next time, stay hungry and curious...
xo
J&E
The Queen Bee, Child!