Mother Noella Marcellino never dreamed a little mold would take her to a Ph.D. in microbiology then on to rock star status among cheese makers. She joins us with the story of how she found her calling in a Benedictine abbey and in the cheese caves of France

The Sterns are on the Mother of all Roads—the famed Route 66—and eating chicken fried steak at Clanton's in Vinita, Oklahoma.

Wine maverick Josh Wesson talks the underestimated and overlooked: sparkling reds for summer, any of which would pair wonderfully with our recipe for Black Pepper Honey Steak.

Fuchsia Dunlop introduces us to Chinese food we've probably not experienced: Hunan cuisine, where the chile is king and the flavors are nothing like that take-out we all do. The recipe for Fried Cucumber with Purple Perilla is from her new book, Revolutionary Chinese Cookbook: Recipes from Hunan Province.

Attorney Cameron Stracher, author of Dinner with Dad: How I Found My Way Back to the Family Table, tells the tale of what happens when a working dad takes over dinner for a year, and Northwest food authority Jon Rowley reports on the new salmon on the block: Yukon River King.