Cooking With Eggplant!, Trump-Ukraine-Whistleblower Latest

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Variety of eggplants at a market
Albert O. Ayeni, an agronomist at Cook College of Rutgers University, looks at the variety of eggplants at Garden State Farm Market in North Brunswick, N.J., Thursday, Jan. 25, 2007. (AP Photo/Mike Derer)

In this Food Friday, we take up cooking with that large, purple, spongy fruit: eggplant! And we check in on the developing story of a whistleblower complaint regarding communication between President Trump and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy.

Featured in this Show

  • Food Friday: What You Can Do With Eggplants

    Fried, roasted, baked — there are endless ways to prepare an eggplant. We talk to the creator of the popular cooking site Smitten Kitchen about some of those and a few of her favorite eggplant recipes.

  • The Latest On Trump, Ukraine, The Whistleblower Complaint And Impeachment Inquiry

    Details are still emerging on presidential communication between the U.S. and Ukraine that’s the subject of a formal whistleblower complaint. We talk to a political science professor for additional perspective on the latest, and the relationship between the two countries.

Episode Credits

  • Rob Ferrett Host
  • J. Carlisle Larsen Producer
  • Tim Peterson Producer
  • Deb Perelman Guest
  • Lowell Barrington Guest

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