As I mentioned earlier today, It's sweeps week.

For KCRW, my local member supported (much beloved) radio station that means it's pledge drive time.

Do not groan at me. This station is important. What they are doing is important. Commercial radio cannot sustain the kind of programming you and I require.  Besides, to them "sweeps" means "sweepstakes". To you that means PRIZES. I know you know that word.

Now more than ever this station needs our support.  And I am talking to you Kentucky, and Baltimore, I see you over there in Berlin and Brisbane. Even you, my family out in Florida.

I am talking to all of you. Because if you like, and read, and watch SippitySup, then you will love Evan Kleiman and Good Food. She's way smarter than me. My good cheek bones only get me so far in the blogging world. She has actual substance.

My BF and I are ANGELS. Our renewal time is end of year, so my contribution right now is to get you to pay attention.

You can podcast her show. Many of you probably already do. I have certainly encouraged you to do just that before now. I doubt my entreaties have fallen on deaf ears. No, I can tell from the ranty emails I get that at least some of you are listening to me. So listen now.

Click on the screen grab to the right. It will take you directly to KCRW pledge page. It is that easy.

And if you don't believe me (and I know most of you may not). Then hear it from Evan herself by clicking on watch video.

So get off your butts and pledge, It's my reputation on the line here. GREG watch video

Good things have been happening lately with SippitySup.

But this "takes the cake" in my book. You may not know this, but I work with celebrities regularly. I am very rarely star struck. So when I get all giddy, and at a loss for words. Then you know this is big in my world. KCRW's Good Food is this big to me.

KCRW noticed my Mark Peel cabbage soup post and linked it to their websiste. KCRW is the Los Angeles area affliate for National Public Radio.  The station's musical programming is revered for its "innovation, creativity and diversity by combining progressive pop, world beat, jazz, African, reggae, classical and new music". So, needless to say I am a devoted fan in that area alone.

But there is also tons of really great non-musical, original programing on a huge and diverse range of subjects. Evan Kleiman's Good Food is one of these programs. It is billed as a "taste of life, culture and the human species." But to me it is a weekly look at food and what makes the people who love it tick. I always feel like she is talking directly to me. Her show has the knack for exploring some aspect of the foodie culture that I am thinking about anyway.

If I weren't so busy following her, I'd swear she was following me (I'm kidding, calm down, I'm kidding).

This week at the Hollywood Farmers Market I chose cabbage. Not just any cabbage but the tastiest most prized cabbage of the entire Brassicaceae/Cruciferae family. Savoy cabbage.

I live in Southern California. There are only a couple of weeks a year that are not considered “growing season” in my particular Sunset: Western Garden zone 23 neighborhood. And those couple of weeks usually fall in January. So you really need to adapt yourself to the season and choose things that are at their peak right now.

One of these things is cabbage. Cabbage is wonderful. It has a slightly spicy taste. It is very high in calcium, and very high in vitamin-C. So it really is a good choice for the “cold and flu season”!

But what do you do with cabbage?

Well have you considered cabbage soup? I know what you are thinking – “Cabbage Soup? What year do you think this is Greg”? Besides (you opine) cabbage cooks up all stinky and slimy.