At Cypress in Charleston, South Carolina, Sous Chef Bob Cook has come up with a genius way to reduce waste at the restaurant: Rather than toss out veggie scraps—the ends that get cut off during the prep process—he turns them into Kimchi

Ruthie Foster Let It Burn (Blue Corn Music): Like her fellow Texan wonder Gary Clark Jr., Foster’s musical output has been all over the place—and that’s to our benefit. She’s a lauded folk musician as well as a Grammy-nominated blues artist. But on Let It Burn, Foster once again tests her comfort zone, recording the album in New Orleans with some of the Crescent City’s finest musicians, including members of the Funky Meters and saxophone wizard James Rivers William Bell.