I’m listening to a bunch of Brooklyn foodies on the Leonard Lopate Show on WNYC (it’s nearly 2 p.m. on Thursday).

Brooklyn food is more than Nathan’s Coney Island hot dogs and Junior’s cheesecake. Rick Field of Rick’s Picks, Bret Birnbaum from Wine Cellar Sorbets, and Brooklyn College food historian Annie Hauck Lawson, take us on a tour of Brooklyn cuisine…from arugula grown in the Red Hook projects, to smoked fish in Greenpoint. For more information on Brooklyn cuisine, visit Edible Brooklyn and Brooklyn Eats.

They’re talking about the food renaissance in Brooklyn. The borough has always had great food and specialty products and it’s just getting better and better. It used to be the beer brewing capital in the United States.

Here’s a random list of what they talked about:

Rick’s Picks (Note: Sunday, September 17th on Orchard Street in Manhattan is Pickle Day)
Mrs. Stahl’s Knishes
Manhattan’s Favorite Soda (named for Manhattan Avenue in Greenpoint)
Wineseller Sorbets (Cabernet on a stick; an adult dessert for sophisticated palattes)
Bierkraft
Blue Apron Foods
Various tortilla makers in Bushwick
Brewer’s Row in Bushwick (ghosts of old breweries)
Foot long oysters in Jamaica Bay
a documentary called "Gotham Fishtales" (includes shoreline food in Brooklyn)
Thriving Chinatown in Sunset Park
Wi Ki Norwegian Chinese Restaurant
World Tong Seafood 6202 18th Ave, (one of the best Dim Sum restaurants in the world says LL)
Bensonhurst: Italian restaurants moving out?
Edible Brooklyn
Gomberg Seltzer (there’s a waiting list for seltzer delivery)
Fox’s U-bet is made in Brooklyn
Williamsburg restaurants
Cherry cheese knishes
Brooklyn nostalgia
Camarari Bakery in Carroll Gardens (featured in Moonstruck)
Royal Crown Bakery on 8th Avenue and 68th Street