FOOD NEWS with MELINDA LEE covers virtually every subject related to food, cooking, kitchen equipment, health and safety issues, entertaining and the like. Some topics frequently discussed include techniques and solutions, healthy eating, quick meals and shortcuts, kitchen equipment, tools and gadgets, trends and tasty ideas and how to select, store and prepare all kinds of food items. Listeners play an active role with their questions and add a significant, wide-ranging, energetic and fun element to the show.

Melinda returned to KNX 1070 at the beginning of 2004. She was first heard on KNX from November 1986 - June 1995, when she hosted THE FOOD NEWS HOUR, a similarly formatted call-in program.

In addition to her full-length radio programs, Melinda has written, produced and broadcast for approximately fifteen years, 60-second and two-minute daily features on subjects related to food and cooking. They have aired both locally (in Los Angeles) and nationally, under the names "The Food News Notebook," "Food For Thought - Kitchen Notes," "The Foodtalk Minute," and "The One-Minute Gourmet."