Best Matt Rodbard Podcasts (2025)

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598: Food Writers Talking About Food Writing with Eater's Jaya Saxena & Matt Rodbard 47:26

6d ago47:26

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It’s the return of a special video podcast series: Food Writers Talking About Food Writing. It’s available on the TASTE YouTube channel, so make sure to subscribe and check out the video version of this podcast. Every couple of weeks, Matt Rodbard invites a journalist to talk about some favorite recent food writing as well as their thoughts on the …

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601: Plant-Based Around Every Corner with Mehreen Karim 1:10:53

1d ago1:10:53

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Mehreen Karim a Brooklyn-based pop-up chef, recipe developer, and food writer. You may know her from seeing her compete on Gordon Ramsay’s Next Level Chef, but today she’s coming back on our show to talk about writing her first cookbook, Make It Plant-Based! Southern, and editing a larger plant-based cooking series. I always have so much fun catchi…

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600: The Jonathan Gold Question with Restaurant Critic Besha Rodell 1:15:08

3d ago1:15:08

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Thank you to all of our listeners for helping us get to 600 episodes. If you like what we are doing, drop us a review on Apple or Spotify. Besha Rodell is a restaurant critic, columnist, and freelance reporter based in Melbourne, Australia. She is a James Beard Award winner and served as a critic at Creative Loafing, LA Weekly, and The Age. It was …

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599: Telling Queer Food Stories with John Birdsall & Erik Piepenburg 1:08:11

4d ago1:08:11

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What is queer food? Today we’re having a special roundtable discussion with the authors of two great new books unpacking the topic in exciting and unexpected ways: John Birdsall is the author of The Man Who Ate Too Much: The Life of James Beard and the wonderful new book What Is Queer Food?: How We Served a Revolution. Erik Piepenburg is a reporter…

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597: Inside New York City's Thai Takeover with Ali Domrongchai 1:23:24

8d ago1:23:24

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Ali Domrongchai is a writer, recipe developer, and baker in Brooklyn. She’s passionate about researching and uplifting Thai culinary traditions, from teaching luk chup workshops to popping up with pandan lemongrass mochi cake and other treats at restaurants around the city. It’s so fun having Ali on the show to talk about the exciting state of Thai…

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596: Taking the Temp on Food Media, Podcasts, Creators, Pop-Ups, and Today’s Dining Culture with Tasteland 1:06:22

10d ago1:06:22

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Tasteland is a very cool podcast that offers creative takes on media, marketing, and technology from Daisy Alioto and Francis Zierer. Daisy is the CEO of Dirt Media, a next-generation entertainment brand using emerging technology to tell the coolest stories about culture and collecting. Francis is the editor of Creator Spotlight, a weekly newslette…

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595: Saveur, The New York Times, and On the Road in California with Journalist Betsy Andrews 49:21

11d ago49:21

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Betsy Andrews is a James Beard Award–winning journalist who edited at Saveur magazine during some of its most fruitful years. She’s been traveling the Central California coast and staying there with family since childhood, and these travels are the topic of the terrific book she coauthored with the chef Scott Clark. Coastal: 130 Recipes from a Cali…

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594: New York Chef Leah Cohen Is On TV, and Under the Radar 1:28:22

13d ago1:28:22

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We had a great time catching up with Leah Cohen. She’s the chef-owner of the terrific Pig & Khao restaurants in New York City, with locations on the Upper West Side and Lower East Side. On this episode, we talk about her career and appearing on an early season of Top Chef. We also get into her struggles with identity as a kid, and how her Filipino …

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593: We Like to Dinner Party with Casey Elsass & Michael Symon 1:12:47

15d ago1:12:47

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Casey Elsass is a food writer, recipe developer, and cookbook author living in Brooklyn, New York. Known among his collaborators as the cookbook doula, Casey has helped birth over twenty titles, as co-author, ghostwriter, friend, and unlicensed therapist. He is the author of a terrific new cookbook, What Can I Bring?: Recipes to Help You Live Your …

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592: Meera Sodha on Falling Back In Love With Cooking 1:13:05

17d ago1:13:05

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Meera Sodha is a cook and food writer based in London. Meera’s best-selling cookbooks and weekly Guardian column, The New Vegan, are some of my favorite sources of cooking inspiration, but like many people, she experienced burnout that led her to fall out of love with food. Today on the show, Meera talks about finding her way back into the kitchen …

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591: From Condé to Culinary School to 2.3 Million on TikTok with Meredith Hayden of The Wishbone Kitchen 1:07:31

18d ago1:07:31

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Meredith Hayden is the author of the new bestselling The Wishbone Kitchen Cookbook and she has quite the story to tell, which we get into in this great conversation. While working at Conde Nast, Meredith attended night culinary school and lived a double life of sorts—publishing worker during the day, line cook at night. We get into how she walked t…

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590: From Top Chef to Kwéyòl / Creole with Nina Compton 55:30

20d ago55:30

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Nina Compton is the chef and owner of three highly regarded restaurants in New Orleans: Compère Lapin, BABs, and Nina’s Creole Cottage. Born in Saint Lucia, she honed her chops at many notable restaurants before appearing as the fan favorite on season 11 of Top Chef. Nina’s new cookbook, Kwéyòl / Creole, written with Osayi Endolyn, is a true stando…

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589: Food Writers Talking About Food Writing with David Farley & Matt Rodbard 46:40

22d ago46:40

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It’s the return of a special video podcast series: Food Writers Talking About Food Writing. It’s available on the TASTE YouTube channel, so make sure to subscribe and check out the video version of this podcast. Every couple of weeks, Matt Rodbard invites a journalist to talk about some favorite recent food writing as well as their thoughts on the …

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588: Pujol's Enrique Olvera Has Thoughts About the Tasting Menu 1:00:00

24d ago1:00:00

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It was really amazing to have Enrique Olvera in the studio. Olvera is the acclaimed Mexican chef behind Pujol in Mexico City, Cosme in New York (celebrating its 10th anniversary), and other acclaimed restaurants around the world. In this episode, Enrique shares his honest thoughts on how a global chef stays fresh, especially in the highly competiti…

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587: Setting a Place for Us with Hawa Hassan 52:01

25d ago52:01

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Hawa Hassan is a chef, the founder of Basbaas Foods, and the author of the James Beard Award–winning cookbook In Bibi's Kitchen. She’s spent the past several years writing an ambitious new book, Setting a Place for Us: Recipes and Stories of Displacement, Resilience, and Community from Eight Countries Impacted by War, and we had her in the studio t…

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586: Scarr's Changed the New York City Slice Forever with Scarr Pimentel 1:11:25

27d ago1:11:25

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Is Scarr’s the best pizza in New York? Some may debate this, but if you ask anybody in the industry, Scarr Pimentel’s shop on Orchard Street takes the prize. In this episode, Scarr joins us in the TASTE studio to talk about his deep NYC pizzeria history, his dedication to ingredients (to an extent many may not recognize), and his new cookbook, The …

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585: Taqueria Ramirez Is New York’s Favorite Taco 57:40

29d ago57:40

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Giovanni Cervantes and Tania Apolinar are partners in life and in two amazing New York City taquerias: Taqueria Ramirez in Greenpoint and Carnitas Ramirez in the East Village. Formerly professional photographers, the duo is dedicated to making some of the most delicious tacos in New York’s ever-expanding scene, and it’s so fun to have them on the s…

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584: Jamie Oliver Stops By! 57:39

1M ago57:39

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Our friend Jamie Oliver returns to the show, and we could not be happier to talk with him about so many things. He’s currently appearing on Netflix as part of the Chef’s Table: Legends series. In addition to the Netflix show, he will be launching his 10 Cooking Skills for Life platform in the United States, a free curriculum available for schools a…

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583: Double Dating with the Obamas with Journalist Michele Norris 1:37:28

1M ago1:37:28

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It was really fun having Michele Norris in the studio. Michele is the host of the great podcast Your Mama’s Kitchen and the founder of the Race Card Project. A respected journalist, Michele cohosted National Public Radio's evening news program All Things Considered from 2002 to 2011 and was the first African-American female host for NPR. In this ep…

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582: Food Writers Talking About Food Writing with Kat Kinsman & Matt Rodbard 1:01:48

1M ago1:01:48

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It’s the return of a special video podcast series: Food Writers Talking About Food Writing. It’s available on the TASTE YouTube channel, so make sure to subscribe. Every couple of weeks, cohost Matt Rodbard invites a journalist to talk about some favorite recent food writing as well as their thoughts on the industry as a whole. Our next guest is Ka…

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581: It's Always Ice Cream Season with Tyler Malek (Salt & Straw) & Pooja Bavishi (Malai) 1:15:50

1M ago1:15:50

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Today is all about ice cream, and we have two guests who know the business inside and out. Tyler Malek is the cofounder and head chef of Salt & Straw, a cult-followed ice cream chain with scoop shops across the country. Based in Portland, Oregon, Salt & Straw is known for churning out the most imaginative ice cream flavors around. In the new cookbo…

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580: Big James Beard Thoughts and Buttery Baking Trends with Nicole Rucker 1:08:55

1M ago1:08:55

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We love catching up with Nicole Rucker. She’s a Los Angeles–based chef and owner of the wildly creative pie shops Fat + Flour. She’s also the author of a new cookbook, which covers some of the iconic pies at the shop and so much more. In this episode, we catch up about her favorite Los Angeles restaurants, have a blast debating fruit fillings, and …

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579: Say Yes to Michigan Produce and Spirits with Eli Sussman 30:01

1M ago30:01

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The meme can be funny, biting, poignant, and oftentimes ubiquitous. Eli Sussman, a talented chef and cookbook author, has mastered the art of the culinary meme with his IG account, @TheSussmans. Eli is a proud Michigander, and on this special episode, we talk about the state’s bounty and how Michigan’s sustainably farmed, artisanal spirits brand Th…

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578: Rick Martinez Is Salsa Daddy 1:20:03

1M ago1:20:03

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It’s so special having Rick Martinez on the show to talk about his very fun new book, Salsa Daddy. Rick is the author of the best-selling cookbook Mi Cocina: Recipes and Rapture from My Kitchen in Mexico, and Salsa Daddy is just as delicious. It’s a salsa-first approach to cooking, with more than 70 salsa recipes that anchor 24 meals, from torta de…

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577: Open-Sesame Minded with Seed + Mill's Rachel Simons 1:01:14

1M ago1:01:14

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Driven by her passion for food and travel, Rachel Simons traded her corporate law career for an entrepreneurial adventure, cofounding Seed + Mill, New York’s first store devoted entirely to sesame products. Located in the iconic Chelsea Market, the business quickly captured the hearts of locals and tourists alike, evolving into a nationally celebra…

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576: TASTE Travels: Eating Really Well In Philadelphia with Tyler Akin and Muhammad Abdul-Hadi 1:04:34

2M ago1:04:34

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We are excited to bring you this episode. Recently Matt headed out of the studio to visit Philadelphia, one of America’s great food cities, to check out the scene and report back on his findings. He visited bakeries and coffee shops and stopped by a really cool cookbook store. He felt the incredible spice and vibes at Kalaya and met a bunch of new …

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575: Fennel For Days with Top Chef's Eden Grinshpan 1:17:44

2M ago1:17:44

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Eden Grinshpan is a Canadian chef and television host based in Toronto, Ontario. She has hosted Top Chef Canada since 2017, and she is the author of a very cool new book, Tahini Baby. In this episode, we talk about Eden’s career both on and off television. We dig into her New York City restaurant takes — the good, the bad, and the labneh — and how …

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574: Understanding Our Protein Era with Chef Daniel Holzman & Sports Dietitian Christina Chu 41:30

2M ago41:30

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On today’s episode, we talk about protein, one of the biggest topics in food today. First up is a really fun conversation with our friend Daniel Holzman. Daniel is the chef and owner of Danny Boy’s Pizza in Los Angeles and cofounder of The Meatball Shop in New York City. This is a guy who knows about cooking with beef while balancing his diet for o…

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573: The Food That Built Adam Richman 1:21:00

2M ago1:21:00

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The one and only Adam Richman joined us in the studio for a really memorable conversation. Adam has been a fixture of food TV for over two decades, and he is one of the sharpest minds in the game. His series The Food That Built America just returned for season six, and we talk about Adam’s career exploring the foods of the world on shows like Man v…

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572: The Choi of Cooking with Roy Choi 52:05

2M ago52:05

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Roy Choi is known as one of the architects of the modern food truck movement through Kogi BBQ. He is cohost of the Netflix cooking series The Chef Show along with Jon Favreau and has written a terrific new book, The Choi of Cooking. In this episode, we talk all about Roy’s philosophy around cooking with foundation, balance, and compassion in mind. …

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571: Top 100 Bay Area Restaurants with San Francisco Chronicle's MacKenzie Chung Fegan 1:04:52

2M ago1:04:52

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MacKenzie Chung Fegan is the restaurant critic for the San Francisco Chronicle, which has just released its top 100 restaurants list. It’s the first time in six years the publication has done a big list like this, and in this episode, MacKenzie goes over how she chose the restaurants and why the Bay Area food scene is absolutely on fire. We go over…

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570: Building a Culinary Bookstore with BEM’s Danielle & Gabrielle Davenport 1:07:04

2M ago1:07:04

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Sisters Danielle and Gabrielle Davenport are the cofounders of BEM, a bookstore and community space for Black food literature. After years of operating online and at pop-ups, they’re getting ready to open a permanent location in Bed-Stuy. It’s so fun to have Danielle and Gabrielle in the studio to nerd out on food literature, building a family busi…

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569: Cava’s Secret Sauce with Co-Founder Ted Xenohristos 1:04:31

2M ago1:04:31

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We’re pretty sure many of you have at least heard of Cava and have possibly ordered lunch or dinner from the wildly popular Mediterranean restaurant chain. In this episode, we have a really cool conversation with Cava’s cofounder, Ted Xenohristos. We talk about the company’s early days and how Ted’s Greek heritage and detail-minded approach have ma…

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568: Food Writers Talking About Food Writing with Eric Kim & Matt Rodbard 1:03:04

2M ago1:03:04

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We’re excited to launch a special video podcast series: Food Writers Talking About Food Writing. It’s available on the TASTE YouTube channel, so make sure to subscribe! Every couple of weeks, cohost Matt Rodbard will invite a journalist or cookbook author to talk about some favorite recent food writing as well as their thoughts on the industry as a…

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567: New York’s Buzziest Bakery with Shilpa & Miro Uskokovic 1:32:30

2M ago1:32:30

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We have such a great episode today. Shilpa and Miro Uskokovic are the husband and wife duo behind the amazing new New York City bakery Hani’s Bakery + Café, located in the East Village. First up Matt has an amazing conversation with Shilpa about her professional cooking career, which led to a job at Bon Appétit. Today Shilpa is BA’s senior test kit…

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566: Robert Sietsema’s Substack Era May Be His Best 1:05:28

2M ago1:05:28

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Robert Sietsema is a longtime New York City restaurant critic and neighborhood wanderer who has written for the Village Voice and Eater and who, prior to that, ran the influential underground food zine Down the Hatch. He currently publishes a really great Substack, Robert Sietsema's New York. It’s dispatched in a purely Sietsema way - full of repor…

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565: Trust Molly Yeh About the Velveeta Fudge 57:28

2M ago57:28

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It was really fun having Molly Yeh back in the studio for an absolute riot of a conversation. Molly is legitimately one of the funniest writers (and guests) that we’ve encountered in a long time, and has amazing recipe writing chops to boot. We get into all sorts of topics on the show including her latest book about Midwest baking, Sweet Farm. We t…

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564: TASTE Travels: Eating Really Well in Victoria, British Columbia 1:12:50

2M ago1:12:50

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We recently headed out of the studio to visit Victoria, British Columbia, to check out the food and drink scene and report back on my findings. Listeners, this is a really exciting place, and we’re excited to speak with Andrea Alridge, the chef at a terrific new restaurant, Janevca, and Lori Joyce, owner of truly unique ice cream shop, Better Acres…

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563: Top Chef's Eric Adjepong Gives Ghana the Cookbook It Deserves 43:43

2M ago43:43

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Today on the show we welcome Eric Adjepong to the studio, who, along with the writer Korsha Wilson, has released one of our favorite books this spring: Ghana to the World. It’s a wonderful collection of stories and recipes that captures Eric’s deep connection to Ghana and how the country’s cuisine has shaped his career. Eric has appeared on Top Che…

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562: Third Culture Cooking Is American Cooking with Zaynab Issa 1:01:36

2M ago1:01:36

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Zaynab Issa is a cookbook author, recipe developer, and content creator based in Brooklyn, New York. Formerly a food editor at Bon Appétit, she contributes recipes to a variety of publications and just released a great debut cookbook, Third Culture Cooking: Classic Recipes for a New Generation. It’s so fun having Zaynab in the studio to talk about …

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561: Fixing Restaurants Comes Down to One Thing with west~bourne’s Camilla Marcus 1:18:18

2M ago1:18:18

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Camilla Marcus is a chef, restaurateur, and founder of west~bourne, a wildly progressive restaurant and products company based in Los Angeles. Camilla is one of my favorite big thinkers in food, and I so enjoyed having her in the studio to talk about some important topics of the day, including the pioneering west~bourne, her career in and out of th…

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560: Asmeret Berhe-Lumax Is Fighting Hunger with One Love Community Fridge 47:39

2M ago47:39

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Asmeret Berhe-Lumax is the founder of One Love Community Fridge, a network of ten community refrigerators across New York City and Seattle working to eradicate food insecurity. Its work is more urgent than ever, and it’s so special to have Asmeret into the studio to talk about fighting hunger and the stigma associated with it, and about One Love Co…

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559: Climbing Momofuku Mountain with Paul Carmichael 1:36:20

3M ago1:36:20

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How fun is it having Paul Carmichael in the studio? Paul is the chef of Kabawa and Bar Kabawa, which is part of Momofuku and located in the former Ko space in New York City. Paul is a Momofuku veteran, having served as chef at Má Pêche in NYC and Seiobo in Sydney, Australia. In this episode, we hear about Paul’s career, from wd~50 to his leadership…

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558: Righteous Eats on Giving NYC Restaurants the TikTok Bump with Jaeki Cho and Brian Lee 1:03:45

3M ago1:03:45

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Jaeki Cho and Brian Lee are the co-founders of Righteous Eats, a multi-platform media brand spotlighting small, immigrant-run food businesses in New York and beyond. They’ve racked up millions of views with thoughtful storytelling that goes beyond the typical food porn—and they’ve got ambitions for a whole lot more, hosting events and providing res…

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557: Can Doughnuts Be World-Class Desserts? Fany Gerson Makes a Sweet Case. 1:10:00

3M ago1:10:00

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Today on the show, we welcome Fany Gerson into the studio. Fany is the chef and owner of a diverse roster of New York City food businesses, including La Newyorkina, famous for ice cream and paletas, and Fan Fan Doughnuts, which was recently named a James Beard Award semifinalist. In this episode, we talk about her amazing career, her many cookbooks…

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556: Bonnie’s Calvin Eng Has MSG Tattooed on His Arm (And All Over His Book) 1:01:58

3M ago1:01:58

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Calvin Eng is the chef and owner of Bonnie’s, a very popular Cantonese American restaurant in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. He’s also the author of a great new cookbook: Salt Sugar MSG, an introduction to his unique style of home cooking, cowritten with his partner, Phoebe Melnick. It’s so fun to have Calvin in the studio to talk about growing up in New …

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555: Batali, Bourdain, Booze, and One Incredible Memoir with Laurie Woolever 1:34:33

3M ago1:34:33

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Laurie Woolever is a longtime journalist and has written a memoir for the ages. Care and Feeding covers her time working as a dutiful assistant for both Mario Batali and Anthony Bourdain (let that sink in for a moment), and how her life was entangled in and around the Most Important People in Food for over two decades. It’s a wild ride, and Laurie …

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554: Inside the Crazy World of NYC Restaurants with Emma Bengtsson (Aquavit) & Michael Stillman (Quality Branded) 1:31:00

3M ago1:31:00

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Today on the show we return to the world of New York City restaurants with two great conversations. Just because Michael Stillman’s father is Alan Stillman, founder of the Smith & Wollensky and TGI Fridays chains, doesn’t mean he grew up wanting to go into the family business. Indeed, Michael grew up in the business, but it took some time for him t…

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553: Sourdough Myths Debunked, Love For the Bread Machine with Richard Hart & Lukas Volger 1:08:26

3M ago1:08:26

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What a terrific episode dedicated to the world of bread. First up is a conversation with Richard Hart, an icon in the clubby world of sourdough. Richard has an amazing story to tell, and we get into his London upbringing and how he ended up in California working at Tartine—but that’s where the story just starts to get good. He then teams up with Re…

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552: 150 Flavors of Cheesecake with Tavel Bristol-Joseph 1:09:19

3M ago1:09:19

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Tavel Bristol-Joseph is pastry chef and partner at Emmer & Rye, Hestia, Canje, and many other acclaimed restaurants in Austin, Texas, and beyond. He’s also just opened a really cool dessert bar, Nicosi, in San Antonio. In this episode, we talk about Tavel’s early cooking life in New York and how he grew a cheesecake mini empire out of his Brooklyn …

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