Podcasts by This Is TASTE
Further podcasts by Anna Hezel and Matt Rodbard
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69: Daniel Holzman from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Friend of TASTE Daniel Holzman joins for a hilarious and truly meaningful conversation about the life of a traveling chef. Holzman, cofounder of the Meatball Shop and veteran of high-end kitchens i...
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68: Chad Robertson from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
What a lineup on today’s episode! First up, Tartine’s Chad Robertson sits down for an interview at his brand-new Manufactory in downtown Los Angeles. We talk a bit about the grand expansion of Tart...
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67: David Kinch from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
David Kinch is the chef-owner of acclaimed Northern California restaurant Manresa and a legend in American fine-dining circles. On this episode, we head back to New York City in the 1980s and talk ...
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66: Odette Williams from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Odette Williams is the author of Simple Cake and delivers on the book’s lofty promise: that baking cake can be simple! The book is organized into 10 base cakes and 15 toppings, and readers are enco...
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65: Alex Stupak from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Big ideas, strong opinions, and a deadpan Instagram. These are a few of my favorite things. Former pastry chef and current Empellon boss man Alex Stupak is a complicated—and incredibly sincere—dude...
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64: Ben Leventhal from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
As the cofounder of online restaurant watchdog/chronicler Eater, and reservations booker Resy, Ben Leventhal has been at the center of all things dining out for over a decade. On this episode, we g...
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63: Abra Berens from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Hello summer, and hello vegetables! Michigan chef and cookbook author Abra Berens loves vegetables and has an inspiring new cookbook that presents them in the coolest way: braised, blistered, roast...
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62: JJ Johnson from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
“Rice is culture”—the spiritual spine of a new restaurant in Harlem—is one of the many big ideas chef and award-winning cookbook author JJ Johnson tackles in this spirited episode. We also go over ...
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61: Priya Krishna from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Holy smokes, Priya Krishna and her new book, Indian-ish, have had quite a spring. She appeared on Today, toured America, sold a few copies along the way, and maybe pissed off a few people along the...
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60: Aaron Franklin from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
So that thing about needing to rest your cooked petite filet for 20 minutes before slicing? The quest for cartoonish grill marks on your rib eye? Sous vide as the means to tenderloin glory? It’s al...
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59: Anna Jones from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
What exactly does it mean for food to be “modern”? Who better to ask than Anna Jones, the author of A Modern Way to Eat, A Modern Way to Cook, and most recently, The Modern Cook’s Year. In this con...
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58: Soleil Ho from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Soleil Ho isn’t like other restaurant critics. She doesn’t use a star system to rate restaurants. She doesn’t use terms like “up-and-coming” or “ethnic” or “addictive,” and there’s a reason for tha...
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57: Hannah Goldfield from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
After working as a fact checker for years at The New Yorker and contributing to the magazine’s Tables for Two column, Hannah Goldfield was named the magazine’s first full-time restaurant critic in ...
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56: Chetna Makan from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
You might remember her cardamom-pistachio Swiss rolls from the Great British Baking Show, or the orange savarin that blew Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood away. But in her new book, Chetna Makan is mo...
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55: Meherwan Irani from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Chef and restaurateur Meherwan Irani is on a mission to change the perception of Indian food in America. Born in London, raised in India, and living in America for many decades, Irani’s experience ...
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54: Mike Fadem & Marie Tribouilloy from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Mike Fadem and Marie Tribouilloy love bitter amaros, buttery mortadella, and what some people might call “salad” but Marie calls “room temperature vegetables.” Their unpretentious Bushwick pizza re...
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53: Carla Lalli Music from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
The sudden and rather intense rise of Carla Lalli Music and her test kitchen crew at Bon Appétit to legit food-world celebs has been simply amazing to watch from the sidelines. Lalli Music is the l...
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52: Bill Addison from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
For near five years, journalist and former chef Bill Addison traveled America as Eater’s first, and only, roving restaurant critic. It was an epic and sometimes grueling run, one that I am sure wil...
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51: Robert Sietsema from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Longtime New York City restaurant critic and neighborhood wanderer Robert Sietsema used to fear for his job. “I feared for decades that I would get off the train and spot a dozen other food writers...
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50: Nasim Alikhani from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
When Nasim Alikhani opened Sofreh, an Iranian restaurant in Brooklyn’s Prospect Heights, she was 59 years old. She was an experienced home cook but had never worked in a restaurant in her life. We ...
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49: Pichet Ong from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
After studying architecture at UC-Berkeley, Pichet Ong eventually made it to New York and worked as a chef with Jean-Georges Vongerichten from 1998 to 2004, cooking at the restaurant 66 (shout out ...
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48: James Murphy & Nick Curtola from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
The Four Horsemen in Brooklyn. Have you been there? Have you drank some wine there? Had some of the restaurant’s bread and cultured butter? It’s an amazing place, up on Grand Street, and I had a gr...
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47: Michelle & Suzanne Rousseau from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Michelle and Suzanne Rousseau are two sisters on a mission. They want the wide world of home cooks to think of Caribbean food as more than just jerk chicken. As they explore in their latest book, P...
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46: Katie Parla from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
There is no journalist I would rather talk to about Italy—and, really, talk about food in general—than Katie Parla. Her mind, her spirit, her willingness to drive around the wonderfully off-the-gri...
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45: Akira Akuto from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
I swear Akira Akuto and I only talked a little bit about the sandwich. What sandwich? The Sandwich. You can read about it in The New York Times: The Egg Salad Sandwich That Drew Eyes on Instagram. ...
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44: Ori Menashe & Genevieve Gergis from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
The Los Angeles food world has the most low-key power couple. And they are very OK keeping it low-key. Ori Menashe and Genevieve Gergis are the chefs and owners of two of the buzziest and most infl...
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43: Yasmin Khan from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
British journalist and cookbook author Yasmin Khan writes about Palestinian food tasting alive. But what does that mean? So much, it turns out, and we have a really great conversation about this in...
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42: Minh Phan from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Los Angeles chef Minh Phan has a really cool story to share with us. She is the owner of a highly original restaurant, Porridge + Puffs, located in the city’s Historic Filipino Town neighborhood. I...
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41: Pete Wells from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Listener, subscriber: This is a good one. Pete Wells is the longtime restaurant critic at the New York Times and a man of slight mystery and sound judgment—or bad taste, if you ask some of the chef...
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40: Nicole Rucker from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Nicole Rucker is a star baker and the co-owner of Los Angeles restaurant Fiona. She’s also competed in national pie-making competitions and will publish her first cookbook about fruit pastry in the...
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39: Ivan Orkin from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
The Ivan Orkin story has been well documented. In summary—and you can read it in the excellent memoir-cookbook he wrote with Lucky Peach editor Chris Ying, or stream it on Orkin’s also excellent ep...
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38: Laurie Woolever from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Laurie Woolever is a fresh and highly original voice in the food writing game. She’s a journalist—having worked as an editor at Art Culinaire and Wine Spectator—and was Anthony Bourdain’s longtime ...
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37: Meredith Erickson from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
What a treat! Today on the show we have Meredith Erickson. She’s a journalist, cookbook writer, cycling fan, and the co-author of the new book Joe Beef: Surviving the Apocalypse. We talk about her ...
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36: Eli Zabar from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
While the name Zabar is most associated with a delicatessen empire based on New York’s Upper West Side, it’s Eli Zabar (the punk rock Zabar of all in the Zabar clan) who has the most interesting st...
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35: Helen Rosner from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Helen Rosner is a journalist, Twitter commentator, and the editorial force behind much of the New Yorker’s food coverage. This year, we were treated with her writing about iceberg lettuce, fermenti...
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34: David Tamarkin from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Before he edited Epicurious, sharply reviewed restaurants in Chicago, and wrote a cool new cookbook, Cook90: The 30-Day Plan for Faster, Healthier, Happier Meals, David Tamarkin worked as a story p...
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33: Amanda Cohen from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Dirt Candy is a restaurant that has become famous over the course of the past decade on New York’s Lower East Side for making eggplant tiramisu, rosemary cotton candy, and tomato fruit leather. But...
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32: Rose Levy Beranbaum from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Maybe you’ve been making macarons your whole life, could temper chocolate with your eyes closed, and have enough cake pans to fill a walk-in closet. But maybe, more realistically, you’re like the r...
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31: Anita Lo from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
The chef and cookbook author Anita Lo occupies a very special place in the hearts of many in the New York City restaurant world—chefs, journalists, civilians who merely dine at restaurants (that is...
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30: Flynn McGarry from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Let’s just not dwell on the fact that Flynn McGarry is only 20. He’s young. The end. This is because McGarry, the chef and owner of the ambitious and well-reviewed New York City tasting-menu restau...
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29: Naomi Pomeroy from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
On this episode, we talked to chef Naomi Pomeroy about what’s changed in Portland since she opened her first restaurant, what’s changing in restaurant work culture, and what cooking and flowers hav...
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28: Max Ng from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
As Max Ng tells it, his start at Momofuku—where he has risen to executive chef at the restaurant group’s New York City flagship, Ssam Bar—began when he showed up, as a young CIA student, with a bac...
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27: Yotam Ottolenghi from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
London chef and author Yotam Ottolenghi puts out cookbooks that meet at the intersection of cool and practical—with a recipe development process that is part Warhol Factory, part Bon Appétit Test K...
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26: Dorie Greenspan from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
You may know her from her New York Times column, On Dessert, or you may know her from trying one of her unbelievably chocolaty, world-famous World Peace Cookies at a party that one time. But before...
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25: Jeremiah Stone & Fabian Von Hauske from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Let’s get this out of the way first. Jeremiah Stone and Fabian Von Hauske are sweet dudes: extremely hardworking, generous, with lots and lots and lots of friends in the food world—in the United St...
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24: Ellia & Junghyun Park from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
There isn’t a restaurant in New York City that’s having a bigger and brighter fall 2018 than Atomix. It’s supremely ambitious, highly polished, and uncompromisingly Korean. We love it! After it got...
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23: Eric Ripert from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Stay calm and…just act like Eric Ripert. Young cooks, are you listening? Ripert, a celebrated chef and TV personality, is a balancing force in this trash-fire age. And he’s also just a really good ...
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22: Julia Turshen from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Just imagine: It’s the tail end of a dinner party you just cooked for, you’re dangerously full of food, and you realize you made about three times too much food. What are you going to do with that ...
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21: Francis Lam from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
You might know him from the Eat column in The New York Times, for which he went into dozens of restaurants, home kitchens, and church basements to report on some of the untold food stories from New...
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20: Christina Tosi from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Christina Tosi is a chef, TV personality, Milk Bar CEO and CCCO (Chief Compost Cookie Officer), and the author of a new cookbook, All About Cake. And indeed, during this lively episode taped live i...
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19: Mike Solomonov from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Mike Solomonov planted his flag in Philadelphia more than a decade ago with the groundbreaking Israeli-American restaurant Zahav, and people went nuts. Two words: pomegranate lamb. He’s since won m...
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18: Daniela Soto-Innes from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Daniela Soto-Innes is the chef-partner at two New York baby institutions, Cosme and Atla. These young and progressive restaurants—a modern Mexican cantina featuring supremely delicious tortillas an...
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17: Deuki Hong from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Deuki Hong is a San Francisco–based chef and restaurant-empire-builder in the making. He’s also the coauthor of Koreatown: A Cookbook. Here he catches up with his longtime collaborator for a wide-r...
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16: Natasha Pickowicz from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Natasha Pickowicz is the super talented pastry chef at New York City restaurants Flora Bar and Café Altro Paradiso, where fans (and oh, does she have fans) have been impressed with her ambitious co...
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15: Ruth Reichl from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Is there an introduction needed here? Over her groundbreaking career, Ruth Reichl has served as the food editor of the Los Angeles Times, the restaurant critic of the New York Times, and the editor...
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14: Brooks Headley from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Brooks Headley does not take vacations, read Yelp reviews, or make his burgers with beef. The chef-owner of New York City’s Superiority Burger and author of the new Superiority Burger Cookbook join...
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13: Phil Rosenthal from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
The Netflix culinary travel series Somebody Feed Phil proves that food television can be both accessible and interesting. Populist and high-brow. Much of the show’s success is credited to its host,...
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12: Angela Dimayuga from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
For six years, Angela Dimayuga served as the creative nerve center of New York City’s Mission Chinese Food, rising to executive chef and winning fans with her inventive culinary takes (shiso and um...
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11: Peter Meehan from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
For years, Peter Meehan was a mystery. As the New York Times’s "$25 and Under" columnist in the early 2000’s, he dined anonymously everywhere from Roberta’s to Momofuku Noodle Bar to hidden gems li...
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10: David Lebovitz from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
There aren’t a lot of things on the Internet that have been around since 1999. But David Lebovitz’s blog, full of quips, stories, and recipes from his life in Paris, is one of them. On this episode...
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9: Angie Mar from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
A brilliant chef, motivator, entrepreneur, and storyteller, Angie Mar is a force of nature. Her inspired meat cookery at the restaurant she owns and operates in New York City, the Beatrice Inn, has...
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8: Alon Shaya from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Alon Shaya is one of the leading voices in a newly crystalized Israeli-American food movement going down Stateside. Born in Israel and raised on cheesesteaks in Philadelphia, Shaya now calls New Or...
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7: Andy Ricker & JJ Goode from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Andy Ricker’s headstone: Let’s talk about that. The Thai restaurateur, cookbook author, rock guitarist, and drinking-vinegar empire builder has done a lot. But we’re going to take a shot at that he...
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6: Julia Moskin from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In her years as a New York Times reporter, Julia Moskin has traveled to Provence to write about cooking in Julia Child’s kitchen, introduced us to the concept of “procrasti-baking,” and taste-teste...
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5: Gail Simmons from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Gail Simmons is a very cool human being. While many know her best from Top Chef, her career in food expands way beyond a judge’s table. She trained at culinary school and went on to assist legendar...
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4: Mark Bittman from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
We’ve followed the career of cookbook author and op-ed columnist Mark Bittman for nearly two decades, through his How to Cook Everything series and his writing in The New York Times and other publi...
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3: Deb Perelman from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
We’ve been reading Smitten Kitchen for more than a decade now. At its helm is the hilarious and candid Deb Perelman, who joined us on this episode to talk about her favorite mushy carbs, keeping up...
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2: Alison Roman from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Alison Roman wants to change the way you think about granola (it doesn’t have to be sweet), dinner parties (they don’t have to be fancy), and boiled potatoes (there should be a stockpile in the ref...
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Introducing: The TASTE Podcast from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
The TASTE Podcast features lively conversations with the most interesting characters in the world of food, media, and culture (and sometimes a combination of all three). The program is hosted by TA...
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The TASTE Podcast Is Back! from 2018-06-01T04:00
After a two-year vacation (LOL), Anna and Matt are back! If you're a fan of smart and cool and weird and lively conversations about food and culture, this is the place. We interview the most int...
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The TASTE Podcast Is Back! from 2018-06-01T04:00
After a two-year vacation (LOL), Anna and Matt are back! If you're a fan of smart and cool and weird and lively conversations about food and culture, this is the place. We interview the most int...
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