One of the great chroniclers of American chefs and food was lost a year ago, when Josh Ozersky died suddenly at the age of 47. We remember Josh with some of his friends and colleagues including writer and former Mr. Cutlets cohost Stefanie Cohen; Heritage Radio Network’s executive producer Jack Inslee; his collaborator in the early days of New York Magazine’s Grub Street blog, Daniel Maurer; chef Harold Moore; owner of his longtime favorite watering hole The Boxcar Lounge, Johnny Spingola; and writer Nick Solares. And we check in with Josh’s wife Danit Lidor from Portland, Oregon, where he spent the last six months of his life.
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All She Wrote
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In The Front Burner's last episode (details and future plans at episode's end), we talk with Boston chef Barbara Lynch about her no-holds-barred memoir OUT OF LINE: A LIFE OF PLAYING WITH FIRE, which is about as revealing a book--by a chef or anybody--as you'll ever read. Then we welcome Chef Brock Johnson of Seattle's legendary Dahlia Lounge ...
THE LAST MAGNIFICENT: A FRONT BURNER SPECIAL REPORT
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Front Burner regular Amanda Cohen, chef-owner of New York City's Dirt Candy, joins us to discuss a variety of subjects: the relationship between chefs and critics (from the New York Times to the civilian critics of Yelp and other open formats), the case for no-tipping, and the pleasures of her restaurant's Monday night Canadian Beer Hall, ...
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