EPISODE 27 | April 19, 2018
Mayukh Sen on Telling Untold Stories in the Food World
Today’s guest is Mayukh Sen, staff writer at MUNCHIES, VICE’s food publication. He was previously a Staff Writer at Food52,…
EPISODE 26 | April 12, 2018
Eric Himmelfarb of City Harvest
Today’s guest is Eric Himmelfarb, manager of food sourcing, procurement and logistics at City Harvest, a food rescue organization. City…
EPISODE 25 | April 5, 2018
Cha McCoy on Wine and Travel
Today’s guest is Cha McCoy, Harlem native and founder of CHA Squared Consulting LLC, a lifestyle company with a focus…
EPISODE 24 | March 29, 2018
Jenn De La Vega on Food and New Media
Today’s guest is Jenn de la Vega, private chef, caterer, founder of Randwiches, a curated food blog and author of…
EPISODE 23 | March 22, 2018
Von Diaz on Marrying Puerto Rican Food and Southern Food in ‘Coconuts & Collards’
Von Diaz is a writer, author and radio producer based in New York City, exploring explores Puerto Rican food, culture,…
EPISODE 22 | March 15, 2018
Adrian Miller a.k.a. the Soul Food Scholar on White House Cooks, Red Drink & Colorado Soul Food
Today’s guest is Adrian Miller, aka the Soul Food Scholar, culinary historian, barbecue judge and authority on such topics as:…
EPISODE 21 | March 8, 2018
Yemi Amu of Oko Farms on Farming, Jollof and Nigerian Food
Today’s guest is Yemi Amu, co-founder of Oko Farms, Brooklyn’s largest and oldest aquaponics farm here in Bushwick. She directs…
EPISODE 20 | March 1, 2018
Chef Tracy Chang on Building Her Dream Restaurant
Today’s guest is Tracy Chang, chef and owner of Pagu in Cambridge outside of Boston. Chef Chang is a graduate…
EPISODE 19 | February 22, 2018
Talking Food Writing with Tejal Rao
Today’s guest is Tejal Rao, reporter at The New York Times and a columnist for the The New York Times…
EPISODE 18 | February 15, 2018
Celebrating Chinese New Year with Chef Chris Cheung
Today’s guest is chef Chris Cheung, a born and bred New Yorker, who grew up in the heart of Chinatown…
EPISODE 17 | February 8, 2018
Chef JJ Johnson on being ‘Between Harlem and Heaven’ and Jefferson Evans
Today’s guest is JJ Johnson, chef, author and founder of Ingrained Hospitality here in New York City. Most recently JJ…
EPISODE 16 | February 2, 2018
Shelley Worrell of Caribbeing on the Caribbean Cultural Capital of the World
Today’s guest is Shelley Worrell, Founder + Chief Curator of CARIBBEING, an organization that celebrates and preserves Caribbean culture. Since…
EPISODE 15 | January 25, 2018
Chef Daniel Patterson on Restaurant Equality
Today’s guest is Daniel Patterson, chef, food writer and restaurateur behind some of California’s best restaurants. Daniel started Daniel Patterson…
EPISODE 14 | December 15, 2017
Chef Marquis Hayes on Healing Yourself and Your Community Through Cooking
Today’s guest in Marquis Hayes, chef of Drive Change, an organization that offers job training and fellowship to formerly incarcerated…
EPISODE 13 | December 7, 2017
Tonya and David Thomas of Ida B.’s Table
Today’s guests are chefs David and Tonya Thomas of Ida B’s Table in Baltimore. David is a career food professional…
EPISODE 12 | November 30, 2017
Black Culinary History: Past, Present and Future
Today’s guest is Therese Nelson, chef and founder of Black Culinary History, an organization she started in 2008 as a…
EPISODE 11 | November 16, 2017
Everyday Korean with Seung Hee Lee
On today’s show we’re talking to Seung Hee Lee, co author of Everyday Korean, a new cookbook that acts as…
EPISODE 10 | November 9, 2017
Evelyn Shelton & Steve Hill on Restaurant Ownership and Gentrification
Can local restaurant ownership right the wrongs of gentrification? On today’s show we’ll talk to Evelyn Shelton, owner and chef…
EPISODE 9 | November 2, 2017
The Black Forks on Restaurant Stereotypes and Dining While Black
What’s it like to be the only person of color in a dining room? Vonnie and Fred are childhood friends…
EPISODE 8 | October 26, 2017
Chris Himmel on Hospitality and Improving the Restaurant Industry
Today’s guest is Chris Himmel, owner of three restaurants in Boston and CEO of Himmel Hospitality Group. From the time…
EPISODE 7 | October 19, 2017
Julia Turshen on Feeding the Resistance and Why Food and Dining is Always Political
Today’s guest is JULIA TURSHEN, prolific writer and the author of two cookbooks: Small Victories and Feed the Resistance. She…
EPISODE 6 | October 12, 2017
Decolonizing Food and Travel Culture with Bani Amor
Bani Amor is a queer travel writer, photographer and activist from Brooklyn by way of Ecuador who explores diasporic identities,…
EPISODE 5 | October 5, 2017
Perla Nieves and Alysis Vasquez of Midnight Market on Pop-Ups, Dining, and more
Today’s guests are Perla Nieves and Alysis Vasquez, best friends and the founders of Midnight Market, part food event part…
EPISODE 4 | September 28, 2017
Chef Kwame Williams on Caribbean Cuisine and Fine Dining
Today’s guest is Kwame Williams, chef and co-owner of Vital Dining in Montclair, New Jersey serving modern Caribbean dishes. He…
EPISODE 3 | September 21, 2017
Trish Fontanilla on Pop-Ups and Filipino Dining
Today’s guest is Trish Fontanilla, co-founder of BosFilipinos an organization that creates Filipino and Asian events in the Greater Boston…
EPISODE 2 | September 14, 2017
Chef Galen Zamarra on Fine Dining and Rebuilding Mas Farmhouse
Today’s guest is chef Galen Zamarra, James Beard award winner and owner of Mas Farmhouse in the West Village, a…
EPISODE 1 | September 8, 2017
Nicole Taylor on Southern Dining, Food Media and Being an ‘UpSouth” Cook
Today’s guest is Nicole Taylor, cookbook author, food writer, and former host of the Hot Grease podcast on Heritage Radio…