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THE FOOD SEEN explores the intersections of food, art & design, and how chefs and artists alike are amalgamating those ideas, using food as their muse & medium across a multitude of media. Host, Michael Harlan Turkell, talks with fellow photographers, food stylists, restaurateurs, industrial and interior designers; all the players that make the world so visually delicious, that want to eat with your eyes.

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Michael Harlan Turkell

Michael Harlan Turkell, a once aspiring chef, now award winning photographer, who for years captured the inner workings of kitchens for his James Beard nominated BACK OF THE HOUSE project, which documented the lives of chefs in their restaurant world. For the past 5 plus years, Michael has been recording his weekly food podcast, THE FOOD SEEN, at HeritageRadioNetwork.org, which was a finalist for a Stitcher Award in 2013 & 2013. Michael continues to travel the land, in search of good people with inspired ideas, expressing themselves through their culture and cuisine. He’s photographed over a dozen cookbooks, and is now authoring his first, “ACID TRIP: A Fermented Look Into Vinegar’s Soured Past and Bright Future”, due out by Abrams in Spring 2017.

Latest Episodes

That Photo Makes Me Hungry with Andrew Scrivani

Episode 411, Aired: December 17, 2019
On today’s episode of THE FOOD SEEN, Andrew Scrivani, our only 3x guest (Ep1, Ep238, and this one), has become one of the most recognized food photographers in the field today. From his work for the New York Times, to numerous cookbooks and ad campaigns, Scrivani now adds author to repe...

Toothache Magazine with Nick Muncy

Episode 410, Aired: December 3, 2019
On today’s episode of THE FOOD SEEN, Nick Muncy is a pastry chef who’s dreams of being an artist was never lost on him. After a culinary arts degree, and stints in Healdsburg, CA, at Cyrus, under the patron saint of panettone Roy Shvartzapel, Muncy spent time with Matt Tinder at Saison,...

Colson Patisserie

Episode 409, Aired: November 26, 2019
On today’s episode of THE FOOD SEEN, in 2006, Yonatan Israel, a Parisian-born filmmaker, opened up Colson Patisserie in Park Slope, Brooklyn, as a New York manifestation of the original establishment in Mons, Belgium, owned by family friend Hubert Colson since 1986. Baking some of best ...

Manresa Bread with Avery Ruzicka

Episode 408, Aired: November 19, 2019
On today’s episode of THE FOOD SEEN, after first meeting Chef David Kinch of Manresa in Los Gatos, CA, Avery Ruzicka was convinced to blindly move across country to work for him. While she begin in the front on the house, she eventually found her way back into bread baking, growing Manr...

Maangchi

Episode 407, Aired: November 5, 2019
On today’s episode of THE FOOD SEEN, the magnanimous Maangchi, aka “Hammer”, née Emily Kim, is a Korean food YouTube superstar. Her personal style, and style of cooking show, has been welcomed into the homes of over 3 million subscribers and countless more Maangchi fans. Now, her second...

Poilâne

Episode 406, Aired: October 29, 2019
On today’s episode of THE FOOD SEEN, for nearly a century, at 8 Rue du Cherche-Midi in the Saint-Germain-des-Prés district of the 6th arrondissement, the surname Poilâne has been synonymous with bread and Parisian life since 1932. Pierre (Poilâne) began making his family’s signature 5-p...