Tip of the Tongue with host, Liz Williams, is a podcast which explores the intersection of food and drink and culture. It is about food writ large, affecting every part of our lives. In a 30 minute interview we talk to people with diverse opinions, knowledge, and understanding of food and drink and how it affects our lives and the lives of others. Listen, it’s on Tip of the Tongue.
Tip of the Tongue Episode 304: Heidi Herman’s Hidden Vegetables
December 16, 2025
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For those who hate vegetables, those pesky green things on your plate can be more than a nuisance. They are turn you off to even the best of food. Heidi Herman is such a person, trying to be healthy and eat her veggies despite hating the taste of vegetables. She grew with an Icelandic mother who found the array of vegetables available in the ...
Tip of the Tongue Episode 303: A Conversation with Rachel Farnsworth
December 9, 2025
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If you consider getting dinner on the table intimidating, or a chore, or sometimes you’re just too busy, Rachel Farnsworth offers a world of advice for saving money and cooking quickly. No meal planning for you. No making a grocery list for you. She does it for you, with a great depth of other resources on her website.
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What do you do when you have allergies or special food preferences or restrictions? Can you eat out or must you prepare everything yourself? Can you trust the restaurant? That is where Foodini comes in. We speak with Dylan McDonnell, one of the company’s founders, about the solutions to these issues that Foodini addresses.
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Ed Mitchell is the name that comes to mind when anyone says North Carolina barbecue. This is an encore broadcast of our podcast about his book, Ed Mitchell’s Barbecue. The book was written by the pitmasters Ed and Ryan Mitchell with Zella Palmer.. In the book they tell their story. On the podcast we learn the story of the book as ...
Tip of the Tongue Episode 300: A Conversation with Tamar Adler
November 18, 2025
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I don’t keep a gratitude journal of all of the wonderful and joyous things I experience every day. Tamar Adler does. And her new book, Feast on Your Life: Kitchen Meditations for Every Day, reveals her moments of awe and gratitude in the kitchen. Tamar is the award-winning author of An Everlasting Meal. (She was awarded by both the James ...
Worried about the high price of food these days? Many people are feeling the pinch of grocery store prices these days. Carol Ann Kates has written a book, Grocery Shopping Secrets, filled with tips on buying and storing and using that food. The book covers fruits and vegetables and meats and fish and cheese. Everything in the grocery.
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This is the first episode of an intermittent series about the birth and the development of a new project in Evergreen, Colorado, The Hummingbird Club. The project is the brainchild of Sarah and Josh Hess.
Their project is a new restaurant that serves brunch every day. It will have a lagniappe hour after the brunch service ends and become a ...
Although many modern bartenders find the Ramos Gin Fizz to be a nuisance at best. and more work than it is worth at worst. But that famous drink, invented by Charles Ramos, continues to fascinate us. John Shelton Reed, storyteller, author, and historian of the south, tells the tale of the Ramos Gin Fizz in his new book by that name.
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