Interacting with our food goes far beyond just tasting it. A typical trip to the grocery store can involve smelling and feeling your produce, giving it a tap to see how it sounds, and taking a good look at it before you add it to your shopping cart.

On today's episode of THE FOOD SEEN, Benjamin Sormonte & Elisa Marshall, opened, Maman, a SoHo bakery & café via South of France Papa Poule, rotisserie chicken française, as an ode to their childhood favorite foods, but really, it shows reverence to their mothers and fathers.

On today's episode of THE FOOD SEEN, we raise a glass of Lillet, a French aperitif made in Bordeaux since 1872, made in blanc, rouge and rosé, from blends of wine and liquors, reminiscent of exotic citrus groves and a life well lived.

On today's episode of THE FOOD SEEN , what happens when a self-proclaimed "man about town" / Instagram aficionado, and a steel ukelele playing avant-garde thespian throw a dinner party? Answer: Spring Street Social Society, ssssociety.com.

On today's episode of THE FOOD SEEN, food photographers Taylor Peden & Jen Munk have formed the photographic super group, Peden + Munk.

On today's THE FOOD SEEN, Charles Phan's family left Vietnam just before the fall of Saigon to the Vietcong.

THE FOOD SEEN: "The Modern Art Cookbook" with Mary Ann Caws January 6, 2015 11:21 AM On today's THE FOOD SEEN, Mary Ann Caws, a Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature, English, and French at the Graduate School of the City University of New York, takes an in-depth look at palates of fa

On today's episode of THE FOOD SEEN, we share the tradition of Southern storytelling with Sean Brock, chef of McCrady's, Husk,Minero, in Charleston SC and Nashville TN.

On today's episode of THE FOOD SEEN, the master of live fire cooking, Francis Mallman, is ON FIRE! Well, not literally, but it's the title of his new book, Mallman on Fire, a follow up to his international hit, Seven Fires: Grilling the Argentine Way.

On today's episode of THE FOOD SEEN, those same old holiday cookies are transformed by Patti Page of Baked Ideas. In her new book, "You Can't Judge A Cookie By Its Cutter", Patti uses her art school background, to visualize everyday confections outside the cookie box.