We talk -- or mostly listen -- to the remarkable Barton Seaver; recovering chef, prodigious advocate of all things seafood, TED talk alum, author of landmark books on American seafood (my favorite is For Cod Country), and quite possibly the most eloquent speaker we've ever met! Photo courtesy of...

On today's episode of All in the Industry®, Shari Bayer's guest is Matt Friedlander, industry veteran and co-owner of Sally Can Wait, a tropical-themed bar and restaurant on Manhattan’s Lower East Side offering craft cocktails and elevated comfort food in a fun and casual, Miami-esque setting. Matt, along with his...

Inside the nation’s first law school clinic devoted to providing legal and policy solutions for our food system.

You might think it’s obvious that the story of food, of cookbooks is central to understanding our culture and history. But it was not always so. Our storyteller today is Barbara Haber, a towering figure in making sure that “food,” and “women” and cooking were recognized as critical to the...

Welcome to Life’s a Ben Affleck, a podcast that is supposed to be about the highs and lows of food history, but has now become a Ben Affleck update-only show. On this week’s topicless episode we discuss, you guessed it, Ben Affleck, as well as nobody’s favorite Mayoral candidate, Andrew...

Join us for a conversation with Ann Armbrecht, director of the Sustainable Herbs Program of the American Botanical Council, and author of the new book The Business of Botanicals. She is a writer and anthropologist (PhD, Harvard 1995) whose work explores the relationships between humans and the earth, most recently...

On this week's episode of Olfactory Issues, Dave, Nastassia and The Rest are joined by a supergroup of scientists. We have returning friends of the show Arielle Johnson Harold McGee, plus newcomer Sandeep Robert Datta. Dr. Datta has been researching the effects of COVID-19 on our sense of smell...

On today's episode of Prediction Issues, Dave, Nastassia and The Rest are joined by Pia Sorenson and David Weitz, the dynamic duo who keep inviting Dave and Harold back to Harvard University year after year. Together, the crew dive into their new book Science and Cooking: Physics Meets Food, From...

On today's episode of Celebrity Mysteries, Dave, Nastassia, and The Rest discuss making peanut milk, Dave's Harvard Lectures, how to get a head start on COVID-friendly thanksgiving plans, dehydrated limes versus black lime, and much more. Plus, a spirited defense of the Jersey Shore (place, not television show) and a...

This week, we have stories about mutual aid and the many shapes and sizes it can take. You’ll hear about how people are stepping up to feed their neighbors and keep community businesses afloat. What is mutual aid? Instead of taking a top-down, one-size-fits-all approach to meeting people's needs, mutual...