Michael Kalanty was my faculty colleague when I taught at the California Culinary Academy back in the 1990's. Since then, he and I have been on parallel tracks, both as educators, bread book authors, and as product developers. In this episode, Michael shares his long and winding road including pastry...

This week on Inside Julia’s Kitchen, host Todd Schulkin welcomes Chad Robertson and Jennifer Latham, co-authors of the recently published Bread Book: Ideas and Innovations from the Future of Grain, Flour and Fermentation. They discuss Tartine’s bread baking philosophy, how collaborations with farmers led to even better flour and making...

The Little Blue Cookbook was a nearly lost family heirloom that Jennifer Justus discovered a few years ago. Decades prior to that, the cookbook’s butterscotch pecan pie recipe provided great comfort to her grandmother, who made the dish frequently when she and her husband were relocated by his Coast Guard...

Join us for a conversation with journalist Larissa Zimberoff, author of the brand new book, Technically Food: Inside Silicon Valley's Mission to Change What We Eat, from Abrams Press. Larissa covers the intersection of food, technology, and business, and her work has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall...

Bay Area native David Nayfeld is the Executive Chef and Co-Owner of the award-winning restaurants Che Fico and Che Fico Alimentari in San Francisco. Nayfeld boasts a venerable restaurant pedigree having worked alongside some of the most esteemed names in the industry. In 2018, Nayfeld opened his first restaurant, Che...

In honor of May Day (celebrated world-wide on May 1st), we bring you four stories about workers organizing and unionizing around the country. First, we’ll start in our own backyard: New York City. We dive into the world of food delivery workers and their efforts to legislate the delivery apps...

Our guest is Yarrow Lazer-Smith, a.k.a. Yarrow Slaps who is a visual artist and hip-hop musician as well as the co-director of SWIM Gallery in San Francisco. Yarrow recently published “Ramen Forever – An Artist’s Guide to Ramen”. There are many ramen-themed books, but this is definitely one the most...

This week, Beer Sessions Radio is heading out west! Jimmy sits down with Joanne Marino from the Bay Area Brewers Guild in San Francisco, California, and Kim Sturdavant from Pacifica Brewery in Pacifica, California, to hear about California Craft Beer Week, running from February 12-21. Having to pivot due to...

This episode is all about seafood. Michael shares some of his favorite dishes that he enjoyed in restaurants and replicated at home. He talks about the misunderstood origins of cioppino and lists the reasons he misses California abalone. If you have access to canned or fresh oysters, Michael suggests making...

Corey Rateau is Senior Category Manager at Good Eggs, the e-commerce grocery business beloved by the Bay Area. On today's episode of ITS, Corey walks Ali through what buyers are looking for from brands. They discuss how choosing new brands is a fraction of a buyer's job, and how brands...