As we’re taping Opening Soon this chilly March morning, we’ve just passed the one-year anniversary since the declaration of this pandemic, the start of shutdowns, and, for most, the switch into survival mode. While many businesses, chefs, cooks, and anyone, for that matter, have sought to survive, some have found...

A conversation with Andrew Genung. Andrew Genung is a Hong-Kong based writer and regular contributor to Eater. He also writes a twice-weekly newsletter, Family Meal, that covers the goings-on in and around the food/media world. Photo Courtesy of Andrew Genung. Meant To Be Eaten is powered by Simplecast.

A conversation with Rebecca de Souza. Do food pantries completely miss the point? Rebecca de Souza thinks they might. In “Feeding the Other,” Rebecca demonstrates how “food pantries stigmatize their clients through a discourse that emphasizes hard work, self help, and economic productivity rather than food justice and equity.” We...

The host of All in the Industry joins us to talk about the upcoming HOST Summit. It's also Hannah's birthday!! HRN Happy Hour is powered by Simplecast.

What do football games, concerts, NASCAR, and similar outdoor gatherings have in common? Tailgate parties, or "tailgating" as it's commonly called. It's an American cultural phenomenon, and my guest today, Lynne Weems Ryan, whose moniker is Tailgage Buzz, is well-versed in the art and history of these social gatherings. Join...

A Conversation with editors of Food Across Borders (Rutgers University Press, 2017): Matt Garcia, E. Melanie DuPuis, and Don Mitchell. Food Across Borders ""highlight[s] the contiguity between the intimate decisions we make as individuals concerning what we eat and the social and geopolitical processes we enact to secure nourishment, territory...

Eater, Est. in 2005 as the Blog Bar Americain, created much of today's requisites for online restaurant (nay - pop culture?) coverage we've come to expect, love and loathe on today's internet. In-studio guest Eater founder Lockhart Steele talks about 10 years of Eater, the web and seaport living...

Where do you set your goal for local food purchasing? How about 50 percent of your total food budget? How about trying to do this in Maine? In Portland, ME, Mayor Michael Brennan believes it can be done; and the school district's food service director, Ron Adams, is getting close...

Have you seen "BTG" scrolling through your social media feed and wondered WTH "BTG Mags" means? By-the-Glass Magnums of course. Michael Madrigale, head sommelier of New York City's Bar Boulud an Boulud Sud, created Gotham's first "Big Bottles" program, giving wine lovers the rare opportunity to drink large format bottles...

This week on What Doesn't Kill You Katy has no guest and decides to interview herself. She begins the show by addressing some of the major food issues that she has covered before the mainstream media began to cover them such as fracking, or HIMP. Her discussion jumps from topics...