On this week's Trafficking Issues, Dave and Nastassia have been abandoned by Jean, who is on jury duty. Despite being down a man, they soldier on to answer a number questions about: building your own rotary evaporators, lies about biodegradable bags, the addition of yeast in sourdough, crisping sweet potato...

Join us for a conversation with Kim and Vanessa Pham, sisters and co-founders of Omsom, a new brand of Asian pantry staples. As first-generation Vietnamese-Americans and the daughters of refugees, Vanessa and Kim are reclaiming the cultural integrity of Asian cuisines too often diluted on grocery shelves in the ‘ethnic’...

On this episode of Hot Fruit Issues we discuss our personal histories with fireworks, and Dave encourages everyone to look up the Thai Rocket Festival in Yasothon. Plus: spinzall repairs, Limoncello troubleshooting, the definitive carbonation video, bladder control as a sign of adulthood, and more! Also, a request for recommendations...

For many people, the word “farming” connotes food production. A means to an end; plant the seed so we can later eat the harvest. While food yield is, no doubt, an important part of agriculture, this week we look toward the bi-products of the process itself. That is, the various...

To kick off our summer season, Ohm Suansilphong and Jenn Saesue of Fish Cheeks join us to talk about their unique approach to Thai food in New York, and their journey from Bangkok to Bond St. Each dish on the menu is a combination of unfiltered flavors, an intensity in...

A former model and corporate executive, driven to introspection after a natural disaster, resolves to move from her native Thailand to New York City and become a chef. That’s the improbable, and improbably successful, journey of Chef Hong Thaimee, who now presides over a number of Thai restaurants in New...

Laos-born Seng Luangrath is the chef and owner of Thip Khao, Washington D.C.’s first Lao restaurant. Chef Seng fled Laos as a refugee with her family during the Vietnam and learned to cook from her Lao neighbors as a child at a refugee camp in Thailand. After decades of suppressing...

In Feast Meets West's first installment of the "Asian Breakfast Series", Lynda and Iris discuss why Asian breakfast hasn't quite yet taken off in the US. Chef Yo of seasonal Thai restaurant, Pinto Garden, joins them in the studio to shed some light on what breakfast looks like in Thailand...

Chef Yo graduated with a masters from the Theatre Directing program at Columbia University. A native of Thailand, he found himself working in Thai resturants in New York, climbing the ladder from busboy to server to manager. The hospitality industry never appealed to him-it was simply a means to an...

This week on The Morning After, host Sari Kamin is joined by Andy Ricker, the chef/owner of Michelin starred Pok Pok Ny in Red Hook, Brooklyn as well as 7 other restaurants in Portland, NYC and L.A. He first visited Thailand as a backpacker in 1987. Since then, he has...