Andrew Talks to Chefs
313 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 273 ratingsOur top chefs, as you’ve never heard them before. Author Andrew Friedman, one of the nation's chief chroniclers of professional kitchen life, interviews a diverse cross-section of the best and biggest names in the business, bringing his personal relationships and industry knowledge to bear in coaxing personal and professional revelations from his guests.
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Bringing the Culinary Past to Life with "The Taste of Things" Director Trần Anh Hùng (An ATTC Special Conversation)
March 06, 2024 05:35 - 35 minutes - 32.3 MBThe Taste of Things is one of the most celebrated films of the past year, a beautifully rendered love story set amid an important chapter in culinary history. On this ATTC Special Conversation, the film's writer-director Trần Anh Hùng joins us from Paris to discuss the genesis of the film, what attracted him to the project, the involvement of chef Pierre Gagnaire, and working with actors Juliette Binoche and Benoît Magimel. Our thanks to Metro for their support. Visit their website today t...
Mary Sue Milliken & Susan Feniger on Making a Difference (An ATTC Special Conversation)
February 28, 2024 21:21 - 44 minutes - 40.3 MBFriends of the pod Mary Sue Milliken and Susan Feniger, of Border Grill and other restaurants, check in from Los Angeles to discuss the evolution of chefs and other industry figures making a difference by devoting time, effort, and resources to a variety of causes. In addition to their own substantial work on behalf of organizations such as The Abundance Setting, the James Beard Foundation, The Los Angeles LGBT Center, The Scleroderma Research Foundation, Regarding HER, and Share Our Strengt...
Remembering David Bouley: In His Own Words and Voice (previously unaired 2014 interview)
February 17, 2024 21:17 - 1 hour - 90.7 MBThis week, the chef and restaurant community suddenly lost one of its most talented and influential figures. David Bouley, who rose to prominence at Montrachet and Bouley restaurants in the 1980s, died of cardiac arrest at age 70. To remember this towering culinary figure, we are sharing a previously unaired interview recorded at Bouley restaurant in its then-current home in 2014. Our condolences to David's family and to the community of admirers, colleagues, and friends he leaves behind. T...
Episode 239: Max Natmessnig and Marco Prins (Chef's Table at Brooklyn Fare) on NYC Energy, Collaborative Cheffing, & Making the Final Every Night
February 13, 2024 23:02 - 1 hour - 62.5 MBIn October 2023, Max Natmessnig and Marco Prins returned to Chef's Table at Brooklyn Fare, where they once were cooks, as co-chefs of the celebrated tasting-menu restaurant. Four months into their tenure, they sat down with Andrew to share their individual and joint stories, describe their collaborative creative process, and explain their their attraction to New York City. THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW: Andrew is a writer by trade. If you'd like to support him, there's no better way than by purch...
Episode 238: Brad Kilgore (MaryGold's Brasserie, Miami, FL) on Molecular/Modernist Cuisine, His New Frozen Pizza Venture, and the Surprising Secrets of a French Onion Burger
February 03, 2024 16:57 - 1 hour - 68.6 MBMIami's Brad Kilgore displays an easygoing demeanor beneath which resides a precise and driven chef. When Brad and his colleagues hosted Andrew for a book event last fall at the Arlo Hotel Wynwood (home of Brad's MaryGold's Brasserie), the two of them sat down to record this interview. In it they discuss myriad subjects including Brad's adoption of the principles of Molecular and Modernist Cuisines, his time in some of the best restaurants in Chicago, and his plans for the future, including ...
Is "The Stuff" Enough? with Miami's Chef Michael Beltran (an Andrew Talks to Chefs Special Conversation)
January 18, 2024 19:04 - 55 minutes - 51.3 MBWhile visiting his hometown of Miami, Florida, during his recent book tour, Andrew finally had the chance to meet and interview with chef Michael Beltran of Ariete, Chug's Diner, and Eva and The Oyster Bar--all in Coconut Grove. Michael is also the host of the excellent Pan Con Podcast, which you should by all means check out. After years of corresponding by Instagram messages, Andrew and MIchael sat down for a conversation that is shared differently on their two shows: Michael and producer...
Mentorship Panel #4: Nando Chang and Adriano Montano LIVE! from an On The Line Dinner in Miami (presented by S.Pellegrino)
January 05, 2024 05:05 - 32 minutes - 29.9 MBOur fourth Mentorship panel was staged this past fall in Andrew's hometown of Miami, Florida, at the much-acclaimed Maty's, part of the Itamae family of restaurants. As chef Valerie "Val" Chang and her crew prepared dinner for a full house of line cooks from around the city, her brother and business partner Nando Chang took to the mic along with his longtime protege Adriano Montano. Their unique story--both are musicians and Adriano continues to pursue his career alongside his now five-year...
Episode 237: Sam Hart (Counter-, Charlotte, NC)
January 02, 2024 16:43 - 1 hour - 75.3 MB**Content warning – this episode (briefly) discusses attempted suicide.** Sam Hart took a circuitous route to the professional kitchen. After a childhood in which cooking and food weren't especially central concerns, Sam was in a career in advertising when culinary inspiration struck, leading to jobs in such kitchens as Alinea, and ultimately to becoming chef owner of Counter- and other concepts in Charlotte, NC. Andrew and Sam sat down a few months back to go through their fascinating car...
Grilling the Author of The Dish, w/ Andrew Friedman, and guest host Chandra Ram (Food & Wine)
December 18, 2023 18:46 - 1 hour - 74.8 MBFor the first time in three hundred episodes, we're turning the tables on Andrew and sitting him in the hot seat, a.k.a. the guest's chair, to take you inside his new book The Dish: The Lives and Labor Behind One Plate of Food. Fellow writer and author Chandra Ram, of Food & Wine, takes the helm to ask Andrew all about the book: where the idea came from, what the research entailed, how difficult it was traveling and interviewing during the recent pandemic, and what the key takeaways from the...
This Restaurant Just Wants to Have Fun w/ Madalyn Summers, Paul D'Avino, and Jorge Olarte of Brooklyn's Cafe Mars (An Andrew Talks to Chefs Special Conversation)
December 15, 2023 19:19 - 55 minutes - 51.2 MBCafe Mars, a six-month old restaurant in Gowanus, Brooklyn, has made quite an impression on guests and awards-bestowers alike with its unique brand of hospitality, which extends to both staff and guests, erasing many of the invisible boundaries long associated with dining out. Everybody on staff is cross-trained for the kitchen, dining room, and bar; the team closes out their preshift meeting with a stretching exercise; and guests are received and cared for with a familiarity that resonates ...
Episode 236: Eli Kulp (Chef & Host, Chef Radio Podcast)
December 13, 2023 17:21 - 1 hour - 105 MB**Content warning – this episode (briefly) discusses suicidal feelings.** Eli Kulp inspires us. By age 36, he'd graduated from the Culinary Institute of America, moved from his native Seattle to New York City, and worked in top kitchens before becoming the opening chef de cuisine of the original, fabled Torrisi restaurant. After moving to Philadelphia to take over the kitchen at Fork, a catastrophic Amtrak accident rendered him a quadriplegic. He takes us through all of it, including his po...
Mentorship Panel #3: Aaron Bludorn, Rebecca Masson, Jarrod Zifchak & Jared Adams LIVE! from an On the Line dinner in Houston (presented by S.Pellegrino)
December 11, 2023 20:05 - 52 minutes - 48.5 MBWe're delighted to share the third in a series of live discussions on the subject of Mentorship in the restaurant industry. The series is brought to you by our promotional partner S.Pellegrino, and each one is moderated by Andrew, staged in a different city, and builds on the one(s) that precede(s) it. This episode was recorded LIVE before an audience of Houston line cooks at an On the Line dinner at Bludorn restaurant and features Bludorn's chef-owner Aaron Bludorn, Rebecca Masson (owner an...
Episode 235: Lena Ciardullo (Union Square Cafe/NYC)
November 29, 2023 05:05 - 1 hour - 71.4 MBSince quietly taking the helm of Union Square Cafe in New York City, chef Lena Ciardullo has been turning out some of the best Italian-based food in town ... not bad for a woman who majored in communications in college before deciding to pursue a kitchen career. Recently, Lena sat down with Andrew at Union Square Cafe to discuss her own Italian roots, the time she spent in Italy, the pros and cons of spending her entire post-school career with the same restaurant group, and her philosophies ...
Episode 234: Jason Hammel (chef-owner Lula Cafe/Chicago, IL & author Lula Cafe Cookbook)
November 28, 2023 05:02 - 1 hour - 72.1 MBJason Hammel originally set out to be a writer, then found his way to the professional kitchen. For more than 20 years, his Lula Cafe has been a Chicago institution. This fall, with the release of the Lula Cafe Cookbook, Jason combines his two professional passions and lovingly tells his story, and that of the restaurant, along with--of course--recipes for the restaurant's many long-enshrined signature dishes. This episode is brought to you in part by meez, the recipe operating system for c...
Episode 233: Tracy Malechek-Ezekiel (Birdie's--Austin, TX)
November 14, 2023 21:01 - 1 hour - 77.3 MBWhile at the Hot Luck Festival in Austin, TX, this spring, Andrew sat down with Tracy Malechek-Ezekiel, chef and co-owner of Birdie's, one of the restaurants of the moment (it was recently named "restaurant of the year" by Food & Wine). In addition to describing her own path, which took her from Texas to Chicago to New York and back to Texas, Tracy details the progressive business and service model at Birdie's, which allow for a range of benefits for the team and for her and her husband-bus...
Nancy Silverton on The Cookie That Changed My Life, her new book (An Andrew Talks to Chefs Special Conversation)
November 11, 2023 01:18 - 43 minutes - 39.8 MBThe ever-energetic Nancy Silverton returns to the pod to talk about her terrific new cookbook: The Cookie That Changed My Life. In it, Nancy--currently helming such restaurants as Chi Spacca and Osteria Mozza in Los Angeles--returns to her pastry roots. The book shares more than 100 recipes that capture her perfected versions of beloved, classic baked goods. Written in collaboration with Carolynn Carreño, The Cookie That Changed My Life is a knockout, with much to appeal to pro cooks and hom...
Episode 232: Rob Rubba (Oyster Oyster--Washington, DC)
November 08, 2023 16:21 - 1 hour - 67 MBOn the heels of his James Beard Foundation Award recognition as Outstanding Chef (in the nation), Rob Rubba visited New York City to discuss his career to date, and the life changes that led to his super-popular restaurant Oyster Oyster in Washington, D.C. This episode is brought to you in part by meez, the recipe operating system for culinary professionals. Try out their free basic version today. Andrew’s NEW book The Dish: The Lives and Labor Behind One Plate of Food is now ON SALE! Read...
Episode 231: Klancy Miller (Author, For The Culture: Phenomenal Black Women and Femmes in Food)
October 10, 2023 00:36 - 1 hour - 67.5 MBAuthor Klancy MIller sits down to discuss her recently published book For the Culture: Phenomenal Black Women and Femmes in Food, and the life and career that lead to her writing it. Her conversation with Andrew covers her early Francophile tendencies, matriculation at Le Cordon Bleu in Paris, time in Michelin three-star pastry kitchens, and her pivot to writing. This episode is brought to you in part by meez, the recipe operating system for culinary professionals. Try out their free bas...
Turning Food Loss into Fashion, with Terratela founder Natalia Burakowska (An Andrew Talks to Chefs Special Conversation)
September 29, 2023 17:05 - 39 minutes - 36.9 MBA few years ago, while dining at Massimo Bottura's Osteria Francescana, Natalia Burakowska had a revelation: The fashion professional suddenly saw a path to helping to change the discussion around food loss and waste by channeling her personal passion for environmental responsibility into a new clothing brand. The result, TerraTela (which means "Earth fabric"), launched earlier this year with a t-shirt made primarily from regenerative seaweed. On the United Nations' International Day of Awa...
For the Love of Hospitality with Ellen Yin (An Andrew Talks to Chefs Special Conversation)
September 12, 2023 17:41 - 50 minutes - 46.5 MBShortly before she took home the JBF Award as Outstanding Restaurateur this spring, legendary Philly restaurateur Ellen Yin of High Street Hospitality Group (Fork, High Street Philly, et.al.) sat down with Andrew at the Philly Chef Conference. Their conversation is the first of something we plan to do more of: Deskside Chats with seasoned industry pros that go wherever the dialogue takes them. In this inaugural Deskside Chat, Ellen shares her thoughts on the state of the industry post/late-...
An Untapped Workforce? with Chef Franklin Becker, An Andrew Talks to Chefs Special Conversation
August 24, 2023 20:33 - 51 minutes - 47.3 MBMight certain often-overlooked populations be part of the solution to the ongoing staffing shortage in the restaurant industry? Speaking from deep personal experience, chef Franklin Becker joins Andrew for this Special Conversation about the compatibility of people on the autism spectrum with restaurant-kitchen work. That subject leads to a free-flowing discussion of other populations (e.g., ex-cons) who have successfully thrived as pro cooks, as well as thoughts on training and management...
Episode 230: Emily Swaine (Forsythia, NYC)
August 23, 2023 18:17 - 1 hour - 56.2 MBAt Forsythia restaurant in lower Manhattan, Emily Swaine serves a menu both faithfully and freely inspired by Roman trattorias. Emily recently sat down with Andrew outside the restaurant to discuss her initial path toward art, how she course-corrected to the pro kitchen, and her gradual focus on Italian food following time in Florence during college, and early gigs in NYC Italian restaurants. They also geek out on their shared pasta love, examine the difference between cooking and cheffing ...
The Culinary Journey of a Lifetime with Lisa Donovan (co-founder, Reverie, and author, Our Lady of Perpetual Hunger), an Andrew Talks to Chefs Special Conversation
August 14, 2023 04:05 - 34 minutes - 31.3 MBProfessional chefs and home cooks alike fantasize about culinary retreats--long, leisurely stays in food-centric regions where we can lose ourselves in market visits, farm and vineyard tours, improvisational cooking, and--of course--sharing lavish meals with old and new friends. Author Lisa Donovan, who wrote the rightly celebrated Our Lady of Perpetual Hunger and is one of the US's most acclaimed bakers and pastry chefs, has knitted together her various passions and pastimes and co-founded ...
Episode 229: Marc Vetri (Vetri Cucina & others, in Philly & elsewhere)
August 09, 2023 04:05 - 1 hour - 69.7 MBAfter 3 years of trying to get across a table from each other to record a pod conversation, Marc Vetri and Andrew finally found time during the Philly Chef Conference this spring. They met on a beautiful April morning in the dining room of Marc's flagship Vetri Cucina and went through Marc's evolution from aspiring rock star to fledgling cook to full-fledged chef and business person. Along the way, they recall some industry legends, discuss sticking to your guns in deal-making, and the ratio...
Episode 228: Amanda Shulman (Her Place & My Loup, Philadelphia, PA)
July 24, 2023 18:49 - 1 hour - 64 MBA lifelong food lover, Amanda Shulman's love of cuisine and cooking became all consuming during a semester in Rome during college. Following a string of stages and early jobs, she committed to the pro kitchen and trained in Vegas, Montreal, and New York City, before opening her hugely successful Her Place in Philadelphia. On this episode, Amanda discusses her unique path, the role Italy plays in her career, and her new restaurant My Loup, opened recently in collaboration with her fiancée Al...
Episode 227: Ryan Bartlow (Ernesto's, NYC)
July 17, 2023 14:18 - 1 hour - 76.8 MBAt his restaurant Ernesto's in lower Manhattan, chef Ryan Bartlow serves up stunningly faithful renditions of the Basque cuisine he came to love while staging in Spain early in his career. In this interview, Ryan paints a vivid picture of his time overseas that caused him to fall in love with this food. He also recounts his time in some important kitchens, including as part of the opening team of such storied restaurants as Alinea in Chicago and Frenchette in New York City. This episode is...
Giving Media-Starved Restaurant Cities Their Due with Karla Walsh (An Andrew Talks to Chefs Special Conversation)
July 08, 2023 20:42 - 28 minutes - 26.7 MBHas coverage of the U.S. restaurant landscape kept pace with the shifting reality that's been playing out across the nation over the past decade or so? Des Moines, Iowa-based journalist Karla Walsh doesn't think so. In this Special Conversation, Karla shares her thoughts on why that is, how and why it should/could change, and tips us off to some specific Midwestern chefs and restaurants of note. This episode is brought to you in part by meez, the recipe operating system for culinary profes...
Episode 226: Nasim Alikhani (chef & author of Sofreh)
July 01, 2023 22:06 - 1 hour - 72 MBA native of Iran who once dreamed of becoming a judge, Nasim Alikhani's road to chefdom and proprietorship has been a circuitous one, to say the least. But she's more than made up for lost time at her hit Brooklyn restaurant Sofreh, where she serves her personal take on Persian cuisine. As the restaurant settles into the second half of its first decade, Nasim has also just this week seen her first cookbook published: Sofreh: A Contemporary Approach to Classic Persian Cuisine (written in coll...
Episode 225: Melissa Rodriguez (Al Coro, Mel's Pizzeria, and Discolo--NYC)
June 24, 2023 19:59 - 1 hour - 69 MBChef Melissa Rodriguez of Al Coro, Mel's Pizzeria, and Discolo in NYC's Chelsea neighborhood, sits down to discuss her early life and career, gravitation to the pro kitchen, and her unabashed affection for fine dining. Stops along the way to her current restaurants include Northern California, five years at Restaurant Daniel in New York City, and taking the helm of Del Posto. This episode is brought to you in part by meez, the recipe operating system for culinary professionals. Try out the...
Mentorship Panel 2: Kevin Boehm & Lee Wolen LIVE from an On the Line dinner in Chicago (presented by S.Pellegrino)
June 22, 2023 21:44 - 45 minutes - 42 MBWe're delighted to share the second in a series of live discussions on the subject of Mentorship in the restaurant industry. The series is brought to you by our promotional partner S.Pellegrino, and each one will be moderated by Andrew, staged in a different city, and build on the one(s) that precedes it. This episode was recorded LIVE before an audience of Chicago line cooks at an On the Line dinner at Chicago's BOKA restaurant and features BOKA Restaurant Group co-founder Kevin Boehm and ...
Episode 224: Nick DiGiovanni (author, Knife Drop)
June 17, 2023 17:39 - 46 minutes - 42.5 MBAt just 27 years of age, Nick DiGiovanni has parlayed a love of cooking and a run to the finals on television's Master Chef into a successful career as an internet culinary personality (he boasts more than 10 million subscribers on YouTube and 11 million on TikTok), food entertainer and educator, and now cookbook author. On the occasion of the publication of his first cookbook, Knife Drop: Creative Recipes Anyone Can Cook, Nick sat down with Andrew in New York City this week to discuss his ...
Episode 223: Lior Lev Sercarz (author, A Middle Eastern Pantry)
June 16, 2023 23:23 - 1 hour - 62.7 MBLior Lev Sercarz has made quite a name for himself as the man behind La Boîte, which sells more than 80 original spice blends plus their signature biscuits. A former chef who grew up in Israel, lived and worked in France, and then moved to New York City, Lior shares his story in this episode. But what really occasioned this interview at this moment in time was the publication of Lior's new book A Middle Eastern Pantry: Essential Ingredients for Classic and Contemporary Recipes--his fourth bo...
Episode 222: Rebecca Masson (Fluff Bake Bar--Houston, TX)
June 12, 2023 21:31 - 1 hour - 70.4 MBRebecca Masson trained in Paris and worked in some of New York City's most popular restaurants before moving to Houston, TX, and launching her hugely successful Fluff Bake Bar. An old friend of Andrew's, we've been wanting to host her on the pod for years, and are thrilled to share this conversation from the Hot Luck Festival, which took place recently in Austin. This episode is brought to you in part by meez, the recipe operating system for culinary professionals. Try out their free basic ...
Episode 221: Telly Justice (HAGS restaurant, NYC)
June 05, 2023 22:11 - 1 hour - 90.4 MBHAGS, a relatively new restaurant in New York City's East Village, bills itself as being "by queer people, for all people." Andrew recently sat down with Telly Justice, HAGS' chef and partner (with Camille Lindsley, also Telly's life partner). In addition to her path to chefdom, which wound through such restaurants as Five & Ten, Alder, and Contra, Telly relates her personal journey as a trans woman, how she navigated a path through professional kitchens until reaching chef-ownership, and wh...
Episode 220: Omar Tate (Honeysuckle Projects; Philadelphia, PA)
May 24, 2023 19:23 - 1 hour - 57.8 MBOmar Tate attained national prominence with his deeply personal Honeysuckle pop-up dinners. In addition to drawing enthusiastic diners wherever they were staged, he received accolades such as being named Esquire's "Chef of the Year" in 2020. After pandemic pivots which included a residency at Blue HIll Stone Barns, Omar and his wife Cybille St. Aude-Tate, have launched Honeysuckle Projects to, in their own words, "[expand] into a network of community spaces centered around the values of ance...
One Chef's Ongoing Mental Health Journey, with Greg Baxtrom (An Andrew Talks to Chefs Special Conversation)
May 13, 2023 21:02 - 46 minutes - 42.7 MB**Content warning – this episode discusses suicidal feelings.** Greg Baxtrom, chef-owner of a quartet of New York City restaurants, recently opened up in a revealing Instagram post about his years-long struggles with alcoholism and bipolar disorder. In that post, he mentioned that he'd be joining Andrew for a discussion about his ongoing mental health journey. This is that conversation. Greg sat down with Andrew a few days ago in Brooklyn for a deeply personal dialogue about how his alcohol...
Mentorship Panel 1: Erick Williams & Damarr Brown LIVE from the Philly Chef Conference (presented by S.Pellegrino)
May 05, 2023 13:51 - 44 minutes - 41.3 MBWe at Andrew Talks to Chefs are delighted to bring you the first in a series of live discussions on the subject of Mentorship in the restaurant industry. The series is brought to you by our promotional partner S.Pellegrino, and each one will be moderated by Andrew, staged in a different city, and build on the one(s) that precede it. The inaugural examination of this topic took place recently at the Philly Chef Conference and features Erick Williams and Damarr Brown of Chicago's Virtue resta...
Episode 219: Manoella "Manu" Buffara (chef & author of Manu: Recipes and Stories from My Brazil)
April 28, 2023 22:42 - 1 hour - 64.8 MBManoella Buffara, also known as "Manu," has owned and operated her own restaurant, the eponymous Manu, in Curitiba, Brazil, for more than a decade. The restaurant offers an expression of her life and mind in a tasting menu format. This week, she published a book--Manu: Recipes and Stories from My Brazil--that, like the restaurant, is a summation of herself and her cuisine to this point in her journey. While in New York City to celebrate the book's launch, Manu sat down with Andrew at the of...
Supporting Queer Cooks & Chefs with Rob Connoley (An Andrew Talks to Chefs Special Conversation)
April 19, 2023 19:57 - 35 minutes - 33.2 MBIn a recent, impassioned social media post, Rob Connoley, chef and owner of Bulrush restaurant in St. Louis, Missouri, lamented the continued unwelcoming environment many queer cooks face in the pro kitchen, and the limited opportunities for advancement and ownership available to even accomplished queer chefs. We invited Rob to return to the pod and expand on his thoughts and observations on this important subject. In this short but textured conversation Rob discusses lingering prejudices, w...
Episode 218: John Hong & Kat Hong (Yangban restaurant--Los Angeles, CA)
April 15, 2023 18:54 - 1 hour - 67.9 MBWhile in Los Angeles last month, Andrew had time for just one pod interview and tops on his list, based on an excellent dinner at their restaurant last fall, were John Hong & Kat Hong, chef-owners of Yangban (yes, they've dropped the "Society" from the name) in DTLA. In this comprehensive conversation, the couple discuss their respective biographies, how they met while working at Josiah Citrin's Mélisse restaurant, then moved to Christopher Kostow's The Restaurant at Meadowood in the Napa Va...
Episode 217: Travis Swikard (Callie restaurant, San Diego, CA)
April 14, 2023 14:07 - 1 hour - 66.6 MBIt's been nearly 2 years since Travis Swikard opened his smash success Callie in his hometown of San Diego, California. Prior to returning to his native state, he spent several years in New York City, several of them as chef of Daniel Boulud's Boulud Sud. Andrew and Travis have been pals for some time, so when he was in NYC in December, Travis paid a visit to Andrew's Brooklyn home to talk about what he's learned as a relatively new restaurant owner, finding his own style after years in the ...
Launching Greywind with Chefs Dan Kluger & Caitlin Giamario (An Andrew Talks to Chefs Special Conversation)
April 12, 2023 15:27 - 31 minutes - 29.6 MBOne of the pod's good friends, Chef Dan Kluger (Loring Place, et. al.), joins us today to discuss the genesis and development of his new Greywind restaurant, accompanied by Caitlin Giamario, the project's Executive Chef. Dan and Caitlin take us through the origin of the restaurant, which opens today, as well as its accompanying components (a bakery, chef's counter, and cocktail lounge), the challenges of opening at the tail end of a pandemic, and some favorite opening dishes. If you are in ...
Lunch with Barkha Cardoz (an Andrew Talks to Chefs Special Conversation)
March 25, 2023 17:42 - 42 minutes - 38.9 MBOn this date, the third anniversary of our losing chef Floyd Cardoz to COVID, we remember him and his legacy with his wife, Barkha Cardoz. A few weeks ago, Barkha generously invited Andrew to visit her home, even though they'd never met before, to enjoy a lunch prepared in part with the masalas she and Floyd developed several years ago (and which are still sold by Burlap & Barrell). Barkha shared her own personal journey to the restaurant world, and recalls how she and Floyd met in cooking s...
Episode 216: Ron Yan (Parcelle wine bar, NYC)
March 25, 2023 17:22 - 51 minutes - 47.3 MBAs executive chef of Parcelle wine bar in lower Manhattan, Ron Yan serves a menu informed by myriad cuisines and some of the places where he's lived around the world. In this conversation recorded outside the restaurant in late 2022, Ron describes his initial interest in food and cooking, his gravitation to New York City, and his experience in a range of New York restaurants, from the glitzy Le Cirque in MIdtown to the smaller and more intimate Jewel Bako and Degustation downtown. (As you'...
Meet (some of) the Women of MAPP (An Andrew Talks to Chefs Special Conversation)
February 28, 2023 06:50 - 33 minutes - 30.8 MBWhat began as a labor of love for documentarian and former journalist Joanna James--making the documentary A Fine Line, about her mother Val--turned into an organization, MAPP, that supports women in food organizations through mentorship and advocacy. After a recent kick-off event for their coast-to-coast programming and events for 2023 at New York City's Union Square Cafe, Joanna, Val, and three MAPP ambassadors/board members--Mo Carter, Amanda Mack, and Georgeann Leaming--gathered to discu...
Episode 215: Thomas Allan (The Modern, NYC)
February 25, 2023 18:55 - 1 hour - 71.9 MBThomas Allan, chef of New York City's The Modern, a Union Square Hospitality Group restaurant in the Museum of Modern Art, has achieved a lot in his thirty-five years. A young veteran of Per Se and Eleven Madison Park, and a former Bocuse d'Or competitor, he currently oversees a kitchen that has dependably earned two Michelin stars. In this deeply personal conversation, Thomas details a peripatetic childhood that found him living in England, Canada, and Texas by the time he reached high scho...
Cannabis on the Menu with Travis Peterson (An Andrew Talks to Chefs Special Conversation)
February 21, 2023 20:30 - 32 minutes - 30.5 MBTravis Petersen, a.k.a. The Nomad Cook, joins Andrew to discuss the rapidly evolving attitudes toward culinary cannabis, the growing culture of pop-up cannabis dinners and events, and what the future of cannabis in restaurants might look like. As the legal stance toward cannabis changes from state to state in the U.S., and country by country around the world, this is a fascinating conversation with a chef on the front lines of the movement. For details about/tickets to Travis' next Nomadic ...
Cannabis on the Menu with Travis Petersen (An Andrew Talks to Chefs Special Conversation)
February 21, 2023 20:30 - 32 minutes - 30.5 MBTravis Petersen, a.k.a. The Nomad Cook, joins Andrew to discuss the rapidly evolving attitudes toward culinary cannabis, the growing culture of pop-up cannabis dinners and events, and what the future of cannabis in restaurants might look like. As the legal stance toward cannabis changes from state to state in the U.S., and country by country around the world, this is a fascinating conversation with a chef on the front lines of the movement. For details about/tickets to Travis' next Nomadic ...
Getting the Band Back Together with Norman Van Aken of Orlando, Florida's Norman's restaurant (An Andrew Talks to Chefs Special Conversation)
February 11, 2023 16:40 - 25 minutes - 23.8 MBIt's a rare thing for a restaurant, even a beloved one, to be reconstituted years after its original iteration, let alone after two prior versions. This weekend, in Orlando, FL, the legendary Norman Van Aken introduces the third rendering of his landmark Norman's to the world. On this Andrew Talks to Chefs Special Conversation, Norman calls in from Orlando to discuss what's new about this Norman's, mingling the classic and the contemporary, whether or not he still experiences pre-opening ner...
Episode 214: Rob Connoley (Bulrush; St. Louis, MO)
February 10, 2023 19:21 - 1 hour - 70 MBOn a recent trip to New York City, Rob Connoley of St. Louis, MO's Bulrush restaurant, made time to sit down with Andrew and discuss his culinary career, which mingles elements of scholarship, history, and of course, cuisine. It all comes together at Bulrush, where he takes inspiration from the food and history of the Ozarks. We promise you: It's a fascinating conversation unlike any we've aired before. Settle in and enjoy! Andrew's next book The Dish: The Lives and Labor Behind One Plate o...