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Episode 82: Chef Bill Telepan and Master Sommelier Hristo Zisovski
Food Talk with Mike Colameco
English - April 07, 2016 22:07 - 1 hour - 57.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsFood Arts Society & Culture food talk mike colameco heritage radio network chefs restaurants restaurant industry hospitality industry restauranteurs food writing wine Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
At the top of today's Food Talk with Mike Colameco, Mike speaks with Chef Bill Telepan of Telepan Restaurant on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Since 2008, he has been the Executive Chef of Wellness in the Schools (WITS), a non-profit organization dedicated to making school food healthy. As the first chef to join the WITS team, Bill has served as a leader of the WITS Cook for Kids program by developing nutritious school menus, training cafeteria workers and teaching culinary and nutrition concepts to students, parents and teachers. In 2009, Bill was honored with a selection to First Lady Michelle Obama’s Chefs Move to School task force and preliminary conferences.
In the second half, Mike is joined in the studio by Hristo Zisovski, an Advanced Sommelier based in New York City. Hristo spent seven years as Chef Sommelier of the three Michelin-starred Jean Georges. Under his tenure, the restaurant received the 2010 James Beard Foundation Award for Outstanding Wine Service. In November 2010, Hristo joined the Altamarea Group at Ai Fiori, and in 2014 he was named one of Food & Wine’s Sommeliers of the Year.