Love Bites
88 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 5 years ago - ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsWhy and how do we love? Jacqueline Raposo and Ben Rosenblatt speak with authors, hospitality folks, psychologists, artists, and niche-based experts of all kinds in a humor-filled and heart-tugging examination of love in all its glorious, bewildering complexity. Every week, they get to the core of intimate moments that challenge what we think we know of love - experiences of loss, the growth that comes from new beginnings, the compromises and triumphs of long-term commitment, the loneliness of singledom - in hopes that the varying experiences of fascinating human beings can help them and others love more bravely and generously, every day. Tune in Mondays at 4pm ET on Heritage Radio Network. www.LoveBitesRadio.com and on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram as @lovebitesradio.
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Episode 38: Violence Against Women with the Living Lotus Project
July 11, 2016 20:04 - 40 minutes - 36.8 MBOn today's show, we're joined by Laura Gosheff and Julia Peterson of the Living Lotus Project. Their show, Phoenix Rising (playing off-Broadway at the Lion Theatre through July 16th), tracks the stories of five young girls working through violence done upon them by the family and friends in their lives, and the counselor helping them "find their fire." Gosheff is the writer and director of the piece; Peterson one of the six actors, and a core member of Living Lotus. We discuss the origin st...
Episode 37: Sugar Flowers and Gay Weddings with Ron Ben-Israel
June 27, 2016 20:34 - 41 minutes - 38.1 MBWeddings are magical, and many people dream of that singular day from a young age. Pastry chef Ron Ben-Israel and his team at Ron Ben-Israel Cakes play a fundamental role in that celebration for their clients, creating massive cakes with cascading sugar flowers, models of New York's most iconic buildings, and pretty much anything else their hearts desire, layered with artistry, geometry, architecture, traditional, precision, and love. On today's show, Ron shares what he's learned from this ...
Episode 36: J Embarks on a Social Media Cleanse and Food & The City author Ina Yalof
June 20, 2016 20:12 - 35 minutes - 32.6 MBWe're on a food-obsessed radio station, with shows solely focused on cheese, farming, Japanese food, hospitality, food tech, school food programs... you name it. We take a slightly broader approach on Love Bites, focusing on a breadth of relationships in the food field: between our minds and how we feed our bodies, between diners and restaurant staff, and between what we're cooking and where it came from etc.. On today's show, we welcome author Ina Yalof, whose recently-released Food & The...
Episode 35: Yeehaw for Texas!
June 13, 2016 20:22 - 36 minutes - 33.6 MBYeehaw for Texas! Today is our first Love Bites on the Road show! Jacqueline recently traveled to San Antonio for the Culinaria festival, asking folks in food and drink at restaurants, bars, wineries, boutique hotels, and the barbecue and Grand Tasting events at Culinaria how they love and eat well in Texas. She picked brains about first dates, what people are looking for in their love lives, how they seduce through food, and what their favorite date restaurants are in the city they adore s...
Episode 34: Feed Your Body What It Wants! with Chef Ariane Resnick
June 06, 2016 20:07 - 34 minutes - 31.9 MB"Last season, private chef and nutritionist Ariane Resnick came on our Ladies Who Lyme show to talk about how Lyme disease and chemical poisoning affected more than just her health. On that episode, she started to get into intuitive eating -- how she guides clients to listening to what their bodies want them to eat rather than prescribing a "diet" that's "good for their condition". Today, Ariane returns to delve into this idea more fully. How do we calm our minds enough to listen to our bodi...
Episode 33: Traveling Solo and Pushing Personal Limits with Kristin Newman!
May 23, 2016 20:31 - 36 minutes - 33.9 MBThere's something to be said about being single in your thirties. There's the rush of not knowing who you're gonna kiss next, and the freedom to do whatever the hell you want whenever the hell you want. But looking for your counterpoint on the Earth can be exhausting and annoying, too. On today's show, we explore this dichotomy. What romantic wins from the last six weeks – the last time the two of us were together live in the studio before Ben took off to perform in Maine – can we celebrate...
Episode 32: Nailing a First Impression with Kim-from-L.A.!
May 16, 2016 20:47 - 35 minutes - 32.6 MBToday's show marks the second in our series, OUR BODIES, OURSELVES, where we explore the connection between what we want from life, and how to get it in the bodies we live in. What kinds of impressions do we want to make on a date, and what's most important about how a date presents themselves to us off the bat? How do we think we're presenting our best selves, and what might the reality look like from the other side of the table? We discuss what these questions mean to us personally and th...
Episode 31: Building Better Bartender Bodies with Marcia Polas and Ba'sik's Russell Dillon!
May 09, 2016 19:53 - 36 minutes - 33.6 MBSome jobs are just more physical than others. Actors, dancers, chefs and bartenders beat the shit outta our bodies doing what we love. But we don’t have to. Today's show is the first in our OUR BODIES, OURSELVES series, where we explore how our bodies can help or harm our work and how they affect our romantic relationships. Joined by returning guest co-host chef Daniel Holzman, we discuss the physicality of kitchen work, and how your body changes with many years spent over a hot stove. Then...
Episode 30: Going to An Ex's Wedding! with Wedding Officiate Daniel Neiden
May 02, 2016 20:27 - 35 minutes - 32.8 MBGoing to an Ex's Wedding: Sweet and supportive -- or scary and just plain weird?! On today's show, we share our craziest weddingscapades, then dig into the deep stuff: When you're going to an ex's wedding, what do you want to happen, and what should be prepared for in case it happens without your instigation? Hopefully, Ben's insight from being on the male side of a bridal party where an ex was the bride will fortify Jacqueline for when she watches her first boyfriend get married, showered b...
Episode 29: How To Be Friends with an Ex, and the Men of Jarry Magazine!
April 25, 2016 21:16 - 36 minutes - 33.1 MBCan you really be friends with an ex? What challenges arise when romance shifts to platonic affection? And if you’re fighting hard to keep the friendship going, are you truly over the loss of the mate? On this week’s show, Jacqueline discusses the intricacies of being friends with an ex with her guest co-host, Jonathan Wiener, who’s currently struggling with how to be friends with the man who hurt his heart. What steps does he need to complete to get himself to a better place? And since Jac...
Episode 28: Why It's AWESOME Being Single, with Shari Bayer
April 04, 2016 20:59 - 38 minutes - 35.5 MBWe've spent a lot of time on this show talking about how hard dating is in your thirties and, according to Shari Bayer, it doesn't get a whole lot easier once you've slipped into your fourth decade. But as we celebrate the final show of our second season, we're lightening it up a bit and discussing why it's awesome to be a single professional in New York City, and why coupled up kids should be jealous of all the things we can do that they can't. So for today's show sit back, singletons, and...
Episode 27: Food and Books and Dating, Oh My! with the ladies of the Food Book Fair
March 28, 2016 20:37 - 39 minutes - 36 MBFood is sexy. Books are sexy. So a fair about food and books? Super sexy. On this week's show, Jacqueline and Ben go old-school Love Bites, reconnecting on their past month of insanity with Jacqueline's dating conundrums (break-offs and flirting and abstinence, oh my!) and Ben's having gone off to Paris to perform in a surrealist play in Yiddish...which he doesn't really speak. Then they're joined by Amanda Dell and Kimberly Chou, the directors of the Food Book Fair coming up May 1st and 2...
Episode 26: Ladies Who Lyme: Exploring Illness and Relationships with Allie Cashel, Erica Lupinacci, and Chef Ariane Resnick
March 21, 2016 21:11 - 37 minutes - 34.7 MBDating is hard enough, and we all bring baggage into new relationships. For some, baggage comes in the form of an illness that leaves you with little power over how your body moves in the world. On today's show, Jacqueline and Ben are joined by Allie Cashel and Erica Lupinacci, the co-founders of Suffering the Silence, an online community supporting the struggles of millions of Americans who live with chronic illnesses like Lyme disease, Lupus, Crohn's disease and others. They discuss the b...
Episode 25: THIS Is Why You’re Single! With guest co-host Chef Daniel Holzman and writers/comedians Laura Lane and Angela Spera
March 14, 2016 20:50 - 36 minutes - 33.9 MBPondering why you’re single? Well, you could peruse the Self Help section of Barnes and Noble (if you can find one still standing), spending your hard-earned dough on stacks of weepy books about how you’ve gotta Get Out There, Girl! or why life is really better without a mate. Or….. you could laugh it off. Which is what Angela Spera and Laura Lane want you to do by seeing their sketch show, reading their book, or listening to their podcast. So this week, we’ve got the THIS IS WHY YOU’RE SING...
Episode 24: The Handsome Actors Show! Talking Art, Love, and Other Deep Shit with Jonathan Wiener and Joel Ruben Ganz
March 08, 2016 00:09 - 44 minutes - 40.6 MBOn today’s show, Jacqueline grills Ben and their guests, Jonathan Wiener and Joel Ruben Ganz, about the challenges of being a professional actor in your thirties, and the strain it puts on all sorts of relationships. How do you commit when you’ll cross the country for months for a good gig? How do the fluctuations of artistic fulfillment (and their often pathetic paychecks) affect confidence in dating? What sacrifices to personal relationships are made for the sake of art? And how does all t...
Episode 23: Soulmates at Sixteen with Chef Thiago Silva
February 29, 2016 21:49 - 37 minutes - 34 MBWhat is relationship baggage, and how responsible are we for losing it before we start something new? On today’s show, hosts Jacqueline and Ben explore the experiences that stay with us from one dating relationship to another, and how we can move on from it. Should we wait until we’re fully ready to immerse ourselves in someone new? How open should we be with a potential mate about negative experiences we may still be holding onto? And what does it take to really, truly get over someone? The...
Episode 22: Romance in the Public Food Sphere with Leiti Hsu
February 22, 2016 22:08 - 39 minutes - 36 MBNowadays, working in the food world does not equal a private life. Chefs are no longer chained to their stoves, critics have lost their anonymity, and writers can’t hide behind their computer screens. Instead, we all charge our Instagram posts and Twitter feeds with salacious words and images, paired with hashtags that will get us even more exposure. But how does this affect dating and finding love? On today’s show, Jacqueline and Ben discuss how exploring relationships on Love Bites is affe...
Episode 21: Love Drunk: Online Dating Fails by the Numbers, and Exploring Mouton Noir Wines with Andre Mack
February 15, 2016 21:54 - 44 minutes - 40.5 MBWhat happens when you send out almost 40 online dating messages in one week? Oftentimes, nothing. On today’s show, Jacqueline and Ben share their insights, lessons learned, and greatest takeaways from critically looking at online dating correspondence. Then they’re joined be Andre Mack, owner of Mouton Noir Wines and former sommelier at Thomas Keller’s The French Laundry and Per Se. As the #1 African American winemaker in the country, they discuss minority representation in the hospitality w...
Episode 20: First Comes Sex… Then Comes Marriage… Maybe
February 08, 2016 22:11 - 42 minutes - 38.8 MBIt’s our VERY FIRST VALENTINE’S DAY SHOW! And in celebration, we’re getting cozy in the studio… just the two of us. First, we tackled some super serious questions that experts (pulled together by the New York Times) suggest every couple face before a potential walk down the aisle. What do they tell us about our compatability as friends, and how might they help those taking a very serious step. Then we hit up the stinky side of sex: the kinds that get into your sheets, saturate your mattress,...
Episode 19: Unrequited: When Love Turns into Obsession
February 01, 2016 22:06 - 41 minutes - 38.5 MBWe’ve all experienced some sort of unrequited love; pining over someone who doesn’t quite realize the romantic possibilities we can so clearly see. But what happens when affection turns into obsession? When our desires have so much control over us that we can’t see the world clearly? On today’s show, we talk about our own experiences with unrequited love, and how periods of longing teach us how to love ourselves and others more securely. Then we’re joined by Lisa Phillips, whose book Unrequi...
Episode 18: The End of Small Talk!
January 25, 2016 21:50 - 38 minutes - 35.3 MBAfter subsequent shows on embracing our imperfections, facing our relationship patterns and moving boldly into the future with that knowledge at hand, it’s time for the team to apply what we’ve learned to our dating lives. So in our first segment, we catch up on our recent dating scenes, and discuss a shared hatred: boring first-date conversations (which, fittingly, was the subject of last week’s Modern Love column). How can we be bolder in sparking engaging conversations? How can we apply w...
Episode 17: Why We Didn’t Work – Part Two: Therapist Diana Gasperoni on Jacqueline’s Communication with her Exes
January 18, 2016 22:02 - 36 minutes - 33.2 MBWhen you were in your last relationship, were you always honest with your feelings? Did you relay them openly to your partner? What about while breaking up? Has the story about why you broke up changed with some and hindsight, and could you be more honest with that ex now than maybe you were during the time you were together? On last week’s show, therapist Vienna Pharaon guided Ben through some patterns that came to light in his correspondence with two of his ex-girlfriends. Today, Diana Gas...
Episode 16: Why We Didn’t Work – Part One: Therapist Vienna Pharaon on Ben’s Exes
January 11, 2016 21:46 - 38 minutes - 34.9 MB“Breaking up is hard to do,” goes the old Neil Sedaka song. But when you’ve got a radio show about establishing new and long-lasting relationships, sometimes you’ve got to push past any lingering “what ifs?” and get to the root of the issue. So on today’s show, Ben presents a list of questions he’s asked a few of the past women in his life: Why did they breakup? What did and didn’t work about them as a couple? What do they think of when they think of him now? And do they have any regrets? Gu...
Episode 15: It’s Not You! You’re Single in Your Thirties? Enjoy It!
January 04, 2016 21:58 - 38 minutes - 35.2 MBFor our first show of the new year and to kick off our second season (!), we’re recapping what we learned about dating in 2015 and setting dating goals for the upcoming year. Then we’re joined by It’s Not You author Sara Eckel, whose book dispels 27 myths single women have thrust at them constantly. Are you too negative, too liberated, too picky, too intimidating or too desperate? Do you “not really want a relationship” or should you “have married that guy”?! Find out what Sara’s learned fro...
Episode 14: Dating Cliches – Break ‘Em Down!
December 14, 2015 22:05 - 42 minutes - 39.1 MBWe welcome back Antony Raymond of Elsinore County and Andrew McLeod of Union Beer – the guests on our two unaired pilots – for our last show of 2015! In a festive and celebratory mode, we talk what we’re drinking and eating this week, and then break down some dating cliches to get at the root of their truth. Is it better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all? Do you only find love when you stop looking? Or do you have to be out in the light in order to have love find you? He...
Episode 13: Boss Talks (Love) Shop with Erin Fairbanks
December 07, 2015 21:57 - 41 minutes - 37.6 MBWe’re all for crazy love. The kind that kisses and consumes you. The kind the flames quickly and dies, and the kind that burns on embers indefinitely. There is no right kind of way to love (well, stalking and dangerous stuff aside, of course). Loving is loving, and we wanna hear stories of it in all forms. Which is why we’ve asked Heritage Radio’s own Erin Fairbanks to join us on the show. Erin once shared a story with us of discovering a boyfriend’s insanely dark, hidden secret… and stayin...
Episode 12: Let’s Talk About Sex, Baby! (And the Filmmakers Behind OFFLINE DATING, Too!)
November 30, 2015 22:01 - 40 minutes - 36.8 MBSometimes you have sex, sometimes you don’t. Sex can be one thing in your twenties, another in your thirties, and a new thing entirely depending on the person you’re having sex with. So what does sex mean to our hosts right now, today? Jacqueline and Ben share what having (or not having) sex does for them at the present moment, and what they hope for the future. Then they’re joined by Samuel Abrahams and Tom Greaves, the filmmaker and lead of the short film, Offline Dating. How did Samuel fe...
Episode 11: When Food Work Goes Foul: Breaking Up Sucks!
November 23, 2015 21:42 - 35 minutes - 33 MBThis week, Jacqueline swaps her general positivity for crank (as she wrote recently for BlogHer). So Ben grills her about dates canceling the day of, how ghosting is socially acceptable now, and how singletons keep their cool with friend after friend pairs off and disappears. What can we be doing to date better, or at least own our being single? Then they’re joined by Jesse Hirsch, the editor of Edible Manhattan and Edible Brooklyn. He recently ended a 6-year relationship… because of his job...
Episode 10: Food and Babies: Can You Make Both and Stay Sane?
November 16, 2015 22:13 - 38 minutes - 35.2 MBOn today’s show, Jacqueline and Ben talk confidence. How do you own it on a first date? In a relationship? Where is the line between confidence and ego? And is “owning yourself” enough? Then they’re joined by Lauren Resler, the pastry chef of Empellon restaurant and the mothers to 9-month old Jaxon Alexander Stupak, the #TacoPrince! She dishes about the challenges of motherhood in the industry, and how it’s a little different for women than men. Listen up, ladies. “I’m happy to say that I’m...
Episode 9: Second Dates or No Dates at All? Dating in Your Thirties, Man!
November 09, 2015 21:51 - 35 minutes - 32.4 MBOn last week’s show, Ben prepared for a date with a woman he’d been hooked up with via a listener! Was he more or less nervous? Where was he gonna take her? This week, we get the scoop on how it went, and how a first date moves on (or doesn’t) to a second. Then the team is joined by Lisa Mendelson, the Senior PR Manager for design and restaurant group, AvroKo. Lisa (single) shares why she’s okay NOT dating right now, and how handling publicity for a super-creative group affects whether or no...
Episode 8: The Lady Writers Show! Exploring the Delicious and Destructive Collisions of Work and Love
November 02, 2015 21:28 - 38 minutes - 35.6 MBOn today’s show, Jacqueline and Ben explore how putting a call out to listeners for dates has manifested in ACTUAL DATES, and the benefits of getting setup by friends. How does it work? DOES it work? What can we gain from going offline and letting friends of friends set us up?! Then, they’re joined by Jamie Feldmar and Sarah Zorn, two local food writers. Jamie’s single, Sarah’s married, but neither of them are immune to the pressures a very social work life puts on the absence or existence o...
Episode 7: Chef versus Manager or Brother versus Sister? Dating and Dining When You Work with Your Sibling
October 26, 2015 21:13 - 36 minutes - 33.2 MBLast week, Jacqueline published an article on Cosmopolitan about why she doesn’t want kids, and how that doesn’t make her any less of a woman or partner. So on today’s eposide, the team delves into how kids play into the dating scene: when do you bring up that you do or don’t want them? Would you date someone with kids? How does this change as we grow older? They pull in some thoughts from readers and listeners, too. Then they’re joined by Will and Julie Horowitz, the chef/manager – brother/...
Episode 6: Food Whore: Author Jessica Tom Unveils the Food Industry’s Dark Underbelly
October 19, 2015 20:42 - 33 minutes - 30.3 MBAuthor Jessica Tom’s debut novel, Food Whore, takes readers on a ride through the sexy, messy underbelly of the NYC food scene. Hosts Jacqueline and Ben pick her brain about how much of the scraping and clawing she shares come from real life experiences, as well as what she learned from two years of working at the dating app, How About We… “Nothing about love really shocks me anymore.” [19:30] “I think my book is a lot about the scene of New York and being cool and knowing the hottest plac...
Episode 5: Hi, Anxiety: Overcoming Angst in Love and in Food with Kat Kinsman
October 12, 2015 21:22 - 38 minutes - 35 MBKat Kinsman is the Editor of Tasting Table and the author of the upcoming book – Hi, Anxiety – that’s coming out in April. She shares her own history with overcoming anxiety as a New York food writer, and hosts Jacqueline and Ben chime in with how anxiety has affected their dating and dining lives on this episode of Love Bites. This program was brought to you by Fire Cider.
Episode 4: Ecstacy and Agony: Co-Owning a Restaurant With Your Spouse!
October 05, 2015 20:57 - 38 minutes - 35.1 MBWe talk with Ben’s former employer, Abigail Hitchcock about running her restaurant with her spouse and the romantic encounters she’s witnessed in her cozy French Bistro, Camaje. Abby also shares the meaning behind the name, Camaje, and the stories of the three men who inspired it. “My feeling is if you want to maintain any kind of relationship then go for it, and if you don’t, then don’t!” [21:00] –Abigail Hitchcock on Love Bites
Episode 3: Making Your Own Wedding Cake: Super Sweet or Super Scary?
September 28, 2015 20:43 - 36 minutes - 33.4 MBTune in as we get an update on Ben’s most recent date as Jacqueline plays devil’s advocate while discussing the dating euphoria versus the dating reality. Later, Colicchio and Sons pastry chef Stephen Collucci joins in! He made his own wedding cake, and last year guided host Jacqueline with making one, too. On this episode, he shares tricks of the trade for making your special day simply sweet. “For me and my dating life, [food] is a big thing!” [30:00] –Stephen Collucci on Love Bites
Episode 2: “Chef Sluts”: Who Comes Out On Top?
September 21, 2015 20:45 - 34 minutes - 31.5 MBIn this episode of Love Bites, hosts Jacqueline Raposo and Ben Rosenblatt debate why the process of finding love online can be so exhausting, and why women should feel more empowered to talk about sex without shame. Then chef Shane Lyons of New York’s Distilled joins to spill about how hard cooking professionally is on heart, and whether those women hanging around the chef’s counter are there for the food… or to take home to the man under the toque. “I don’t have a plan about how I’m going ...
Episode 1: Virgola is Dripping Wet… With Wine
September 14, 2015 21:02 - 34 minutes - 31.7 MBVirgola owner, Joseph Marazzo, is taking over the city with his super sexy, intimate wine and oyster bars. On this episode of Love Bites, hosts Jacqueline Raposo and Ben Rosenblatt are talking with him about scandalous romances in his bar, plus why he doesn’t kiss too close to home. This program was brought to you by Heritage Foods USA. “I’ve spent the night with a fraction of the ones that I could have!” [23:23] –Joseph Marazzo on Love Bites