Why Food?
181 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsDo you daydream about dropping everything and opening a restaurant? Have you always wondered what it would be like to start your own line of condiments? So many trailblazers in the food world actually started their careers in entirely different fields. How did these folks decide to hit the brakes, start over, and become inspiring the chefs, entrepreneurs, farmers and activists they are today? Hear their stories and learn how you too can fulfill your food dreams. Join cohosts Vallery Lomas and Ethan Frisch on Why Food?
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Abena Foli: POKS Spices
August 05, 2021 22:42 - 41 minutes - 37.5 MBJoin us for a conversation with Abena Foli, who is the founder and co-owner of POKS Spices. Abena was born and raised in Ghana, West Africa, where she lived until 2006 when she immigrated to the United States for her college education. Her passion for food comes from her farmer-father who taught her how to blend spices and to understand the culinary heritage of cooking authentic West African meals. Abena’s food science background and 10 years of corporate food industry experience exposed he...
Reem Assil: Arab Street Food, California Style
July 22, 2021 22:37 - 42 minutes - 39 MBJoin us for a conversation with renowned chef and activist Reem Assil. Reem is a Palestinian-Syrian chef based in Oakland, CA, and owner of the nationally acclaimed Reem’s California in Oakland. The restaurant is Reem’s California Mission in San Francisco, inspired by Arab street corner bakeries and the vibrant communities that surround them. Reem has garnered an array of top accolades in the culinary world, including back-to-back James Beard Semifinalist nods for Best Chef: West. She is a ...
Ariana Tolka: Balkan Bites
July 15, 2021 23:31 - 35 minutes - 32.4 MBJoin us for a conversation with Ariana Tolka, CEO and co-founder of Balkan Bites. They specialize in comfort foods such as burek, a flaky, stuffed phyllo pie that is a daily staple in the Balkans and the Middle East. After years of working for marketing and non-profit organizations, she found her calling—to share and preserve Balkan culture with authentic family recipes that have been passed down through generations. If you count on HRN content, become a monthly sustaining donor at heritage...
Bobbie Garbutt: 4th Generation Nutmeg Farmer
July 08, 2021 21:56 - 39 minutes - 36.4 MBJoin us for a conversation with Bobbie Garbutt, live from Grenada! A 4th generation cocoa and spice farmer in Grenada, Bobbie didn't envision her career in agriculture. Kicking off working life as a production assistant for a fashion label in London, her curiosity about food systems led her to jump ship and start her own catering company before the pandemic brought it to a grinding halt. The extended time spent at home allowed her to rediscover the unique significance of her mother's family...
Samah Dada: Dada Eats
July 02, 2021 02:35 - 34 minutes - 31.7 MBJoin us for a conversation with Samah Dada! Samah is a New York City-based recipe developer, food photographer, and blogger behind Dada Eats. Drawing from her Indian heritage and inspired by the foodscapes of London, California, and New York, she is the host of Cooking with Samah Dada on the Today Show’s digital channel. Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network. Support Why Food? by becoming a member! Why Food? is Powered by Simplecast.
Margaret Nyamumbo: Kahawa 1893 Coffee
June 24, 2021 20:58 - 48 minutes - 44.2 MBJoin us for a conversation with Margaret Nyamumbo, founder of Kahawa 1893. Margaret is a third generation coffee farmer and grew up on a farm in Kenya before immigrating to the USA. After earning her MBA from Harvard, she went on to work on Wall Street when she rediscovered her passion for coffee. She founded Kahawa 1893 with a mission to close the gender gap in coffee. In Kenya, over 90% of labor in coffee comes from women, but they aren't fairly compensated because they don't own the land....
Preeti Mistry: Activist Chef
June 17, 2021 20:04 - 46 minutes - 42.1 MBJoin us for a conversation with Preeti Mistry, acclaimed chef, author and speaker and two time-nominatee by the James Beard Foundation for Best Chef of the West. They were the Co-Founder & Executive Chef of Navi Kitchen and Juhu Beach Club (both closed) as well as the co-author (with Sarah Henry) of The Juhu Beach Club Cookbook. Born in London and raised in the US, Preeti was a contestant on Top Chef Season 6 and has been featured in numerous publications including Food & Wine Magazine, NY T...
Ederique Goudia: Taste the Diaspora Detroit
June 10, 2021 22:12 - 40 minutes - 36.8 MBJoin us for a conversation with Ederique Goudia, the Detroit-based chef and entrepreneur. Ederique Goudia is the co-owner and Executive Chef of Gabriel Hall, a restaurant and music venue dedicated to celebrating the food, music, and culture of New Orleans, in the West Village community of Detroit. She also co-founded In the Business of Food, a consulting agency for women and POC-led food businesses. Ederique’s commitment to a more fair, sustainable, and equitable food economy was the corners...
Hetty McKinnon: To Asia with Love
June 03, 2021 21:53 - 50 minutes - 46 MBJoin us for a conversation with Hetty McKinnon, author of the new cookbook, To Asia with Love. Hetty is is a Chinese-Australian cook and food writer, based in Brooklyn, New York. She is the author of three other bestselling cookbooks: the best-selling Community, Neighbourhood, and the award-winning Family. Hetty is also the editor and publisher of multicultural food journal Peddler, and the host of the magazine’s podcast The House Specials. She is a regular recipe contributor to New York Tim...
Larissa Zimberoff: Technically Food
May 28, 2021 04:35 - 54 minutes - 49.8 MBJoin us for a conversation with journalist Larissa Zimberoff, author of the brand new book, Technically Food: Inside Silicon Valley's Mission to Change What We Eat, from Abrams Press. Larissa covers the intersection of food, technology, and business, and her work has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg Businessweek, Wired, and more. Larissa often presents on, moderates, and leads panels on food tech including at Stanford, reThink Food, Culinary Institute of Ame...
Yao Zhao: 50Hertz Sichuan Pepper
May 20, 2021 21:39 - 44 minutes - 40.6 MBJoin us for a conversation with Yao Zhao, founder of 50Hertz Sichuan Pepper. Born and raised in Chongqing, China, he is an economist and clean energy expert, and has worked in China, India, the Middle East, and currently in Washington DC. Yao started the company based on the belief that Sichuan pepper and its tingly numbing sensation will strike a chord with foodies everywhere. When Yao is not making Sichuan pepper oil, you'll find him trekking through the Pantanal in Brazil or along back ro...
Peter Reinhart: Pizza Quest
May 13, 2021 19:25 - 41 minutes - 38.4 MBJoin us for a conversation with Peter Reinhart, Chef on Assignment at Johnson & Wales University in Charlotte, NC. In addition to his role as a chef instructor in the Baking & Pastry program, Peter teaches a course on food media, and he is also the founder and executive director of the Johnson & Wales International Symposium on Bread. (www.breadsymposium.com) Peter is the author of 13 books on bread, food & culture, and is on a never-ending search for the perfect pizza. His books have won ...
Rob Dunn: Delicious
May 12, 2021 14:19 - 49 minutes - 44.9 MBJoin us for a conversation with Rob Dunn, professor of applied ecology and author of the new book Delicious, about the ways that flavor has influenced human evolution. The book is a fascinating look at how humans have always thought about flavor, and how our search for delicious things to eat has supported our evolution, contributed to our diverse cuisines and cultures, and driven interactions with our natural and built environments. Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit ...
Ann Armbrecht: The Business of Botanicals
May 07, 2021 02:09 - 39 minutes - 36.1 MBJoin us for a conversation with Ann Armbrecht, director of the Sustainable Herbs Program of the American Botanical Council, and author of the new book The Business of Botanicals. She is a writer and anthropologist (PhD, Harvard 1995) whose work explores the relationships between humans and the earth, most recently through her work with plants and plant medicine. She is the co-producer of the documentary Numen: The Nature of Plants, and the author of the award-winning ethnographic memoir Thin...
Alex Godin: Lemontree Foods
April 16, 2021 08:31 - 43 minutes - 39.6 MBJoin us for a conversation with Alex Godin, founder of Lemontree, a non-profit that helps hungry people find free food. He started his career when he was still in high school–dropping out to raise $1M in venture funding for his first startup. Since then he's organized a celebrity telethon with stars like Herbie Hancock and Judd Apatow, an adult summer camp, and the internet's premier destination for hand-painted oil paintings of emojis. Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprof...
Suresh Pillai & Carrie Dashow: Atina Foods
April 09, 2021 04:35 - 49 minutes - 45.5 MBJoin us for a conversation with Suresh Pillai and Carrie Dashow, the married co-founders of Atina Foods. They adapt traditional Ayurvedic recipes to incorporate global and locally available produce for their unusually delicious, fermented, and preserved condiments that help to balance your health and life. Based in Catskill, New York, Atina Foods' handcrafted condiments add flavor complexity in a simple spoonful to home-cooked plates throughout New York and beyond! Atina Foods Expands upon...
Sue Bette: Bluebird Barbecue
April 02, 2021 01:51 - 40 minutes - 37.2 MBJoin us for a conversation with Sue Bette, owner of Bluebird Barbecue in Burlington, Vermont. Sue is a James Beard Award-nominee and former educator who uses her restaurants to build a connection between food, health, and mental well-being. She is a member of the Leadership group of the Independent Restaurant Coalition, and the recent co-founder of Vermont Independent Restaurants, an emerging coalition to preserve and advance the VT restaurant industry faced with challenges from the COVID-19...
Andre Springer: Shaquanda Will Feed You
March 26, 2021 07:27 - 44 minutes - 41 MBJoin us for a conversation with Andre Springer, Founder of Shaquanda Will Feed You. Andre was born in the Bedford Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, NY, and is of Barbadian descent. Andre began performing in the streets and bars of NYC at the age of 20, with much of his art being the creation of his drag alter ego, Shaquanda Coca Mulatta. The body of Andre's work has been in performance, sculpture, and film. While manifesting his creative side he also spent 18 years in the restaurant indus...
Nicole Januarie: Januarie 1st Inc
March 18, 2021 23:45 - 47 minutes - 43.5 MBNicole Januarie is a Director/Producer of Vallery's new series, Vallery Bakes Your Questions, on Food Network. Nicole partners with brands and individuals to assess how to creatively communicate their message through strong and impactful content. After more than a decade of ideating, strategizing, producing, and directing videos for multi-million dollar brands and start-ups, Nicole has learned what truly drives conversations and moves individuals to an emotional connection. It's not masterin...
Nicole Januarie: Januarie 1st Productions
March 18, 2021 23:45 - 47 minutes - 43.5 MBNicole Januarie is a Director/Producer of Vallery's new series, Vallery Bakes Your Questions, on Food Network. Nicole partners with brands and individuals to assess how to creatively communicate their message through strong and impactful content. After more than a decade of ideating, strategizing, producing, and directing videos for multi-million dollar brands and start-ups, Nicole has learned what truly drives conversations and moves individuals to an emotional connection. It's not masterin...
Manal Kahi: Eat Offbeat
March 12, 2021 02:36 - 53 minutes - 48.9 MBJoin us for a conversation with Manal Kahi, co-founder and CEO of Eat Offbeat, a refugee-driven food company that delivers authentic eats & treats made by refugees who now call New York City home. Manal moved to NYC to pursue a career in environmental affairs, but the Hummus she found in grocery stores led her on a different journey. She founded Eat Offbeat to help New Yorkers discover authentic cuisines from around the world all the while creating quality jobs for talented refugees. Herita...
Deb Perelman: Smitten Kitchen
March 06, 2021 04:50 - 41 minutes - 38.3 MBJoin us for a conversation with Deb Perelman, author of the legendary blog Smitten Kitchen. Deb is a self-taught home cook, photographer, and the creator of smittenkitchen.com, as well as the author of the New York Times bestselling cookbooks "The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook" and "Smitten Kitchen Every Day." Deb lives in New York City with her husband and their two children. Photo Courtesy of Christine Han. Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network. Support Why ...
Heather Marold Thomason: Primal Supply Meats
March 02, 2021 03:08 - 53 minutes - 49.1 MBJoin us for a conversation with Heather Marold Thomason, butcher and owner of Primal Supply Meats. Primal Supply is a Philly-based butchery committed to whole animal practices and changing the local food system. Heather went from dance to graphic design to butchery, training in pasture-based livestock farming and whole animal butchery. In 2016, she founded Primal Supply Meats, a modern butchery and grocery. Photo Courtesy of Jillian Guyette. Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported n...
David Benzaquen: Mission Plant
February 19, 2021 04:54 - 40 minutes - 37.5 MBJoin us for a conversation with David Benzaquen, one of the world’s leading experts in the plant-based food industry and the founder of Mission: Plant, a holding company advancing the plant-based sector with strategic investments and consulting services. Prior to founding Mission: Plant, David spent nearly a decade leading a corporate strategy consulting firm for plant-based consumer products and founded one of the first plant-based seafood companies. He and his companies have been profiled ...
Paige Lipari: Archestratus Books + Foods
February 12, 2021 16:53 - 46 minutes - 42.2 MBJoin us for a conversation with Paige Lipari, local hero and owner/cook of Archestratus Books + Foods in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Lipari is a Sicilian-American poet, music maker, cartoonist, and cook. Her collection of poems, music, and illustrations, Family of Many Enzos, was published by Augury Books in 2012. She was previously an editor at A Public Space. She worked in many of NYC’s finest bookstores (McNally Jackson, Idlewild, and Housing Works Bookstore to name a few) before opening her ow...
Mark Bittman: Animal, Vegetable, Junk
February 05, 2021 04:18 - 52 minutes - 47.9 MBJoin us for a conversation with legendary food writer Mark Bittman to discuss his brand new book Animal, Vegetable, Junk, a history of food and humanity. Mark has been a leading voice in global food culture and policy for more than three decades. Born in New York City in 1950, Bittman began writing professionally in 1978. After five years as a general assignment reporter, he turned all of his attention to food. His first cookbook, Fish: The Complete Guide to Buying and Cooking, was published...
Claire Schlemme & Caroline Cotto: Renewal Mill
January 30, 2021 04:37 - 32 minutes - 29.9 MBJoin us for a conversation with Claire Schlemme and Caroline Cotto, Cofounders of Renewal Mill. Committed to finding solutions at the intersection of food, sustainability, and accessible nutrition, Renewal Mill is an award-winning startup creating a new circular economy of food by upcycling the byproducts of food manufacturing into premium ingredients & plant-based products. Their signature product is okara flour, made from the byproducts of tofu and soy milk manufacturing. Heritage Radio N...
Kiki Aranita: Poi Dog
January 22, 2021 07:00 - 39 minutes - 36.6 MBJoin us for a conversation with chef and entrepreneur Kiki Aranita. Kiki is co-chef and owner of Poi Dog, a Hawaiian restaurant and catering company that closed its Rittenhouse, Philadelphia location in July 2020. For years, her goals involved celebrating the underrepresented cuisines of multicultural origins as well as seeking to minimize food waste. She recently launched a line of bottled Poi Dog sauces inspired by Hawaiian cuisine and favorite dishes from her restaurant. She is also a wri...
Kate Sullivan: To Dine For
January 16, 2021 13:06 - 44 minutes - 40.3 MBJoin cohosts Vallery and Ethan for a conversation with Kate Sullivan. Kate is a four-time Emmy Award-winning journalist and creator/host of To Dine For on PBS. The show tells the story of creators and dreamers who have reached success through ingenuity and innovation. Their favorite restaurants become the backdrop for a passionate and fascinating conversation about life, success, and what it takes to pursue and achieve the American dream. Previously, Kate spent five years as the evening news...
Anjali Bhargava: Drink Resilience
December 17, 2020 21:31 - 36 minutes - 33.5 MBJoin us for a conversation with Anjali Bhargava, founder and CEO of Drink Resilience turmeric elixirs. A former portrait photographer, Anjali decided to launch her own turmeric power, sourcing fresh turmeric and dehydrating it with other fresh ingredients, and Resilience was born in 2015. Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network. Support Why Food? by becoming a member! Why Food? is Powered by Simplecast.
Yorm Ackuaku: esSence 13
December 10, 2020 21:09 - 46 minutes - 42.2 MBJoin us for a conversation with Yorm Ackuaku, the founder of esSense 13. A platform dedicated to raising the profile of African food globally, esSense 13 has hosted events including the African continent's first food hackathon, food business pitch competitions and dining experiences in Accra, New York City, Washington D.C. and London. A former CPA, Yorm graduated from Marquette University and holds an MBA degree from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management. In 2018, Yorm launc...
Zoe Adjonyoh: Zoe's Ghana Kitchen
December 03, 2020 20:24 - 42 minutes - 38.7 MBJoin us for a conversation with Zoe Adjonyoh, chef, author and food justice activist from London. Zoe is the founder of Zoe's Ghana Kitchen, the UK's first contemporary West African dining concept (2010) and has a cookbook by the same name published by Mitchel & Beazley (2017). Zoe is also the co-founder and the Creative Director of Black Book (blackbook-global.com) a platform for delivering true representation and diversity across the food industry and lives between New York and London. Zoe...
SOGA Design Collective: Photographing Food
November 29, 2020 21:37 - 36 minutes - 33.9 MBJoin us for a conversation with Sebastian & Guillermo, the duo behind acclaimed food photography studio SOGA Design Collective. SOGA Design Collective is a multidisciplinary design studio in Brooklyn, New York. The studio was conceived in Miami, Florida in 2008. SOGA makes music for your eyes. Their studio combines purposeful eclecticism and nuanced design to create colorfully charged compositions utilizing all disciplines. A Miamian at heart, Guillermo is a detail-oriented obsessive who see...
Barkha Cardoz: Making Masalas to Remember Floyd Cardoz
November 12, 2020 20:47 - 49 minutes - 45 MBJoin us for a conversation with Barkha Cardoz, wife of the late Chef Floyd Cardoz and architect of the new line of Floyd Cardoz Legacy Masalas in partnership with Ethan's spice company Burlap & Barrel. Barkha received her culinary training at The Institute of Hotel management in Mumbai, India and worked in the Development department at St. Peter’s Preparatory School in Jersey City, NJ. With her husband, she managed their Bombay Bread Bar in New York City from 2016 to 2019 and oversaw fundrai...
An Dao & Peter Wei: Tiger Sate
October 29, 2020 23:05 - 41 minutes - 37.9 MBJoin us for a converstaion with An Dao and Peter Wei, spouses and cofounders of Pantry by Nature and Tiger Sate. They both have a medical research background, but when work was halted during the pandemic, they decided to use this unexpected free time to launch Tiger Saté, a Vietnamese-style lemongrass chili sauce for health-conscious foodies. An grew up in Vietnam and learned cooking from my grandmother, from starting the wood stove to helping cook the family dinner. In Vietnam, everyday foo...
John DeBary: The Restaurant Workers Community Foundation
October 15, 2020 20:07 - 51 minutes - 47.1 MBJoin Vallery and Ethan for a conversation with John deBary, co-founder and board president of the Restaurant Workers Community Foundation, a nonprofit focused on improving the quality of life of hospitality employees. He got his start in the hospitality industry bartending in 2008 at PDT, the world-famous and James Beard Award-winning New York speakeasy. He joined the acclaimed Momofuku restaurant group a year later, where he was the group’s bar director until 2018. John is now the CEO and f...
Kristen Miglore: Genius Recipes
October 08, 2020 21:04 - 48 minutes - 44.4 MBJoin us for a conversation with Kristen Miglore, Founding Editor of the website Food52. Kristen abandoned a career in economics in 2007 to work in food media, tackling a master's degree in food studies from New York University and a culinary degree from the Institute of Culinary Education along the way. She is the author of the award winning cookbooks Genius Recipes and Genius Desserts. Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network. Support Why Food? by becoming a...
Tiffany Langston: Tiffany Tastes
September 24, 2020 20:15 - 49 minutes - 45.2 MBJoin us for a conversation with Tiffany Langston! Tiffany is a storyteller, content creator, and digital strategist with over a decade of experience at the intersection of the nonprofit and philanthropic sectors. She is on the board of Restaurant Workers’ Community Foundation and volunteers with the Human Rights Watch Film Festival, Rescuing Leftover Cuisine, and Meals on Wheels. She’s also a James Beard-nominated food writer, and in her spare time, she plays poker and figure skates. Herita...
Sylvie Charles & Liselle Pires: Just Date Syrup
September 17, 2020 20:53 - 48 minutes - 44.7 MBJoin us for a conversation with Sylvie Charles and Liselle Pires, founders of Just Date Syrup. Sylvie is a medical doctor who, after experimenting with low-sugar achaars and chutneys, turned the dates into a syrup, and realized she had struck on something powerful and decide to build a company around it. Liselle started her career in tech, and while at Microsoft, realized that she wanted to make a bigger impact on health - to shift how the masses thought about and consumed food every day. H...
Kim & Vanessa Pham: Omsom
September 10, 2020 19:22 - 48 minutes - 44.7 MBJoin 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’ aisles and increasingly inaccessible in everyday life. The New York-based Pham sisters have tapped the talents of estimable, iconic chefs to exclusively collaborate on each s...
Simone Cormier: Spices for Whole Foods
September 03, 2020 18:12 - 44 minutes - 41.2 MBJoin cohost Vallery and Ethan for a conversation with Simone Cormier, National Spice Coordinator for Allegro Coffee, a subsidiary of Whole Foods Market. Simone is a chef, writer, avid traveler and Whole Food's resident "spiceommelier" Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network. Support Why Food? by becoming a member! Why Food? is Powered by Simplecast.
Miro & Shilpa Uskokovic: Extra Helpings
August 27, 2020 22:05 - 53 minutes - 49.1 MBJoin Vallery and Ethan for a conversation with husband-and-wife pastry chef duo Miro & Shilpa Uskokovic. They met as students at The Culinary Institute of America, and when NYC restaurants closed because of COVID-19 restrictions, they launched Extra Helpings, a community micro kitchen from their home in Queens. We'll talk about the state of NYC's restaurant scene, entrepreneurship and pivoting during during a pandemic. Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network...
Loren Cardeli: Fighting for Farmers
August 20, 2020 19:18 - 51 minutes - 47 MBJoin Vallery and Ethan for a conversation with Loren Cardeli, Founder and President of A Growing Culture, an organization that promotes ecological agriculture across the globe. Loren believes the key to fixing our food system lies in giving farmers a prominent seat at the table–a seat that is currently threatened by the industrialization of agriculture. Through his work at AGC, Loren promotes farmer-led research, innovation, and knowledge sharing, helping farmers throughout the world create ...
Auria Abraham: Auria's Malaysian Kitchen
August 07, 2020 01:11 - 44 minutes - 40.7 MBJoin Ethan for a conversation with Auria Abraham, founder of Auria's Malaysian Kitchen. Auria was born and raised in the small town of Seremban, Malaysia where she grew up surrounded by multi-ethnic culinary inspiration and cuisine, a cornerstone of Malaysian culture. In the 22 years that she has been in the US, alongside an impressive career in music production for TV commercials. In 2013, Auria began working towards making authentic Malaysian food available to the American public. She lau...
Jenny Dorsey: Catching Up
July 30, 2020 19:57 - 48 minutes - 44.6 MBJoin cohosts Vallery and Ethan for a catch-up with former Why Food? cohost Jenny Dorsey. Jenny is a professional chef, author and speaker specializing in multi-platform storytelling fusing food with social good. She leads a nonprofit community organization named Studio ATAO and runs her own culinary consulting business. Jenny is a former management consultant and Columbia MBA who decided to completely pivot her career and pursue the world of food; she worked at various Michelin-starred resta...
Eric Adams: Brooklyn Borough President and Plant-Based Champion
July 23, 2020 21:03 - 30 minutes - 27.9 MBJoin co-hosts Vallery and Ethan for a very special conversation with Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams. Born and raised in Brownsville, Borough President Adams was drawn to a career in public service from an early age and had a 22-year career in the NYPD, rising to the rank of Captain. While in the NYPD, Adams was a leader of his fellow Black police officers and an outspoken critic of police violence. In 2016, while serving his first term as Brooklyn Borough President, Adams was diagnose...
Auzerais Bellamy: Blondery
July 16, 2020 20:12 - 46 minutes - 43 MBJoin Vallery & Ethan for a conversation with Auzerais Bellamy, pastry chef and founder of Blondery. Auzerais is classically trained pastry chef, the former pastry sous-chef at Thomas Keller's Bouchon Bakery. She trained at Per Se and Daniel in New York and The French Laundry in Napa Valley before launching Blondery, her seasonal blondie collection. Blondery is a nod to her experience in fine-dining and her modest beginnings as a home baker. In March, HRN began producing all of our 35 weekly...
Jennifer Crawford: My Queer Kitchen
July 09, 2020 22:55 - 45 minutes - 41.5 MBJoin cohosts Vallery and Ethan for a conversation with Jennifer Crawford. Jennifer has been cooking non-stop their whole life, especially since getting sober in early 2018 and subsequently winning MasterChef Canada in 2019. They're a desk jockey turned food writer, chef, aspiring pro wrestler, and moon mist ice cream enthusiast. In their My Queer Kitchen online show and column with Xtra Magazine, they focus on the intersections of food, feelings, identity and courage. In March, HRN began pr...
Adrian Miller: The Soul Food Scholar
July 02, 2020 20:18 - 38 minutes - 35.2 MBJoin cohosts Vallery and Ethan for a conversation with Adrian Miller, aka The Soul Food Scholar. He's a recovering lawyer and former special advisor to President Bill Clinton, who changed careers to pursue his interests in African heritage food (especially soul food), barbecue, the intersection of faith and food, and presidential foodways. He is the James Beard Award-winning author of Soul Food and The President's Kitchen Cabinet. In March, HRN began producing all of our 35 weekly shows fr...
Gaïana Joseph & Allegra Massaro: Food activism for Black Lives Matter
June 29, 2020 17:52 - 54 minutes - 50 MBJoin cohosts Ethan & Vallery for a conversation with Gaïana Joseph and Allegra Massaro, co-founders of Fuel the People, an organization in NYC and DC guided by the belief that food is the fuel for the revolution. They work to provide nourishment to protestors on the front lines, support local Black and POC-owned restaurants and businesses, and donate to local organizations who work tirelessly to support Black liberation. Allegra is a Philadelphia native currently living in Washington, DC. Sh...