Latest Andrew talks to chefs Podcast Episodes
Bringing the Culinary Past to Life with "The Taste of Things" Director Trần Anh Hùng (An ATTC Special Conversation)
Andrew Talks to Chefs - March 06, 2024 05:35 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 273 ratingsThe 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 ...
Mary Sue Milliken & Susan Feniger on Making a Difference (An ATTC Special Conversation)
Andrew Talks to Chefs - February 28, 2024 21:21 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 273 ratingsFriends 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 subst...
Remembering David Bouley: In His Own Words and Voice (previously unaired 2014 interview)
Andrew Talks to Chefs - February 17, 2024 21:17 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 273 ratingsThis 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 previ...
Episode 239: Max Natmessnig and Marco Prins (Chef's Table at Brooklyn Fare) on NYC Energy, Collaborative Cheffing, & Making the Final Every Night
Andrew Talks to Chefs - February 13, 2024 23:02 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 273 ratingsIn 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 colla...
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
Andrew Talks to Chefs - February 03, 2024 16:57 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 273 ratingsMIami'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 the...
Is "The Stuff" Enough? with Miami's Chef Michael Beltran (an Andrew Talks to Chefs Special Conversation)
Andrew Talks to Chefs - January 18, 2024 19:04 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 273 ratingsWhile 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 y...
Mentorship Panel #4: Nando Chang and Adriano Montano LIVE! from an On The Line Dinner in Miami (presented by S.Pellegrino)
Andrew Talks to Chefs - January 05, 2024 05:05 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 273 ratingsOur 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 bus...
Episode 237: Sam Hart (Counter-, Charlotte, NC)
Andrew Talks to Chefs - January 02, 2024 16:43 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 273 ratings**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 t...
Grilling the Author of The Dish, w/ Andrew Friedman, and guest host Chandra Ram (Food & Wine)
Andrew Talks to Chefs - December 18, 2023 18:46 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 273 ratingsFor 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...
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)
Andrew Talks to Chefs - December 15, 2023 19:19 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 273 ratingsCafe 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...
Episode 236: Eli Kulp (Chef & Host, Chef Radio Podcast)
Andrew Talks to Chefs - December 13, 2023 17:21 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 273 ratings**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 origina...
Mentorship Panel #3: Aaron Bludorn, Rebecca Masson, Jarrod Zifchak & Jared Adams LIVE! from an On the Line dinner in Houston (presented by S.Pellegrino)
Andrew Talks to Chefs - December 11, 2023 20:05 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 273 ratingsWe'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...
Episode 235: Lena Ciardullo (Union Square Cafe/NYC)
Andrew Talks to Chefs - November 29, 2023 05:05 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 273 ratingsSince 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 Andr...
Episode 234: Jason Hammel (chef-owner Lula Cafe/Chicago, IL & author Lula Cafe Cookbook)
Andrew Talks to Chefs - November 28, 2023 05:02 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 273 ratingsJason 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, ...
Episode 233: Tracy Malechek-Ezekiel (Birdie's--Austin, TX)
Andrew Talks to Chefs - November 14, 2023 21:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 273 ratingsWhile 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 fro...
Nancy Silverton on The Cookie That Changed My Life, her new book (An Andrew Talks to Chefs Special Conversation)
Andrew Talks to Chefs - November 11, 2023 01:18 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 273 ratingsThe 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...
Episode 232: Rob Rubba (Oyster Oyster--Washington, DC)
Andrew Talks to Chefs - November 08, 2023 16:21 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 273 ratingsOn 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...
Episode 231: Klancy Miller (Author, For The Culture: Phenomenal Black Women and Femmes in Food)
Andrew Talks to Chefs - October 10, 2023 00:36 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 273 ratingsAuthor 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, ...
Turning Food Loss into Fashion, with Terratela founder Natalia Burakowska (An Andrew Talks to Chefs Special Conversation)
Andrew Talks to Chefs - September 29, 2023 17:05 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 273 ratingsA 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...
For the Love of Hospitality with Ellen Yin (An Andrew Talks to Chefs Special Conversation)
Andrew Talks to Chefs - September 12, 2023 17:41 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 273 ratingsShortly 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 pla...
An Untapped Workforce? with Chef Franklin Becker, An Andrew Talks to Chefs Special Conversation
Andrew Talks to Chefs - August 24, 2023 20:33 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 273 ratingsMight 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 ...
Episode 230: Emily Swaine (Forsythia, NYC)
Andrew Talks to Chefs - August 23, 2023 18:17 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 273 ratingsAt 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 o...
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
Andrew Talks to Chefs - August 14, 2023 04:05 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 273 ratingsProfessional 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 Dono...
Episode 229: Marc Vetri (Vetri Cucina & others, in Philly & elsewhere)
Andrew Talks to Chefs - August 09, 2023 04:05 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 273 ratingsAfter 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 evo...
Episode 228: Amanda Shulman (Her Place & My Loup, Philadelphia, PA)
Andrew Talks to Chefs - July 24, 2023 18:49 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 273 ratingsA 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 successfu...
Episode 227: Ryan Bartlow (Ernesto's, NYC)
Andrew Talks to Chefs - July 17, 2023 14:18 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 273 ratingsAt 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 th...
Giving Media-Starved Restaurant Cities Their Due with Karla Walsh (An Andrew Talks to Chefs Special Conversation)
Andrew Talks to Chefs - July 08, 2023 20:42 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 273 ratingsHas 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 ...
Episode 226: Nasim Alikhani (chef & author of Sofreh)
Andrew Talks to Chefs - July 01, 2023 22:06 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 273 ratingsA 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 r...
Episode 225: Melissa Rodriguez (Al Coro, Mel's Pizzeria, and Discolo--NYC)
Andrew Talks to Chefs - June 24, 2023 19:59 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 273 ratingsChef 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, f...
Mentorship Panel 2: Kevin Boehm & Lee Wolen LIVE from an On the Line dinner in Chicago (presented by S.Pellegrino)
Andrew Talks to Chefs - June 22, 2023 21:44 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 273 ratingsWe'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 p...
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