Latest Why food Podcast Episodes
Yorm Ackuaku: esSence 13
Why Food? - December 10, 2020 21:09 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsJoin 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, Ne...
Zoe Adjonyoh: Zoe's Ghana Kitchen
Why Food? - December 03, 2020 20:24 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsJoin 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 c...
SOGA Design Collective: Photographing Food
Why Food? - November 29, 2020 21:37 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsJoin 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. T...
Barkha Cardoz: Making Masalas to Remember Floyd Cardoz
Why Food? - November 12, 2020 20:47 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsJoin 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 an...
An Dao & Peter Wei: Tiger Sate
Why Food? - October 29, 2020 23:05 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsJoin 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 lemo...
John DeBary: The Restaurant Workers Community Foundation
Why Food? - October 15, 2020 20:07 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsJoin 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 wo...
Kristen Miglore: Genius Recipes
Why Food? - October 08, 2020 21:04 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsJoin 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 ...
Tiffany Langston: Tiffany Tastes
Why Food? - September 24, 2020 20:15 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsJoin 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...
Sylvie Charles & Liselle Pires: Just Date Syrup
Why Food? - September 17, 2020 20:53 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsJoin 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 a...
Kim & Vanessa Pham: Omsom
Why Food? - September 10, 2020 19:22 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsJoin 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 grocer...
Simone Cormier: Spices for Whole Foods
Why Food? - September 03, 2020 18:12 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsJoin 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 pod...
Miro & Shilpa Uskokovic: Extra Helpings
Why Food? - August 27, 2020 22:05 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsJoin 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...
Loren Cardeli: Fighting for Farmers
Why Food? - August 20, 2020 19:18 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsJoin 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 cu...
Auria Abraham: Auria's Malaysian Kitchen
Why Food? - August 07, 2020 01:11 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsJoin 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 h...
Jenny Dorsey: Catching Up
Why Food? - July 30, 2020 19:57 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsJoin 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 culi...
Eric Adams: Brooklyn Borough President and Plant-Based Champion
Why Food? - July 23, 2020 21:03 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsJoin 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...
Auzerais Bellamy: Blondery
Why Food? - July 16, 2020 20:12 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsJoin 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 befor...
Jennifer Crawford: My Queer Kitchen
Why Food? - July 09, 2020 22:55 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsJoin 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, a...
Adrian Miller: The Soul Food Scholar
Why Food? - July 02, 2020 20:18 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsJoin 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 ...
Gaïana Joseph & Allegra Massaro: Food activism for Black Lives Matter
Why Food? - June 29, 2020 17:52 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsJoin 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 Bl...
Jesse Szewczyk: Pride Cooking
Why Food? - June 18, 2020 19:46 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsJoin cohosts Vallery and Ethan for a conversation with Jesse Szewczyk, food writer and author of the cookbook Tasty Pride! We'll discuss his career in food media, his thoughts on the ongoing shifts in the industry and the complicated history of Queer advocacy and allyship in the larger struggle ...
Rochelle Oliver: New Food Media
Why Food? - June 11, 2020 22:01 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsJoin cohosts Vallery and Ethan for a conversation with Rochelle Oliver, founder and editor of IslandAndSpice.com, an online magazine about food, culture and the Caribbean. HRN will be donating 10% of our membership drive proceeds from now until June 15 to the Philando Castile Relief Foundation....
Vallery & Ethan: A brief conversation
Why Food? - June 04, 2020 20:37 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsIn the days after George Floyd’s death, cohosts Vallery and Ethan sit down for a conversation about the Black Lives Matter movement, the role of food businesses in making change, and opportunities for anti-racist education and accountability. As black squares cover our social media feeds and cor...
Stephen Satterfield: From wine to Whetstone
Why Food? - June 03, 2020 17:19 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsJoin Vallery and Ethan for a conversation with Stephen Satterfield, cofounder of Whetstone Magazine. A self-proclaimed "origin forager, Stephen is a food writer, multimedia producer, podcast host (Point of Origin on iHeartRadio), and a sommelier in recovery. Why Food is powered by Simplecast.
Zaid & Haifa Kurdieh: NYC's Favorite Farmers
Why Food? - May 26, 2020 20:51 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsJoin co-hosts Vallery and Ethan for a conversation with Zaid and Haifa Kurdieh, owners of Norwich Meadows Farms. We'll discuss the long road to starting their farm, how they've grown (literally and figuratively) a market for rare and special vegetables, and how they've pivoted since COVID-19 shu...
Steve Sando: King of Heirloom Beans
Why Food? - May 07, 2020 21:46 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsJoin Vallery & Ethan for a conversation with Steve Sando, founder of Rancho Gordo. Steve's career has spanned radio, writing and restaurants before he found his way to launching Rancho Gordo. His business has a cult following and changed the way that Americans think about beans. Image courtesy ...
Simran Bindra
Why Food? - April 30, 2020 20:42 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsJoin Ethan & Vallery for a conversation with Simran Bindra, co-founder of Kokoa Kamili. Kokoa Kamili, based in Tanzania, is one of the world's best cacao companies, emphasising ethical sourcing and exceptional beans. They supply many of the US' most highly regarded chocolate makers, including Da...
Laurie Woolever
Why Food? - April 23, 2020 20:24 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsJoin co-hosts Ethan and Vallery for a conversation with Laurie Woolever, food writer and editor. For nearly a decade, Laurie was the right-hand to author, TV host and producer Anthony Bourdain, with whom she co-authored the cookbook Appetites. She co-hosts a podcast, Carbface for Radio, with Chr...
Bryan Ford: From Accounting to Artisan Baking
Why Food? - April 17, 2020 21:15 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsJoin co-hosts Vallery and Ethan for a conversation with the baker Bryan Ford (recorded pre-coronavirus, but so relevant today!) Bryan shares his story of leaving accounting to become a baker, incorporating his roots and family background into his breads, and some of the challenges of becoming a ...
Alexander Smalls: From Opera Singer to Restaurateur
Why Food? - April 09, 2020 23:50 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsAlexander Smalls is a James Beard Award winning chef, author, and raconteur, and the visionary co-owner of renowned restaurants Minton’s and The Cecil, which was named “Best New Restaurant in America” by Esquire in 2014. His new book,"Meals, Music and Muses: Recipes From My African American Kitc...
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