Our food series is ramping up with beloved celebrity chef, best-selling author, and mom of four, Melissa D’Arabian. Melissa was launched into the world of celebrity chef-dom by winning season 5 of “The Next Food Network Star” and started her first show, Ten Dollar Dinners. From there Melissa has gone on to write cookbooks, weekly columns, host webshows for t ... Show More
Sep 4
Adrienne Brodeur on Family Myths, Wounded People, and Honest Fiction
Description:Some families run on rules nobody ever wrote down. Here is your role. Here is what we talk about. Here is who gets forgiven and who gets blamed. We accept those terms as children, and then one day we look up and wonder who exactly signed us up for the job.August’s Jen ... Show More
48m 57s
Sep 2
Your Life Is the Assignment: Jen Hatmaker Solo Episode
Description:For twenty years, one question has followed Jen everywhere she goes: what am I supposed to be doing with my life? It comes in the comments, the voicemails, the line after every event. And for a long time, Jen answered it like a career question, as if somewhere out the ... Show More
56m 31s
Aug 28
Jodi Picoult on Banned Books, Buried Truths, and the Story Behind Hollow Bones
Description:Jodi Picoult is back, and she brought her thirtieth novel with her.If you have been in a book club at any point in the last thirty years, you know the name. Forty million copies in print. Thirty four languages. And, as of this year, the fourth most banned author in Am ... Show More
51m 19s
Feb 2025
797: Melissa Clark’s Deep Dive into Salt & Crystal Wilkinson on her Kitchen Ghosts
<p>This week, we talk to two award-winning authors about their latest work. First, The New York Times cooking columnist Melissa Clark talks to us about her deep dive into the world of salt. From exploring salt harvesting in France to the history and revival of artisanal salts, sh ... Show More
50m 19s
Sep 2023
Padma Lakshmi on Supertasting, Imposter Syndrome and What’s Sexy
From new in the nation to “Taste the Nation,” the no-nonsense author, host and activist has learned a bit about herself while teaching the rest of us about food. Plus: The secret to incredible romesco sauce. Recipe: Asparagus with Romesco Sales and distribution by Lemonada Media. ... Show More
47m 51s
Oct 2021
Food Justice & Mutual Aid with Melissa Acedera
We talk to organizer Melissa Acedera about her experience with Polo's Pantry, Home-y Made Meals, food justice, and the difference between charity and mutual aid.https://www.melissaacedera.com/https://polospantry.org/https://www.homeymademeals.com/ Learn more about your ad-choices ... Show More
33m 26s
Mar 2022
Carla Lalli Music: Cooking up Happiness!
Carla Lalli Music is an American chef, cookbook author, and YouTube personality. She is very well known for her appearances in the popular Back-to-Back Chef video series, which is how we met her. She had the privilege of cooking alongside both Chef Cracker AND Dr. Dill. But now C ... Show More
59m 11s
Sep 2024
Getting Cultural Appropriation in Food right, and how to learn instead of steal from traditional cooking methods with Mallika Basu
Mallika Basu is one of my absolute favourite people in food. Not only is she hilarious, she’s a writer, commentator and board adviser in food, drink and hospitality with two published cookbooks (Miss Masala: Real Indian Cooking for Busy Living and Masala: Indian Cooking for Moder ... Show More
47m 5s