Joe Ray recounts his experience co-authoring the book Sea and Smoke: Untamed Flavors from the Pacific Northwest with famed genius chef, Blaine Wetzel, as we sip a most unusual broth. Joe is an award-winning widely published food and travel writer who regularly contributes to … [Read more...] about Season 1: Episode 6 – Joe Ray

Joanne Weir talks about the unexpected turns her culinary life took as part of a discussion about her seventeenth book(!), Kitchen Gypsy: Recipes and Stories from a Lifelong Romance with Food (Sunset). Our fun, engaging conversation wanders from her early days at Chez Panisse to … [Read more...] about Season 1: Episode 5 – Joanne Weir

Dan Jurafsy is a professor of linguistics and computer science at Stanford University. He has all kinds of impressive academic credentials, but what I brought him into my kitchen to discuss was his fascinating book, The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu (W.W. … [Read more...] about Season 1: Episode 4 – Dan Jurafsky

I've long been a fan of Darra Goldstein. After all, it takes guts to write a love letter of a cookbook to a country with which your own has been in a Cold War for decades. But in 1987, that's exactly what Goldstein did. After spending time in the Soviet Union, she fell in love … [Read more...] about Season 1: Episode 3 – Darra Goldstein

In episode three of season 1, I talked with Andrea Nguyen, author of several books, including the classic Into The Vietnamese Kitchen. We talked for more than an hour and a half on a wide variety of subjects. In the edited version, we discussed the origin of pho (plus how to … [Read more...] about Season 1: Episode 2 – Andrea Nguyen