Kochleffel (From Let's Talk About Food)
by Heritage Radio Network
From Let's Talk About Food, Kochleffel is a new special series that focuses on the remarkable contributions of Jewish women to the world of food. Host Louisa Kasdon interviews chefs, writers, and more, giving us a picture of women who have contributed to food and food dialogue.
Episodes
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Karen Katz, Food TV Hero
Karen Katz is a veteran executive TV producer and writer with over 1500 hours of television programming to her credit. Her illustrious career includes producing for networks such as Food Network, Discovery Networks, HBO Family, and more. She has worked on competition, lifestyle, documentary,...
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Lisa Ekus, A Queen of Culinary Publishing
Our guest today is Lisa Ekus, founder of The Ekus Group, a literary agency specializing in “representing a world of culinary talent.” She has over 40 years of experience representing a wide selection of food personalities, writers, cookbooks, restaurants, and food products. The agency she founded...
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Joan Nathan, Her Life in Food
We are thrilled that our very first guest on Kochleffel is none other than Joan Nathan, the doyenne, the epicenter of Jewish cooking. Joan is a frequent contributor to The New York Times and other publications. She is the author of twelve books, including Jewish Cooking in America and The New...
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Kochleffel (Trailer)
Welcome to Kochleffel, a special series about the remarkable contributions of Jewish women to the world of food.
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Tribute to Jasper White
New England lost one of the greats recently, Jasper White; chef, author, mentor, and trailblazer. He re-invented and re-invigorated New England cuisine and made it into a style of cooking that was a lot more than chowda' and lobster rolls. At 69, it was too soon to lose him. With great love and...
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Phoebe Lapine: Healthy Hedonism
Writer, chef, and mega blogger Phoebe Lapine’s new book CARBIVORE is a paean to the joys and the nerdy science of carbs. She trashes the no-carb revolution and replaces it with easy-to-digest science -- and wonderful to ingest -- recipes that work whether you are a yes-on-carb or no-on-carbs…
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Greg Drescher, Certified Food Visionary
Some people – rare people – have the knack of seeing the curves of the future and inviting the rest of us on the journey. Greg Drescher, the senior advisor for Strategic Initiatives at the CIA, Culinary Institute of America, is one of those people. A more insightful job title would be culinary...
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What is Legacy Agriculture Anyway?
Our guest today is Scott Grabau, CEO of Tanimura & Antle, one of the world’s largest produce growers. I know, the phrase “large produce” stops you, passionate as you are about buying local and supporting Farmer’s Markets. But what if it turns out that large “Legacy Agriculture” has deep expertise...
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Ciao Italia's Mary Ann Esposito: The Longest Running Cooking Show in America
Mary Ann Esposito is a legend. She is the star of Ciao Italia, a PBS show she produces in New Hampshire. Syndicated nationally for 31 years, it's the longest running cooking show in America. She has written over a dozen books focused on Italian regional cooking, and at 81, she still leads cooking...
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Michael Crupain's Wild Journey: From Neurosurgery, to Dr. Oz, to Cookbooks!
Michael Crupain is an MD, an MPH, a passionate wellness advocate, and a terrific cook. When we first met, Michael was at Consumer Reports, which he then left to become the medical director of the Dr. Oz show (wow!). And now after 7 years there, he's writing fabulous cookbooks! Photo courtesy of...
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A Real Corker: Anthropologist Corky White Dishes on Food!
Our guest today is Corky White, Professor of Anthropology at Boston University. Although her focus is on Japan, Corky has a deep and fascinating focus on food – both as an academic pursuit and as globe-trotting food lover. Today’s episode is just that. A global trot through Corky’s life, food,...
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Veggie Queen
Our guest today is one of my favorite members of the culinary elite: Martha Rose Shulman, an award-winning author of more than twenty-five cookbooks, including The Simple Art of Vegetarian Cooking, The Very Best of Recipes for Health, Mediterranean Harvest: Vegetarian Recipes from the World’s...
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Barton Seaver: Seafood Evangelist
We talk -- or mostly listen -- to the remarkable Barton Seaver; recovering chef, prodigious advocate of all things seafood, TED talk alum, author of landmark books on American seafood (my favorite is For Cod & Country), and quite possibly the most eloquent speaker we've ever met! Photo courtesy…
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Mark Erickson, Provost of the CIA
A 14 year old Minnesota boy wanted a motorcycle. He got a job as a dishwasher and it launched a stellar culinary career. We talked with Mark about himself, his outlook on the future of restaurants, and where the CIA is headed next. Photo courtesy of Mark Erickson. Let’s Talk About Food is Powered...
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Can an Algorithm Become Besties With a Farm-to-You Home Delivery Service?
Have you ever wondered how a food delivery business gets going? All the logistics, and the headaches and uncertainty of matching farmers to food and the fresh food to your home? Erin Baumgartner is the CEO and Founder of The Family Dinner. While working as the Assistant Director of the Senseable...
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Greens Under Glass: How Paul Sellew is Re-Inventing Your Salad Bowl
Paul Sellew is the Founder and CEO of Little Leaf Farms. His "farm" occupies massive greenhouses in Massachusetts and Pennsylvania and he expects that by 2026, he'll have 100 acres "under glass" and be able to offer sustainable crisp salad greens to over 50% of the American salad eating world....
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Hello Earth Day! And What Should I Do About My Beloved 8-Burner Gas Stove?
A Conversation with Frank Lowenstein of RARE. Rare is the largest non-profit you've never heard of, and for 50 years it has been focused on using Behavioral Change to nudge people towards Sustainability all over the world. Now, RARE comes to the US. Frank, a lifelong environmentalist, talks about...
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Filmmaker Joanna James: A FIne Line Revisited
Joanna James is a filmmaker, non-profit founder, mom of three girls, and the daughter of Val James, who against all odds created a successful restaurant company. Joanna’s film entitled "A Fine Line" documents her mother’s struggles, and those of other well-known female chef-owners in the…
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A Tarot Reader Walked into a Bar...
Thea Engst is a seasoned author, a bartender, and a serious student of Tarot. In her fourth book, Spirits of the Tarot, Thea develops a cocktail recipe to match each Tarot card. It's fun stuff. Especially for true believers. We spoke with her about Tarot and how a bartender goes about developing...
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How Many Cookbooks Do You Own?
If you have a wall of cookbooks (like I do) but only ever crack open a few–help is at hand. Jane Kelly is the founder of Eat Your Books, a service that lets you search your own library to find the perfect recipe. She was an executive in the music and TV world in the UK, and then, she had an...
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Do We Need a National Food Museum?
If there were royalty in the food world, Michael Jacobson would be a king. Or at least a duke. As the co-founder of the Center for Science in the Public Interest––CSPI––he notched so many wins in protecting consumers that he made advocacy look easy. After more than 40 years at the helm of the…
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Michael Moss, From War Correspondent to a War on Bad Food
I have to confess to a long-term professional crush on Mike Moss, the intrepid New York Times investigative journalist who blew the lid off big foods’ research-based adeptness at engineering our Bliss Point–– finding the most exquisite balance of Salt, Sugar, Fat that renders us helpless faced…
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What's Next? A Conversation about the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health
Our eminent panel--Congressman Jim McGovern, Marion Nestle, Michael Jacobson, Dariush Mozaffarian, and Kirsten Tobey felt there's room for optimism that this conference can and will have a lasting impact on our American food system. Listen in and see if you agree. Let’s Talk About Food is Powered...
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Kirsten Tobey: Creating a Revolution in School Food
It began as a B-School class project. Our guest today is Kirsten Saenz Tobey. Kirsten co-founded Revolution Foods in 2006 while in graduate school at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business. Both she and her co-founder Kristin Richmond needed a project of a B-School class they were both taking.…
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Slow Cooked: Marion Nestle's New Memoir
When an icon and role model in food policy and food studies writes a memoir, after writing more than a dozen policy-heavy books --you might expect it to be serious. Even a little preachy. But you’d be wrong here. Marion Nestle’s telling of her life story is juicy and delicious. Eminently…
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To Fall in Love, Drink This
Journalist and essayist Alice Feiring was proclaimed “the queen of natural wines” by the Financial Times. Feiring is a recipient of a coveted James Beard Award for wine journalism, among many other accolades. She has written for newspapers and magazines including The New York Times, New York...
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When you teach a doctor to cook...
Dr. David Eisenberg is a visionary. Son and grandson of a baker, he breathed life into an international movement of Teaching Kitchens, hands-on kitchens where doctors and other health professionals could learn about why food matters. On the eve of a major conference of The Teaching Kitchen...
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Flipping for Filipino Barbecue: The Fattened Caf
These are the best kind of stories. Youth. Passion! Barbecue! Darren and Charlene Young moved to St. Louis from LA -- and Darren discovered a hidden passion for real, authentic barbecue. Charlene suddenly noticed that she missed the Filipino barbecue fests of her LA family and world, and so with…
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Eat Like a Pig, Run Like a Horse
Our guest today, author Anastacia Marx DeSalcedo, has a wonderfully curious mind. Her first book, The Combat-Ready Kitchen, explored the legacy and influence of military research on the foods we eat. (Who knew those bags of precut lettuce came from the Army?) Her new book, Eat Like a Pig, Run…
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Matthew Martin, From Homeless to Hero
Matthew Martin is a remarkable man. A Lutheran minister who spent much of college homeless, he's managed to mobilize thousands of volunteers who come in to work on an "assembly line" in a local church to package meals that have fed over 39 million people over the past few years. This spring, over…
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Brewing the American Dream (Part 2)
We are back to our roots with live events! In this episode you'll hear from three amazing women entrepreneurs. Each story is one of belief in self, grit, and creativity in a challenging world. Today we'll hear from Emily Mellgard, CEO and Founder of Fieldstone Kombucha, and then from Heather…
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Brewing the American Dream (Part 1)
We are back to our roots with live events! In this episode you'll hear from three amazing women entrepreneurs. Each story is one of belief in self, grit, and creativity in a challenging world. First, we'll hear from Carlene O'Garro, CEO of Delectable Desires Pastries; next from Alicia Haddad, CEO...
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Lawyers to the (FOOD) Rescue
Emily Broad Leib is a Clinical Professor of Law and Founding Director of the Harvard Law School’s Food Law and Policy Clinic, the nation’s first law school clinic devoted to providing legal and policy solutions to the challenges facing our food system. When I first met Emily, she was just out of...
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Lance Gould: From Huff Po to Elephants, Food and the Brooklyn Story Lab
Lance Gould has a pretty terrific story to tell. He began as a journalist covering the UN and ended up working closely with Arianna Huffington, managing various sections for the Huffington Post. (He says only the Pope refused to take his call.) Now he is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of...
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Chef Josh Lewin Builds His Dream House
It’s not hard to fall in love with chefs. But Josh Lewin of Juliet in Somerville, and Peregrine in the Back Bay––is special to me. I’ve been privileged to watch him grow and prosper – from bistro cook, to executive chef, to pop-up entrepreneur, to an award-winning chef-owner whose idea of the...
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Her Eminence, Nancy Harmon Jenkins
Nancy Harmon Jenkins is simply one of the great food authorities in America. She’s also one of the great storytellers, as you will hear. Nancy is the author of 8 books and counting and too many articles to count. From her two home bases in Tuscany and Camden, Maine, she teaches and writes about...
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Young Guns: Jack Barber of Mainely Burgers
The best thing -- and the worst -- thing about food businesses is that it seems so easy to begin one. And it is not. Our guest Jack Barber and his brother Max started Mainely Burgers over 10 years ago as green college kids looking for summer jobs. Now they are full-fledged entrepreneurs. Bravo to...
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Henry Patterson is off to Poland
Our guest today, Henry Patterson, has decades of experience in the food business. Along the way, he has learned a thing or two about how to keep customers yours forever. But, right now, HPatt is off to a border town in Poland to cook for Ukrainian refugees with Jose Andres' World Central Kitchen....
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Marion Nestle: A Modern Day Joan of Arc?
The redoubtable Marion Nestle is the closest I can come to a modern-day Joan of Arc, rallying us for decades against private and public institutional forces as she advocates for good food, sensible nutrition, and responsible public health. Author of fourteen seminal books, and hundreds research...
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Darin Detwiler: Tragedy Carves a Food Safety Hero
This is a story of bravery and purpose. If food safety seems like an abstract policy concept to you, you must listen to Darin Detwiler's story. When Darin's 16-month-old son Riley contracted E. coli at daycare, Darin's world turned upside down. In the decades since, Darin, a former US Navy…
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Claire Cheney, The Spice Girl
Our guest today is Claire Cheney, the founder and owner of the renowned Curio Spice Company. Curio is a mission-driven spice company, importing spices sustainably and directly from growers all over the world. Claire has an obsession for spices, which she discovered in her early travels to South...
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No Farms No Future: A Show About the Issues Facing Farmers and Ranchers
If you enjoyed our last episode with John Piotti, we have good news! Heritage Radio Network is producing a monthly show hosted by John. The show is called No Farms No Future, the podcast of American Farmland Trust. The show will dig into the issues facing farms and farmers today. We all need to...
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Mr. Piotti Goes to Washington
Our guest is John Piotti, the president and CEO of American Farmland Trust, the nation’s leading non-profit dedicated to protecting farmland, promoting sound farming practices, and keeping farmers on the land. How did a kid growing up on Nantucket Island, hoping to design sailboats, end up in…
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Finding the Light: Photographer Michael Piazza
Food photography is a marvel. Beautiful photos make me want to own the book, cook the dish, visit the restaurant, travel to the source. But how do you become a celebrated food photographer? You may not know his name, but you’ve been admiring his art for years in best-selling cookbooks, magazines,...
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Tamar Haspel: Washington Post Columnist and Former "Teacher's Pest"
Our guest today is Tamar Haspel. Tamar is a columnist for the Washington Post. Her column UNEARTHED focuses on the intersection of food and science. She's a force of nature -- and food. In High School she was awarded the Teacher's Pest Award for her incessant curiosity and willingness to…
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Who wouldn't want to escape to Italy right now?
Today is a real treat for those of us with lock-down wanderlust. A married couple – Rachel Greenberger and Cristiano Bonino. Rachel is a 2020 Eisenhower Fellow working on Regenerative Agriculture and Food Systems – she was one of the creators of Food Sol – a thought leadership initiative for Food...
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From Pizza Truck to the Prince of Provincetown
John Yingling's story is a classic one-foot-in-front-of-other tale of entrepreneurship— how he started as a pizza delivery boy in high school in the 70's, made dough in high school, and decided to put a pin in Provincetown and opened up P'Town's first pizza shop on a shoestring. (This included...
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When Dumplings Make You a Star
Our guest today is Irene Li. And my god, is she a powerhouse. A six-time James Beard Nominee for Rising Star Chef, plus, Zagat’s 30 under 30, Eater’s Young Gun and so much more. She has now become one of the shining stars and entrepreneurs, a true community leader in the culinary space around...
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Liz Hauck Writes: Home Made
A book that could change your life. Home Made author Liz Hauck decided to follow-up on an idea she hatched with her father just before he passed away: she would show up and make and eat dinner with the boys who lived in the group home where he worked. She did just that. For three full years, Liz...
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The One and Only Christopher Kimball Revealed. (Just kidding.)
Our conversation with food media baron Chris Kimball was a hoot. Although he produces his own Milk Street podcast and radio show (carried on over 200 radio stations) he was willing to come on our show. He’s wry man with amazing energy and a boundless entrepreneurial spirit. Founding Cook's...
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From Let's Talk About Food, Kochleffel is a new special series that focuses on the remarkable contributions of Jewish women to the world of food. Host Louisa Kasdon interviews chefs, writers, and more, giving us a picture of women who have contributed to food and food dialogue.
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