This Is TASTE
Episodes
51: Robert Sietsema
02 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Longtime New York City restaurant critic and neighborhood wanderer Robert Sietsema used to fear for his job. “I feared for decades that I would ge...
50: Nasim Alikhani
26 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
When Nasim Alikhani opened Sofreh, an Iranian restaurant in Brooklyn’s Prospect Heights, she was 59 years old. She was an experienced home cook bu...
49: Pichet Ong
19 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
After studying architecture at UC-Berkeley, Pichet Ong eventually made it to New York and worked as a chef with Jean-Georges Vongerichten from 1998 ...
48: James Murphy & Nick Curtola
15 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The Four Horsemen in Brooklyn. Have you been there? Have you drank some wine there? Had some of the restaurant’s bread and cultured butter? It’s a...
47: Michelle & Suzanne Rousseau
12 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Michelle and Suzanne Rousseau are two sisters on a mission. They want the wide world of home cooks to think of Caribbean food as more than just jerk ...
46: Katie Parla
05 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
There is no journalist I would rather talk to about Italy—and, really, talk about food in general—than Katie Parla. Her mind, her spirit, her will...
45: Akira Akuto
26 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
I swear Akira Akuto and I only talked a little bit about the sandwich. What sandwich? The Sandwich. You can read about it in The New York Times: T...
44: Ori Menashe & Genevieve Gergis
22 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The Los Angeles food world has the most low-key power couple. And they are very OK keeping it low-key. Ori Menashe and Genevieve Gergis are the che...
43: Yasmin Khan
19 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
British journalist and cookbook author Yasmin Khan writes about Palestinian food tasting alive. But what does that mean? So much, it turns out, and ...
42: Minh Phan
12 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Los Angeles chef Minh Phan has a really cool story to share with us. She is the owner of a highly original restaurant, Porridge + Puffs, located in...
41: Pete Wells
05 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Listener, subscriber: This is a good one. Pete Wells is the longtime restaurant critic at the New York Times and a man of slight mystery and sound...
40: Nicole Rucker
29 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Nicole Rucker is a star baker and the co-owner of Los Angeles restaurant Fiona. She’s also competed in national pie-making competitions and will pu...
39: Ivan Orkin
22 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The Ivan Orkin story has been well documented. In summary—and you can read it in the excellent memoir-cookbook he wrote with Lucky Peach edito...
38: Laurie Woolever
15 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Laurie Woolever is a fresh and highly original voice in the food writing game. She’s a journalist—having worked as an editor at Art Culinaire a...
37: Meredith Erickson
08 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
What a treat! Today on the show we have Meredith Erickson. She’s a journalist, cookbook writer, cycling fan, and the co-author of the new book Joe...
36: Eli Zabar
01 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
While the name Zabar is most associated with a delicatessen empire based on New York’s Upper West Side, it’s Eli Zabar (the punk rock Zabar of a...
35: Helen Rosner
28 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Helen Rosner is a journalist, Twitter commentator, and the editorial force behind much of the New Yorker’s food coverage. This year, we were treated...
34: David Tamarkin
24 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Before he edited Epicurious, sharply reviewed restaurants in Chicago, and wrote a cool new cookbook, Cook90: The 30-Day Plan for Faster, Healthier, Ha...
33: Amanda Cohen
18 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Dirt Candy is a restaurant that has become famous over the course of the past decade on New York’s Lower East Side for making eggplant tiramisu, ros...
32: Rose Levy Beranbaum
10 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Maybe you’ve been making macarons your whole life, could temper chocolate with your eyes closed, and have enough cake pans to fill a walk-in closet....
31: Anita Lo
04 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The chef and cookbook author Anita Lo occupies a very special place in the hearts of many in the New York City restaurant world—chefs, journalists, ...
30: Flynn McGarry
30 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Let’s just not dwell on the fact that Flynn McGarry is only 20. He’s young. The end. This is because McGarry, the chef and owner of the ambitiou...
29: Naomi Pomeroy
26 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
If there’s one thing Naomi Pomeroy has noticed in her years of cooking and running restaurants, it’s that people don’t seem to have time to eat ...
28: Max Ng
19 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
As Max Ng tells it, his start at Momofuku—where he has risen to executive chef at the restaurant group’s New York City flagship, Ssam Bar—bega...
27: Yotam Ottolenghi
13 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
London chef and author Yotam Ottolenghi puts out cookbooks that meet at the intersection of cool and practical—with a recipe development process t...
26: Dorie Greenspan
06 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
You may know her from her New York Times column, On Dessert, or you may know her from trying one of her unbelievably chocolaty, world-famous World ...
25: Jeremiah Stone & Fabian Von Hauske
30 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Let’s get this out of the way first. Jeremiah Stone and Fabian Von Hauske are sweet dudes: extremely hardworking, generous, with lots and lots and l...
24: Ellia & Junghyun Park
23 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
There isn’t a restaurant in New York City that’s having a bigger and brighter fall 2018 than Atomix. It’s supremely ambitious, highly polished, ...
23: Eric Ripert
16 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Stay calm and…just act like Eric Ripert. Young cooks, are you listening? Ripert, a celebrated chef and TV personality, is a balancing force in this...
22: Julia Turshen
12 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Just imagine: It’s the tail end of a dinner party you just cooked for, you’re dangerously full of food, and you realize you made about three times...
21: Francis Lam
09 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
You might know him from the Eat column in The New York Times, for which he went into dozens of restaurants, home kitchens, and church basements to re...
20: Christina Tosi
02 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Christina Tosi is a chef, TV personality, Milk Bar CEO and CCCO (Chief Compost Cookie Officer), and the author of a new cookbook, All About Cake. An...
19: Mike Solomonov
28 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Mike Solomonov planted his flag in Philadelphia more than a decade ago with the groundbreaking Israeli-American restaurant Zahav, and people went nut...
18: Daniela Soto-Innes
24 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Daniela Soto-Innes is the chef-partner at two New York baby institutions, Cosme and Atla. These young and progressive restaurants—a modern Mexican ...
17: Deuki Hong
18 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Deuki Hong is a San Francisco–based chef and restaurant-empire-builder in the making. He’s also the coauthor of Koreatown: A Cookbook. Here he c...
16: Natasha Pickowicz
11 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Natasha Pickowicz is the super talented pastry chef at New York City restaurants Flora Bar and Café Altro Paradiso, where fans (and oh, does she hav...
15: Ruth Reichl
03 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Is there an introduction needed here? Over her groundbreaking career, Ruth Reichl has served as the food editor of the Los Angeles Times, the resta...
14: Brooks Headley
28 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Brooks Headley does not take vacations, read Yelp reviews, or make his burgers with beef. The chef-owner of New York City’s Superiority Burger and ...
13: Phil Rosenthal
21 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The Netflix culinary travel series Somebody Feed Phil proves that food television can be both accessible and interesting. Populist and high-brow. Mu...
12: Angela Dimayuga
14 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
For six years, Angela Dimayuga served as the creative nerve center of New York City’s Mission Chinese Food, rising to executive chef and winning f...
11: Peter Meehan
07 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
For years, Peter Meehan was a mystery. As the New York Times’s "$25 and Under" columnist in the early 2000’s, he dined anonymously everywhere f...
10: David Lebovitz
31 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
There aren’t a lot of things on the Internet that have been around since 1999. But David Lebovitz’s blog, full of quips, stories, and recipes f...
9: Angie Mar
24 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
A brilliant chef, motivator, entrepreneur, and storyteller, Angie Mar is a force of nature. Her inspired meat cookery at the restaurant she owns and...
8: Alon Shaya
17 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Alon Shaya is one of the leading voices in a newly crystalized Israeli-American food movement going down Stateside. Born in Israel and raised on chees...
7: Andy Ricker & JJ Goode
10 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Andy Ricker’s headstone: Let’s talk about that. The Thai restaurateur, cookbook author, rock guitarist, and drinking-vinegar empire builder has do...
6: Julia Moskin
03 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In her years as a New York Times reporter, Julia Moskin has traveled to Provence to write about cooking in Julia Child’s kitchen, introduced us to t...
5: Gail Simmons
26 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Gail Simmons is a very cool human being. While many know her best from Top Chef, her career in food expands way beyond a judge’s table. She traine...
4: Mark Bittman
19 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
We’ve followed the career of cookbook author and op-ed columnist Mark Bittman for nearly two decades, through his How to Cook Everything series and ...
3: Deb Perelman
13 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
We’ve been reading Smitten Kitchen for more than a decade now. At its helm is the hilarious and candid Deb Perelman, who joined us on this episod...
2: Alison Roman
06 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Alison Roman wants to change the way you think about granola (it doesn’t have to be sweet), dinner parties (they don’t have to be fancy), and boil...
1: Samin Nosrat
04 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
For Samin Nosrat, the James Beard Award-winning author of Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat, the majority of great meals spring from a combination of those four ...
The TASTE Podcast Is Back!
01 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
After a two-year vacation (LOL), Anna and Matt are back! If you're a fan of smart and cool and weird and lively conversations about food and culture, ...