Three Ingredients
Episodes
Live with Three Ingredients at the Ojai Food & Wine Festival 2026
06 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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Three Ingredients on restaurant critic anonymity and the Thomas Keller incident
02 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nancy and Laurie share a screen from Nancy’s home in Umbria and join Ruth in New York for this live and unedited conversation. Their talk ranges fro...
Three Ingredients Talk About Charlie Trotter
31 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Charlie was famous for, among other things, a vegetable-forward menu and pioneering a new tasting menu every day. His restaurant is about to reopen. T...
Three Ingredients, Unedited
26 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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Three Ingredients Raw: Live and Unedited
15 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The hiatus is over. Ruth Reichl, Nancy Silverton and Laurie Ochoa are firing up Three Ingredients again. This season, we’re going live and mostly un...
Hospital Food: Why is it so Bad?
06 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Why are the sickest people in our country being served the worst food?Not content to limit our complaints to hospital food, we move on to school food....
Episode 10 Bonus
25 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In which we discuss our favorite scripted food shows. A few old favorites, and a couple you might never have heard of. This is a public episode. If ...
Sriracha: Has it become an old lady condiment?
22 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 9 of “Three Ingredients,” Ruth, Nancy and Laurie have a heated discussion about chiles. First we talk about how they hurt so good that ...
Would you eat an armadillo?
26 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What will you eat? What won't you? In this bonus episode of "Three Ingredients" we discuss eating some things that many people consider very strange....
Is This the World's Strangest Breakfast?
12 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What do you eat for breakfast? In Episode 8 of “Three Ingredients” we introduce you to what might be the strangest way to start the day. It’s al...
How To Feed a Newborn
31 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A friend shares what Italian babies are fed as their first solid food. It is, frankly, hard to believe. But then we fed our kids some pretty strange...
Did Nancy Silverton just revolutionize carrot cake?
22 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 7 of “Three Ingredients,” we talk about what separates restaurant chefs from home cooks. Is it training? Obsession? A drive for perfect...
The right way and the wrong way to cook in someone else's kitchen
11 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How do you feel about people who come in and just take over your kitchen? That’s the burning question that starts off our conversation and reveals R...
Episode 5: How Nancy cornered the celery heart market. Thoughts on great dinner parties.
05 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
You’ll hear no iceberg lettuce shaming in this episode.The great little food shops we talk about in this episode* Talbott and Arding, where Ruth doe...
Bonus 'Ingredients': A health inspector story plus Ruth's food cart chicken recipe
28 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when the health department shows up during the busiest time at a restaurant? It's not pretty. Plus, the recipe Ruth invented for those t...
Ruffled feathers at the first James Beard Awards
21 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How to shock a badass woman chef In our fourth episode, Nancy talks about winning the James Beard Award for Best Pastry Chef in 1991, and how aghast t...
A salty conversation: The mini episode on salt
18 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit threeingredients.substack.comDiamond versus Morton kosher saltWalk into almost any resta...
Hawaiian punch and the violence of pesto
13 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We’re in Hawaii this week — at least Nancy is — and we talk about everything from native fruits to Spam, one of the few foods in the world that ...
Episode 2: Critic bait, vanity cooking and the queen of pistachios
06 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Why do we call Nancy the queen of pistachios? What secrets can Ruth tell us about critic bait? And is Laurie really the only one of the three of us wh...
Episode One
29 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The debut episode of “Three Ingredients." Artichokes Alice Waters would hate, fish lessons, trashcan stuffing, a panna cotta cook-off...plus Ruth an...