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Nate, DEM, and Dave review Souls of Mischief's classic album 93 Till Infinity

Sue S. Chan is an expert marketer, brand builder, and all-around busy bee on the global food scene. She was Momofuku’s first brand director, and in this episode we go back to her time helping to build the David Chang empire (and figuring out how to tell DC what to do). She later founded her own agency, Care of Chan, which has become a go-to for major fashion and retail brands looking to engage with the food world. Her current clients include A24, NYT Cooking, Gucci Osteria, Nike, J.Crew, and Hermam Miler. This conversation is fast and furious, but we always pause when Sue has a restaurant to talk about. We so enjoyed catching up with a real food-world one of one, and we hope you enjoy it too. Do you enjoy This Is TASTE? Drop us a review on Apple, or star us on Spotify. We'd love to hear from you. MORE FROM SUE CHAN:The Food-World Entrepreneur Who Loves Clear Heels [The Cut]Mermaid Spa Brooklyn [CoC]Breaking Down with Sue Chan [Busyboy] FOLLOW, FOLLOW, FOLLOW:instagram.com/sueperchaninstagram.com/mattrodbardinstagram.com/taste

In celebration of the deluxe edition of Cursive’s DOMESTICA, we take an in-depth look at how the record was made. Following the breakup of the Omaha band, Slowdown Virginia, Tim Kasher reunited with his former bandmates, Matt Maginn and Stephen Pedersen, to start a new project called Cursive. They brought in drummer Clint Schnase and released their first 7 inch on their friends’ label, Lumberjack Records, which later became Saddle Creek. Two full-length records followed, but when THE STORMS OF EARLY SUMMER was released in 1998, the band had already called it quits. Kasher had gotten married and moved to Portland, Oregon for a fresh start. As his marriage fell apart, he returned to Omaha and decided to reform Cursive. Pedersen had left for college at this point so Ted Stevens of Lullaby for the Working Class took over on guitar. Feeling like they had to make up for lost time, Cursive quickly put together an album’s worth of songs and entered the home studio of A.J. and Mike Mogis to record the album over nine days. In this episode, Tim Kasher describes his vision of a concept album about a failed relationship that took inspiration from his recent divorce. With songs written from the perspective of both the male and female characters in the relationship, Kasher was writing in a fictional style but couldn’t help but include elements from his own life. When the album was released in 2000, Saddle Creek wrote a bio mentioning Kasher’s divorce that impacted the overall perception of the album, which Kasher still maintains is not a “divorce record.” From an attempt at being evenhanded in the storytelling to the Mogis brothers production skills to taking inspiration from the films, Eraserhead and Rosemary’s Baby, to a lifelong journey of understanding metal to fans asking Kasher for relationship advice, we’ll hear the stories around how the album came together.

This week, we finish the band’s chronological story then pivot to take in Sunburned’s many artistic collaborators.

What a thrill it is to have our friend Adeena Sussman back on the show. Adeena is the author of numerous cookbooks, having cowritten three with Chrissy Teigen, and the voice behind the best-selling Israeli food tome Sababa. Sussman is back with a great new book, Shabbat, and in this episode we talk about the multitudes of Jewish food around the world. We discuss what is so exciting about food in her home base of Tel Aviv and also go over some of the comforting and innovative new recipes in Shabbat.  MORE FROM ADEENA SUSSMAN:Embracing My Whole Self, Through Food [Tablet]The Perfect Shabbat Dinner Meets You Where You Are [Conde Nast Traveler]Adeena Sussman’s new cookbook includes Shabbat recipes from around the world [NPR]Mike and Adeena’s Excellent Israeli Culinary Adventure [Via Sabra] FOLLOW, FOLLOW, FOLLOW:instagram.com/adeenasussmaninstagram.com/mattrodbardinstagram.com/taste Do you enjoy This Is TASTE? Drop us a review on Apple, or star us on Spotify. We'd love to hear from you.

Ellen Yin is the founder and co-owner of Philadelphia’s High Street Hospitality Group. She’s behind some of the best restaurants in not just Philly but the entire country, including Fork, High Street on Market, and High Street Provisions. On this episode we speak with Ellen about her journey to hospitality, what’s special about the Philly restaurant scene, and what it was like to win a James Beard Award for America’s top restaurateur. We also talk about the incredible cookbook festival she's organized, Cookbooks and Convos, which runs from late September through late October. It’s so great catching up with Ellen, and we hope you enjoy this conversation. Also on the show, Aliza catches up with Andrew Tarlow, the author of a new book, Diner: Day for Night, which pays tribute to his legendary Brooklyn restaurant.  Do you enjoy This Is TASTE? Drop us a review on Apple, or star us on Spotify. We'd love to hear from you. More From Ellen Yin:Ellen Yin Talks Pineapple Pizza and 25 Years of Fork [Philadelphia Mag]Philly Chef Wins Big at the James Beard Awards [Billy Penn]Cookbooks and Convos [Philadelphia Inquirer]

Multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and vocalist Grace Potter has been making records since she was nineteen years old. Two under her own name, then four more between 2005 and 2012 with her massively successful band Grace Potter & The Nocturnals. In 2015 she began releasing albums as a solo artist once more, but with a full band mentality. Her third outing following the Nocturnals chapter is called Mother Road - both a callout to what Steinbeck called Route 66, and the road she has taken as a mother. In this in depth interview, Grace sits down with host Carmel Holt to talk about the journey she has taken to arrive at her most fully realized project to date.