Podcast
A SHERO’s Journey: jasmine.4.t
UK trans-femme artist jasmine.4.t sits down with Carmel Holt for a deeply moving and inspiring conversation ahead of her second night at Radio City Music Hall opening for Lucy Dacus, who co-produced her full length debut, You Are The Morning, with Lucy's boygenius bandmates Phoebe Bridgers and Julien Baker.
Nobody’s Ever Asked Me That: Michel Gondry
The visionary French filmmaker, whose delightful new film Maya, Give Me a Title is playing fests now, faces a different set of questions.
583: Double Dating with the Obamas with Journalist Michele Norris
It was really fun having Michele Norris in the studio. Michele is the host of the great podcast Your Mama’s Kitchen and the founder of the Race Card Project. A respected journalist, Michele cohosted National Public Radio's evening news program All Things Considered from 2002 to 2011 and was the first African-American female host for NPR. In this episode, we talk about Michele’s journalism career and what draws her to stories in the food orbit. Also on the show, we have a great talk with cookbook author and artist Erin Gleeson. Erin is behind the best-selling Forest Feast series, and she’s the author of a really cool art book: The Watercolor Feast. It’s a guide to painting fruits, vegetables, and flowers, and it leads to a great conversation about Erin’s career and why more of us should buy a set of watercolors and just paint. And, at the top of the show, it’s the return of Three Things, where Aliza and Matt talk about what is exciting them in the world of restaurants, cookbooks, and the food world as a whole. On this episode: Bayou Saint Cake, potato salad in the gumbo at Parkway in New Orleans, I Leave It Up to You is a great food novel. Also: Sinners, taste testing the hot new “protein” bars of the moment, David and Hormbles Chormbles, Big Night’s big expansion, and checking out Kung Fu Bros Dumplings on the westside of Detroit. Do you enjoy This Is TASTE? Drop us a review on Apple, or star us on Spotify. We’d love to hear from you.
582: Food Writers Talking About Food Writing with Kat Kinsman & Matt Rodbard
It’s the return of a special video podcast series: Food Writers Talking About Food Writing. It’s available on the TASTE YouTube channel, so make sure to subscribe. Every couple of weeks, cohost Matt Rodbard invites a journalist to talk about some favorite recent food writing as well as their thoughts on the industry as a whole. Our next guest is Kat Kinsman, executive features editor at Food & Wine. Kat is an absolute legend in the game and has been at the center of food media for nearly two decades. In this episode, we talk about Kat’s journalism career, her current media diet, and some favorite stories we’ve been reading lately. We also played “What would you pitch 1997 Graydon Carter?” That is, Kat considers her dream no-budget reporting assignment. It’s a deeply personal conversation, and you should check it out. Featured on this episode:Subscribe to TASTE [YouTube]A Shadow Hanging Over Europe: ‘A Taste of Italy’ From New Jersey [NYT]“Not Too Sweet” or Too Sweet to Fail? [TASTE]Where’d You Go, Chef Rocco DiSpirito? [Food & Wine]Do You Eat Clockwise, Top-Down, or Bite-By-Bite? [Best Food Blog]Tinfoil Swans [Apple]
581: It’s Always Ice Cream Season with Tyler Malek (Salt & Straw) & Pooja Bavishi (Malai)
Today is all about ice cream, and we have two guests who know the business inside and out. Tyler Malek is the cofounder and head chef of Salt & Straw, a cult-followed ice cream chain with scoop shops across the country. Based in Portland, Oregon, Salt & Straw is known for churning out the most imaginative ice cream flavors around. In the new cookbook America’s Most Iconic Ice Creams, Tyler takes a look at the classics with fresh eyes, then branches out into new territory. Aliza had so much fun having Tyler in the studio to nerd out on ice cream, from hitting up vanilla geneticists to building “flavor trinities” in each scoop. Also on the show, we catch up with Pooja Bavishi. Pooja is the founder and CEO of Malai, a South Asian–inspired ice cream company based in Brooklyn, and she’s one of the sharpest founders in the ice cream game. We talk about Pooja’s big idea for Malai and dig into her debut cookbook. Do you enjoy This Is TASTE? Drop us a review on Apple, or star us on Spotify. We’d love to hear from you.
