TASTE Podcast
1) 62: JJ Johnson
“Rice is culture”—the spiritual spine of a new restaurant in Harlem—is one of the many big ideas chef and award-winning cookbook author JJ Johnson tackles in this spirited episode. We also go over how...Show More
2) 787: The Food Writer to Romance Novel Pipeline with Eliza Dumais & Julia Turshen
Today we’re doing something a little different—a special episode all about writing romantic fiction, featuring two food people: Eliza Dumais and Julia Turshen. Eliza is a wine writer based in New York...Show More
3) 786: TASTE Travels: Colorado
Today’s episode is really special: a deep eating, drinking, and food culture tour of Colorado, a state that has been quietly (and then not so quietly) building one of the most exciting culinary scenes...Show More
4) 785: El Califa de León, The First-Ever Taqueria to Receive a Michelin Star, Doesn’t Think Michelin Is Its Legacy
El Califa de León is a family-run Mexico City taqueria that’s been in business for over half a century. It was opened by butcher Juan Hernández González in 1968, who created the now-legendary gaonera ...Show More
5) 784: A 4.2 Out of 10 Won’t Cut It: Meet Rate My Chives
The anonymous British chef behind @RateMyChives has spent years judging the knife skills of home cooks and professional chefs alike—and amassed 107,000 followers doing it, including some of the bigges...Show More
6) 783: Dr. Ashanté M. Reese Would Love to Come to Your Family Reunion
Dr. Ashanté M. Reese is a writer, anthropologist, and associate professor of African and African diaspora studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Her new book, Gather, looks at expansive forms o...Show More
7) 782: Whole Foods Buyers Never Sit Still. We Followed Them to Spain.
On this very special episode, we traveled to Ondarroa, a fishing port in the Basque Country of northern Spain, and followed a team of Whole Foods Market buyers and sourcing experts to find out how the...Show More
8) 781: Alan Delgado Spent Years Developing The Perfect Flour Tortillas for Los Burritos Juarez
Alan Delgado is the chef-owner of Los Burritos Juarez, a norteno-style burrito restaurant in Brooklyn’s Fort Greene neighborhood. After an impressive career of working in restaurants in Austin, Texas ...Show More
9) 780: David Lebovitz Live From New York. On Chocolate, Acid at Chez Panisse, and Blowing Up on Substack.
This is such a wildly fun conversion with David Lebovitz. We love his Substack, and his many books, including the recently released The Great Book of Chocolate. We go over so many fun, and a few contr...Show More
10) 779: Mike Colameco Is the Original Food Video Dude
Mike Colameco has been inside more New York kitchens than almost anyone alive. A CIA-trained chef who cooked at Windows on the World, the Four Seasons, and the Ritz-Carlton, he spent 20 seasons as the...Show More