Olee Fowler of Eater Miami and Farley Elliott of Eater Los Angeles talk about the mess of instructions restaurants in their cities have had to follow. Hosts: Amanda Kludt ( @k ludt ), Editor in Chief, Eater Daniel Geneen ( @danielgeneen ), Producer, Eater More to explore: Check out more great reporting from the Eater newsroom . Subscribe to Amanda’s weekly newsletter here . Follow Us: Eater.com Facebok.com/Eater YouTube.com/Eater @eater on Twitter and Instagram Get in Touch: digest@eater.com Abo...
Jul 10, 2020•43 min
In just over a year, Toriano Gordon and his restaurant @officialveganmob , have exploded onto the Oakland barbecue scene. Hosts: Daniel Geneen ( @danielgeneen ), Producer, Eater Amanda Kludt ( @k ludt ), Editor in Chief, Eater More to explore: Check out more great reporting from the Eater newsroom . Subscribe to Amanda’s weekly newsletter here . Follow Us: Eater.com Facebok.com/Eater YouTube.com/Eater @eater on Twitter and Instagram Get in Touch: digest@eater.com About Eater: Eater obsessively c...
Jun 26, 2020•34 min
Padma Lakshmi 's brand new show Taste the Nation premiered on Hulu this week. Ashok Selvam fills us in on what's happening in Chicago with Covid-19 and the protests. Hosts: Amanda Kludt ( @k ludt ), Editor in Chief, Eater Daniel Geneen ( @danielgeneen ), Producer, Eater More to explore: Check out more great reporting from the Eater newsroom . Subscribe to Amanda’s weekly newsletter here . Follow Us: Eater.com Facebok.com/Eater YouTube.com/Eater @eater on Twitter and Instagram Get in Touch: diges...
Jun 20, 2020•52 min
Amethyst Ganaway discusses her piece Restaurants Must Use This Moment to Change, Too . Eater LA editors Mona Holmes and Matthew Kang talk about how Los Angeles has handled surprise reopening and the protests. Follow Amethyst on twitter: https://twitter.com/ExcuseMyFly and instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thizzg/?hl=en . Hosts: Amanda Kludt ( @k ludt ), Editor in Chief, Eater Daniel Geneen ( @danielgeneen ), Producer, Eater More to explore: Check out more great reporting from the Eater newsro...
Jun 12, 2020•49 min
Eater NY senior critic Robert Sietsema has been dining out since the beginning of Covid-19 and he's been eating some great food. Read his piece on New York's take-out scene here: https://ny.eater.com/2020/5/27/21270029/nyc-restaurant-dishes-takeout-pho-dosa-hot-dog . Hosts: Amanda Kludt ( @k ludt ), Editor in Chief, Eater Daniel Geneen ( @danielgeneen ), Producer, Eater More to explore: Check out more great reporting from the Eater newsroom . Subscribe to Amanda’s weekly newsletter here . Follow...
May 29, 2020•37 min
Nick Kokonas is the co-founder and co-owner of Alinea restaurant in Chicago, he is also the founder and CEO of Tock, a reservations platform. At the start of the pandemic, Nick and the team at Alinea pivoted entirely to take-out and have sold a lot of food. Follow Nick on Twitter , Instagram and check out Tock . Hosts: Amanda Kludt ( @k ludt ), Editor in Chief, Eater Daniel Geneen ( @danielgeneen ), Producer, Eater More to explore: Check out more great reporting from the Eater newsroom . Subscri...
May 22, 2020•59 min
Eater SF News Editor Eve Batey gives us the rundown on the delivery wars and Eater DC editor Gabe Hiatt attempts to explain a unique strategy to ease the awkwardness of social distancing in restaurants. Hosts: Amanda Kludt ( @k ludt ), Editor in Chief, Eater Daniel Geneen ( @danielgeneen ), Producer, Eater More to explore: Check out more great reporting from the Eater newsroom . Subscribe to Amanda’s weekly newsletter here . Follow Us: Eater.com Facebok.com/Eater YouTube.com/Eater @eater on Twit...
May 15, 2020•51 min
Matthew Wadiak the co-founder of Blue Apron and founder and CEO of Cooks Venture , talks about how the pandemic is exposing the cracks in the industrial meat system. Click for more information on Cooks Venture: https://cooksventure.com/ Hosts: Amanda Kludt ( @k ludt ), Editor in Chief, Eater Daniel Geneen ( @danielgeneen ), Producer, Eater More to explore: Check out more great reporting from the Eater newsroom . Subscribe to Amanda’s weekly newsletter here . Follow Us: Eater.com Facebok.com/Eate...
May 08, 2020•50 min
The Paycheck Protection Program has been a huge mess and two restaurateurs explain their problems with the loan. Naomi Pomeroy is the chef/owner of Beast and Expatriate in Portland, Oregon. David Tobias is an owner of The Wooly and The Wooly Public in NYC. Click for more information on the Independent Restaurant Coalition: https://www.saverestaurants.com/ Hosts: Amanda Kludt ( @k ludt ), Editor in Chief, Eater Daniel Geneen ( @danielgeneen ), Producer, Eater More to explore: Check out more great...
May 01, 2020•48 min
First, Eater Atlanta editor Beth McKibben explains how restaurants are bracing for impact after Georgia governor Brian Kemp announced he will reopen small businesses. Then, Hong Kong-based writer Andrew Genung talks about what it's like to dine out, as the city starts to open back up. Subscribe to Andrew's food newsletter here: https://familymeal.substack.com/ Hosts: Daniel Geneen ( @danielgeneen ), Producer, Eater Amanda Kludt ( @k ludt ), Editor in Chief, Eater Subscribe to Amanda’s weekly new...
Apr 24, 2020•38 min
Chef Helen Nguyen's first restaurant, Saigon Social , was on track to open in the middle of March right when the reduced capacity mandates were rolling out. Since then, her operation has become part delivery only business, part charity hub, and she has no idea how long she can keep it going. Eve Batey also joins the show to talk about a lawsuit facing the major delivery companies. Follow Helen on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/miss_hailan/?hl=en Click for more information on Frontline...
Apr 17, 2020•53 min
Chef Ed Lee and his non-profit The Lee Initiative have opened kitchens all across America to help feed out of work restaurant workers. Find more information here: https://leeinitiative.org/ and donate to the Restaurant Workers Relief Fund here: https://leeinitiative.kindful.com/ Hosts: Amanda Kludt ( @k ludt ), Editor in Chief, Eater Daniel Geneen ( @danielgeneen ), Producer, Eater More to explore: Check out more great reporting from the Eater newsroom . Subscribe to Amanda’s weekly newsletter h...
Apr 10, 2020•47 min
Together with the Independent Restaurant Coalition, chef Tom Colicchio has lobbied to improve the grants, breaks, and benefits that the government stimulus bill will offer small restaurants. Hosts: Amanda Kludt ( @k ludt ), Editor in Chief, Eater Daniel Geneen ( @danielgeneen ), Producer, Eater More to explore: Check out more great reporting from the Eater newsroom . Subscribe to Amanda’s weekly newsletter here . Follow Us: Eater.com Facebok.com/Eater YouTube.com/Eater @eater on Twitter and Inst...
Apr 03, 2020•49 min
Chef Dan Giusti calls in to give updates on how is company Brigaid is feeding kids through the crisis. Amanda and Dan Zoom through the current state of the restaurant industry. For more information on Dan's program check out https://www.chefsbrigaid.com/ or follow Dan on twitter or instagram . Hosts: Daniel Geneen ( @danielgeneen ), Producer, Eater Amanda Kludt ( @k ludt ), Editor in Chief, Eater More to explore: Check out more great reporting from the Eater newsroom . Subscribe to Amanda’s week...
Mar 27, 2020•50 min
Amanda and Dan Skype through the current state of the restaurant industry and play some voice memos from fans. Hosts: Daniel Geneen ( @danielgeneen ), Producer, Eater Amanda Kludt ( @k ludt ), Editor in Chief, Eater More to explore: Check out more great reporting from the Eater newsroom . Subscribe to Amanda’s weekly newsletter here . Follow Us: Eater.com Facebok.com/Eater YouTube.com/Eater @eater on Twitter and Instagram Get in Touch: digest@eater.com About Eater: Eater obsessively covers the w...
Mar 20, 2020•38 min
Gabe Gaurente and Serena Dai give updates on the restaurant scenes in Seattle and New York. Amanda and Dan discuss their favorite stories of the week (20:30). Hosts: Daniel Geneen ( @danielgeneen ), Producer, Eater Amanda Kludt ( @k ludt ), Editor in Chief, Eater More to explore: Check out more great reporting from the Eater newsroom . Subscribe to Amanda’s weekly newsletter here . Follow Us: Eater.com Facebok.com/Eater YouTube.com/Eater @eater on Twitter and Instagram Get in Touch: digest@eater...
Mar 13, 2020•47 min
Food writers Amanda Hesser and Merrill Stubbs turned a book deal into a digital publishing and retail company. Then they spent 10 years turning that company into something worth more than $100 million. They tell Recode Media’s Peter Kafka what they learned along the way — and why he was wrong to count them out years ago. Featuring : Amanda Hesser ( @amandahesser ) and Merrill Stubbs ( @merrillstubbs ), Co-Founders of Food52 Hosts: Daniel Geneen ( @danielgeneen ), Producer, Eater Amanda Kludt ( @...
Mar 06, 2020•42 min
Photojournalist Gary He has been covering the election cycle through the lens of food. Read all his coverage here: https://www.eater.com/2019/12/23/20995839/democratic-presidential-candidates-pete-buttigieg-elizabeth-warren-andrew-yang-iowa-state-fair . Hosts: Daniel Geneen ( @danielgeneen ), Producer, Eater Amanda Kludt ( @k ludt ), Editor in Chief, Eater More to explore: Check out more great reporting from the Eater newsroom . Subscribe to Amanda’s weekly newsletter here . Follow Us: Eater.com...
Feb 28, 2020•47 min
Camilla Marcus of west~bourne joins the show to talk about the innovative ways her restaurant is providing childcare to it's employees. Hosts: Daniel Geneen ( @danielgeneen ), Producer, Eater Amanda Kludt ( @k ludt ), Editor in Chief, Eater More to explore: Check out more great reporting from the Eater newsroom . Subscribe to Amanda’s weekly newsletter here . Follow Us: Eater.com Facebok.com/Eater YouTube.com/Eater @eater on Twitter and Instagram Get in Touch: digest@eater.com About Eater: Eater...
Feb 21, 2020•43 min
Julia Rubin and Rebecca Jennings help judge a string of first date moves from eater staffers. Then Jack Schramm (head bartender at Existing Conditions ) drops by to help us all be better cocktail bar patrons. Thanks to McGraw Wolfman , Patty Diez , Tim Forster , Stef Tuder and James Park for their moves! Hosts: Daniel Geneen ( @danielgeneen ), Producer, Eater Amanda Kludt ( @k ludt ), Editor in Chief, Eater More to explore: Check out more great reporting from the Eater newsroom . Subscribe to Am...
Feb 14, 2020•42 min
Hong Kong based writer Andrew Genung covers the two major happenings in Hong Kong and whether or not they will have lasting effects on the city's food scene. Subscribe to Andrew's food newsletter here: https://familymeal.substack.com/ Hosts: Daniel Geneen ( @danielgeneen ), Producer, Eater Amanda Kludt ( @k ludt ), Editor in Chief, Eater More to explore: Check out more great reporting from the Eater newsroom . Subscribe to Amanda’s weekly newsletter here . Follow Us: Eater.com Facebok.com/Eater ...
Feb 07, 2020•37 min
Amanda and Dan are joined by travel editor Lesley Suter to talk about where you should be eating in 2020. Hosts: Daniel Geneen ( @danielgeneen ), Producer, Eater Amanda Kludt ( @k ludt ), Editor in Chief, Eater More to explore: Check out more great reporting from the Eater newsroom . Subscribe to Amanda’s weekly newsletter here . Follow Us: Eater.com Facebok.com/Eater YouTube.com/Eater @eater on Twitter and Instagram Get in Touch: digest@eater.com About Eater: Eater obsessively covers the world ...
Jan 24, 2020•48 min
Amanda and Dan are joined by a slew of Eater editors to talk about 2020 food resolutions. Featuring: Ryan Sutton , Pelin Keskin, Missy Frederick , Stefania Orru and Martha Daniel . Hosts: Daniel Geneen ( @danielgeneen ), Producer, Eater Amanda Kludt ( @k ludt ), Editor in Chief, Eater More to explore: Check out more great reporting from the Eater newsroom . Subscribe to Amanda’s weekly newsletter here . Follow Us: Eater.com Facebok.com/Eater YouTube.com/Eater @eater on Twitter and Instagram Get ...
Jan 17, 2020•43 min
Erica Hall , general manager of Brooklyn hot spot Win Son , drops by the show to help us all be better diners. Hosts: Daniel Geneen ( @danielgeneen ), Producer, Eater Amanda Kludt ( @k ludt ), Editor in Chief, Eater More to explore: Check out more great reporting from the Eater newsroom . Subscribe to Amanda’s weekly newsletter here . Follow Us: Eater.com Facebok.com/Eater YouTube.com/Eater @eater on Twitter and Instagram Get in Touch: digest@eater.com About Eater: Eater obsessively covers the w...
Jan 10, 2020•42 min
One of our favorite conversations this year was with Ruth Reichl, the legendary food journalist and former editor of Gourmet Magazine. In her newest book Save Me the Plums, Ruth talks about the wild 10 years she spent at Condé Nast and the traumatic folding of the beloved magazine. She joined Amanda and Daniel in Eater's studios to dish on the changing world of food media. Guests: Ruth Reichl ( @RuthRecihl ) Hosts: Amanda Kludt ( @k ludt ), Editor in Chief, Eater Daniel Geneen ( @danielgeneen ),...
Dec 20, 2019•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 21
Ah, 2019. It was the year of the celery juice phenomenon, thirsty brands on Twitter, Game of Thrones food anachronisms, high profile restaurant divorces, and Impossible doing the, well... impossible. This year provided all sorts of fodder for our weekly stories segment, and to wrap it all up, we're dedicating an entire episode to the stories that defined 2019: the good, the bad, the ugly, and the downright ridiculous. We asked a bunch of our friends from the newsroom to join us in discussing the...
Dec 13, 2019•41 min•Ep. 20
It feels like Christmas bars are taking over. These unabashedly kitschy, tinsel-and-ribbon adorned yuletide popups are slinging good cheer and plenty of booze all over the country, and we wanted to know why people love them so much. So we called up Beth McKibben of Eater Atlanta, where at least 12 different Christmas bars are attracting massive crowds, and Greg Boehm the founder of Miracle, the popup making it all happen. Then, we get into the biggest stories of the week, from McDonald's attempt...
Dec 06, 2019•45 min•Ep. 19
Turns out, lots of chefs aren't as great at writing as they are at cooking. So how do they bring their culinary visions to the pages of a cookbook? With help from people like JJ Goode, who help them translate their stories and recipes for home cooks. JJ joined Amanda and Daniel in studio to talk about how he got into the world of cookbook ghostwriting, and why even as a self-proclaimed lazy cook, he still loves checking out wildly difficult recipes. Then, we get into the biggest stories of the w...
Nov 29, 2019•46 min•Ep. 17
Very rarely is Thanksgiving an error-free affair. We asked you to call in and tell us about your most disastrous Thanksgiving mishaps, and you delivered. From wasp attacks, to whipped cream on the ceiling, and poorly behaved relatives, we've got it all in this special holiday call-in episode, including a phone call from (drum roll, please).... Daniel's mom! Then, we get into the biggest stories of the week, from a Burger King lawsuit to some big Chick-fil-A news and more, plus Amanda and Daniel ...
Nov 22, 2019•44 min•Ep. 16
Chances are, you've got a favorite grocery store. Whether it's the employees, the childhood nostalgia of a hometown market, or the unique products that make yours great, everyone seems to have that one grocery store they're obsessed with. Stores all over the country have built cult followings, and we wanted to know: what is it about the grocery store that we love so much? Jaya Saxena joins us to lay out her theory, and then we hear from Eater's editors about their favorite places across the coun...
Nov 15, 2019•43 min•Ep. 15
