"Food plays into the rural experience in a really interesting way. I think my personal experience is unique because I grew up in a very rural place. I felt shame around being from there, then I moved to a city. I've very much considered myself urban, and then I moved back and have made most of my adult life in this rural place. So I really kind of understand the sensibilities of both groups. … When we have pride in ourselves and our place, then we feel as if we want to invest in that more, wheth...
Mar 01, 2022•55 min
"I just thought about so many Black women who came before me who have been cooking amazing food in this country for centuries and how we don't know their names. But the stories of the women I do know in my family—my great-great aunt, my two grandmothers, my mother—I could tell the stories that I do know about them. So that was just crucial for me and, you know, it was very emotional as I was writing it." This week, we're excited to welcome Vallery Lomas to Salt + Spine, the podcast on stories be...
Feb 15, 2022•40 min
This week, we're excited to welcome Abra Berens to Salt + Spine, the podcast on stories behind cookbooks. Abra is the chef at Granor Farm in Three Oaks, Michigan, and the author of two cookbooks: Ruffage: A Practical Guide to Vegetables and Grist: A Practical Guide to Cooking Grains, Beans, Seeds, and Legumes . START COOKING TODAY: Omnivore Books | Bookshop | Hardcover Cook . | IndieBound Growing up in Michigan on a pickle farm, Abra took an interest in food early on. She worked at the beloved Z...
Feb 02, 2022•49 min
**Today's episode is brought to you by Chronicle Books . Salt + Spine listeners can use the code SALT25 to get 25% off orders—with free ground shipping on orders over $25—through the end of 2021.** This week, we're excited to welcome Rodney Scott to Salt + Spine, the podcast on stories behind cookbooks. Rodney is the owner of Rodney Scott's Whole Hog BBQ in Charleston, South Carolina (and a new location in Birmingham, Alabama, and a forthcoming spot in Atlanta). His debut cookbook, Rodney Scott'...
Nov 08, 2021•37 min
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Oct 21, 2021•18 min
**Today's episode is brought to you by Chronicle Books . Salt + Spine listeners can use the code SALT25 to get 25% off orders—with free ground shipping on orders over $25—through the end of 2021.** This week, we're excited to welcome Chef Matthew Raiford to Salt + Spine, the podcast on stories behind cookbooks. Matthew is a self-titled "CheFarmer"—that is Chef and Farmer—and the author of Bress ‘n’ Nyam: Gullah Geechee Recipes from a Sixth-Generation Farmer . Matthew was raised in Brunswick, Geo...
Oct 06, 2021•1 hr 5 min
NOTE: This is a two-part conversation. We suggest starting with the episode featuring our conversation with Jesse (one earlier in your podcast feed) and continuing with this chat with Julie. This week, we're excited to welcome actor Jesse Tyler Ferguson and chef/food writer Julie Tanous to Salt + Spine, the podcast on stories behind cookbooks. Jesse and Julie are the co-authors of Food Between Friends, their debut cookbook that features recipes inspired by both of their upbringings and favorite ...
Sep 20, 2021•44 min
NOTE: This is a two-part conversation. We suggest starting with this episode featuring our conversation with Jesse and continuing with our conversation with Julie (next in your feed). This week, we're excited to welcome actor Jesse Tyler Ferguson and chef/food writer Julie Tanous to Salt + Spine, the podcast on stories behind cookbooks. Jesse and Julie are the co-authors of Food Between Friends, their debut cookbook that features recipes inspired by both of their upbringings and favorite dishes ...
Sep 20, 2021•29 min
This week, we're excited to welcome Reem Kassis to Salt + Spine, the podcast on stories behind cookbooks. Born in Jerusalem, Reem moved to the United States at 17 to attend university—and she was determined not to end up in the kitchen. After receiving an MBA from Wharton Business School and a Master's in cultural psychology from the London School of Economics, Reem spent time working at major corporations from McKinsey to The World Economic Forum. But when Reem had her first daughter, Yasneem, ...
Sep 10, 2021•44 min
This week, we're excited to welcome Chef Brandon Jew and food writer Tienlon Ho to Salt + Spine, the podcast on stories behind cookbooks. Brandon Jew and co-author, Tienlon Ho, joined us to talk about their recent cookbook: Mister Jiu's in Chinatown: Recipes and Stories from the Birthplace of Chinese American Food. PURCHASE THE COOKBOOK: Bookshop | IndieBound Mister Jiu's—the restaurant on which the book is based—sits in San Francisco's Chinatown on Waverley Place. In 2013, when the famed restau...
Sep 03, 2021•51 min
This week, we're excited to welcome Lindsay Gardner and Katianna Hong to Salt + Spine, the podcast on stories behind cookbooks. Lindsay's debut book, Why We Cook: Women on Food, Identity, and Connection , features interviews, recipes, and essays from more than 100 women in food. PURCHASE THE COOKBOOK: Omnivore Books | Bookshop | IndieBound | Amazon An artist whose illustrations and watercolor works have appeared in numerous media, Lindsay is an avid home cook herself and began to take a greater ...
Aug 25, 2021•37 min
This week, we're excited to welcome Farmer Lee Jones to Salt + Spine, the podcast on stories behind cookbooks. Lee grew up in Ohio, where his family has farmed for about six generations. Fresh into college at just 19 years old, Lee saw everything his family owned gone in a day—their farm, their house, their car—after a hail storm devastated their crops, and interest rates were sky-high. At that moment, the family pivoted to smaller-scale farming, catering to farmers’ markets. And it was at a far...
Aug 04, 2021•49 min
Episode 110 👤 THE GUEST: Molly Baz 📗 THE BOOK: Cook This Book: Techniques That Teach & Recipes to Repeat 🍴 THE RECIPES (for paid subscribers): Strip Steaks au Poivre This week, we're excited to welcome Molly Baz to Salt + Spine, the podcast on stories behind cookbooks. Molly became well-known as an editor in the Bon Appetit Test Kitchen, where she hosted videos on the magazine’s Youtube page. You may know herfrom the time she butchered an entire pig or when she learned to cook ostrich egg...
Jul 15, 2021•49 min
This week, we're excited to welcome Claire Saffitz to Salt + Spine, the podcast on stories behind cookbooks. Claire became a household name during her time at the Bon Appetit test kitchen, where she starred in many of the channels’ videos, including her own series: Gourmet Makes . In that show, she reversed engineered popular processed treats, ranging from Sour Patch Kids to Doritos . After growing up in the Midwest, Claire landed at Harvard where she studied History and Literature before moving...
Jun 29, 2021•43 min
This week, we're excited to welcome Hetty McKinnon to Salt + Spine, the podcast on stories behind cookbooks. Hetty’s entry to cookbooks began back in 2011, when she started a salad business, delivering lunch via bicycle around her neighborhood in Sydney, Australia. Before long, she found herself writing her first cookbook to catalog her creations and satisfy her customers, who had begun asking for her recipes. That early salad business built a community — the ritual of delivering a salad would l...
Jun 17, 2021•53 min
This week, we're excited to welcome Ayesha Curry to Salt + Spine, the podcast on stories behind cookbooks. Ayesha is the modern food & lifestyle mogul. Growing up obsessed with cooking, Ayesha always had her eyes set on acting — but her foray into food blogging has launched a massive career. Her first cookbook, The Seasoned Life , cemented her status on the culinary landscape. Soon followed restaurants, television shows, a new lifestyle magazine, a new in-person store, and more! And of cours...
May 11, 2021•36 min
This week, we're excited to welcome Jeff Mauro to Salt + Spine, the podcast on stories behind cookbooks. A Chicago native, Jeff has been beaming into your home TVs via Food Network since 2011, when he was crowned the winner of season seven of "Food Network Star" (and then, later that year, under another crown as the host of "Sandwich King.") And then more shows followed: Food Network’s "The Kitchen," which he’s co-hosted since 2014, and most recently his new show, "Kitchen Crash". A born perform...
May 07, 2021•41 min
HAVE A LISTEN: Loading Dock Talks is the new podcast hosted by Salt + Spine friend chef Preeti Mistry, where each week they talk with chefs, cookbook authors, and activists. Subscribe here . ABOUT THIS EPISODE: Preeti talks with Zoe Adjonyoh - chef, activist, and author - about connecting to her ancestral Ghanaian roots and building community through food, being a queer black woman in the industry, and about some of her favorite West African spices and ingredients. For more from Zoe: Her website...
May 04, 2021•55 min
This week, we're excited to welcome Marcus Samuelsson and Osayi Endolyn to Salt + Spine, the podcast on stories behind cookbooks. Chef Marcus Samuelsson has become a household culinary name, building his restaurant empire from Red Rooster in Harlem to now more than a dozen eateries around the globe. He's won multiple James Beard Awards and is a regular on food TV, from winning both "Top Chef Mastersæ and "Chopped All-Stars" to hosting No Passport Required," his show with Vox Media's Eater. And h...
Apr 23, 2021•1 hr 25 min
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Apr 07, 2021•34 min
This week, we're excited to welcome Jake Cohen to Salt + Spine, the podcast on stories behind cookbooks. You might recognize Jake from any number of social media platforms, where he regularly creates viral recipes and food content. A native New Yorker, Jake started his career post-culinary school at some of Manhattan’s most revered restaurants — Daniel and ABC Kitchen — before he made the jump to food media. Traversing his way through the offices of outlets like Saveur and Tasting Table, Jake ro...
Mar 31, 2021•36 min
HAVE A LISTEN: Counterjam is the third show on Food52's podcast new network. On Counterjam, host Peter Kim explores culture through food and music. Guests include A Tribe Called Quest founding member Jarobi White, Kelis, comedian Margaret Cho, chef and cookbook author Roy Choi, and many more. Subscribe here . About this episode: Host Peter J. Kim looks at Korean-American food culture—with chef Roy Choi, comedian Margaret Cho, and his mom (!)—in all its stinky, fermented, fishy beauty. Referenced...
Mar 26, 2021•49 min
This week, we're excited to welcome Mashama Bailey and John O. Morisano to Salt + Spine, the podcast on stories behind cookbooks. Mashama is the executive chef and partner of The Grey, which she runs with her business partner, John O. Morisano. The Savannah, Georgia restaurant is set inside a once-segregated, former Greyhound bus station and has been dubbed Restaurant of the Year by Eater and named one of TIME magazine’s "greatest places." The Grey serves up Mashama’s menu, which draws influence...
Mar 25, 2021•50 min
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Mar 18, 2021•52 min
This week, we're excited to welcome Pilar Hernandez and Eileen Smith to Salt + Spine, the podcast on stories behind cookbooks. Episode info coming soon. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit saltandspine.substack.com/subscribe
Mar 18, 2021•52 min
Angela Garbacz is the founder of the Lincoln, Nebraska pastry shop Goldenrod Pastries, which is focused on “inclusive baking,” the term Angela uses to describe her menu full of baked goods without dairy or gluten. Angela’s distilled her recipes and two decades of professional baking experience into her first cookbook, Perfectly Golden, which offers everything from confetti cookies to her grandmothers’s famous peach coffee cake. And all the recipes are easily adaptable — you can use butter or dai...
Mar 10, 2021•41 min
This week, we're excited to welcome Julia Turshen to Salt + Spine, the podcast on stories behind cookbooks. Julia is returning to Salt + Spine today to talk about her latest cookbook, Simply Julia . Julia is the well-known author of other cookbooks, including two highly praised solo books: Small Victories and Now & Again . And she’s a prolific writer in the industry, bringing together a range of voices and recipes for 2017’s Feed the Resistance cookbook as well as authoring The Interview, a ...
Feb 24, 2021•42 min
🥧 It's Pie Week 2021 🥧 This week, we're excited to welcome Petra Paredez to Salt + Spine, the podcast on stories behind cookbooks, for our Spring 2021 Pie Week! Petra’s life story is looped around pie from the very beginning. Before she was even born, her parents opened Mom’s Apple Pie Company in Leesburg, Virginia, and Petra and her family’s lives revolved around pie ever since. Be it the right fat-to-flour ratio for dough (hers is different than her dad’s) or the produce grown on the family ...
Feb 01, 2021•38 min
Episode 2 of our Spring 2021 Pie Week 🥧 Called a “pie guru” by Sunset magazine and the “pie-making queen” by Chowhound, Kate’s name has become synonymous with the practice of home-baking pies infused with care and confidence. Thousands of people have joined her workshops, including her 3-day Pie Camp, in Washington State and around the world. Her first cookbook — Art of the Pie — was nominated for a James Beard award. She followed it up with Home Cooking , breaking from pie just long enough to ...
Jan 28, 2021•44 min
Danielle Renov is the author of Peas Love & Carrots, her first cookbook. She is well known for her food blog and Instagram of the same name. She joins us this week to #TalkCookbooks. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit saltandspine.substack.com/subscribe...
Jan 19, 2021•31 min
