This week on The Food Seen Michael sits down with expert glass-blower Anders Rydstedt and Chef Michael Ayoub of Fornino. The gang discuss glass blowing, sugar blowing, using super-hot glass-blowing technology for cooking, and bringing kitchenwear into the world of blowing glass. They also drop a bevy of mind-blowing glass-related facts on the listening audience (remember: glass is a liquid frozen in time by one thousand degrees of heat). This episode was sponsored by Fairway: like no other marke...
Sep 28, 2010•39 min•Ep. 19
This week on The Food Seen Michael goes on the road to Star Chef’s International Chef’s Congress, a meeting of the minds for culinary masters to show off their most creative and innovative techniques and ideas. Michael speaks to Jordan Kahn about cooking with colors, playing on our preconceptions about what food should look like and exploring how the visual affects our taste. Michael also speaks to Gabriel Bremer about cooking basics versus new school technology and how art affects both. Alex St...
Sep 21, 2010•37 min•Ep. 18
This week on The Food Seen Michael speaks to King Phojanakong of Kuma Inn and Umi Nom. King came to HRN studios with his wife, his parents, and (via telephone) his brother. With multiple generations and food cultures in one place, King explained about how growing up eating a mix of Thai and Filipino foods affected him growing up, and how it came to inform his cooking. The Phojanakong clan compare and contrast Thai and Filipino foods and eating traditions, and venture to name their favorite meals...
Sep 14, 2010•48 min•Ep. 17
This week on The Food Seen Joel Bukiewicz & Harry Rosenblum of Cut Brooklyn stop by the studio to discuss the art and science of making high performance knives. With over an 18-month wait per blade, Cut Bk Knives are in high demand, and listening to Joel describe the incredible attention to detail he puts into each exacting step of hand forging these beauties, it is not hard to see why. Tune in to hear Cut’s plans for growth in the future, how they got into the biz in the first place, and th...
Sep 07, 2010•34 min•Ep. 16
This week on The Food Seen Michael sits down with sculptor, photographer and artist Corin Hewitt. Hewitt has had his art featured in the Whitney and in various galleries all over the world, and incorporates everything from heat casting to eating in his work. Hear Hewitt talk about the “kitchen/laboratory/art space” where he works, why still life has informed his work so heavily, and how he has used food as the product, medium, and end product in a lot of his art. This episode was sponsored by Te...
Aug 31, 2010•30 min•Ep. 15
This week on The Food Seen Michael sits down with Adam & Brad Farmerie of AvroKO design. Adam and Brad (the chef at Public and Double Crown) turned design firm consultants have helped some of the best restaurants in New York and beyond create a style from the ground up, focusing on everything from materials to their theory of a collective consciousness spanning both the food and the visuals. This episode was sponsored by White Oak Pastures. Photo: Public NYC See Privacy Policy at https://art...
Aug 24, 2010•34 min•Ep. 14
This week on The Food Seen Michael sits down with the brilliant and multi-talented Natalie Jeremijenko, whose work blurs the lines between environmental activism, visual art, performance, and education. Learn about Natalie’s work exploring the inexorable link between humans and our food; what we consume enters our food, and what our food consumes enters us. Don’t miss this incredible chance to find out how our fish got hooked on anti-depressants, how Natalie learned to speak ‘goose’ with robotic...
Aug 17, 2010•38 min•Ep. 13
This week on The Food Seen Michael sat down with Catherine Kramer & Zack Denfeld to talk about biohacking, Monsanto and GMOs, using glow-in-the-dark fish to make sushi, plus Zack’s experiences in India and Cat’s social experiment distributing free food. Tune in for an extremely insightful look at the way we currently source food and the way we may some day source it, sci-fi style. This episode was sponsored by Hearst Ranch: grass-fed beef from California. Photo’s 1&2: Glo Fish Sushi, Pho...
Aug 10, 2010•33 min•Ep. 12
Today on The Food Seen, Michael sits down with Michael Laiskonis, executive pastry chef at Le Bernardin. The two talk about the art of dessert and the various artistic approaches to discussing it. Then, Salon.com’s Francis Lam calls in to discuss the challenges of making dessert with a message and to say what he thought of dessert at Le Bernadin. This week’s episode brought to you by Tekserve. For more information visit tekserve.com Photos: Dessert creations from Michael Laiskonis See Privacy Po...
Aug 03, 2010•32 min•Ep. 11
This week on The Food Seen Michael spoke to Nathalie Smith of Global Table and Eugenia Bone of the Denver Post’s Well Preserved Blog. Nathalie explained how she turned a career in fashion (and a hunch that French ceramics were going to be all the rage) into a career in boutique housewares, and how the objects you surround yourself with define your personal style. This episode was sponsored by Acme Smoked Fish: a mainstay in NYC’s culinary landscape for over 50 years. See Privacy Policy at https:...
Jul 27, 2010•29 min•Ep. 10
This week on The Food Seen Michael spoke to restaurateurs Laura Shea and David Shea of applewood restaurant in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Michael spoke to them about the familial roots of applewood, and how the Sheys began work on raising a restaurant and a child at essentially the same time. They also discussed how a menu that changes daily makes being a cook (and a client) more interesting. This episode was sponsored by Whole Foods Market. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and Califor...
Jul 20, 2010•32 min•Ep. 9
This week on The Food Seen Michael spoke to Julia Ickes of Design and Construction Resources LLC, a consulting firm that specializes in the design and construction of high-end eating spaces in New York City. Julia described her now seminal work on Momofuku Ssam and Noodle Bars, and elaborated on how efficiency was underlying element behind the design of both spaces. She also discusses how she designed a cashier system from the ground up for Blue Bottle, while specifically avoiding the traditiona...
Jul 13, 2010•30 min•Ep. 8
This week on The Food Seen Michael sat down with Jason Wright and Emilie Baltz of Fork and Design, a NYC design firm specializing in complete graphic design and visual solutions for restaurants and boutique eateries. The duo spoke about what it means to design for food and market brands that are food-specific, and why the hospitality industry requires a different set of skills than just any potential client for a graphic design firm. This episode was sponsored by Fairway Market: like no other ma...
Jul 06, 2010•31 min•Ep. 7
This week on The Food Seen Michael sat down with Jessica Romm Perez (Style Editor at Food & Wine) & Fredrika Stjarne (Director of Photography at Food & Wine). The ladies spoke about the multi-faceted world of organzing, arranging, designing, styling, and framing food; the general process of making food beautiful and representing deliciousness visually. Tune in to get the inside scoop on the industry from two veteran stylists. This episode was sponsored by Acme Smoked Fish: a mainstay...
Jun 29, 2010•32 min•Ep. 6
This week on The Food Seen Michael spoke to Charlotte Druckman, freelance journalist and contributor to the NYTimes’s T Magazine. The duo spoke on everything from art history to boutique NYC ice cream, and talked about the relationship between nationalism See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .
Jun 22, 2010•31 min•Ep. 5
Michael, Cyd Raftus McDowell & Victoria Granof talk about the art of food styling. Learn how these veterans of the food world work with chefs and photographers to get some of the city’s best food looking as good as it does. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .
Jun 08, 2010•32 min•Ep. 4
This week on The Food Seen Michael spoke to Melissa Clark, author of eighteen cookbooks including “Chef Interrupted”. Tune in to hear Melissa on the “slow and low mentality”, and to learn what dishes are defining Brooklyn. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .
Jun 08, 2010•32 min•Ep. 3
Gabriele Stabile & Marcus Nilsson come by to talk about the life of a food photographer, how they got to where they are now, and what plans they have for the future. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .
Jun 02, 2010•32 min•Ep. 2
This week on The Food Seen, Michael spoke to a trio of food photographers: Quentin Bacon, Francesco Tonelli, and Andrew Scrivani. The guys spoke about the world of food photography in its current state. Photo by Francesca Tonelli See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .
May 25, 2010•33 min•Ep. 1
