On today’s episode of THE FOOD SEEN, we span the globe for strange and curious food stories with Gastro Obscura, the gastrotourist cousin of online magazine/guidebook Atlas Obscura. Editors Alex Mayyasi and Sam O’Brien, post about food art, food artifacts, food as ritual and medicine, and are interested in your submissions too! Their pitch guidelines ask for food stories associated with a particular place, like “ Inside the World's Only Sourdough Library ” or how “ In Istanbul, Drinking Coffee i...
Feb 19, 2019•35 min•Ep. 381
On today’s episode of THE FOOD SEEN, if you live in the neighborhood, you already know Buttermilk Channel and their famous brunches. And that time Beyoncé & Jay Z celebrated new year’s eve there. Doug Crowell and Ryan Angulo opened French Louie , their follow-up Brooklyn-based bistro, as a place to further celebrate the hordes of happy customers willing to cross the river. That’s because no matter who you are, where you come from, and what you’re in for, they serve Kindness & Salt, the e...
Feb 12, 2019•39 min•Ep. 380
On today’s episode of THE FOOD SEEN, from the Hudson River to Caspian Basin, Siberian to Keluga, Craig Page of Pearl Street Caviar tells us a fish story about Triassic-era sturgeon (that’s pre-dinosaur), and it’s exotic eggs we call caviar. A luxury to most, caviar isn’t only for celebrating with extravagance; it’s nutrient dense, full of Omega 3s, memory-boosting choline, better B12 than beef, and more iron than spinach. Pearl Street Caviar hopes to bring back accessible roe to the Hudson River...
Feb 05, 2019•39 min•Ep. 379
On today’s episode of THE FOOD SEEN, “open sesame” to tahini, the principal product behind Soom Foods sister-owned company creating pantry staples. Shelby, Jackie and Amy (Zitelman), source their single-origin sesame seeds from Humera, Ethiopia, process the paste in Israel, and after nearly 6,000 miles of transport, their premium Soom tahini (& chocolate sweet tahini halva spread) condiment, find their way to Philadelphia, and then into our homes and hearts. Of course, you can make hummus wi...
Jan 29, 2019•34 min•Ep. 378
On today’s episode of THE FOOD SEEN, west~bourne was born out of Camilla Marcus’ bicoastal love of her birth and adopted cities: Los Angeles and New York. An artist in her own right, Marcus instead studied law, investment, and business development, knowing that “what you need before a restaurant, is a location”. After some time as Director of Business Development for Union Square Hospitality Group , she was finally ready to navigate the New York City real estate market, in hopes of bringing a mi...
Jan 22, 2019•33 min•Ep. 377
On today’s episode of THE FOOD SEEN, David Tamarkin, an editor and digital director at Epicurious, takes us through the Cook90 Challenge , which originally was a self-imposed proposition to cook 3 meals a day for 30 days to start off the new year. What began as a solo journey, is now a #hashtag over 10K strong! Now there’s a book too, COOK90: The 30-Day Plan for Faster, Healthier, Happier Meals, your guide to cook yourself to a better you, one month at a time. The Food Seen is powered by Simplec...
Jan 15, 2019•42 min•Ep. 376
On today’s episode of THE FOOD SEEN, let’s go Dutch, not Danish, for Christmas. Irish-born, now Netherlands native Yvette Van Boven , is the acclaimed cookbook author of Home Made Christmas and host of Holland's popular cooking show Koken Met van Boven. She celebrates Sinterklaas on December 5th, eats pea soup with her hot chocolate, and leaves a shoe in front of the fireplace. While it’s less Heineken, herring, and bitterballen, and more trifles, eton mess and syllabub, the spirit of Van Boven’...
Dec 18, 2018•38 min•Ep. 375
On today’s episode of THE FOOD SEEN, when René Redzepi opened Noma in 2003, he couldn’t have imagined that a small Copenhagen-based restaurant would send a ripple through the food scene by way of Nordic cuisine. The same goes for what we’ve recently witnessed in the world fermentation. An act of aging a piece of produce, or protein (see: chicken wing garum), is calculatedly manipulated, and matured, for maximum flavor through an ever-evolving relationship between microbes and humans, or that’s h...
Dec 11, 2018•52 min•Ep. 374
On today’s episode of THE FOOD SEEN, we hit the gym with Olivia Young, founder of Box + Flow . Her fitness regimen consists of a 55-minute workout, composite of punching bags and yoga mats. For years, Young lived the frenetic life of restaurant publicity, but decided to shift gears, without losing her morning routine. She now teaches jabs, crosses and hooks, in the same breath as vinyasa-like moves and warrior poses. And don’t think she’s forgotten about her love of food, of the four B’s she swe...
Nov 20, 2018•33 min•Ep. 373
On today’s episode of THE FOOD SEEN, nearly forty years after Whole Foods Market began as a vegetarian store and cafe in an old house in Austin, Texas, there are over 500 locations across the country. While Whole Foods have certainly made their impact in how we shop for groceries, Founder/CEO John Mackey, hopes to further nourish people, and the planet, through empowering home cooks with the same ideology. The Whole Foods Cookbook has 120 healthy plant-centered recipes, based off world cuisines,...
Nov 13, 2018•41 min•Ep. 372
On today’s episode of THE FOOD SEEN, the queen of Seattle’s post grunge music/dining scene is Linda Derschang. With the blessing, and backing of Sub Pop’s Jonathan Poneman, the Derschang Group began in 1994. First there was Linda’s Tavern on Capitol Hill; now there’s over ten locations: from seasonal pub Smith, two locations of all-day cafe Oddfellows, and the Ballard neighborhood burger joint King’s Hardware. Lately she’s been reviving Queen City, an iconic Belltown space, which has been a bar ...
Nov 06, 2018•31 min•Ep. 371
On today’s episode of THE FOOD SEEN, a modern-day Johnny Appleseed, spreads the story of cider. Annie Bystryn, founder and president of Cider In Love, and a curated online marketplace for fine heritage ciders, brings small batch cideries right to your door! DYK: It takes on average, 36 apples to produce one gallon of hard cider, and that there are over 10,000 varieties of apples around the world! Focusing on cider makers from New York, the Northwest, New England and California, Cider In Love in ...
Oct 30, 2018•34 min•Ep. 370
On today’s episode of THE FOOD SEEN, an architect walks into a restaurant, and what does he see? Glen Coben, founder of Glen & Co. Architecture , tells all in An Architect’s Cookbook, illustrating a life focused on making food look better through ambiance and decor. From concept to rendering, construction to finishing touches, Michelin starred establishments to tacos joints, even BBQ and steakhouses, Coben has interpreted chef’s visions such as Alex Stupak of Empéllon, and Gabriel Kreuther o...
Oct 23, 2018•32 min•Ep. 369
On today’s episode of THE FOOD SEEN, what happens when food stylist Rebekah Peppler trades in her 250 square foot New York City apartment, for a room with a view in the 18th arrondissement of Paris? Well, for one, she learns about the power of the apero! Apéritif: Cocktail Hour the French Way, is as much a cookbook, as it is a guide, through the fundamental nature of pre-dinner drinks, and utmost importance of taking time for yourself, and other, while savoring said sip. With recipes for all sea...
Oct 16, 2018•33 min•Ep. 368
On today’s episode of THE FOOD SEEN, let’s call Olivia Mack McCool the “lunch lady”, but she’s not your atypical vision of someone manning steam tables and scooping slop onto plastic trays in a cafeteria. Instead, McCool has made her career building beautiful dishes as a food stylist, which lead her to transform how we look at our midday meal. LUNCH! is a 10-week guide to reclaiming the real most important meal of the day. McCool reorganizes your pantry, cleans up your fridge, and preps you for ...
Oct 09, 2018•32 min•Ep. 367
On today’s episode of THE FOOD SEEN, we puff, puff, chew? Rupa Bhattacharya, Editor-in-Chief of MUNCHIES, the Vice Media vertical about all things food, brings us Bong Appetit, a cookbook on mastering the art of cooking with weed. With edibles and CBD lattés abound, it’s no wonder that people are a-buzzing with cannabis in the kitchen. But how do you decarboxylation the THC to make it tasty, and make yourself feel toasty. From flower to fan leaf, kief to water hash, we learn how to make weed-inf...
Oct 02, 2018•29 min•Ep. 366
On today’s episode of THE FOOD SEEN, Viennese born chef Eduard “Edi” Frauneder of Edi & The Wolf, The Third Man, Bar Freud, and Schilling in New York City, bring his Freudian psychology to that of Austrian cuisine. It’s not just all schnitzel, spaetzle, and strudel (though much of it is); there’s a geniality, or “gemütlichkeit”: a sense of conviviality and cozy intimacy that comes from the temporary surrender of everyday responsibilities, oft overlooked by the unconscious mind. THE FOOD SEEN...
Sep 25, 2018•35 min•Ep. 365
On today's episode of THE FOOD SEEN, we’re back and bubbling up with Daina Trout, founder of Health-Ade Kombucha, a thriving company based in lightly effervescent, fermented teas. After years studying nutrition, is was more of a personal philosophy that health is not only determined by science, but through connecting with what makes you happy, that lead her to the holistic qualities of kombucha. Well, that and hair growth! Using “real” food for flavors like Ginger-Lemon, Pomegranate, and a fan f...
Sep 18, 2018•35 min•Ep. 364
On today's episode of THE FOOD SEEN, The MP Shift is a concept, design and branding studio working primarily on hospitality and lifestyle brands. Co-founders Amy Morris and Anna Polonsky, have over 25 years combined working in this multi-faceted creative space, and in 2018, won the James Beard Award for Outstanding Restaurant Design. Their backgrounds and influences are as diverse as their Instagram mood boards, pulling inspiration from wine bottles, embroidery, chocolate packaging, album covers...
Aug 14, 2018•42 min•Ep. 363
On today's episode of THE FOOD SEEN, Erik Ramirez grew up in New Jersey with his Peruvian-Japanese grandmother. Decades later, his restaurant Llama Inn in Brooklyn, is in exploration, and honor to, his blended past. There's a long history behind Nikkei cuisine, a proverbial bridge blending Peruvian ingredients and Japanese techniques, which sees ceviche in a similar vein to sashimi, anticuchos (grilled skewers) akin to yakitori. Just like the great expanse between the Andes and Amazon, there's a...
Jul 24, 2018•31 min•Ep. 362
On today's episode of THE FOOD SEEN, Ned Baldwin, son and grandson of a fisherman, chef/owner of Houseman restaurant in Lower Manhattan's Hudson Square, has long been inspired by the Norwegian word husmanskost, loosely translated to "everyday food." He's built his palate by way of commercial fishing, studying sculpture, and furniture making, and now renders near perfect versions of roast chicken and steak frites. It's all a practice of what's practical versus impractical, and how to mix in overl...
Jul 10, 2018•34 min•Ep. 361
On today's episode of THE FOOD SEEN, every successful artist should have a stockpile of go to pieces/performances/processes. Jessica Battilana's Repertoire, is in the kitchen, and is the title of her compendium cookbook. Co-author of cookbooks like Vietnamese Home Food with Charles Phan of Slanted Door, Tartine Book 3 with Chad Robertson, and Home Grown: Cooking from My New England Roots with Matt Jennings of Townsman, Battilana, knows that freedom comes from cooking familiar things frequently, ...
Jun 26, 2018•30 min•Ep. 360
On today's episode of THE FOOD SEEN, a cabaret may be a form of theatrical entertainment, but it's also a lifestyle for Daniel Isengart. Born in Germany, and raised in Paris, he's the living embodiment of culinary art meets the arts. While pursuing a stage career, he also found himself catering to New York's socialite sect and feeding a class of downtown creatives just like Alice B. Toklas and Gertrude Stein did during the Parisian avant-garde movement, as profiled in his memoir, The Art of Gay ...
Jun 19, 2018•43 min•Ep. 359
On today's episode of THE FOOD SEEN, Christina Lecki runs Reynard , a wood-fire restaurant in Brooklyn's Wythe Hotel, with an ambition of being 100% sustainable. There's a whole animal butchery program, a 24-hour cooking schedule, food scraps are made into meals, and even dye the fabrics used at the table. While food is one of the top emitters of greenhouse gas, Lecki is the opposite of hot air, putting her operations money where her mouth is, funding farmers as natural resources; a return on in...
Jun 12, 2018•36 min•Ep. 358
On today's episode of THE FOOD SEEN, we mix up a Negroni cocktail, as Campari (the storied Italian bitter liqueur) celebrates Negroni Week. It only makes sense to speak to three Negroni ambassadors, as analogy to the cocktail's 1:1:1 recipe ratio. First, Gary "Gaz" Regan's recounts his book, "The Negroni" and the century old tale of Count Negroni's drink order which changed the face of cocktail culture. We'll sit at the bar with Naren Young of Dante, who's cocktail list boasts a Negroni on tap a...
Jun 05, 2018•36 min•Ep. 356
On today's episode of THE FOOD SEEN, Maryland native, Drew Lazor, writes about cocktail culture for PUNCH, and most recently authored their low-alcohol drinks book, Session Cocktails. (NOTE: Lazor grew up drinking Baltimore's own Orange Crush.) With a library of libation anecdotes, Lazor's bar talk is fluid, but if you want to coherently converse and be drinking throughout, the 3/4-ounce rule is for you! Cobblers, Kir Royales, Sours and Collins, are a grade of mixed drinks made for those of us t...
May 29, 2018•25 min•Ep. 355
On today's episode of THE FOOD SEEN, Gayle Pirie & John Clark's lives have been like a movie. They met in San Francisco, became chefs at the Bay Area's illustrious Zuni Cafe, then opening Foreign Cinema in the Mission District in 2001. Reviving an area that used to be known as "Miracle Mile" for it's shopping malls marked with movie theater marquees, Pirie & Clark coalesced their love of international cuisines, and foreign films, as seen in their storied cookbook, starting from La Dolce ...
May 22, 2018•31 min•Ep. 354
On today's episode of THE FOOD SEEN, Gaz Oakley grew up on the south coast of Wales in the UK. He aptly chose catering as a subject for his GSCE when he was 14 years old, and from there on out, food became his core. For years, Gaz cooked in hotels, restaurants, but it wasn't until a few years ago, that he decided to become vegan, and truly found his food voice. Avant Garde Vegan, started as an Instagram feed, @avantgardevegan, now with over 200K followers, and then became a YouTube channel, now ...
May 15, 2018•26 min•Ep. 353
On today’s episode of THE FOOD SEEN, no one sets a scene like Southern boys, Ben Knox and Christopher Spaulding of Reclaim Design. Their narrative driven designs are inspired by years in theatre, and have somehow made a home in many a cookbook (e.g. The Art of the Cheese Plate, Eat What You Watch, Toast Water, Hot Cheese, Captain's Cocktails, Crimes Against Whiskey, Ranch, Tiki ... to name a few). Like an actor ability to story tell, the costumes they now lay are tabletops. From vintage tablewar...
May 08, 2018•27 min•Ep. 352
On today's episode of THE FOOD SEEN, we take in Booze & Vinyl with The Darlingtons. André and Tenaya, a brother and sister food and cocktail writing team, grew up listening to their musician father's turntable, their family known for hosting lots of listening parties. Years later, while on Google Hangouts hosting a virtual happy hour, they hatched a plan to drink their way through the cocktail canon together. 70 iconic albums from the 1930s -2000s, Side A & Side B cocktails to pair, you'...
Apr 17, 2018•22 min•Ep. 351
