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If you’re a despot, there are two people you can’t lie to, your doctor and your chef. This is one of the nuggets explained to me by Witold Szabłowski,…
The red Zagat guide to restaurants was a fixture to a generation of New York diners before Google bought the brand and stopped publishing copies of th…
I first really got to know Andrew Friedman after the death of our mutual friend, the great food writer Josh Ozersky. Andrew is a widely respected food…
I love this book, am using its recipes, and was thrilled to interview Dr. Koufman, an iconoclast who appears poised to torpedo a terribly wasteful and…
It's pretty likely you use Yelp, the restaurant review app and website. Wouldn't it be nice if all the reviews on there were concise, thorough and tru…
This book is a ton of fun. To Live and Dine in L.A.: Menus and the Making of the Modern City (Angel City Press) taps the deep and colorful collection …
An unusual case here: Margarita Martinez is not the author of Cabot Creamery Cookbook: Simple Wholesome Dishes from America's Best Dairy Farms (Oxmoor…
Excellence. Sometimes it's an additional 20 percent past "pretty good." But are you willing to put in that extra effort to polish your work, to make i…
Why are club sandwiches so good? This is among the important questions we get around to discussing during this podcast. Chef Bryan Voltaggio, a Top Ch…
David E. Sutton's book beguiles. Secrets From the Greek Kitchen:Cooking, Skill, and Everyday Life on an Aegean Island (University of California Press,…
Does olive oil these days still taste as good as it did in decades past? That's one of the topics Rawia Bishara and I discuss on the occasion of the p…
Don't worry. Or do. The most graphic page of Meghan Turbitt's new comic book, #FoodPorn (2014) has sushi covering all the risky parts. Turbitt says sh…
A real treat here. Probably the most famous living American food writer, Ruth Reichl joins Allen Salkin for a conversation partly about her new novel …
Something nice and filling for you here! Laura Silver's book Knish: In Search of the Jewish Soul Food (Brandeis University Press, 2014) concerns itsel…
It's not that Silvia Lehrer dislikes the rich people who flock to the Hamptons every July and August. It's just that she prefers to celebrate those wh…
Danyelle Freeman, better known as "Restaurant Girl" and a judge on Top Chef Masters, is single. But if you are considering asking out the petite and s…
Gabrielle Hamilton has a hard time admitting she wrote a memoir. "It's like admitting you wrote a power love ballad," she told me. But her new book, B…