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Food May 7, 2020

How to Feed a Dictator

Saddam Hussein, Idi Amin, Enver Hoxha, Fidel Castro, and Pol Pot Through the Eyes of Their Cooks

Witold Szabłowski

Hosted by Allen Salkiin
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, author …
Food January 6, 2020

Zagat 2020 New York City Restaurants

Special 40th Anniversary Edition

Hillary Reinsberg

Hosted by Allen Salkiin
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 the book. In time …
Food March 5, 2018

Chefs, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll

How Food Lovers, Free Spirits, Misfits and Wanderers Created a New American Profession

Andrew Friedman

Hosted by Allen Salkiin
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 writer who has …
Food February 3, 2016

Dr. Koufman's Acid Reflux Diet

Jamie Koufman

Hosted by Allen Salkiin
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 dangerous arm of the …
Food June 10, 2015

Yelp Help

How to Write Great Restaurant Reviews

Hanna Raskin

Hosted by Allen Salkiin
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 trustworthy? If it were …
Food June 2, 2015

To Live and Dine in L.A.

Menus and the Making of the Modern City

Josh Kun

Hosted by Allen Salkiin
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 …
Food March 11, 2015

Cabot Creamery Cookbook

Simple Wholesome Dishes from America's Best Dairy Farms

Margarita Martinez

Hosted by Allen Salkiin
An unusual case here: Margarita Martinez is not the author of Cabot Creamery Cookbook: Simple Wholesome Dishes from America's Best Dairy Farms (Oxmoor House, 2015). But I'm using this interview …
Food February 10, 2015

Baking Chez Moi

Recipes from My Paris Home to Your Home Anywhere

Dorie Greenspan

Hosted by Allen Salkiin
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 it gleam, to make …
Food February 5, 2015

Home

Recipes to Cook with Family and Friends

Bryan Voltaggio

Hosted by Allen Salkiin
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 Chef finalist and Maryland-area restaurateur …
Food January 13, 2015

Secrets from the Greek Kitchen

Cooking, Skill, and Everyday Life on an Aegean Island

David E. Sutton

Hosted by Allen Salkiin
David E. Sutton's book beguiles. Secrets From the Greek Kitchen:Cooking, Skill, and Everyday Life on an Aegean Island (University of California Press, 2014) seems like a simple chronicle of the …
Food June 5, 2014

Olives, Lemons and Za'atar

The Best Middle Eastern Home Cooking

Rawia Bishara

Hosted by Allen Salkiin
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 …
Food May 14, 2014

#FoodPorn

Meghan Turbitt

Hosted by Allen Salkiin
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 she was inspired to ink …
Food May 6, 2014

Delicious!

Ruth Reichl

Hosted by Allen Salkiin
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 Delicious! (Random House, 2014), but …
Food April 26, 2014

Knish

In Search of the Jewish Soul Food

Laura Silver

Hosted by Allen Salkiin
Something nice and filling for you here! Laura Silver's book Knish: In Search of the Jewish Soul Food (Brandeis University Press, 2014) concerns itself not only with the round -- …
Food July 11, 2011

Savoring the Hamptons

Discovering the Food and Wine of Long Island's East End

Silvia Lehrer

Hosted by Allen Salkiin
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 who have more blood …
Food June 14, 2011

Try This

Traveling the Globe without Leaving the Table

Danyelle Freeman

Hosted by Allen Salkiin
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 spunky brunette, you are …
Food March 11, 2011

Blood, Bones, and Butter

The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef

Gabrielle Hamilton

Hosted by Allen Salkiin
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, Blood, Bones & …