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About Allen Salkiin
NBN Episodes hosted by Allen:
May 7, 2020
How to Feed a Dictator
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,…
January 6, 2020
Zagat 2020 New York City Restaurants
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…
March 5, 2018
Chefs, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll
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…
February 3, 2016
Dr. Koufman's Acid Reflux Diet
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…
June 10, 2015
Yelp Help
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…
June 2, 2015
To Live and Dine in L.A.
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 …
March 11, 2015
Cabot Creamery Cookbook
An unusual case here: Margarita Martinez is not the author of Cabot Creamery Cookbook: Simple Wholesome Dishes from America's Best Dairy Farms (Oxmoor…
February 10, 2015
Baking Chez Moi
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…
February 5, 2015
Home
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…
January 13, 2015
Secrets from the Greek Kitchen
David E. Sutton's book beguiles. Secrets From the Greek Kitchen:Cooking, Skill, and Everyday Life on an Aegean Island (University of California Press,…
June 5, 2014
Olives, Lemons and Za'atar
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…
May 14, 2014
#FoodPorn
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…
May 6, 2014
Delicious!
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 …
April 26, 2014
Knish
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…
July 11, 2011
Savoring the Hamptons
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…
June 14, 2011
Try This
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…
March 11, 2011
Blood, Bones, and Butter
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…