I think we’ve successfully established that I really like food. I’ve been listening to a few food podcasts lately, and I think you may like them too!
Bon Appetit Foodcast: If you’re going to listen to a food podcast you might as well go right to the one of the very best sources. This podcast covers a range of topics from quick cocktail recipes and ways to adapt them, things to do with rice, interviews with chefs and so much more. Informative and entertaining.
Table Manners with Jessie Ware: Singer Jessie Ware partners with her mom, Leni, to host a podcast where they interview people and feed them (obviously not during Coronavirus) and ask them about food they ate growing up, what they eat now, favorite restaurants, and my favorite question about last meals! They recently published a cookbook in the UK, and you can buy the kindle edition here in the U.S. Thank you to my friend Jenn Day for introducing me to this podcast way back in on of the earliest seasons!
3. Eater’s Digest: This is a relatively new podcast to me - I only discovered them post pandemic shutdown, so the episodes I’ve been listening to are more focused on the current situation including what the PPP means for the restaurant industry, Michelin starred restaurants like Alinea doing takeout, and more. It’s super interesting to learn more about the restaurant industry and i’m looking forward to listening to more as we emerge from this crisis.
4. The Dave Chang Show: This was the podcast that first got me into food podcasts as a genre, and I love hearing insider stories about restaurants and the chefs (both celebrity and non-celebrity) behind them. Dave Chang is quite introspective in this podcast, examining his own mental health and mental health in the food industry as a whole, restaurant worker benefits (or lack thereof), being Asian American, do critics really matter, and so much more. In this pandemic, his episodes have veered a little into the absurd, in a good way. He talks about feeding his immediate and extended family when supplies are in short order, and has also ventured into deep dives of truly terrible movies like Demolition Man (I skipped that episode).
5. Come for Supper: Listen, I’m a sucker for an accent. I have no idea how I found this podcast, but I did, and I listened and I liked it, and many months later, I’m still listening. Alexandra Dudley is a “serial dinner party host” and interviews artists, chefs, authors and more about dinner parties and cooking catastrophes and more.
What podcasts are you listening to lately?
From earlier this week - I put on “real” clothes and makeup during the pandemic!!! Pic to show it actually happened LOL