Salt & Spine

This week, we're excited to welcome Jacques Pépin to SALT + SPINE, the podcast on stories behind cookbooks. Jacques is an award-winning chef, cookbook author, host of several television cooking shows and much more. He's also a grandfather, showcased in his latest work, A Grandfather's Lessons: In the Kitchen with Shorey . The book features simple, fun, and elegant recipes for all ages. START COOKI...

This week, we're excited to welcome Jessica Battilana to SALT + SPINE, the podcast on stories behind cookbooks. Jessica is the author of Repertoire: All the Recipes You Need , which features 75 "real recipes, from real life, that really work." START COOKING TODAY: Omnivore Books | Bookshop Previously, Jessica wrote Corn (Short Stack) , and co-authored six cookbooks, including Home Grown: Cooking F...

In this episode, we pause to remember the legacy of Anthony Bourdain. This week, we're excited to welcome Edward Lee to SALT + SPINE, the podcast on stories behind cookbooks. Edward is the author of Buttermilk Graffiti: A Chef’s Journey to Discover America’s New Melting-Pot Cuisine , which tells sixteen compelling stories of people redefining culinary traditions across the country. Previously, Edw...

This week, we're excited to welcome Emily Kaiser Thelin to SALT + SPINE, the podcast on stories behind cookbooks. Thelin is the author of Unforgettable: The Bold Flavors of Paula Wolfert's Renegade Life , a culinary biography of renowned cookbook author Paula Wolfert, featuring more than 50 recipes. PURCHASE THE COOKBOOK: Bookshop Wolfert, who spent five decades writing about food and producing ni...

This week, we're excited to welcome chef James Syhabout to SALT + SPINE, the podcast on stories behind cookbooks. Syhabout is the author of Hawker Fare: Stories & Recipes from a Refugee Chef's Isan Thai & Lao Roots , and the chef behind Oakland restaurants Commis, his two-Michelin star restaurant, and Hawking Bird, as well as the San Francisco restaurant Hawker Fare. (The original location of Hawk...

This week, we're excited to welcome chef Preeti Mistry to SALT + SPINE, the podcast on stories behind cookbooks. Preeti is the author of The Juhu Beach Club Cookbook: Indian Spice, Oakland Soul, and the force behind the for-now-shuttered Juhu Beach Club restaurant. A graduate of Le Cordon Bleu, Preeti worked in fine dining, and then as executive chef at the de Young Museum and Google before openin...

"You cannot be powerful if you're not fed—and you should be able to feed yourself." –Nigella Lawson We're thrilled to have home cook evangelist Nigella Lawson  as our first guest on SALT + SPINE, the podcast on stories behind cookbooks. You might know Nigella from her 10 hugely popular cookbooks—or from her TV shows like "Nigella Bites" or "Nigella Eats." For 20 years, Nigella has been producing c...

Salt + Spine is hosted by Brian Hogan Stewart and produced by Alison Sullivan, with support from Nina Earnest and Clara Hogan. Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | GooglePlay Our website is SaltAndSpine.com . Find us on Patreon , Facebook , Twitter , and Instagram . We record Salt + Spine at San Francisco's The Civic Kitchen. Thanks to Jen Nurse, Chris Bonomo, and the Civic Kitchen team. Thanks to Celia Sa...