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""It was November 2016 and I was freaking the fuck out. A lifetime of undiagnosed mental illness, and a few traumatic events culminated on election night, and I was broken."" This is the origin story of the Restaurant Workers' Community Foundation . As co-founder, John deBary writes, he was left stunned and with the ""recognition that those with privilege have a moral imperative to support margina...

Anna Mulé, the Interim Executive Director of Slow Food USA joins us to talk about Plant a Seed and Slow Food Nations! We also have a special call in from Chef Greg Collier of Charlotte's Uptown Yolk for a preview of Springer Mountain Farm's Campfire Confessionals at Charleston Wine + Food! HRN Happy Hour is powered by Simplecast . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Priv...

Our Valentine this year is Larissa Zimberoff, a food writer with bylines in The New York Times, Wired, Bloomberg Businessweek, NPR, and other outlets. Some of her recent work explores some of the science behind grocery store tech. Larissa got her MFA in creative nonfiction from The New School in 2013. HRN Happy Hour is powered by Simplecast . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and Cal...

Art Pollard is Amano’s Founder and Head Chocolate Maker. Located high in Utah’s Wasatch Mountain range in the heart of the Rockies, Amano is dedicated to creating some of the world’s most exquisite chocolate through traditional techniques. Amano means “by hand” and “they love” in Italian, and that describes the care and perfection that Amano brings to chocolate and in turn to the people who savor...

This week on Happy Hour, host Caity Moseman Wadler and guest host Hannah Fordin are joined by Lew Fidler. Lew is a practicing attorney and a veteran of the Brooklyn political landscape including representing Brooklyn's 46th district from 2002-2013 in City Council. On the show, we discuss the five year process that brought New York a city-wide ban on single-use styrofoam, Lew's history of environme...

It's our first show of 2019! We welcome Emma Conroy (General Manager) and Nick Tamburo (Chef de Cuisine) of Momofuku Nishi to Happy Hour to talk about the third anniversary of the restuarant. A unique addition to the Momofuku family, Nishi focuses on Italian-inspired dishes, with a wine list to match! Photo by Momofuku Nishi. HRN Happy Hour is powered by Simplecast . See Privacy Policy at https://...

Today's guests are Cat Neville and Eric Schulz. Cat is an Emmy award winning food journalist and producer. Lately she’s been working Tastemakers, an upcoming TV show about the people who are shaping the way we eat at the most fundamental level. They’re the makers of food that focuses on quality, sustainability, and authenticity. Tastemakers will premiere on WNYE on Wednesday January 9th. Eric Schu...

NASA Scientist and Pitmaster, Howard Conyers has had an epic year. He starred in the PBS Digital Series, NOURISH , in which he explored the people, culture, and science of food. Then, he accomplished one of his biggest goals: cooking a whole cow at the inagural Gumbo Jubilee. Recently, he was named one of Southern Living's Southerners of the Year alongside his fellow South Carolina pitmaster Rodne...

This week Hannah and Kat talk to Battman himself. They talk about his upcoming book release and Monday's HRN Gala , where he'll be taking photos! Alan Battman has been a photographer for 30 years and his clients include USVI Tourism, NYC & Company, Macy's, The New York Times and more. After years of photographing the streets of NYC he turned his lens to food. He has self-published 8 cookbooks...

Aaron Bludorn and Tim Hollingsworth, two of the chef stars of Netflix's The Final Table , join us in studio to talk about the new global culinary competition show. The series features 12 teams of two chefs from around the world cooking the national dishes of Mexico, Spain, England, Brazil, France, Japan, the U.S., India and Italy. Each episode focuses on a different country and its cuisine, with c...

Chef Morgan Jarrett of Yellow Magnolia Café joins us on Happy Hour to talk about our second annual fundraising gala: Winter in the Garden II. Taking place on Monday, December 3rd, the event includes a lineup of our favorite chefs, bartenders, brewers, winemakers, and more. Morgan has an extra special dish in mind for this year's fête! Tickets are available now at heritageradionetwork.org/gala . HR...

On this week’s Happy Hour we’re talking about all about cider. And today we’ve invited a few cider makers and and wine distributors to talk with us about what makes a good cider, what goes into it, and what it means to be an orchard-based cider. Our guests include Louisa Spencer from Farnum Hill Ciders , Ezra Sherman from Eve’s Cidery , and Max Working and Andrew Mulligan from Skurnik Wines . HRN...

We're making our October hang session with the ladies of Charleston Wine + Food an annual tradition! We welcome Gillian Zettler, Alyssa Maute Smith, and Nysa Hicks to HRN Happy Hour. Gillian shares some of her favorite moments of the festival in years past and what new and exciting things we can look forward to in 2019! We're especially excited about all of the programming that will surround the I...

"Our very special guest host today is Shari Bayer of All In The Industry, who is also celebrating the 15th anniversary of her company, Bayer Public Relations! We also welcome Kevin Fink from Emmer & Rye in Austin, Texas and Henry Glucroft of Henry’s Wine and Spirits right here in Bushwick, Brooklyn." HRN Happy Hour is powered by Simplecast. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and C...

Isaac and Amanda Toups opened their restaurant, Toups’ Meatery, in the Spring of 2012 to share their deeply-rooted Louisana family traditions with the food-loving people of New Orleans. Isaac has now written a book is called Chasing the Gator. It’s full of recipes informed by his extensive knowledge and experience as a Cajun cook. HRN Happy Hour is powered by Simplecast . See Privacy Policy at htt...

Kat Johnson, Hannah Fordin, and Jordan Werner Barry joined the Shacksbury Cider team for their annual Harvest Camp (also known as Shackscamp)! Hosted at Camp Betsey Cox in Pittsford, Vermont, Shackscamp was filled with three days of apple foraging, cider drinking, cheese tasting – to name a few of our favorite camp activities! We gathered the whole crew around a picnic table to record a special on...

Elizabeth Tilton is the Head of Brand at W&P Design and its book imprint, Dovetail. She's had an incredible journey in the culinary world – from working as the Head Chocolatier at Sucré in New Orleans to Public Relations and Marketing Manager at Momofuku in New York. She is also on the Board of Advisors for Shacksbury Cider. She's one of our favorite women in food and we're thrilled to have he...

The guests of the hour are Daniel Isengart and Francisco Migoya! Both men have combined a deep love of art with their culinary aspirations, and have truly unique perspectives on cooking, eating, and creating. Daniel Isengart is the author of The Art of Gay Cooking, a literary appropriation of The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook, that includes a foreword by Jeremiah Tower, the legendary Godfather of Calif...

Caity’s awesome nephew joins the HRN crew for a special appearance on HRN Happy Hour to get us all in touch with our inner kid. Arran Gallagher is a fourth-grader at Jefferson Elementary School in Maplewood, NJ. His favorite band is Foo Fighters and he’s forgotten more about Metallica than you will ever know. He knows how to make toast a. Memorable food encounters include the time he shoved a rais...

Brad Farmerie is the executive chef at Saxon + Parole and PUBLIC in Manhattan. He joins the HRN Happy Hour crew to chat about Feast Portland, where he’ll be cooking at "80s vs. 90s," a team competition where half the chefs will represent the 80s and the other half the 90s in a throwback cook-off that’s guaranteed to knock your parachute pants off. We also get into Brad's personal culinary history...

Rochelle Oliver is a food writer exploring the flavors that make island cuisine (and culture) so unique. She was recently a guest on A Taste of the Past , where she took host Linda Pelaccio all the way back to the 1500’s to learn about the origins of the favorite Jamaican food preparation – Jerk. We welcome Rochelle to talk about her upcoming projects and play some Caribbean-inspired celebrity and...

Jenny Goodman and Alex McCrery are the co-founders of Tilit. Alex is a chef turned designer, and Jenny worked in restaurant FOH and is now Tilit’s COO. They founded Tilit with two chef aprons designs, one pair of pants and a chef-shirt. The idea was that each garment would be made in the center of NYC's garment district by restaurant industry folks, and they still make over 90% of our garments the...

Grace Weitz is a craft beer enthusiast and writer for Hop Culture Magazine. She recently completed the Food Studies Master Program at NYU, and she's one of the women behind Beers With(out) Beards , a celebration of women in the beer industry. The ticketed tasting festival will be held at The Well in Brooklyn, NY, on Saturday August 11th, and will feature 20+ women-owned breweries or breweries helm...

Somebody Feed Phil is back! Netflix is releasing new episodes of the globetrotting show on Friday, July 6th. We welcomed the star of the show, Phil Rosenthal to HRN Happy Hour to talk about his season two destinations: New York, Buenos Aires, Ireland, South Africa, Venice, and Copenhagen. Our theme song is “Suns Out Guns Out” by Concord America. Listen on Spotify | Purchase on Bandcamp HRN Happy H...

It's Thursday at 5:00 and though Kat is unable to join Caity in the studio this week, she is there in spirit, since our two guests are also Alabama natives. Brian Hart Hoffman is the creative force behind a media company that publishes magazines, including Bake from Scratch. Today, Brian brings his good pal and frequent collaborator Julie Tanous, a recipe developer and co-creator of Julie and Jess...