Eat Your Words Presents: Saved by the Bellini

Co-authors and veteran women in food media, Kathy Gunst and Katherine Alford join Cathy in the station to discuss the new book they co-authored . Gunst explains how the idea for the book was spawned while watching the confirmation trial of Justice Kavanaugh. The authors discuss the contributors that are featured throughout this unique collection that's part cookbook, part essay anthology, and all...

Veteran cookbook author Darra Goldstein visits the studio to chat about her scholarly new book on Russian cuisine, Beyond the North Wind . Image Courtesy of Ten Speed Press. Eat Your Words is powered by Simplecast .    See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

This week, Cathy invites Priya Krishna to the studio for a chat about her latest book, Indian-ish : Recipes and Antics from A Modern American Family, which she co-wrote with her mother, Ritu Krishna. Priya cuts to the chase about why her mom's cooking is considered American, and why this cookbook should be seen as an American rather than Indian cookbook. She also shares some background stories on...

Today, Cathy is joined in the studio by Sarah Archer , a contributor to Slate, The Atlantic, Architectural Digest, and more, on her latest book exploring The Midcentury Kitchen . What does the design of our kitchens say about our society? Sarah tells us about some of the pioneering women behind the advancements of the modern kitchen, the innovations—and corporations—who became involved in selling...

To kick off the spring/summer season of Heritage Radio Network, Cathy calls up Alana Kysar , author of Aloha Kitchen: Recipes from Hawai'i . Alana is a food blogger who was born and raised in Hawai'i, and grew homesick for the food of her home state the minute she left for college. Alana shares her initial fears of writing a cookbook that attempts to explain the cuisine of her home comprehensively...

For the spring season finale of Eat Your Words, Cathy is joined in the studio by Hetty McKinnon , author of three cookbooks, the founder of the local salad-delivery business Arthur Street Kitchen , and the founder of Peddler , a multicultural food journal. Hetty shares why she focused on the broad theme of family for this cookbook, and how it's a vegetarian cookbook geared towards everyday family...

Cathy is joined on the line with Sarah Bowen, Joslyn Brenton and Sinikka Elliot, co-authors of Pressure Cooker , which takes a good, hard look at the realities of home cooking for many working mothers. The authors completed a five-year study where they interviewed over 150 women in North Carolina, and share their findings in this book. They find that much of the cooking advice of modern-day food g...

Cathy welcomes Andrea Nguyen back to the show to talk about her latest cookbook, Vietnamese Food Any Day . Andrea explains how she was inspired to write this book looking back on her fondness for grocery shopping—and how her family would improvise with ingredients they found in the US rather than what they were used to cooking with in Vietnam, and making delicious adaptations with them. Andrea wel...

Cathy is joined in the station with Carla Lalli Music , Food Director of Bon Appetit magazine who recently published her first cookbook: Where Cooking Begins . Carla describes how she came up with the theme of her book—food shopping and how to make it work for your lifestyle—and how she turned that philosophy into a cookbook with more than 70 recipes and half-dozen techniques. Carla challenges the...

Today, Cathy is joined on the phone by Erin Byers Murray , a Nashville-based food writer and recipient of the Les Dames d'Escoffier MFK Fisher Award for Excellence in Culinary Writing, whose latest book is all about Grits . Erin shares how she came to the topic, after having lived away from the South, where she was born, for much of her life. She wanted to explore the changing culinary culture of...

On today's episode, Cathy is joined in-studio by Diana Zheng , author of the cookbook Jia!: The Food of Swatow and the Teochew Diaspora . This region of Southern China, commonly called Teoswa, is home to a delicious and distinct cuisine, yet not many have heard of it outside of China. Diana shares her revelations in learning about the food of her heritage, and how the culture has spread to parts o...

In this episode, Cathy dials up Andrea Chesman , veteran cookbook author who has written many books on back-to-the-land cooking topics. Andrea's latest book not only tells the story of how animal fats has been wrongly maligned through slick marketing and corporate interests in the US, but also how to use it in the everyday home through 100 recipes. She goes over the basics of rendering fat from ch...

Cathy is joined on the phone by Michelle and Suzanne Rousseau , restauranteurs of the Kingston, Jamaica-based Summerhouse at The Liguanea Club and authors of two cookbooks on Caribbean cookery. Their latest, Provisions , centers on vegetarian recipes based on hearty, starchy ground roots—the traditional cookery of their ancestors. The sisters talk about learning about their great-grandmother Marth...

This week, Diana Kuan returns to the studio to talk about her latest cookbook, Red Hot Kitchen . Also the author of her first book, The Chinese Takeout Cookbook , Diana talks about why spicy sauces from Asia are great when made at home, and often surprisingly easy. She takes us through some of the classic condiments throughout the book, and how chili peppers got to Asia not so long ago. She also s...

This week, Cathy chats with Ann Hood , author of 14 novels, a best-selling memoir, and her latest collection of essays on food, Kitchen Yarns . As an Italian American, and the wife of the food writer Michael Ruhlman , food is never far from discussion in Ann's life. Ann shares what writers, books, and memorable recipes have inspired her food writing, and she reads aloud an excerpt from an essay ab...

Cathy is joined in the studio by Rachel Wharton , a James Beard Award-winning food writer and veteran co-author of cookbooks. Having co-written cookbooks from local chefs like Sohui Kim on her recent " Korean Home Cooking ," to Action Bronson's and Freddie Prinze , Jr.'s cookbooks. Rachel divulges what it's like to be behind the scenes of cookbooks, what skills and tasks it entails, and what makes...

Today, Cathy is joined on the phone with Karen Babine, an award-winning author and the editor of Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies . Her new book, All the Wild Hungers , is a collection of narrative essays on food, family, and her mother's struggle with cancer. Karen shares insights on cooking with her niblings (nephews and nieces), breaking a cast-iron pot, potatoes, and how food always tell...

For the season finale of Eat Your Words, Cathy welcomes back to the show Julia Turshen to talk about her latest, acclaimed cookbook Now & Again: Go-To Recipes, Inspired Menus + Endless Ideas for Reinventing Leftovers . Julia offers her view on what makes a good cookbook, and how she has evolved as a cookbook writer. She shares her philosophy on cooking everyday meals, as well as tips on reusin...

This week, Cathy dials up Leslie Jonath , editor of Feed Your People: Big-Batch, Big-Hearted Cooking and Recipes to Gather Around . As a longtime cookbook editor, Leslie decided to write this book to celebrate communal dishes and included recipes from dozens of chefs who contributed their favorite big-batch recipe for it. Leslie shares practical tips on cooking for a large crowd, inside stories be...

This week, Cathy is joined in the studio by chef Anita Lo to discuss her latest cookbook, Solo: A Modern Cookbook For A Party of One . They discuss Anita's approach to cooking throughout her career as a chef, with her restaurant, Anissa, and her first cookbook, Cooking Without Borders . Anita shares her thoughts on how all American food is really a fusion cuisine, but that there could be more reco...

Cathy is joined in the station by food writer Georgia Freedman , author of Cooking South of the Clouds: Recipes and Stories from China's Yunnan Province . She shares why she was so enthralled by Yunnan province while studying in Beijing that several years later, she and her husband moved there to research its fascinating food culture, resulting in this book as well as her blog, ChinaSouthoftheClou...

A packed house in the station! Cathy is joined by the co-authors of The Culinary History of Taipei , Katy Hui-wen Hung and Steven Crook , as well as the owners of the nearby Taiwanese American restaurant, Win Son, Josh Ku and Trigg Brown, to discuss the fascinating evolution of Taiwanese food. Katy and Steven explain why they decided to write this history book and what they learned along the way....

Award-winning British food writer Diana Henry returns to Eat Your Words to discuss her latest cookbook, How to Eat A Peach , and much more. Hear Diana and Cathy talk about how fun it is to create a menu for a dinner, even if it only exists in your head. And hear Diana share what food writers have inspired her the most, and how food writing was her second career. Eat Your Words is powered by Simple...

This week, Cathy chats with Lindsay-Jean Hard, author of Cooking With Scraps: Turn Your Peels, Cores, Rinds, and Stems into Delicious Meals. Lindsay-Jean shares how she began writing a column on the same topic for Food52, and how, before that, she was inspired to use all parts of vegetables after joining a CSA while living in Japan. Lindsay-Jean shares some incredible cooking advice for everyday s...

This week, Cathy dials out to Norway to talk to Nevada Berg, author of the Norwegian cookbook, North Wild Kitchen, and the award winning blog of the same name. Nevada talks about what makes Norwegian food unique, why it's important - and fun - to preserve age-old food traditions today, and how she has adapted some of them in new ways, such as making an ice cream flavor from traditional sour cream...