Eat Your Words Presents: Saved by the Bellini

On this week's episode of  Eat Your Words , host Cathy Erway is joined in studio by award-winning food writer and former pastry chef Elaine Khosrova. After traveling across three continents to stalk the modern story of butter, Elaine serves up a story as rich, textured, and culturally relevant as butter itself in her book Butter: A Rich History . Eat Your Words is powered by Simplecast See Priva...

On this week's episode of  Eat Your Words , Cathy is joined by professor and author Dr. Ken Albala to talk all things noodle soup! Dr. Albala is Professor of History at the University of the Pacific and founder of the Food Studies MA program in San Francisco. He has authored or edited 25 books on food and co-authored The Lost Art of Real Cooking and The Lost Arts of Hearth and Home . Today's con...

For the season premiere of Eat Your Words , Cathy is joined in the phone by Geraldine DeRuiter , author of the award-winning blog The Everywhereist and the memoir, All Over the Place: Adventures in Travel, True Love and Petty Theft . Geraldine’s recent viral post, where she made the recipe for pizza dough cinnamon rolls in Mario Batali’s sexual misconduct apology letter , received great applause a...

On the season finale of Eat Your Words , Cathy is joined by chef, restauranteur, and cookbook author Rachel Yang. Since 2007, Rachel and her husband chef Seif Chirichi have built successful restaurants based on a wildly creative vision that combines their shared love of bold, unexpected Asian flavors with classic, rigorous technique. Their food is beloved by seasoned, adventurous diners and often...

On the season finale of  Eat Your Words , host Cathy Erway is joined by Maryn McKenna, an independent journalist and author who specializes in public health, global health and food policy. She is a Senior Fellow at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University and the author of the new book Big Chicken: The Incredible Story of How Antibiotics Created Modern Agricultu...

On this week's episode of  Eat Your Words , Cathy is joined in studio by Megan Elias, author of Food on the Page , the first comprehensive history of American cookbooks from the early 1800s to the present day. Following food writing through trends such as the Southern nostalgia that emerged in the late nineteenth century, the Francophilia of the 1940s, countercultural cooking in the 1970s, and t...

This week on  Eat Your Words , Cathy is joined by Robyn Eckhardt author of Istanbul and Beyond , a cookbook that delves into the unique cuisine of Turkey. The book is the result of two decades of research and traveling in Turkey and is rich with insights and visually stunning photos of Turkish traditional dishes. Eat Your Words is powered by Simplecast See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/pri...

It’s in our food, our water, our air, soil and our own bodies. It’s the most widely used herbicide in all of human history, and while farmers and homeowners alike use it regularly, this pesticide carries an array of dangers the corporations that profit from it don’t want you to know about. This week on Eat Your Words , Cathy chats with Carey Gilliam, author of * Whitewash: the Story of a Weed kil...

On this week's episode of Eat Your Words , Cathy is joined by Julia Turshen, author of Small Victories and Feed the Resistance . Julia has also co-authored such cookbooks as Spain…A Culinary Road Trip with Mario Batali, It’s All Good with Gwyneth Paltrow, Mastering My Mistakes in the Kitchen with Dana Cowin, and The Kimchi Chronicles, Hot Bread Kitchen: The Cookbook, The Fat Radish Kitchen Diaries...

On this week's episode of Eat Your Words , host Cathy Erway is joined by historian Lizzie Collingham, author of The Taste of Empire: How Britain's Quest for Food Shaped the Modern World. Collingham's book tells the story of how the British Empire's quest for food shaped the modern world. Told through twenty meals over the course of 450 years, from the Far East to the New World, Collingham explains...

On this week's episode of Eat Your Words , host Cathy Erway is joined by writer Adam Federman, author of Fasting and Feasting: The Life of Visionary Food Writer Patience Gray . Federman tells the remarkable―and until now untold―life story of Patience Gray, author of the celebrated cookbook Honey from a Weed . Gray lived in a remote area of Puglia in southernmost Italy. She lived without electrici...

On this week's episode of  Eat Your Words , Cathy is joined by former New Yorker editor Emily Nunn, author of The Comfort Food Diaries: My Quest for the Perfect Dish to Mend a Broken Heart. One life-changing night, reeling from her beloved brother’s sudden death, a devastating breakup with her handsome engineer fiancé and eviction from the apartment they shared, Emily Nunn had lost all sense o...

On the season premiere of Eat Your Words , Cathy is joined by journalist Ted Genoways, an acclaimed journalist and author of The Chain: Farm, Factory, and the Fate of Our Food. A contributing editor at Mother Jones, the New Republic, and Pacific Standard, he is the winner of a National Press Club Award and the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism, and is a two-time James Beard Foundat...

On the season finale of  Eat Your Words , host Cathy Erway is joined in the studio by fellow HRN host Michael Harlan Turkell, whose first book,  Acid Trip , is out this week! The book is a journey through the world of vinegar, and includes recipes from chefs Daniel Boulud, Barbara Lynch, Michael Anthony, April Bloomfield, Massimo Bottura, Sean Brock, and more. Tune in to learn about the depth...

This week on  Eat Your Words , host Cathy Erway is joined in the studio by Stephanie Villani, owner of Blue Moon Fish in Mattituck, Long Island, and co-author of The Fisherman's Wife: Sustainable Recipes and Salty Stories . Also joining is Stephanie's co-author, Kevin Bay. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-i...

On an all new episode of Eat Your Words , host Cathy Erway is joined in the studio by Laura Shapiro, a culinary historian and James Beard Journalism Award-winning author. Her forthcoming book, What She Ate: Six Remarkable Women and the Food That Tells Their Stories , is a culinary biography of six famous women, including Dorothy Wordsworth, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Eva Braun. Eat Your Words is power...

This week on  Eat Your Words , host Cathy Erway is joined by sociologist Michael Carolan, author of the book No One Eats Alone , which looks at how injecting empathy into our foodscapes is key to equitable, sustainable food. He argues that we need to change our relationship with food by getting to know the people who grow, pick, slaughter, breed, transport, package, invent, cook, fortify, market...

On an all new episode of  Eat Your Words , host Cathy Erway is joined in the studio by Jenn De La Vega, a private chef, caterer, food stylist, and community manager based in Brooklyn, NY. She runs the blog Randwiches (random sandwiches), is the editor at large of the Put A Egg On It food zine, and the author of the new cookbook Showdown Comfort Food . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/priv...

On this week's episode of  Eat Your Words , host Cathy Erway is joined by Charles Perry, a culinary historian who has written widely on cooking in the medieval Middle East. He is the editor and translator of *Scents and Flavors: A Syrian Cookbook (Library of Arabic Literature)*, a popular 13th-century Syrian cookbook. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice...

This week on  Eat Your Words , Cathy is joined in the studio by Rachael Mamane, the chef and owner of Brooklyn Bouillon, a value-added product company that explores ways to minimize agricultural food waste while providing a staple product to home cooks across New York State. She is also the author of Mastering Stocks and Broths: A Comprehensive Culinary Approach Using Traditional Techniques and...

This week on Eat Your Words , host Cathy Erway is joined in the studio by Julia Sherman, an artist, cook, creative director, and author of the new cookbook Salad for President: A Cookbook Inspired by Artists . The book includes 75 of Sherman’s own recipes organized by occasion, and features contributions from artist, musician, and director Laurie Anderson, photographer William Wegman, chef/activis...

This week on  Eat Your Words , host Cathy Erway is joined by chef and writer Samin Nosrat, a Chez Panisse alum and author of the New York Times bestselling book Salt Fat Acid Heat . Featuring a foreword by Michael Pollan, the book espouses a revolutionary, yet simple, philosophy: master the use of just four elements, and anything you cook will be delicious. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.co...

On an all new episode of Eat Your Words , host Cathy Erway is joined by Rachel Khong of Lucky Peach magazine to talk about one of the most important foods in the world: eggs! Rachel and the editors of Lucky Peach have laid it all out in their new All About Eggs cookbook, a veritable egg-cyclopedia of recipes and preparations for this incredible, edible food item. See Privacy Policy at https://art1...

This week on  Eat Your Words , Cathy is joined in studio by Brian Kateman, President of the Reducetarian Foundation . A vegetarian tired of feeling guilty for eating the occasional turkey breast on Thanksgiving, Brian came up with the idea of reducing but not eliminating meat from his diet. He was inspired by his research on the impacts of animal farming on the environment and human health and b...

On an all new episode of Eat Your Words , host Cathy Erway speaks with Andrea Nguyen, author of The Pho Cookbook: Easy to Adventurous Recipes for Vietnam's Favorite Soup and Noodles . Andrea dives deep into pho’s lively past, visiting its birthplace and then teaching you how to successfully make it at home. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://a...