Eat Your Words Presents: Saved by the Bellini

This week on Eat Your Words , host Cathy Erway is joined by Pascal Baudar, a wild food researcher and a self-styled “culinary alchemist” based in Los Angeles. He has served as a wild food consultant for several TV shows including MasterChef and Top Chef Duels, and has been featured in numerous other TV shows and publications. His new book is titled The New Wildcrafted Cuisine: Exploring the Exotic...

On this week's episode of Eat Your Words , host Cathy Erway is joined by Los Angeles Magazine food critic Patric Kuh, author of the James Beard award-winning Last Days of Haute Cuisine , a history of the American restaurant business. The magazine’s chief restaurant critic since 2000, he was the recipient of the 2006 James Beard Foundation award for best magazine restaurant critic in America. Kuh's...

This week on Eat Your Words , host Cathy Erway speaks with Jessica Fechtor, author of the bestselling memoir Stir: My Broken Brain and the Meals that Brought Me Home . Jessica Fechtor’s debut memoir chronicles her recovery from a ruptured aneurysm at age 28, and how she reclaimed her life through food and cooking. A national bestseller and winner of the 2015 Living Now Book Award, Stir has been pr...

This week on Eat Your Words , host Cathy Erway is joined by Joel Salatin, a farmer, lecturer, and author who raises livestock using holistic management methods of animal husbandry, free of harmful chemicals, on his Polyface Farm in Swoope, Virginia, in the Shenandoah Valley. Meat from the farm is sold by direct-marketing to consumers and restaurants. Salatin's latest book is THE MARVELOUS PIGNESS...

This week on i, host Cathy Erway is joined by Sherri Brooks Vinton, author of the new book Eat It Up!: 150 Recipes to Use Every Bit and Enjoy Every Bite of the Food You Buy . Sherri is the author of the Put 'Em Up! series. Sherri's books, lectures, and workshops have taught countless eaters how to have a more delicious life. Her first book, The Real Food Revival: Aisle by Aisle, Morsel by Morsel ,...

This week on Eat Your Words , host Cathy Erway is joined in the studio by Tyler Kord, chef-owner of the lauded No. 7 restaurant and four No. 7 Sub shops in New York. He is also a terrifically neurotic man who directs his energy into writing fall-down-funny stories and rants about sandwich philosophy, love, self-loathing, and the life of a chef. A Super Upsetting Cookbook About Sandwiches welcomes...

On this week's episode of Eat Your Words , host Cathy Erway talks to Derek Dellinger, the author of the homebrew and craft beer blog Bear Flavored, a contributing writer to the Upstate Brew York magazine and a homebrew advisor to Beacon Homebrew. Listen in as they discuss Derek's career, his year long fermented-foods diet, his thoughts on soda and much more. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com...

This week on Eat Your Words , host Cathy Erway is joined by Elana Karp, author of the Plated cookbook. After graduating from Le Cordon Bleu Paris, Elana Karp chose a unique path. Instead of going to work for a high-profile chef in the $600 billion restaurant industry, she helped launch a startup with a bold social mission: to change the way America eats. As the VP of Culinary at Plated, Elana over...

This week on Eat Your Words , host Cathy Erway welcomes author J. Ryan Stradal, whose first novel, Kitchens of the Great Midwest , was published by on July 28th, 2015, and reached the New York Times Hardcover Best Seller list at #19 on its third week of release. In April 2016, the American Booksellers Association named Kitchens the Indies Choice Book of the Year Award – Adult Debut Winner. See Pri...

Whenever today's guest, author Catherine Price, told people she was working on a book about vitamins (Vitamania, out now), they would immediately think of bottled pills. It's easy to see why. While there are only 13 essential vitamins, thousands of supplements claim to boost our health. But should we be going back to basics, getting our vitamins from the foods we eat rather than the products of a...

This week on Eat Your Words , host Cathy Erway is joined by Diana Abu-Jaber, author of the new culinary memoir, Life Without A Recipe. Diana was born in Syracuse, New York to an American mother and a Jordanian father. Her family moved to Jordan a few times throughout her childhood, and elements of both her American and Jordanian experiences, as well as cross-cultural issues, especially culinary re...

This week on Eat Your Words , host Cathy Erway is joined in the studio by Kate Daloz, author of the new book We Are As Gods: Back to the Land in the 1970s on the Quest for a New America , a nonfiction account of Vermont's Myrtle Hill commune in the 1970s. It follows the dreams and ideals of a small group of back-to-the-landers to tell the story of a nationwide movement and moment, and shows how th...

This week on Eat Your Words , Cathy is joined in the studio by fellow HRN host Mike Edison, who just kicked off the tour for his new tragic-comic memoir, You Are a Complete Disappointment: A Triumphant Memoir of Failed Expectations . Tune in for this tale about being the person who you want to be, not the person you're told you should be. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and Califor...

Tune in for a special bonus episode of Eat Your Words, with an exclusive panel discussion from the recent Food Book Fair . How does one write a convincing, veiled-enough, but-believable-enough work of fiction inspired by a real place, people, and time when the subject is something as personal as food and the dining experience? And why are readers — whether they have worked in restaurants or not —...

This week on  Eat Your Words , host Cathy Erway is joined via phone by Karen Leona Anderso n. Anderson grew up in Connecticut. She received an M.F.A from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, an M.A. from Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand, and her Ph. D. from Cornell University, where she wrote a dissertation on poetry and science. Her work has appeared in ecopoetics , jubilat ,...

In this episode of Eat Your Words, Cathy talks to Lucky Peach editors Chris Ying and Rachel Khong about their new cookbook, The Wurst of Lucky Peach: A Treasury of Encased Meat. Chris and Rachel talk about their "sausage quest" around the world to North America, South America, Europe, Australia, Africa and Asia to find sausages they wanted to celebrate in their cookbook. Listen to find out about R...

This week on Eat Your Words , host Cathy Erway sits down with the ladies of the Food Book Fair , Kimberly Chou and Amanda Dell. Dubbed the "Coachella of writing about eating," Food Book Fair includes panel discussions, a pop-up bookstore, #Foodieodicals, cooking demos, conceptual literary dinners, film screenings and much more. This year's fifth anniversary of the festival takes place on May 1st a...

On this week's episode of Eat Your Words , host Cathy Erway speaks with Karissa Chen – a writer who is currently a Fulbright Fellow in Taiwan – on the importance of being responsible when writing about another culture's food. Specifically, they tackle food writer Calvin Trillin's controversial poem "Have They Run Out of Provinces Yet?" which was recently published in The New Yorker . While major n...

On this week's episode of Eat Your Words , Cathy speaks with Marisa McClellan, a full-time food writer and canning teacher, and the voice behind the blog Food in Jars. She is also the author of the books Food in Jars (Running Press 2012), Preserving by the Pint (Running Press 2014), and Naturally Sweet Food in Jars (Running Press 2016). In her new book, she offers a comprehensive response to fans’...

On this week's episode of Eat Your Words , Cathy is joined in the studio by Lukas Volger, author of Bowl: Vegetarian Recipes for Ramen, Pho, Bibimbap, Dumplings, and Other One-Dish Meals . He is also the editorial director and co-founder of Jarry , a print magazine that explores where food and gay culture intersect, and the owner of Made by Lukas , a Brooklyn-based company that makes veggie burger...

On this week's episode of Eat Your Words , Cathy is joined in the studio by Imen McDonnell, author of The Farmette Cookbook: Recipes and Adventures from My Life on an Irish Farm . In a former life, McDonnell worked in broadcast production while living in Minneapolis, New York, and Los Angeles. Now, she resides with her husband and son on their centuries-old family farm in the southwest of Ireland,...

On this week's episode of Eat Your Words , Cathy welcomes guest Ashley Warlick, author of The Arrangement . The new book is a work of historical fiction about legendary food writer M.F.K. Fisher, who John Updike referred to a “poet of the appetites.” In Raymond Sokolov’s 1982 review of Fisher's As They Were , he wrote: “In a properly run culture, Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher would be recognized as...

Konjit Zewge, at the age of 89, documented her succulent dishes in her book Yemouya Kouncho . She wrote her book for the sole purpose of passing the art of preparing traditional Ethiopian cuisine to the next generation. Her parents' home was always filled with extended family, neighbors and other visitors who delighted in the savory dishes. Running the household was traditionally the women's job a...

Bread, Wine, Chocolate: The Slow Loss of Foods We Love – part memoir of a journey to six continents in pursuit of delicious and endangered tastes, part investigation of the loss of biodiversity from soil to plate – tells the story of what we are losing, how we are losing it, and the inspiring people and places that are bringing back the foods we love. This week on Eat Your Words, host Cathy Erway...

If you’d like to grow your own food but don’t think you have the space, look up! Today on Eat Your Words, Cathy Erway is in studio with Annie Novak, author of "The Rooftop Growing Guide." In urban and suburban areas across the country, farms and gardens are growing atop the rooftops of residential and commercial buildings. In her accessible guide, Annie’s passion shines as she draws on her experie...