Eat Your Words Presents: Saved by the Bellini

Food whore (n.) A person who will do anything for food. Eat Your Words host Cathy Erway is in studio this week with author Jessica Tom, chatting all about her new book, "Food Whore." Full of wit and mouth-watering cuisines, Jessica’s debut novel offers a clever insider take on the rarefied world of New York City’s dining scene in the tradition of The Devil Wears Prada meets Kitchen Confidential. S...

With the Chinese New Year around the corner, Eat Your Words host Cathy Erway gets Danielle Chang, creator of Luckyrice, to the show. Exploring Asian culture through the lens of food, Danielle created Luckyrice to follow her lofty, yet life-long, passion to create a platform for Asian culture. The Luckyrice Festivals held across the U.S. feature hundreds of chefs and mixologists, as well as corpora...

Two Percent Solutions for the Planet profiles fifty innovative practices that soak up carbon dioxide in soils, reduce energy use, sustainably intensify food production, and increase water quality. The “two percent” refers to: the amount of new carbon in the soil needed to reap a wide variety of ecological and economic benefits; the percentage of the nation’s population who are farmers and ranchers...

Eat Your Words is back for a brand new radio season! Host Cathy Erway welcomes chef and author Sara Jenkins to the studio chatting highlights from the book (co-authored with her mother, Nancy Jenkins), The Four Seasons of Pasta. Notably, there are few ingredients in a cook’s pantry that beat out pasta—for tastiness, for ease of preparation, for versatility, and for sheer delight. It’s irresistible...

American shoppers are collectively responsible for more wasted food than farmers, grocery stores, or any other part of the food-supply chain. The average family spends a shocking $2,225 every year on food they don’t eat. This problem is so massive that if food waste were a country, it would have the third-largest environmental footprint after the United States and China.  This week on _ Eat Your W...

There are roughly 80 million Millennials in America. According to research by BBDO, half of them identify as “foodies,” and this week on _ Eat Your Words _, Cathy Erway is sitting down with Millennial author Eve Turow to discuss her new book, A Taste of Generation Yum . Known for buying organic groceries, fawning over Chemex coffee, Instagram-ing images of pork belly and spending their recession-d...

Ever wondered how to pan-fry a steak with a charred crust and an interior that’s perfectly medium-rare from edge to edge when you cut into it? How to make homemade mac & cheese that is as satisfyingly gooey and velvety-smooth as the blue box stuff, but far tastier? How to roast a succulent, moist turkey (forget about brining!)―and use a foolproof method that works every time?  This week on Eat...

Rebel with a culinary cause, Justin Warner, sits down with Cathy Erway this week on _ Eat Your Words _ chatting his unique flavor theories, highlights from his book The Laws of Cooking and How to break Them, plus thoughts on the local, sustainable food scene.  Justin goes on to explain that beyond providing boundary-pushing recipes to readers, he encourages positive experimentation in the kitchen...

This week on _ Eat Your Words _, Cathy Erway welcomes Heritage Radio Network alum, Nicole Taylor, to the show.  Talking Nicole’s brand new cookbook, “The Up South Cookbook,” it is best described as Southern cooking meets the Brooklyn foodie scene, keeping charm (and grits) intact! Georgia native Nicole spent her early twenties trying to distance herself from her southern cooking roots–a move “up”...

The largest edible fruit native to the United States tastes like a cross between a banana and a mango… any guesses?  This week on Eat Your Words , host Cathy Erway is on the line with Andrew Moore discussing the pawpaw .  Author of “Pawpaw: In Search of America’s Forgotten Fruit,” Andrew explains that the fruit actually grows wild in twenty-six states, gracing Eastern forests each fall with sweet-...

World-renowned NYC chef Michael Anthony of Gramercy Tavern and Untitled joins Cathy Erway on today’s episode of Eat Your Words  for a spirited conversation about healthy home cooking, family, portion sizes, vegetables and the joy of food. His latest book, V Is for  **Vegetables, ** celebrates the act of cooking vegetables he loves with recipes designed for the home cook. “The aim of the book is to...

My Organic Life: How a Pioneering Chef Helped Shape the Way We Eat Today  is a wonderfully engaging account from the woman who founded America’s first certified organic restaurant. It is a story of an unheralded culinary pioneer, Nora Pouillon, who made it her mission to bring delicious, wholesome foods to the American table. Nora is credited as being one of the most vivacious founders of the orga...

This week on Eat Your Words , host Cathy Erway is in studio with Kian Lam Kho, author of the brand new book “Phoenix Claws and Jade Trees.” Offering a unique introduction to Chinese home cooking, Kian demystifies the process by focusing on its basic cooking methods. In outlining the differences among various techniques—such as pan-frying, oil steeping, and yin-yang frying—and instructing which one...

Bonjour! This week on Eat Your Words, host Cathy Erway is taking listeners to France along with guest Hillary Davis, author of the new book “Le French Oven.” A companion to the previously featured French Comfort Food , Le French Oven showcases authentic, tantalizing French recipes that can be created in the cocotte―the French version of a Dutch oven―in all of its sizes and shapes, from mini to lar...

The only wheat in existence that has never been hybridized or modified, einkorn grew thousands of years ago in the Fertile Crescent. Carla Bartolucci came across it when searching for an alternative grain for her daughter Giulia, who was diagnosed with gluten sensitivity in 2008. This week on Eat Your Words, host Cathy Erway gets Carla on the line to explain how Einkorn has remained unaltered for...

This week on Eat Your Words Cathy Erway sits down with Nancie McDermott to talk about Thai food! In 1975, Nancie went to Thailand with the Peace Corps to teach English as a second language to Thai middle school students. When she came back to the states, she started learning all about Thai cooking. Now Nancie has written three different Thai cookbooks, as well as several other recipe books for pie...

There are good recipes and there are great ones—and then, there are genius recipes. This week on Eat Your Words , Cathy Erway sits down with Kristen Miglore, author of “Food52 Genius Recipes: 100 Recipes That Will Change the Way You Cook” talking highlights from the book that include recipes that surprise us and make us rethink the way we cook or perhaps involve an unexpectedly simple technique,...

A number of recent books, magazines, and television programs have emerged that promise to take viewers inside the exciting world of professional chefs. While media suggest that the occupation is undergoing a transformation, one thing remains clear: being a chef is a decidedly male-dominated job. This week on Eat Your Words , host Cathy Erway is on the line with “Taking the Heat: Women Chefs and Ge...

When Aaron Franklin and his wife, Stacy, opened up a small barbecue trailer on the side of an Austin, Texas, interstate in 2009, they had no idea what they’d gotten themselves into. Today on Eat Your Words , host Cathy Erway gets Aaron on the line to talk not only his critically lauded, award winning barbecue but also highlights from his debut book, “Franklin Barbecue: A Meat-Smoking Manifesto.” U...

This week on Eat Your Words , host Cathy Erway welcomes Robert Sietsema, author of the new book “New York in a Dozen Dishes.” Winding his way through the history of New York’s great dishes, each chapter is dedicated to a specific dish, and the best places in the city to eat it. From the coal-fired pizza pies of a thriving Little Italy to the slice joints of a burgeoning rock ‘n’ roll East Village...

Welcome to Torte: a small-town family bakeshop where the coffee is hot, the muffins are fresh, and the cakes are definitely to die for! This week on Eat Your Words , host Cathy Erway is on the line with Ellie Alexander, author of the Bakeshop Mystery series. A Pacific Northwesterner who loves spending time testing pastry recipes in her home kitchen, Ellie explains to Cathy that she chose to write...

This week on Eat Your Words , host Cathy Erway is celebrating Father’s Day with guest Hugh Acheson, James Beard Award winning chef, Top Chef star, and author of the new book “The Broad Fork.” Narrating the four seasons of produce, Hugh offers solution to the age old question: “What the hell do I do with kohlrabi?” From kohlrabi to carrots, beets to Brussels sprouts, all are demystified or creative...

This week on Eat Your Words , host Cathy Erway welcomes writer Mina Holland to the show to talk about her book “The World on a Plate.” Taking readers on a journey around the globe, demystifying the flavors, ingredients and techniques, Mina sought out worldly dishes in a book big enough to stick in a bag and travel. What’s the origin of kimchi in Korea? Why do we associate Argentina with steak? Wha...

Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) programs have connected farms to consumers and made people more in tune with where their food comes from, but still leave many stumped beyond the conventional uses for their produce. This week on Eat Your Words , host Cathy Erway is chatting with Linda Ly, author of “The CSA Cookbook” to try and shed some light on this problem. According to Linda, her book see...

This week’s Eat Your Words is celebrating the coming of summer with Bryan Petroff and Douglas Quint, founders of the Big Gay Ice Cream. Friends that started with an ice cream truck and saw their business grow into multiple shops across New York City and now coming to Los Angeles, chat with Cathy about their phenomenal growth as well as their new book “Big Gay Ice Cream: Saucy Stories & Frozen...