Eat Your Words Presents: Saved by the Bellini

This week on Eat Your Words , host Cathy Erway is learning the true meaning of fika with Anna Brones and Johanna Kindvall, authors of “Fika: The Art of The Swedish Coffee Break, with Recipes for Pastries, Breads, and Other Treats.” With Sweden as one of the world’s top coffee consuming nations, Anna and Johanna explain that the twice-daily social coffee break known as fika is a cherished custom. F...

The kitchen is a battle place! Tune in to this week’s Eat Your Words , as host Cathy Erway welcomes Betty Fussell, author of “My Kitchen Wars: A Memoir” among ten other books, ranging from biography to cookbooks, food history and memoir. Chatting about her unparalleled career path, Betty shares the trials and tribulations publishing her work not only as a woman but also in convincing the world tha...

This week on Eat Your Words , host Cathy Erway is back with a new show, sitting down with Heritage Radio Network Founder Patrick Martins and Mike Edison. Co-authoring the book, “The Carnivore’s Manifesto: Eating Well, Eating Responsibly, and Eating Meat,” Patrick and Mike discuss the concept of ‘tetoire’ which is touched upon in the book and their overall philosophy behind the book. Calling it the...

Hey, hey! This week on Eat Your Words , guest host Erin Fairbanks is turning the table on Cathy Erway, chatting with her about her brand new book “The Food of Taiwan.” Possibly the only cookbook to open up with a tale of an assassination attempt, Cathy goes on to explain how she came to be inspired to shine the light on this intriguing part of the world as well as her personal connection to the cu...

Prepping for Passover? Tune in to this week’s Eat Your Words as host Cathy Erway chats with author Leah Koenig about her new book “Modern Jewish Cooking: Recipes & Customs for Today’s Kitchen.” Talking about how she fell in love with cooking plus how she rediscovered these traditional bites, Leah details how she was able to put her unique stamp on the cuisine with 175 recipes that showcase the...

Gluten free: love it or hate it the diet has changed the food scene in the last few years. Tune in to this week’s Eat Your Words as host Cathy Erway chats with Camilla Saulsbury, author of “Bob’s Red Mill Everyday Gluten-Free Cookbook: 281 Delicious Whole-Grain Recipes” about what it means to be gluten free. Even if you aren’t completely gluten free, Camilla explains that this cookbook also champi...

Is it spring yet?! This week on Eat Your Words , host Cathy Erway is optimistically talking spring vegetable gardens, specifically tomatoes, with “tomatomaniac” Scott Daigre. Every year, Scott hosts TomatoMania!, a traveling pop-up sale of hundreds of heirloom and hybrid tomato seedlings and has also recently released the new book “Tomatomania!: A Fresh Approach to Celebrating Tomatoes in the Gard...

This week on Eat Your Words , host Cathy Erway is getting a head start to the growing season! Chatting small-scale agriculture and the book “Microfarming for Profit: from Garden to Glory” with author Dave DeWitt and Bee Ayer, collective member and co-farm manager at the Youth Farm at BK Farmyards in Brooklyn, NY. Dave’s book is an entrepreneur’s guide which profiles successful microfarms around th...

Guten tag! Sprechen Sie Deutsch? This week on Eat Your Words , host Cathy Erway is talking to Jeremy Nolen, chef and author of the recently released “New German Cooking: Recipes for Classics Revisited.” Jeremy tells Cathy how he became interested in German cuisine and his process researching for the dishes, though he shares that many of the dishes are featured on the menu of his restaurant Brauhau...

This week on Eat Your Words , host Cathy Erway is discussing women in food media with two members of the Heritage Radio Network family, Leiti Hsu, host of WORD OF MOUTH and Mary Izett, co-host of Fuhmentaboudit! . The group chats about the lack of women in the food industry and the idea of the glass ceiling for women in the industry. Leiti shares her thoughts on the matter in the context of bookin...

This week on Eat Your Words , host Cathy Erway dials in to the United Kingdom to chat with author Martine Bailey about her unique perspective on food featured in her latest book. Inspired by eighteenth-century household books of recipes, the recent release of “An Appetite for Violets” allowed Martine to indulge in her obsessions with food, history and travel. As an amateur cook, she tells Cathy he...

This week on Eat Your Words , host Cathy Erway is checking up on your New Years resolutions and lending a helping hand chatting with author Leda Scheintaub about her book “The Whole Bowl: Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free Soups and Stews,” co-written by Rebecca Wood. Gluten-free and dairy-free recipes and cookbooks abound these days, yet there’s not been a great book exclusively about soups and stews. Leda...

This week on Eat Your Words , host Cathy Erway chats with authors Ramin Ganeshram and Sarah Elton about sustainable, fresh cooking directed at kids and cooking from scratch. Ramin’s book, “FutureChefs: Recipes by Tomorrow’s Cooks Across the Nation and the World,” is a collection of 150 recipes drawn from the experience and kitchens of young cooks all over America. The book brings real, cooking-obs...

This week on Eat Your Words , host Cathy Erway is talking Bulletproof Coffee with nutritionist Stephanie Middleberg of Middleberg Nutrition and expert barista Amanda Whitt. Bulletproof Coffee is a branch of the Bulletproof Diet describes itself as a highly nutritious, anti-inflammatory diet powered by healthy fats. The coffee itself claims to make its drinkers feel noticeably better than normal co...

This week on Eat Your Words , host Cathy Erway kicks off 2015 talking pig with Jimmy Carbone of Heritage Radio Network’s own Beer Sessions Radio . Also the producer of Pig Island, New York City’s definitive annual pork fest, Jimmy teamed with James Beard Award winning cookbook author Rachel Wharton to create a cookbook full of porcine goodness. “I LIKE PIG” tells the story of small, family-owned p...

This week on Eat Your Words , host Cathy Erway is closing out 2014 with two wonderful guests: Helen Rosner of Saveur and Eater and Sara Kate Gillingham of The Kitchn to talk about their respective new cookbooks. Helen shares that Saveur’s “The New Classics Cookbook” features more than 1000 curated global recipes in an essential collection for home cooks everywhere. This selection celebrates the br...

This week on Eat Your Words , host Cathy Erway is chatting with Malin Elmlid, author of “The Bread Exchange: Tales and Recipes from a Journey of Baking and Bartering.” An ode to a life warmly lived, Malin’s book tells the story of one woman’s hunger for greater meaning in her life and how it has been enriched by the sharing of her handmade bread. From her cozy kitchen in Berlin to a flat in London...

This week on Eat Your Words , host Cathy Erway welcomes author and blogger Erin Alderson to the program. Author of “The Homemade Flour Cookbook: The Home Cook’s Guide to Milling Nutritious Flours and Creating Delicious Recipes with Every Grain, Legume, Nut, and Seed from A-Z,” Erin talks to Cathy about how she became inspired to dedicate an entire book on making this staple ingredient at home. She...

This week on Eat Your Words , host Cathy Erway is talking leftovers! Welcoming guest Eugenia Bone, author of the recently released book “The Kitchen Ecosystem: Integrating Recipes to Create Delicious Meals,” Eugenia chats about great ways to reuse ingredients that you might otherwise discard. “The Kitchen Ecosystem” says that the secret to great meals is this: the more you cook, the less you actua...

This week on Eat Your Words , host Cathy Erway welcomes Laura Zinn Fromm, author of the new book Sweet Survival: Tales of Cooking and Coping out now on Greenpoint Press. Laura is also an accomplished editor and former Business Week Magazine reporter, but now spends a good deal of time on her blog Flawed Mom and as a contributor to The Huffington Post. Talking to Cathy about her background and jour...

This week on Eat Your Words , host Cathy Erway welcomes Deirdre Heekin to the show, talking about her new book, “An Unlikely Vineyard.” Kicking off the episode, Cathy asks Deirdre to elaborate on the wine world in Vermont, considering that she is one of the wine pioneers in that area of the country. She goes on to talk to Cathy about the conundrum of being certified as organic or biodynamic for th...

This week on Eat Your Words , host Cathy Erway is talking with author Janna Gur about her new recipe book, “Jewish Soul Food.” Just in time for upcoming holidays, Cathy kicks off the show asking Janna why she decided to take on writing this book. She elaborates that she wanted to bring the ‘greatest hits’ of Jewish grandmothers to North American readers. Considering herself more of a curator of wo...

This week on Eat Your Words , host Cathy Erway welcomes Nick Balla and Cortney Burns of Bar Tartine restaurant in San Francisco. On the road talking about their upcoming cookbook “Bar Tartine: Techniques and Recipes,” Nick and Cortney share their inspirations for not only the restaurant but also what they decided to include in the book. Much of what the duo enjoy cooking has nostalgic memories att...

This week on Eat Your Words , host Cathy Erway is getting into the spirit of Cider Week! Welcoming James Beard Award winner and author of the new book “Apples of Uncommon Character,” Rowan Jacobsen, he and Cathy discuss that there is indeed life beyond Red Delicious, and even the Honeycrisp Apple. While supermarkets limit their offerings to a few waxy options, apple trees with lives spanning human...

This week on Eat Your Words , host Cathy Erway is talking with author Suzanne Cope about her new book Small Batch: Pickles, Cheese, Chocolate, Spirits, and the Return of Artisanal Foods. Along for the episode, Suzanne is joined by Laena McCarthy, Marisa Wu, and Brian Ballan, who are some of the producers featured in Suzanne’s book. Marisa Wu is a founder of Salty Road taffy, Laena is the founder o...