Brian Hogan Stewart

Salt & Spine

Arts EN ↓ 183 episodes

We tell the compelling stories behind cookbooks you won't get anywhere else. Featuring interviews with leading authors, we explore the art and craft of cookbooks, looking at both new and vintage cookbooks and the inspirations behind them … the compelling people who create them … and their impact on home cooks and the culinary world. saltandspine.substack.com

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Brian Hogan Stewart

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Arts

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saltandspine.substack.com

Latest episode

Jan 22, 2026

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Episodes

Getting dinner on the table–despite it all–with lifestyle mogul Ayesha Curry 11.05.2021

This week, we're excited to welcome Ayesha Curry to Salt + Spine, the podcast on stories behind cookbooks. Ayesha is the modern food & lifestyle mogul. Growing up obsessed with cooking, Ayesha always had her eyes set on acting — but her foray into food blogging has launched a massive career. Her first cookbook, The Seasoned Life , cemented her status on the culinary landscape. Soon followed restau...

Comedy-meets-recipes in Food Network star Jeff Mauro's debut entertaining cookbook 07.05.2021

This week, we're excited to welcome Jeff Mauro to Salt + Spine, the podcast on stories behind cookbooks. A Chicago native, Jeff has been beaming into your home TVs via Food Network since 2011, when he was crowned the winner of season seven of "Food Network Star" (and then, later that year, under another crown as the host of "Sandwich King.") And then more shows followed: Food Network’s "The Kitche...

[BONUS] Loading Dock Talks: Zoe Adjonyoh on Ancestral Roots and Queer Intelligence 04.05.2021

HAVE A LISTEN: Loading Dock Talks is the new podcast hosted by Salt + Spine friend chef Preeti Mistry, where each week they talk with chefs, cookbook authors, and activists. Subscribe here . ABOUT THIS EPISODE: Preeti talks with Zoe Adjonyoh - chef, activist, and author - about connecting to her ancestral Ghanaian roots and building community through food, being a queer black woman in the industry...

Celebrating Black cooks with The Rise authors Marcus Samuelsson and Osayi Endolyn 23.04.2021

This week, we're excited to welcome Marcus Samuelsson and Osayi Endolyn to Salt + Spine, the podcast on stories behind cookbooks. Chef Marcus Samuelsson has become a household culinary name, building his restaurant empire from Red Rooster in Harlem to now more than a dozen eateries around the globe. He's won multiple James Beard Awards and is a regular on food TV, from winning both "Top Chef Maste...

Kelly Fields // The Good Book of Southern Baking 07.04.2021

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Jake Cohen on Jew-ish cuisine, reinventing recipes, and becoming the 'gay Ina Garten' 31.03.2021

This week, we're excited to welcome Jake Cohen to Salt + Spine, the podcast on stories behind cookbooks. You might recognize Jake from any number of social media platforms, where he regularly creates viral recipes and food content. A native New Yorker, Jake started his career post-culinary school at some of Manhattan’s most revered restaurants — Daniel and ABC Kitchen — before he made the jump to...

[BONUS] Food52's Counterjam: Getting Jjigae with Roy Choi, Margaret Cho & Peter's Mom 26.03.2021

HAVE A LISTEN: Counterjam is the third show on Food52's podcast new network. On Counterjam, host Peter Kim explores culture through food and music. Guests include A Tribe Called Quest founding member Jarobi White, Kelis, comedian Margaret Cho, chef and cookbook author Roy Choi, and many more. Subscribe here . About this episode: Host Peter J. Kim looks at Korean-American food culture—with chef Roy...

Friendship, trust, and great food with The Grey's Mashama Bailey & John Morisano 25.03.2021

This week, we're excited to welcome Mashama Bailey and John O. Morisano to Salt + Spine, the podcast on stories behind cookbooks. Mashama is the executive chef and partner of The Grey, which she runs with her business partner, John O. Morisano. The Savannah, Georgia restaurant is set inside a once-segregated, former Greyhound bus station and has been dubbed Restaurant of the Year by Eater and name...

Pilar Hernandez & Eileen Smith // The Chilean Kitchen 18.03.2021

Description to come. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit saltandspine.substack.com/subscribe

Bringing Chilean family recipes home with Pilar Hernandez and Eileen Smith 18.03.2021

This week, we're excited to welcome Pilar Hernandez and Eileen Smith to Salt + Spine, the podcast on stories behind cookbooks. Episode info coming soon. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit saltandspine.substack.com/subscribe

On creating community and 'inclusive baking' with Goldenrod's Angela Garbacz 10.03.2021

Angela Garbacz is the founder of the Lincoln, Nebraska pastry shop Goldenrod Pastries, which is focused on “inclusive baking,” the term Angela uses to describe her menu full of baked goods without dairy or gluten. Angela’s distilled her recipes and two decades of professional baking experience into her first cookbook, Perfectly Golden, which offers everything from confetti cookies to her grandmoth...

Julia Turshen on cookbooks, healthy comfort food, and the role of home cooking 24.02.2021

This week, we're excited to welcome Julia Turshen to Salt + Spine, the podcast on stories behind cookbooks. Julia is returning to Salt + Spine today to talk about her latest cookbook, Simply Julia . Julia is the well-known author of other cookbooks, including two highly praised solo books: Small Victories and Now & Again . And she’s a prolific writer in the industry, bringing together a range...

A lifetime of family-led pie baking (& eating) led Petra Paredez to her first cookbook 01.02.2021

🥧 It's Pie Week 2021 🥧 This week, we're excited to welcome Petra Paredez to Salt + Spine, the podcast on stories behind cookbooks, for our Spring 2021 Pie Week! Petra’s life story is looped around pie from the very beginning. Before she was even born, her parents opened Mom’s Apple Pie Company in Leesburg, Virginia, and Petra and her family’s lives revolved around pie ever since. Be it the right...

Kate McDermott's rules for pie making, straight from Pie Camp to your home kitchen 28.01.2021

Episode 2 of our Spring 2021 Pie Week 🥧 Called a “pie guru” by Sunset magazine and the “pie-making queen” by Chowhound, Kate’s name has become synonymous with the practice of home-baking pies infused with care and confidence. Thousands of people have joined her workshops, including her 3-day Pie Camp, in Washington State and around the world. Her first cookbook — Art of the Pie — was nominated fo...

Harissa Matzo Soup: Bridging Moroccan and Ashkenazi cooking with Danielle Renov 19.01.2021

Danielle Renov is the author of Peas Love & Carrots, her first cookbook. She is well known for her food blog and Instagram of the same name. She joins us this week to #TalkCookbooks. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit saltandspine.substack.com/subscribe

Merging art, recipes, and Southern cooking with Martha Hall Foose & Amy Evans 09.12.2020

Description coming soon. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit saltandspine.substack.com/subscribe

Hawa Hassan is bringing bibis' recipes and stories to your home kitchen. 02.12.2020

This week, we're excited to welcome Hawa Hassan to Salt + Spine, the podcast on stories behind cookbooks. Hawa is the founder and CEO of Basbaas Sauce , a selection of condiments that are inspired by Somalia, the country where she was born. Hawa left Somalia with her family in the midst of the country’s civil war: first to a refugee camp and then to the U.S. She built a life in America, including...

Inspiring kids in the kitchen with author Carolyn Federman 03.11.2020

Carolyn Federman is the author of New Favorites for New Cooks and the creator of the Charlie Cart Project. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit saltandspine.substack.com/subscribe

How Roman taxi drivers inspired Kristina Gill to catalog classic cucina romana recipes 27.10.2020

Kristina Gill is the co-author of Tasting Rome: Fresh Flavors and Forgotten Recipes from an Ancient City . A native of Nashville, Kristina relocated to Rome in 1999. Kristina joined us remotely from, of course, Rome, to talk about the role food has played in her life, how she approaches her work, and where she turns for inspiration. Plus, of course, we’re playing a game and putting Kristina to the...

A New Generation of Food Writers and Chefs on What the Future Holds 20.10.2020

In the final installment of our Food Media Awakening Series—and the beginning of our fall 2020 season—we're talking with teenage food professionals about what drew them to food and food writing and what they see for the food media and restaurant industries as their generation enters the workforce. Oakland-based Rahanna Bisseret Martinez shares her perspective on restaurant kitchens, New York City'...

The Importance of Non-White Led Food Media 05.08.2020

In Part 3 of our Food Media Awakening Series, we're talking all about food media: specifically, food media that is not owned or led by white people. With power and editorial control largely in the hands of white people at "mainstream" food media outlets, we're talking with editors, publishers, and writers about the importance of having and investing in Black- and POC-led food media. Food writer an...

Building a more equitable cookbook industry won't be easy, but change is overdue 21.07.2020

We're stepping away from our normal one-on-one author interviews this month to hold space for deeper conversations around equity and representation in food media and the cookbook industry. Stay tuned as we talk with cookbook authors, food writers, editors, podcast hosts, and the generation of young cooks and food writers. In the second episode of our Food Media Awakening series, we're taking a clo...

What Happened at Bon Appetit and What Can Food Media Learn? 08.07.2020

We're stepping away from our normal one-on-one author interviews this month to hold space for deeper conversations around equity and representation in food media and the cookbook industry. Stay tuned as we talk with cookbook authors, food writers, editors, podcast hosts, and the generation of young cooks and food writers. In today's episode, we're starting by taking a look at the reckoning that's...

Learning the art of simple, joyful Japanese home cooking with author Sonoko Sakai 23.06.2020

Sonoko Sakai is a writer and teacher based in California. Over the course of her career, she’s developed recipes, taught cooking classes, and written articles and cookbooks to promote Japanese food and culture. Her first cookbook— The Poetical Pursuit of Food: Japanese Recipes for American Cooks —was published in 1986, and her most recent, Japanese Home Cooking , features 100 recipes that get to t...

Celebrating queer chefs, authors, and food writers with Jesse Szewczyk's Tasty Pride 16.06.2020

Jesse Szewczyk is a New York-based food writer and stylist with bylines in outlets from Food52, The Kitchn, Tasty, and Jarry. Jesse joined us to talk about his first cookbook, Tasty Pride, a compilation of 75 recipes and stories from the queer food community. June is Pride Month and we were thrilled to welcome Jesse to the show. In addition to bringing together queer voices for this cookbook, Jess...

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