The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters

We’re celebrating Father’s Day with Kitty and Al Tait, the dad-and-daughter duo behind Britain’s  Orange Bakery  and the authors of  Breadsong.  They talk to Francis about how learning to bake together changed their lives and what inspires them to create their own recipes. They left us with their delicious  Fika Buns recipe . Then, we hear the story behind how Kevin Pang, host of the podcast  Proo...

This week, it’s party season with food writer Nicole A. Taylor, bartender Natasha David, and Laundry Evangelist, Patric Richardson Celebrate kitchen companionship with a gift to The Splendid Table today.

This week, we spend the hour with the pioneering food radio personality, Evan Kleiman. We talk about her life and all the places food has taken her. She tells us about her travels across Europe fresh out of high school, learning to cook alongside her Italian host family, and falling in love with the cuisine. She went on to open one of the most respected Italian restaurants in the country,  Angeli...

This week, we talk about different umami-packed sauces that belong in every cook's kitchen. First, we sit with René Redzepi of Copenhagen's  Noma  to talk about the delicious ancient sauce, garum. Originally it's a fermented fish sauce, but his fermentation lab team has developed modern versions, including vegan ones. We chat with Diep Tran, coauthor of the Red Boat Fish Sauce cookbook, to talk ab...

This week, we’re celebrating the cookbooks of Spring 2022! We talk with British chef Asma Khan about her latest book,  Ammu . The book is an homage to her mother and she walks us through her childhood eating, imagine the aroma of pakoras (onion fritters) frying during monsoon season in India! Then, we chat with Rick Martinez about his latest book,  Mi Cocina  and his decision to move to Mexico Cit...

This week, the legendary food writer Claudia Roden joins us from her home in London to talk about her career and her journey as a food writer. We learn about the first time she started exchanging written recipes, how she traveled and worked her way into kitchens all across the Mediterranean and how she created a singular style of food writing. She is the author of many groundbreaking books, includ...

This week we’re sharing an episode from the upcoming third season of Be My Guest with Ina Garten, Ina’s official podcast from Food Network. Join the party as Ina invites friends old and new to her East Hampton home for good food and great conversation. In each episode, Ina and a guest will chat about life, love, and career all while making a delicious meal. Guests this season include superstar bal...

Chef Maneet Chauhan and cookbook author Dawn Perry talk hands-on cooking and we introduce our new podcast, The One Recipe & its host, Jesse Sparks ' Celebrate kitchen companionship with a gift to The Splendid Table today

This week, we talk to BBC Food journalist Dan Saladino about how saving endangered foods might save the world and indigenous foods activist Karlos Baca

This week, we get into cooking with winter vegetables with Hetty McKinnon, author of  To Asia, With Love  and Chef Amanda Cohen of Dirt Candy 

This week, we get into the beauty of mushrooms with wild foods expert Eugenia Bone and Anna L. Tsing, author of  The Mushroom at the End of the World

This week, it's an hour-long special featuring the iconic writer and teacher Raghavan Iyer, author of the forthcoming book,  On The Curry Trail

Jenn Louis stops by to talk about the essentials for a great soup and takes on your questions. Plus, the Splendid team holds a taste-off of store-bought chicken stock.

We’re gearing up for the holidays with Von Diaz's Puerto Rican Christmas, great baking with Vallery Lomas, and a little slowdown poetry with Ada Limón

A holiday guide with The New Yorker’s Helen Rosner, Serious Eats' Daniel Gritzer, & Leah Bonnema & Nick Leighton of the Were You Raised by Wolves show

We’re getting you all set up for Thanksgiving this week with our friends, Rodney Scott, Nik Sharma, Genevieve Ko, and Eric Wareheim

Listen on:  Apple Podcasts  |  Stitcher  |  Google Podcasts  |  Spotify  |  Pandora Francis Lam hosts the 2022 pre-recorded edition of our popular Thanksgiving show. Francis is joined by special guests Claire Saffitz, author of  Dessert Person , Rick Martinez author of  Mi Cocina: Recipes and Rapture from My Kitchen in Mexico,  Chef, and  Chopped  judge Maneet Chauhan ,  and our very own Jesse Spa...

This week, we’re getting ready for Thanksgiving with Star of A Chef’s Life, Vivian Howard, and the expert on gatherings, Priya Parker.

This week, we’ve surprisingly simple desserts with amazing bakers & chefs, Anne Byrn, Dave Beran, Aran Goyoaga, & Paola Velez

We talk with the authors of some of our favorite fall cookbooks:  Mooncakes & Milk Bread, Gastro Obscura, Flavors of the Sun, and Sandor Katz’s Fermentation Journeys.

We’re back in the kitchen and getting cooking inspiration from VICE’s Farideh Sadeghin and we talk to SF Chronicle’s restaurant critic Soleil Ho about the future of restaurants

Things get spicy when we look at the wide world of chili peppers and how they're enjoyed raw, cooked, powdered, and blended into sauces.

Go beyond the pipe and drape, deep into the intense world of catering with Matt and Ted Lee, Michael Twitty, Kwame Onwuachi, and America’s Test Kitchen.

Listen on:  Apple Podcasts | Stitcher |  Google Podcasts  | Spotify |  Pandora This week, we introduce you to two amazing culinary organizations as we bring you real-world stories of street vendors and other low-income food entrepreneurs starting their businesses. First, we visit alums of La Cocina , a groundbreaking kitchen incubator in San Francisco. Then, we look at culinary empowerment from an...

We’re dropping a bonus episode in our feed this week of our newest pod baby. It’s called The One Recipe and it’s all about that ONE magic,  indispensable  recipe that you simply can’t live without! This week, Stephen Satterfield talks to Jesse about why it’s important to know what you like, for instance, room temperature butter, which brings us to his  One:  Toast .   Stephen Satterfield is the ho...