The Well-Seasoned Librarian: Mixing Cookbooks and Conversation

Next week we have on as guests Paul Lebeau (Mockmill Co) and Abbey Thiel (Abbey the Food Scientist!) I think you will love hearing me talk to two people who are on the Science side of the Food Industry.  Join me for both, Next week!

Helen Rennie – Founder and Instructor of Helen's Kitchen Cooking School. While most people sneak into the kitchen to get a snack, Helen spent her life sneaking into the kitchen to cook. At 10, she thought making bean soup was more exciting than practicing the piano. At 18, she was feeding her fellow college students in exchange for help with her programming assignments. After finishing her degree...

Lisa Steele is a 5th generation chicken keeper living on a farm in Maine with her husband and mixed flock of chickens, ducks and geese. A Maine Master Gardener and the author of six top-selling books on raising backyard poultry, her new book is an egg cookbook published by HarperCollins. The host of the TV show Welcome to my Farm which aired on NBC in Maine and won three 2021 Telly Awards and was...

Tune in Next week for Chef Week! We will have Helen Rennie (Chef/Vlogger)the founder and Instructor of Helen's Kitchen Cooking School and Helen’s Kitchen Youtube Cooking Channel. Also, we will have Hannah Howard: A chef and author of "Feast" and "Plenty",  both guests were wonderful to talk to! Please check out both episodes! Until then Keep Cooking!

Five Feline Farm is where Julia Miller and Donna Coonce (plus their precious cats) live and have committed to eating well, living well, and helping each other out along the way To read more go to -  https://fivefelinefarm.com/ ___________________ “Help us promote this podcast and share this episode with a friend” “Share on social and tag us at @WellLibrarian” “Follow The Well Seasoned Librari...

Next Week is Farm Week on the Well Seasoned Librarian Podcast!  Tune in and hear me talk to Monday:August 23-  Five Feline Farm: Julia Miller and Donna Coonce: Podcast/Cookbook/Childrens Book Friday: August 27 - Lisa Steele: Fresh Eggs Daily, Website/Vlog/Cookbook Please join me to talk to both of my guests and they discuss thier work on the farm, thier books and thier pets! I had a grea...

Miguel Fliguer (1961) lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He's an IT consultant at a global corporation that shares initials with H.P.Lovecraft. Coincidence? His self-published first book, Cooking With Lovecraft, received moderate praise from genre luminaries like S.T. Joshi and Wilum H. Pugmire. His short stories are featured in Axxon (Argentina), Círculo de Lovecraft (Spain), Crypt of Cthulhu (USA...

Melissa A. Matthews is a first-generation American storyteller-- mixed media artist, writer, facilitator and entrepreneur-- from Brooklyn, N.Y. She graduated with a BFA in painting from Howard University in 2008. She is currently living, working and raising her family in her cultural home of Trinidad and Tobago. Writing : General: melissaamatthews.medium.com Food: Reciped.substack.com Art Instagra...

Carolyn Jung is an award-winning food and wine writer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is the recipient of a James Beard Award for feature writing about restaurants/chefs, a Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism award of excellence for diversity writing, an award from the American Association of Sunday and Features Editors, and numerous first-place honors from the Association o...

Heather Hardcastle Heather Hardcastle understood where gourmet gluten free was headed before everyone else. In the early 2000’s, diagnosed with gluten intolerance, and passionate about food and cooking, Heather left her well established career and enrolled at the Culinary Institute of America, determined to learn the nuances of great pastry and solid classical technique. Her dream was always to tu...

"Sarah Wassberg Johnson is The Food Historian. Featured on The History Channel's "The Food that Built America" as well as numerous digital media outlets and academic print journals, Wassberg Johnson has been studying American food history professionally since 2015. A public historian and therefore a generalist, her areas of study include the Progressive Era, home economics, cookbook history, and f...

Lisanna Wallance grew up in New York, attending Barnard College of Columbia University before moving to Paris. She was born with Ehlers Danlos Syndrome, a connective tissue disorder that causes dysfunction throughout the body. When her symptoms suddenly worsened, she delved deeper into her passion for cooking as a way to help heal herself. She spent years experimenting with her diet, using food, p...

Heather Arndt Anderson is a Portland, Oregon-based food writer, culinary historian, and botanist, as well as a regular panelist on the podcast The Four Top. She is the author of Breakfast: A History and Portland: A Food Biography, Chillies: A Global History , Berries: A Global History and   Portland: A Food Biography (Big City Food Biographies) Website: Voodoo and Sauce https://voodooandsauce...

The Necronomnomnom: Recipes and Rites from the Lore of H. P. Lovecraft Mike Slater rose from the Stygian depths of Corporate America at about the same time Viagra and Google came to be. Irish Astrologers and Iron Maiden fans remain divided as to whether or not these events are related. Mike is the author of The Necronomnomnom , purveyor of infernally bad puns (the sages speculate that there is in...

Baker/Pastry Chef Roxana Jullapat, a Los Angeles native of Costa Rican and Thai descent, pursued a degree in journalism before turning to cooking. For the last 20 years, she has held tenures at some of Los Angeles’ most celebrated restaurants including Campanile, Bastide, Lucques, and AOC. In May of 2017, she opened Friends & Family bakery, where every loaf of bread, morning pastry, and decade...

The Bitten Word . By Christine Parker & Ashley Lee Ashley is a coast guard wife and mother of four. She has a degree in Humanities with an emphasis in English from BYU. When she is not podcasting she is running her cupcake business, reading, cooking, and enjoying all of the new cities that military life takes her to. Christine is a stay at home mom of two. She studied Humanities at BYU and has...

Dara O'Brien is the Creative Director of Lake Isle Press, which publishes trailblazing books for adventurous cooks. Her blog, taste_budding, on LakeIslePress.com and also on Medium, chronicles her journey from picky eater toward intrepid home cook. She began her career in food media as marketing director of Bon Appetit Magazine. When she isn't cooking or writing about cooking, she is a playwright...

Chocolate Maven Loyd Auerbach is a lifelong Foodist who got heavily involved in learning as much as he could about that dark stuff, Chocolate, in the early 2000s. This led him to begin conducting guided chocolate tasting sessions for audiences big and small and significant further research. While interviewing famed chocolatier Joseph Schmidt in San Francisco, it was suggested he learn to be a choc...

Kathryn Dillon is a Cleveland Heights, Ohio-based author who writes  about food, mental health, and anything else that strikes her fancy.  She resides with her husband and their very spoiled cats in  a ridiculously large 1910-built home that they are slowly attempting  to renovate. She is a product manager by day and holds an MBA from  Roosevelt University and a...

Zeene produces and hosts two  YouTube  shows; Zeene In Real Life is an insider’s travel/exploration guide to San Francisco and the wider Bay Area and Zeene’s Epic Eatz (just launched last November 2020) features weekly food adventures where she samples and rates popular gastronomy. Outside of her production business, Zeene project manages the busy lives of t...

I had the pleasure of interviewing author Terry Barr. Terry is a thrice-nominated Pushcart Prize essayist originally from Bessemer, Al. His essay collections--Don't Date Baptists, We Might As Well Eat, and Secrets I'm Dying to Tell You are published by Red Hawk Publications and available on Amazon. His work has been published in storySouth, Under the Sun, The New Southern Fugitives, Hipp...

Hello and welcome to The Well-Seasoned Librarian. I am your host, Dean Jones. I am a food writer and a Librarian in the Bay Area. Won’t you join me as I chat with Cookbook Authors, Food Writers, Food Media Mavens and chefs as we talk about our favorite subject food. This is a new podcast, so if you would like to be a guest on it, or know someone who would, drop me a line and let’s get talking! Tun...