We have a special live episode for you today. It’s food TV star Giada De Laurentiis in conversation with host Kerry Diamond from this year’s South by Southwest conference in Austin. 
 
They discuss everything from Giada’s early Food Network days, to dealing with burnout, building her Giadzy lifestyle platform, and navigating entrepreneurship. Think mastering Shopify, raising money, getting good at social media. All the things you can identify with if you’re building your own company.

Hosted by Kerry Diamond
Produced by Catherine Baker and Elizabeth Vogt
Edited by Jenna Sadhu
Content Operations Manager Londyn Crenshaw
Recorded at SXSW and Newsstand Studios at Rockefeller Center

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More on Giada: Instagram, Giadzy, website
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Giada Live At SXSW: Trust Your Gut

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Lots of people dream of moving to France. Rebekah Peppler made it a reality when she moved from New York to Paris, and today she’s the author of three books dedicated to French food, drink, and traditions: “Apéritif,” “À Table,” and her newest, “Le Sud.” She joins host Kerry Diamond to talk about her journey of self-discovery, life in Paris, how her battle with long Covid led to “Le Sud,” her favorite recipes from the book, and why she’d happily be stuck on a desert island with cookbook queen Melissa Clark. 

Hosted by Kerry Diamond
Produced by Catherine Baker and Elizabeth Vogt
Edited by Jenna Sadhu
Content Operations Manager Londyn Crenshaw

Recorded at Newsstand Studios at Rockefeller Center

Radio Cherry Bombe is a production of The Cherry Bombe Podcast Network. Subscribe to our newsletter and check out past episodes and transcripts here. 

More on Rebekah: Instagram, website, “Le Sud” book
More on Kerry: Instagram

“Le Sud” Author Rebekah Peppler’s Life-Changing Move To France

Buffy Maguire has been in the coffee business for 30 years, but it’s not where she envisioned herself as a young college student interested in political science and social justice. She even moved to Belfast to attend graduate school and witness first-hand the peace process underway in Northern Ireland. While there, she made a small film focused on people who had lost loved ones during The Troubles, the name given to the conflict that embroiled the country. “I could feel the power of oral history, the need to remember and honor people, even if it happened a long time ago,” says Buffy. 

She herself would face a great loss years later when her young son Kevin died. To cope during his time in the hospital, Buffy started to doodle and daydream. “I created this crazy coffee company in my head,” she says. “It had to be fun and light and escapism, but rooted in something I cared about.” Buffy tucked the idea away for three years so she could focus on “living and thriving” for the sake of her two younger sons. “I knew deep in my soul they would do as I was doing, not as I was saying, so I had to live it. That was always my inspiration.” 

In time, Buffy would launch Lady Falcon Coffee Club, the San Francisco-based brand known for its single origin blends, distinctive packaging, and colorful, refurbished 1948 GMC bread truck turned coffee truck (Buffy shared the news that a Lady Falcon brick-and-mortar is in the works in the Outer Sunset neighborhood). Don’t miss her conversation with host Kerry Diamond.

Thank you to Kerrygold, Johnnie Walker, and OpenTable for supporting our show. 

Hosted by Kerry Diamond
Produced by Catherine Baker and Elizabeth Vogt
Edited by Jenna Sadhu
Content Operations Manager Londyn Crenshaw
Recorded at Newsstand Studios at Rockefeller Center


Radio Cherry Bombe is a production of The Cherry Bombe Podcast Network. Subscribe to our newsletter and check out past episodes and transcripts here. 

More on Buffy: Instagram, website
More on Kerry: Instagram

Lady Falcon Coffee Club’s Buffy Maguire On The Healing Power Of Creativity & Caffeine

“Focus on the big picture,” says Valerie Chang, the chef and owner of Maty’s, a 150-seat Peruvian spot in Miami. For her, that means more than awards (like her recent James Beard nomination) and the future of her restaurant. It translates to taking care of her mental and physical well-being and implementing a new kind of hospitality that’s focused on service not servitude. 

Valerie sat down with host Kerry Diamond in Miami to talk about her career and her family’s restaurant group (which includes B-Side and her brother’s soon-to-open Peruvian-Japanese spot, Itamae Ao). Valerie also shares what she’s learned in therapy, her thoughts on being a boss, and Maty’s menu highlights, including a twist on the traditional Oxtail Saltado and, for dessert, nostalgic sweet potato butternut squash doughnuts known as Picarones.

Thank you to Kerrygold, Walmart, and Johnnie Walker for supporting our show. 

Hosted by Kerry Diamond
Produced by Catherine Baker and Elizabeth Vogt
Edited by Jenna Sadhu
Content Operations Manager Londyn Crenshaw
Thank you to Newsstand Studios at Rockefeller Center


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More on Valerie: Instagram, Maty's, Itamae
More on Kerry: Instagram, Cherry Bombe

Chef Valerie Chang Of Maty’s In Miami On Mental Health And Peruvian Cuisine

Best-selling author and former Gourmet Magazine editor-in-chief Ruth Reichl is our guest on today’s episode. Ruth joins host Kerry Diamond to talk about her latest book, “The Paris Novel,” a tale of self-discovery set in 1983 and filled with food, fashion, and art. Ruth shares the real-life inspiration behind some of the people, places, and meals, and talks about her writing process. “I took a long time writing this because I didn’t want to let go of the characters,” she says. 

Ruth, who has a Substack and a podcast today, also shares her take on food media, dishes out some career advice, and discusses whether her books will ever be adapted for movies or streaming. 

Thank you to Kerrygold and Veuve Clicquot's La Grande Dame for supporting our show. 

Hosted by Kerry Diamond
Produced by Catherine Baker and Elizabeth Vogt
Edited by Jenna Sadhu
Content Operations Manager Londyn Crenshaw
Recorded at Newsstand Studios at Rockefeller Center

Radio Cherry Bombe is a production of The Cherry Bombe Podcast Network. Subscribe to our newsletter and check out past episodes and transcripts here. 

More on Ruth: Instagram, Substack, Three Ingredients podcast, “The Paris Novel”
More on Kerry: Instagram

Ruth Reichl On “The Paris Novel,” Her Newest Book

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