Earlier this month, Maui Chef Lee Anne Wong lost her restaurant, Papa’aina, in the fires that swept through the historic town of Lahaina. The Top Chef alum had opened the restaurant, located at the 122-year-old Pioneer Inn, almost four years ago and was happy to finally have the pandemic behind her. Today, Lee Anne is helping with the relief effort in Maui as part of Chef Hui, a culinary collective making tens of thousands of meals each week for those in need. 

She joined host Kerry Diamond via Zoom to talk about the relief efforts, how listeners can help, and her desire to rebuild. 

More on Lee Anne: Instagram, Papa’aina & Pioneer Inn GoFundMe, Chef Hui, Maui Relief Funds

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Special Episode: Maui Chef Lee Anne Wong On The Lahaina Fires And How You Can Help

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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.

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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


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

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

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

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 Giada: Instagram, Giadzy, website
More on Kerry: Instagram

Giada Live At SXSW: Trust Your Gut

“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

Today’s guest is Nadia Caterina Munno, the glamorous Dolce & Gabbana-wearing gourmet known to millions of fans as The Pasta Queen. She’s built a following for her fashion-forward, high-energy recipe videos in which she shares the secrets to one classic Italian dish after another.

In this episode, host Kerry Diamond speaks with Nadia about the “blasphemous lasagna” recipe on TikTok that inspired her to share her own videos, her love for Marcella Hazan, the grandmother who inspired her entrepreneurial journey, and why she’s a fan of Martha Stewart. 

They also talk about Nadia’s new line of pasta sauces, her recipes and tips for pastina, gnocchi, and pasta al sugo, and her advice for c-suite executives (Nadia was in marketing and PR before becoming The Pasta Queen). 

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

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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 Nadia: Instagram, Pasta Queen sauces, website 
More on Kerry: Instagram

Special Episode: Maui Chef Lee Anne Wong On The Lahaina Fires And How You Can Help

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