Bon Appétit Foodcast

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The Bon Appétit Foodcast features interviews with chefs, writers, and well, anyone who has something cool to say about food. Episodes air every Wednesday.

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Episode 239: Don't Be Scare...

10.09.2019

Molly Baz is here to help. She shares tips on how to shop for fish (even if you can't make it to speciality market), how to cook fish without stinking up your house, and more. After that, Alex Delany is ...

Bon Appétit Foodcast episodes:

10.09.2019 Episode 239: Don't Be Scared of Cooking Fish at Home Molly Baz is here to help. She shares tips on how to shop for fish (even if you can't make it to speciality market), how to cook fish without stinking up your house, and more. After that, Alex Delany is ...
10.02.2019 Episode 238: Ivan Orkin and Chris Ying Want You to Cook From Their New Book After living in Japan for nearly two decades, Ivan Orkin is the chef and owner of two ramen shops in NYC and widely (and unusually) considered an American authority on ramen. He enlisted Chris Ying, cofounder and former editor of ...
09.25.2019 Episode 237: The Life of a Recipe We were at Feast Portland a couple of weekends ago, where Carla Lalli Music and Andy Baraghani talked about the life of a recipe at BA, from development to, ultimately, video. This week, we're airing that conversation. After that, Andy ...
09.18.2019 Episode 236: The Man Behind the Camera Alex Lau is BA's all-star staff photographer. He's been with the brand for going on six years, and this week he's talking about how he got his start and what it's like to travel the world with a camera in ...
09.11.2019 Episode 235: The Fall Playbook It's officially the best time of the year to cook. Chris Morocco and Andy Baraghani talk through the seven recipes they developed for our September issue to make the most of it—we promise these will get you excited for the ...
09.04.2019 Episode 234: Galettes, Any Which Way A galette is the perfect dessert, according to Carla Lalli Music. She walks us through her fail-proof dough that you can fill with anything—be it end-of-summer stone fruit and berries or fall pears and apples. Then, we're kicking off a ...
08.28.2019 Episode 233: A Saint Lucian Chef in New Orleans This week, chef Nina Compton talks about her journey from her home kitchen in the Caribbean to her incredibly successful restaurants in New Orleans, Compère Lapin and Bywater American Bistro. After that, Alex Delany tells shares how to make the ...
08.21.2019 Episode 232: Our Fall Wine Checklist Wine editor Marissa Ross tells us about what she's most excited for this fall (and also what she's definitely over). Yes to winemakers exploring the world of vermouth, no more to describing wines as "funky." After that, Carla Lalli Music ...
08.14.2019 Episode 231: Food In "The Farewell" Lulu Wang, the director and writer of the"The Farewell," thought a lot about food while making her film. It's based on what happened in her own life: a Chinese family coming together under the guise of a fake wedding to ...
08.07.2019 Episode 230: Chopsticks Can Do More Than You Might Think Carla Lalli Music and Chris Morocco sing the praises of chopsticks and discuss its versatility in the kitchen. After that, Carla chats with Gaby Melian about what her job as our test kitchen manager entails. P.S. These are the beautiful ...
07.31.2019 Episode 229: A Sandwich Built For the Beach Molly Baz chats with Carla Lalli Music about what is debatably the most epic recipe she has developed for Basically: the Big Ass Beach Hoagie. Yep, that is the real recipe name, and yep, there’s a lot to say about ...
07.24.2019 Episode 228: It's the Best Time of the Year to Cook We’re about halfway through the summer, a.k.a. halfway through the best time of the year to cook. The days are long, the produce is peak, and we’ve got Carla Lalli Music and friend of the podcast Gabe T. back to ...
07.17.2019 Episode 227: Life's a Picnic Picnics are great in theory, but in reality they can be tough. Nobody wants warm wine and food that doesn't mix well with the sun, so you have to come prepared. Molly Baz and Alex Delany share with Adam Rapoport ...
07.10.2019 Episode 226: Pesto, Three Ways We now have three pesto recipes on our website: classic green, spicy red, and creamy white. (You're welcome.) Andy Baraghani, Molly Baz, and Carla Lalli Music explain the process behind each version they developed and even get a little existential ...
07.03.2019 Episode 225: A Restaurant Six Years In the Making Adam Rapoport sits down with chefs Riad Nasr and Lee Hanson to talk about Frenchette, their new-wave French brasserie that's become one of the hardest reservations to get in New York City. After cooking together for decades at local institutions, ...
06.26.2019 Episode 224: Marinate After Grilling Conventional wisdom holds that marinating and grilling are always to be done in that order: the former before the latter. But why, really, when the moisture and sugar in most marinades can actually cause a protein to simultaneously steam and ...
06.19.2019 Episode 223: The Egg Salad Sandwich That Took Over L.A. Akira Akuto and Nick Montgomery are the chef/owners of Konbi, a tiny Japanese sandwich shop in Los Angeles. Maybe you’ve seen the cross-section of their now-famous egg salad sandwich on Instagram. Deputy editor Julia Kramer chats with the team behind ...
06.12.2019 Episode 222: How Stella Bugbee Gets It Done Stella Bugbee is the editor in chief and president of New York Magazine’s The Cut. Aside from running the most whip-smart site about women and culture out there, Stella is an avid home cook. Here Adam Rapoport talks to her ...
06.05.2019 Episode 221: Rice 4.0 Back by popular demand yet again, the Rice Wizards™ swing by for the fourth installment of their rice podcast. This time, Carla Lalli Music and Amiel Stanek talk about rice beverages, and then sidetrack into tempura, and then, well, you’ll ...
05.29.2019 Episode 220: Dave Grohl Does Barbecue It turns out that Dave Grohl—yes, that Dave Grohl of the Foo Fighters and Nirvana—is really good at barbecue. Like, owns-a-giant-smoker-and-barbecues-for-hundreds-of-people good. Adam Rapoport talks to Dave about how he got into the craft and how it expanded to Backbeat ...
05.22.2019 Episode 219: Gabriela Camara's Mexico City Kitchen Gabriela Camara opened Contramar in Mexico City when she was only 21-years-old. The landmark restaurant still serves the same super-fresh seafood-forward food it did when it first opened its doors—only now Camara also runs Cala in San Francisco, just published ...
05.15.2019 Episode 218: BA's Best Chocolate Chip Cookies There's nothing more contentious than the criteria for the ideal chocolate chip cookie—which is why Chris Morocco spent two months conceptualizing, researching, developing, and testing his new recipe for our BA's Best collection. This week, Adam Rapoport talks with Chris ...
05.08.2019 Episode 217: Salad Is So Much More Than You Think Recently at BA, we noticed all the times we’d go out to dinner and leave talking about...the salad. Just what were chefs doing to make their salads so multi-layered, interesting, and surprising? Turns out, a lot. Here Carla Lalli Music ...
05.01.2019 Episode 216: Indian-ish BA contributing writer Priya Krishna just released her first cookbook, Indian-ish: Recipes and Antics from a Modern American Family. Priya collaborated with her mother, Ritu, whose recipes combine Indian dishes and techniques with ingredients from all over (like roti pizza!). ...
04.26.2019 BONUS Episode 215: What's in a List? "Best of" lists are everywhere, but with so many, how much value should we actually give them? Brett Martin, reports and writes GQ's Best New Restaurants list, which came out earlier this week. Deputy editor Julia Kramer puts together BonApp's ...
04.24.2019 Episode 214: Notes From a Young Black Chef Kwame Onwuachi is the chef of Kith and Kin in Washington D.C. He is also the author of the recently-published Notes From a Young Black Chef, which is just as much a memoir about growing up as it is about ...
04.17.2019 Episode 213: BA's Best Matzo Ball Soup When senior associate food editor Molly Baz set out to develop BA's Best Matzo Ball Soup, she not only solicited input from highly-opinionated BA staffers, but she also reached out to Mitchell Davis, chief strategy officer for the James Beard ...
04.10.2019 Episode 212: Carrot Cake, 3 Ways Around here, we really like carrot cake, so much so that we have three (!) different recipes for it. There’s BA’s Best Carrot Cake, Healthyish's Gluten-Free Carrot Cake, and Basically's Carrot Loaf Cake. Adam talks with senior food editors Claire ...
04.03.2019 Episode 211: Angela Dimayuga on a New Kind of Job Angela Dimayuga, the former executive chef of NYC’s Mission Chinese Food, became the Creative Director of Food and Culture at The Standard where she now oversees the hotels’ restaurants and programming. Adam Rapoport chats with her about what it's been ...
03.27.2019 Episode 210: NYC Loves Missy Robbins Missy Robbins is the chef-owner of two acclaimed Italian restaurants in Brooklyn. In 2016, she opened Lilia—it's still one of the hardest reservations in town. Then, last year, she opened the handmade pasta-focused Misi (well, pasta and super delicious veg ...
03.20.2019 Episode 209: Where Cooking Begins Our very own Carla Lalli Music wrote a cookbook! And it's out in the world now! Carla shares how her book will teach you to be a smarter shopper and a more intuitive cook.
03.13.2019 Episode 208: Talking Politics at Restaurants Alex Wagner and Mark McKinnon are two of the three hosts of the weekly Showtime documentary series, The Circus. Alex and Mark, plus their third counterpart, John Heilemann, travel around talking to key political players and—this is where our podcast ...
03.06.2019 Episode 207: What Even Is Natural Wine? Andy Young is a winemaker based in Oregon. This week, he explains how he got into the industry and how he makes his relatively small batch natural bottles. After that, we talk about our new recipe for Spicy-Sweet Sambal Pork ...
02.27.2019 Episode 206: Soup Season Soup can be tricky to make at home. It often doesn’t turn out quite as rich and flavorful and dynamic as you want, especially if you’re not working with homemade stock. This week we give some tips and techniques (and ...
02.20.2019 Episode 205: Sohui Kim Sohui Kim is the chef of The Good Fork and Insa in Brooklyn. This week, she and associate editor Christina Chaey talk about re-embracing the Korean comfort food of their childhoods. Get the recipes from this episode: Kimchi Jigae Spicy ...
02.13.2019 Episode 204: Bolognese and a Glass of Wine A great bolognese is easy—it just takes a handful of tried and true techniques and some patience. This week, we talk through the recipe for BA's Best Bolognese, as well as a vegetarian spin, Cauliflower Bolognese. After that, we run ...
02.06.2019 Episode 203: Three Pitch-Perfect Restaurants Jody Williams and Rita Sodi are the owners and chefs of Buvette, I Sodi, Via Carota, and the forthcoming Bar Pisellino in Manhattan. They are also masters of running restaurants that feel inviting, with beautiful food and excellent service every ...
01.30.2019 Episode 202: A Super Bowl Showdown This week it's Adam vs. Carla vs. Gabe T. in the ultimate Super Bowl menu showdown. Each presents their ideal lineup, but there will only be one winner.
01.23.2019 Episode 201: The Stupid-Simple Guide to Coffee We tell you how to improve your morning (or afternoon, or evening) caffeine routine because, let's be honest, you can brew better than that. Then, from our live show back in November, Brad Leone talks fermentation and his YouTube show ...
01.16.2019 Episode 200: Rice 3.0 Back by popular demand, Carla Lalli Music and Amiel Stanek dive deep into rice. It will never get old. This week, they focus on recipes that transform rice into something more than a side dish (and, you know, why this ...
01.09.2019 Episode 199: Checking In with Andrew Knowlton Andrew Knowlton, BA's editor at large, recently started a new career phase: He opened a restaurant! We catch up with him about that process, as well as get some behind-the-scenes details about hosting Netflix's new cooking competition show, The Final ...
01.02.2019 Episode 198: Feel Good In the New Year It's 2019, people. We've stuffed our faces and now it's time for a reset, Healthyish style. We're talking about the second annual Feel Good Food Plan, two weeks of dinner recipes and lunch inspiration to start the new year right. ...
12.26.2018 Episode 197: BA's Best Spaghetti and Meatballs, Live As part of our second live podcast event, Adam Rapoport and Carla Lalli Music talk about the development of BA's Best Spaghetti and Meatballs—how the recipe was tested more than seven times, and what they learned along the way.
12.19.2018 Episode 196: Holiday Mains of the Day Whether you’re throwing an open-house Christmas soiree or an intimate New Year’s Eve dinner, you need a centerpiece dish. But that doesn’t mean you should be stressed out, pulling something out of the oven as your guests linger around you, ...
12.12.2018 Episode 195: Cookie Central Every year, a Test Kitchen editor develops a bunch of new and totally delicious holiday cookie recipes—the kind you want to bring to a cookie swap, or set out at your holiday party, or gift to someone when they invite ...
12.05.2018 Episode 194: Party Tricks with Alison Roman BA contributor and cookbook author Alison Roman knows how to host a killer party. This week, we talk to her about everything from how to make a shrimp cocktail to where to put the booze (it's in the bathtub).
11.28.2018 Episode 193: Bottom of the Pot Senior food editor Andy Baraghani talks to Naz Deravian about growing up with her parents’ Persian cooking, how she decided to start a cooking blog, and how that blog turned into her first cookbook, Bottom of the Pot.
11.21.2018 Episode 192: Neil DeGrasse Tyson Makes His Own French Toast You all know that Neil DeGrasse Tyson is an astrophysicist. But what you maybe didn't know is that he makes the best french toast ever—and refuses to eat anyone else's. This week, we talk to Neil about everything from said ...
11.16.2018 BONUS! Episode 191: Because Thanksgiving Leftovers Are the Best Part Adam, Carla, and Gabe T. are back to talk about what is arguably the best part of Thanksgiving—the leftovers. Then, novelist Emma Straub reads an essay she wrote for our November issue, The Higgledy Piggledy Thanksgivings.
11.14.2018 Episode 190: The Big Thanksgiving Dinner We’re one week away from the most exciting food holiday of the year, so we’re talking turkey, mashed potatoes, brussels sprouts, and more. We’ve got a ton of new and beautiful recipes from our November issue and we’re diving deep ...

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Bon Appétit Foodcast episodes:

Episode 239: Don't Be Scared of Cooking Fish at Home

Episode 238: Ivan Orkin and Chris Ying Want You to Cook From Their New Book

Episode 237: The Life of a Recipe

Episode 236: The Man Behind the Camera

Episode 235: The Fall Playbook

Episode 234: Galettes, Any Which Way

Episode 233: A Saint Lucian Chef in New Orleans

Episode 232: Our Fall Wine Checklist

Episode 231: Food In "The Farewell"

Episode 230: Chopsticks Can Do More Than You Might Think

Episode 229: A Sandwich Built For the Beach

Episode 228: It's the Best Time of the Year to Cook

Episode 227: Life's a Picnic

Episode 226: Pesto, Three Ways

Episode 225: A Restaurant Six Years In the Making

Episode 224: Marinate After Grilling

Episode 223: The Egg Salad Sandwich That Took Over L.A.

Episode 222: How Stella Bugbee Gets It Done

Episode 221: Rice 4.0

Episode 220: Dave Grohl Does Barbecue

Episode 219: Gabriela Camara's Mexico City Kitchen

Episode 218: BA's Best Chocolate Chip Cookies

Episode 217: Salad Is So Much More Than You Think

Episode 216: Indian-ish

BONUS Episode 215: What's in a List?

Episode 214: Notes From a Young Black Chef

Episode 213: BA's Best Matzo Ball Soup

Episode 212: Carrot Cake, 3 Ways

Episode 211: Angela Dimayuga on a New Kind of Job

Episode 210: NYC Loves Missy Robbins

Episode 209: Where Cooking Begins

Episode 208: Talking Politics at Restaurants

Episode 207: What Even Is Natural Wine?

Episode 206: Soup Season

Episode 205: Sohui Kim

Episode 204: Bolognese and a Glass of Wine

Episode 203: Three Pitch-Perfect Restaurants

Episode 202: A Super Bowl Showdown

Episode 201: The Stupid-Simple Guide to Coffee

Episode 200: Rice 3.0

Episode 199: Checking In with Andrew Knowlton

Episode 198: Feel Good In the New Year

Episode 197: BA's Best Spaghetti and Meatballs, Live

Episode 196: Holiday Mains of the Day

Episode 195: Cookie Central

Episode 194: Party Tricks with Alison Roman

Episode 193: Bottom of the Pot

Episode 192: Neil DeGrasse Tyson Makes His Own French Toast

BONUS! Episode 191: Because Thanksgiving Leftovers Are the Best Part

Episode 190: The Big Thanksgiving Dinner

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