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 254: Greener in the...

01.15.2020

How's this for a new year's resolution: The Test Kitchen kicked off 2020 with a set of new sustainability guidelines. We wanted to do better when it comes to taking care of the environment, and this week Chris Morocco lays ...

Bon Appétit Foodcast episodes:

01.15.2020 Episode 254: Greener in the New Year How's this for a new year's resolution: The Test Kitchen kicked off 2020 with a set of new sustainability guidelines. We wanted to do better when it comes to taking care of the environment, and this week Chris Morocco lays ...
01.08.2020 Episode 253: The Soba Whisperer Christina Chaey chats with Sonoko Sakai about making soba and her latest cookbook, Japanese Home Cooking, which the BA staff can’t get enough of. Then Brad Leone waxes poetic on an often-overlooked category of produce: root vegetables. Finally, it's Cook, ...
01.01.2020 Episode 252: New Year, New Feel Good Food Plan Happy New Year! Healthyish editor Amanda Shapiro is chatting with Chris Morocco and Andy Baraghani about the recipes in our third annual Feel Good Food Plan. ICYMI, we’re cooking through ten days of delicious weeknight dinners starting January 2nd, a.k.a. ...
12.25.2019 Episode 251: Say Bye to 2019 With a Giant Wedge of Parmesan Carla Lalli Music and Gabe T. are in the studio with Adam, dreaming about about their ultimate (and hypothetical!) New Year's Eve party menus. From giant wedges of Parm to Spanish tortillas to braised short ribs, you'll definitely find some ...
12.18.2019 Episode 250: Ezra Koenig on Bagels, Cold Brew, and Music Ezra Koenig is the lead singer and guitarist of Vampire Weekend. But he is also the host of Time Crisis, an internet radio show with a very deep cult-like following. This week, Carla and Adam talk to Ezra about the ...
12.11.2019 Episode 249: Win the Cookie Swap Every year at BA, one lucky person is called upon to develop holiday cookies worthy of baking, swapping, eating, and gifting. This time around, that lucky person was Rick Martinez, and here he explains how he rose to the challenge ...
12.04.2019 Episode 248: Everything You Need to Know About Mushrooms When are you supposed to salt mushrooms? How do you know when the wild ones are worth the splurge? Do you really need to clean them? Basically editor Sarah Jampel is answering all of your mushroom questions. Then, digital director ...
11.27.2019 Episode 247: Sky High Pies If you're a last-minute decision maker when it comes to Thanksgiving dessert, you've come to the right place. The one and only Chris Morocco developed three stunning, towering pies—lemon meringue, banana cream, and chocolate pudding—and here he walks us through ...
11.20.2019 Episode 246: Making Perfect Thanksgiving This year, our big Thanksgiving feature in the November issue is based on our video series called Making Perfect. In both the magazine and videos, we challenged the food editors to make their best version of turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, ...
11.13.2019 Episode 245: It's Alive, Deep Dive This week, we’re going behind the scenes of It’s Alive, our video series that chronicles Brad Leone's fermentation experiments (and adventures) and is edited by Matt Hunziker. It was a big leap from videos we used to make—less hands in ...
11.06.2019 Episode 244: The Road to Chicken Thigh Biryani The newest member of our Test Kitchen team, Sohla El-Waylly, talks about her recent recipe for chicken thigh biryani based on her mom’s lamb version. It took a lot of testing to get it just right—and now it really is. ...
10.30.2019 Episode 243: From Butchers to Small Business Owners Erika Nakamura and Jocelyn Guest left their NYC butcher shop and restaurant about two years ago. They were tired of the long hours and wanted to start a family. So they did just that and founded their own sausage company, ...
10.25.2019 Bonus Episode 242: Yasmin Khan We were lucky to have Yasmin Khan stop by the offices a few weeks ago, so we’re airing that conversation for you today as a bonus episode. Healthyish editor Amanda Shapiro chats with Yasmin about her latest book, Zaitoun. It ...
10.23.2019 Episode 241: Nothing Fancy Alison Roman is back to talk about her new cookbook, Nothing Fancy, which just came out yesterday. It’s as beautiful as her first and filled with recipes developed around the idea of having people over. That’s right: not entertaining, just ...
10.16.2019 Episode 240: Questlove's Mixtape Questlove just released his fifth book, Mixtape Potluck, which also happens to be his first cookbook. It's a collection of recipes from his friends—chefs, musicians, entertainers, and artists—and meant to inspire the kind of potluck-style dinner parties he hosts. He ...
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 ...

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Bon Appétit Foodcast episodes:

Episode 254: Greener in the New Year

Episode 253: The Soba Whisperer

Episode 252: New Year, New Feel Good Food Plan

Episode 251: Say Bye to 2019 With a Giant Wedge of Parmesan

Episode 250: Ezra Koenig on Bagels, Cold Brew, and Music

Episode 249: Win the Cookie Swap

Episode 248: Everything You Need to Know About Mushrooms

Episode 247: Sky High Pies

Episode 246: Making Perfect Thanksgiving

Episode 245: It's Alive, Deep Dive

Episode 244: The Road to Chicken Thigh Biryani

Episode 243: From Butchers to Small Business Owners

Bonus Episode 242: Yasmin Khan

Episode 241: Nothing Fancy

Episode 240: Questlove's Mixtape

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

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