Chef's Table: Talks

By David GelbSociety & Culture Arts Food

Chef's Table: Talks episodes

May 18 How an LA Food Stall Won a Michelin Star Ft. Gilberto Cetina
Gilberto Cetina (Holbox) joins David in the kitchen this week!! Gilberto
talks about the pressure of taking on his family's beloved restaurant
Chichen Itza, how spearfishing as a teen made him fall in love with
seafood, being a Michelin-starred seafood chef when his wife and
daughter don't like fish, the catering horror story that made him almost
ruin a wedding, and so much more.
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58 min
May 11 The Family Behind Hollywood's Most Iconic Restaurants Ft. Byron Puck
Byron Puck (President of Wolfgang Puck Fine Dining) joins David on the show this week! David and Byron talk about the moment he first realized his father Wolfgang Puck's level of fame on a boy scout camping trip, working in Spago's dish pit at age 12, family latke lessons, the time an egg-white cocktail exploded on a customer, why tuna cones will never leave the menu, what it means to be known as "the quintessential Hollywood restaurant", and so much more.
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1 hr 2 min
May 04 Mason & Lily Royal Make Perfectly Imperfect Waffles
Mason & Lily Royal (Max & Helen’s) join David on the show this
week! They talk about getting married a week before opening the diner,
why everyone wants to be cozy, Mason’s 17th restaurant opening, Fried
Chicken Wednesdays, debate what “American cheese” actually means,
dealing with stoned customers at a cannabis restaurant, and so much
more.
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57 min
April 20 Justin Pichetrungsi Reinvented Taco Tuesdays
Justin Pichetrungsi (Anajak Thai) is on the show this week! David and Justin talk about Justin’s 10 years working as a Disney Imagineer and leaving that career to take over his family’s restaurant after his father’s stroke, why the kitchen chaos of The Bear is so accurate, secret tricks servers use to turn tables, serving dinner in an alley, his kitchen weapon of choice, and so much more.

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56 min
April 13 Maxwell Reis Drinks Sherry Cobblers
Maxwell Reis (Mírate, Daisy) joins David on a show this week! Maxwell breaks down little-known histories of spirits from why people associate rum with pirates to how fermentation started and where brown liquor comes from. They talk about agave goblins, the importance of supporting family-owned distributors, what causes hangovers (and why good mezcal doesn’t make you hungover) and so much more!

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1 hr 20 min
April 06 Jeremy Fall Appreciates a Happy Meal
Chef and Restaurateur Jeremy Fall (Drugstore) is on the show this week!!
David and Jeremy talk about their love of a quality steakhouse, discuss what “American food” really means, talk about how immigrants are the heart of LA’s food culture, why chefs could chill with nitrogen, break down the definition of a sandwich, and so much more.

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1 hr 4 min
March 30 Kris Yenbamroong Will Always Have Pork Toro On the Menu
LA-Based Chef and Restaurateur Kris Yenbamroong (Night+Market) is on the show this week! David and Kris talk about his family’s beloved Thai
restaurant (and how he almost ran it into bankruptcy when he first took
over), Wolfgang Puck cooking with Kris’ grandmother, why there’s a weird
photo of Al Gore hanging in Night + Market, the infamous Phuket chicken, eating super spicy foods as a kid to get cred with his family, and so much more.

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1 hr 25 min
March 23 Saqib Keval and Norma Listman Make Perfect Samosas
Chefs Saqib Keval and Norma Listman are on the show this week! Saqib, Norma and David talk about creating a healthy, sustainable workplace at their restaurant Masala y Maiz, cooks hiding to eat while on the job, perfecting samosas, making chai in the woods over a fire, living off quesadillas and coffee after having a kid, and so much more.

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1 hr 4 min
March 16 Niki Nakayama Cooked Lobster for Spielberg
Chef, restaurateur, and Chef’s Table Season 1 star Niki Nakayama is here this
week! David and Niki talk about the 15th anniversary of her
Michelin-starred restaurant n/naka, her iconic uni dish getting shown on
billboards, why customers ask to eat in her parking lot, how to
navigate marriage with your cooking partner, Niki’s trip to Jiro’s sushi
bar, and so much more.

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1 hr 4 min
March 09 Nancy Silverton Tests Ice Cream Blindfolded
Nancy Silverton (Mozza, Max & Helen’s, La Brea Bakery) joins David on the
show this week! Nancy and David talk about the Max & Helen’s
waffles that quickly went viral, Nancy’s ultimate ice cream quality
test, the meal at Chez Panisse that shaped her love of food, why her
fridge at home is empty, hot takes on gluten free dishes, why you should
never put mushrooms on margherita pizza, and so much more.

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1 hr 7 min

About Chef's Table: Talks

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In Chef’s Table: Talks, David Gelb, creator and director of Netflix’s Chef’s Table and Jiro Dreams of Sushi, brings listeners into a deep, intimate conversation centered…