18th century French liqueur + one of Madison Avenue’s most ridiculous campaigns, plus an iconic cocktail bar in Milwaukee.  It’s the is history of the Pink Squirrel.

Classic Eats with Kyle Johnson Cherek is created and hosted by Kyle Johnson Cherek, and co-produced by a'point productions and WUWM. Executive producers are Kyle Johnson Cherek and Rob Schoonover. Audio editing and engineering by Brian Arkta and John Rymaszewski. Additional production by Valeria Navarro Villegas, Michelle Maternowski and Rob Larry, Special thanks to our guest author and cocktail historian and expert Amanda Schuster.

Bread, specifically wheat bread, has defined life, class, and our human history since the neolithic. Join Kyle and guest author bread scholar William Rubel.

Classic Eats with Kyle Johnson Cherek is created and hosted by Kyle Johnson Cherek, and co-produced by a'point productions and WUWM. Executive producers are Kyle Johnson Cherek and Rob Schoonover. Audio editing and engineering by Brian Arkta and John Rymaszewski. Additional production by Valeria Navarro Villegas, Michelle Maternowski and Rob Larry, Special thanks to our guest William Rubel.

Is BBQ truly an American culinary invention? Brisket to baby backs. Pit to grill. Its BBQ with author and BBQ scholar Adrian Miller.

Classic Eats with Kyle Johnson Cherek is created and hosted by Kyle Johnson Cherek, and co-produced by a'point productions and WUWM. Executive producers are Kyle Johnson Cherek and Rob Schoonover. Audio editing and engineering by Brian Arkta and John Rymaszewski. Additional production by Valeria Navarro Villegas, Michelle Maternowski and Rob Larry. Special thanks to our guest Adrian Miller.

Once a staple on both coasts and across the country, the American Supper Club had it's heyday in post World War II, creating iconic cuisine, cocktails and entertainment along the way.

Join host Kyle Johnson Cherek and author, filmmaker and supper club history expert Ron Faiola for their conversation about the origins and heritage of the American Supper Club.

Hey, it’s Kyle Johnson Cherek, and I’m here to introduce you to my new podcast, called Classic Eats.  

It’s a show about culinary history. Why we eat what we eat, the people, the places, the scenes, and the situations that set the course for the way we dine. Each show will pick a thing, a drink, a person, that made its mark on what we call food. It might be the origins of the tooth pick and the Cuisinart, Antoin Carême's architecture of sugar,  BBQ, or how nutmeg gave us the modern financial system.

Its sonically rich storytelling, the kind that puts the listener right in the place it happened, paired with interviews of Chefs, historians, drink mixers and the like. I guarantee it’s unlike anything you’ve heard related to food. 

Classic Eats is a podcast from a’ point productions and WUWM of the NPR network, launching Thursdays, beginning December  4. Take a seat at the table for Classic Eats, wherever podcasts are found.