To kick off the new year, Monday host Patty Peltekos hones in on the local food scene with Lindsay Christians, food editor and arts writer at the Cap Times and author of the new book Madison Chefs: Stories of Food, Farms, and People.

They talk about Madison chefs and restaurants that appear in the book, how to design recipes that work, the intensity of restaurant work, the #MeToo movement in the kitchen and women chefs in the industry, changes coming to the restaurant scene as it responds to the pandemic and a new economy, and more.

Lindsay Christians is a food editor and arts writer for the Cap Times. She created the food podcast The Corner Table, hosts Cooking with the Cap Times, and is the author of Madison Chefs: Stories of Food, Farms, and People (University of Wisconsin Press, 2021).

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