Hugh Acheson Stirs The Pot

Missi Robbins is the chef/owner of Lilia and Misi in Brooklyn and won the James Beard Award last year for the best chef in New York City.

Chinese Tuxedo’s Australian co-owner Eddy Buckingham and Scottish executive chef Paul Donnelly met in Australia and bonded over Asian cuisine.

Writer Andrew Friedman drops by to talk about, among other things, the shifting landscape of New York food and his new(ish) book, "Chefs, Drugs, and Rock & Roll."

Dan Barber is the chef/owner of Blue Hill in Greenwich Village and Blue Hill at Stone Barns in Tarrytown, New York.

Matt and Ted Lee are the authors of 'Hotbox: Inside Catering, the Food World's Riskiest Business.'

Deb Perelman runs Smitten Kitchen — cookbooks, a website, beautiful photos, and 1 million Instagram followers — from a tiny home kitchen in Manhattan where she and Hugh taped this week's episode.

Gail Simmons is a food writer and judge on Bravo's 'Top Chef.' And, like Hugh Acheson, she is Canadian.

Flynn McGarry is the chef of the New York restaurant Gem and the subject of the new Hulu documentary 'Chef Flynn.'

Ruth Reichl is the former editor of Gourmet and author of the new book, Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir.

Adam Platt is the food critic for New York Magazine, knows the cool restaurants, and has a funny Twitter account name (@Plattypants). Chef Simone Tong makes a cameo in this episode and more or less steals it with a sandwich.