Run the Dish with Mario Bosquez

In a special "Run-On-One" Interview, we Dish with David Leite, an award-winning Food Writer and Food Historian who shares with us his epic and emotional journey to the world of Food.

David talks about his struggles with mental health issues, growing up gay in an immigrant family and how food and keeping a sense of humor showed the way.

He shares his Ultimate Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe and tells us why his book is called, "Notes on a Banana."

Run the Dish also shares, in a "Teaspoon of Trivia," why Swiss Steak is called "Swiss" Steak. The answer may surprise you.

And, in our Fruit, Vegetable & Nut in the Spotlight (A raucous interview where we learn little or nothing and it rarely goes well) we visit with Cashew, a naked nut with shady relatives.

On this episode of Run The Dish, James-Beard Nominated host Mario Bosquez has a "Run-On-One" with Tony-nominated Broadway Star, Nancy Opel.

Nancy dishes out some fascinating insights into what life is like on Broadway, explains why talent is a myth and shares the vocal techniques used when shouting and screaming on stage, and much much more including her favorite recipes featuring Nancy's special "Witches Brew" potion for ailing throats.

"Teaspoon of Trivia" looks at the classic slapstick comedy gag of slipping on a banana peel, but did you know that joke is based in reality?

And finally, in the fruit, vegetable and nut world (where we learn little or nothing and it rarely goes well) Mario speaks to the Queen of fruits, Mangosteen, and tries his best not to mention fruit flies…

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- Murder on the Menu with Kathleen Marple Kalb, Author of the Ella Shane Mystery Book Series

- Empowering Kids in the Kitchen with Chef Lynne Gerald (Awesome Banana Bread Recipe!)

- Slender Asparagus grants an intriguing but not-so-slimming interview in Fruit, Vegetable & Nut in the Spotlight

- A Teaspoon of Trivia reveals that the slapstick comedy bit, slipping on a banana peel, really comes from the pages of history

Chef Ramin Ganeshram with her new Cookbook: "Cooking with Beyond and Impossible Meat: 60 Vegan Recipes Using Plant-Based Substitutions"

Chef offers a great meat substitute recipe for Jamaican Style Patties and says we will not miss the real thing.

She leads us through the ins-and-outs of cooking with meat substitutes.

Plus, Career Coach Maggie Mistal talks Brain Food: How to properly fuel our minds before that all important job interview and how to power up all our career moves through our food and drink choices.

Fruit, Vegetable & Nut in the Spotlight interviews Grape in a raucous interview where "we learn little or nothing and it rarely goes well."

In "Teaspoon of Trivia," we explore the scorchingly hot Scorpion Pepper.

On this episode of Run the Dish, we visit with Chef Yexenia Gomez. Chef shares with us recipes for Moroccan Vegetable Tajine and Chicken with "Cauliflower" Rice.

Learn about Chef's struggles to get through cooking school, how she soldiered on through the pandemic (cooking and teaching even when an SUV crashed through her bedroom window, and get a glimpse of cooking for the super-rich... including a kitchen with its very own elevator.

Also, Wine Expert "Decanted Diva" Elissa Cooper with the best wine recommendations around, how we need to relax over the white-versus-red debate, and gives her thoughts and opinions on wine in a can.