The Front Burner with Jimmy & Andrew

Ten years is a milestone for any business and an especially gratifying one in the increasingly competitive restaurant landscape. This week we visit with Sohui Kim and Ben Schneider of Brooklyn's beloved The Good Fork, which hits the one-decade mark this month. (The pair also operate the newish Insa, also in Brooklyn.) In our second segment, Sohui and Ben join Jimmy and Andrew for our first ever Book Club--a discussion of Eric Ripert's recently released memoir 32 Yolks.

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Chef Marcus Samuelsson has made celebrating Harlem a part of his professional mission, from basing restaurants like Streetbird Rotisserie and Red Rooster there to co-founding the Harlem EatUp! Festival which kicks off its second annual four-day festivities this weekend. Marcus is with us in the studio to talk about this aspect of his career, his upcoming Red Rooster London, and other personal and industry news.

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Slow news week? No problem! We've got veteran chef Alan Harding – widely considered to be among the very first Manhattan chefs to colonize Brooklyn – in the studio for an all-shop-talk episode.

Frank, funny, and a participant in the American culinary revolution, Alan's a one-of-a-kind personality who pulls no punches. Give a listen to hear what he has to say about the current state of affairs.

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Los Angeles got some major love at the James Beard Foundation Awards this week and we have some of the best, most successful chefs (and JBFA winners) on the show to talk about it. Suzanne Goin of Luques, a.o.c., Tavern, and the Larder, who took home Outstanding Chef, discusses her big win and taking over the foodservice program at the Hollywood Bowl with business partner Caroline Styne. Then, we're joined by Jon Shook and Vinny Dotolo of Animal, Son of a Gun, and other restaurants, who took home Best Chef - West at the JBFA to talk about LA's place in the national restaurant landscape and managing growth in the current climate.

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One of the great chroniclers of American chefs and food was lost a year ago, when Josh Ozersky died suddenly at the age of 47. We remember Josh with some of his friends and colleagues including writer and former Mr. Cutlets cohost Stefanie Cohen; Heritage Radio Network's executive producer Jack Inslee; his collaborator in the early days of New York Magazine's Grub Street blog, Daniel Maurer; chef Harold Moore; owner of his longtime favorite watering hole The Boxcar Lounge, Johnny Spingola; and writer Nick Solares. And we check in with Josh's wife Danit Lidor from Portland, Oregon, where he spent the last six months of his life.

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Food & Wine magazine was calling attention to up-and-coming toques before just about any other organization; its Best New Chefs program--which debuted in 1988--even predates the James Beard Foundation Awards by three years. On the heels of the big reveal of the Class of 2016, we're joined in studio by Food & Wine's new editor-in-chief Nilou Motamed and by two just-named Best New Chefs Jeremiah Stone and Fabian von Hauske of Contra and Wildair restaurants in New York City. 2015 inductee Katie Button of Asheville, North Carolina's Curate, shares her experience one year in, and for some historical perspective, 1990 Best New Chef Tom Valenti (most recently of New York City's Ouest) describes the impact of being dubbed a Best New Chef in the program's formative days. This being our last show of the season, we also take a look at the themes that have emerged over the past three months and try to take stock of them with the help of our guests.

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The Chefs Council is hereby called to order! We've asked a few past guests who were especially fun/funny/insightful to be a part of a recurring roundtable and three of them--Dirt Candy's Amanda Cohen, Sous Chef author Mike Gibney, and The Finch's Gabe McMackin--join us for the inaugural gathering, an all-shop-talk episode on the subject of Spring Fever! We kick around the season that inspires more chefs than any other and explore why so many cooks and diners love it so. And we extend spring's spirit of renewal and reinvigoration with a discussion of our guests' favorite new ingredients and get them to share their travel and exploration plans for the coming months. Pour yourself a glass of rose and listen in.

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Gender imbalance in media coverage and awards recognition... maternity leave in the hospitality business ... sexual harassment. A number of topics have been heating up around women in the pro kitchen recently, thanks to a confluence of current events and think-pieces that gained industry traction. We get into all of it with guests Emma Bengtsson (executive chef of Aquavit), Alina Martell (pastry chef of Ai Fiori and Vaucluse), Karen Palmer (executive editor of Tasting Table), and Cindy Pawlcyn (of Mustards Grill and Cindy's Backstreet Kitchen). Co-hosting with Jimmy and Andrew this week is Heritage Radio Network's executive director Erin Fairbanks, herself a former professional cook.

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We're living in a golden age for chef-focused documentaries and on this week's show, we go deep on two recent video-on-demand releases that examine two generations of chefs--King Georges, about Philadelphia's Georges Perrier, and For Grace, about Chicago's Curtis Duffy. And food writer Andrea Strong drops by the studio to interview Andrew and Jimmy for OpenTable's "Open for Business" blog, giving listeners a chance to get to know our hosts a little better.

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What chef doesn't want their own cookbook? Capturing your recipes, ideas, and dishes between two covers makes the transitory permanent and--from a practical standpoint--can be a powerful marketing tool. We ask two-time author Sara Jenkins (of Porchetta and Porcena) and Alex Raij (of El Quinto Pino, Txikito, and La Vara), whose debut effort The Basque Book publishes in April 2016, about what it takes to conceive, sell, promote, and enjoy writing a cookbook. And, since both chefs cook cuisines of other countries in the United States, we also discuss how to make non-native food accessible to an American audience, in restaurants and on the page.

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