The Morning After

This week on The Morning After, host Sari Kamin is joined in the studio by Klancy Miller, a writer, pastry chef, host of waffle parties and passionate Francophile. She has contributed to Food Republic and appeared on Food Network's Recipe for Success. She graduated from Columbia University and Le Cordon Bleu Paris.

This week on The Morning After, host Sari Kamin is joined in the studio by Professor Krishnendu Ray, associate professor and department chair of the Food Studies program at NYU. Tune in to hear them discuss the implications of the recent presidential election for the American labor force and food system.

This week on The Morning After, host Sari Kamin is joined by Jessica Koslow, the award-winning chef of LA’s popular restaurant Sqirl. Jessica was one of 100 chefs in the United States to be nominated for Food & Wine’s People’s Best New Chef for 2014 and has recently been named a Rising Star by the magazine’s Star Chefs. Sqirl has been listed among Los Angeles Magazine’s “75 Best Restaurants in LA” and Jonathan Gold’s “101 Best Restaurants.”

In her new book, Everything I Want to Eat: Sqirl and the New California Cooking, Jessica shares 100 of her favorite recipes for health-conscious but delicious dishes that also happen to be suitable for vegetarians, vegans, or whomever you’re sharing your meal with.

This week on The Morning After, host Sari Kamin is joined by the crew behind Thug Kitchen, "the only website dedicated to verbally abusing you into a healthier diet." Tune in to hear them discuss their latest cookbook, Thug Kitchen 101: Fast as Fck*.

This week on The Morning After, host Sari Kamin is joined by Abe Conlon, chef and co-owner of Fat Rice in Chicago.

Growing up in blue-collar Lowell Ma, Abe’s culinary beginning was heavily impacted by his Portuguese heritage and a strong Southeast Asian presence in his community. Now, his new venture Fat Rice is a return to roots, harmonizing the rich influence of Abe’s upbringing and heritage with a thirst for culinary exploration and preservation, focusing on food from modest traditions, prepared with an immense respect for ritual, custom and technique.

This week on The Morning After, host Sari Kamin is joined by Andy Ricker, the chef/owner of Michelin starred Pok Pok Ny in Red Hook, Brooklyn as well as 7 other restaurants in Portland, NYC and L.A. He first visited Thailand as a backpacker in 1987. Since then, he has spent several months each year traveling, eating, cooking and studying the food culture in Thailand and neighboring countries. He is also the founder and owner of Pok Pok Som (a drinking vinegar company) and is a partner in Pok Pok Thaan (a charcoal importing enterprise). Among other achievements and accolades, Andy is a two time James Beard Award winner and best selling cookbook author.

This week on The Morning After, host Sari Kamin is joined by Alon Shaya, Executive Chef and Partner of Domenica, Pizza Domenica and Shaya, a modern Israeli restaurant.

With the growing popularity of Domenica, Alon opened Pizza Domenica, a casual spin-off, in uptown New Orleans in the spring of 2014. After several visits to Israel, Alon was inspired to go back to his roots of cooking and in February of 2015, he opened his namesake Israeli restaurant. Shaya is an innovative restaurant with a warm and welcoming approach to the dining culture inspired by Chef Alon Shaya’s Israeli upbringing and New Orleans’ local ingredients. Esquire named Shaya “The Best New Restaurant in America” in 2015.

This week on The Morning After, host Sari Kamin is joined by Jeffrey Yoskowitz and Liz Alpern, authors of The Gefilte Manifesto: New Recipes for Old World Jewish Foods. Combining the inventive spirit of a new generation and respect for their culinary tradition, they present more than a hundred recipes pulled deep from the kitchens of Eastern Europe and the diaspora community of North America. Their recipes highlight the best of Ashkenazi home and storefront cuisine, tapping into the enduring Jewish values of resourcefulness and seasonality.

This week on The Morning After, host Sari Kamin is joined in the studio by Molly Yeh, a food blogger who moved from Brooklyn to a farm on the North Dakota-Minnesota border, where her husband is a fifth-generation farmer. Like her award-winning blog My Name is Yeh, her new cookbook Molly on the Range chronicles her life through photos, more than 100 new recipes, and hilarious stories from life in the city and on the farm.

This week on The Morning After, host Sari Kamin is joined in the studio by Joshua David Stein, editor-at-large of Tasting Table, style correspondent for The Daily Beast, movie critic for Eater, and all-around prolific writer. Tune in to hear them discuss a holistic approach to restaurant reviews, the politics of food, dream jobs, and more!