The Well-Seasoned Librarian: Mixing Cookbooks and Conversation

Bio

Vasudha Viswanath is the founder of We Ate Well, a community for foodies that brings you the inside scoop on everything vegetarian. Her mission is to help you eat mindfully, joyfully and sustainably on a vegetarian diet. She grew up in Bangalore, India and now lives in New York City with her husband and daughter. Her web site is www.v8well.com

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Leah Su Quiroga cooked for over a decade at Alice Waters’s renowned California restaurant, Chez Panisse, where she started out as an intern and quickly worked her way up to head chef. She currently lives in Sebastopol, California, where she’s raising a family. 

Cammie Kim Lin, Leah’s sister, is a serious home cook who got her start in commercial kitchens before becoming a professor and writer. She teaches at New York University and lives in Brooklyn, New York with her family, which includes the two teenaged (serious) new cooks featured throughout the book.

Serious New Cook https://www.amazon.com/Serious-New-Cook-Recipes-Techniques/dp/1599621657

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Jenay Marontate began learning the secrets of kitchen witchery at an early age from her mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother. Now, she applies her knowledge of herbs, oil, magic, and kitchen witchery to her loose-leaf tea and spice business, Kitchen Witch Gourmet. Here, she infuses tea with magic, wellness, happiness, and love to brew the perfect cup. She also teaches tea leaf reading and other tea magic in the US and in China.

https://kitchenwitchgourmet.com/

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Jenna Helwig Bio:

When I first started preparing my own meals as a young adult, my idea of cooking was boiling pasta and heating up a jar of store-bought tomato sauce. My salads were topped with bottled dressing, and I didn’t think twice about using a box of brownie mix. But, while it’s true my cooking skills were practically non-existent, I always loved to eat delicious food.

That interest in good food slowly became an obsession. I started cooking more, ripping out recipes in magazines, taking recreational cooking classes, refusing to vacation anywhere that didn’t have food worth eating, and learning kitchen secrets from my Italian mother-in-law. Then, when my child was born I picked up a whisk and never looked back. I made homemade baby food and, soon, earned a culinary arts degree from the Institute of Culinary Education in New York City.

In the summer of 2008 I launched Rosaberry, a culinary services company devoted to helping New York families eat better through culinary instruction and personal chef services. And now, after several years as food editor at Parents and Health magazines, I’m the food director at Real Simple. I’ve appeared on the Today Show numerous times demonstrating kid-friendly recipes. My first two cookbooks Real Baby Food: Easy All-Natural Recipes for Your Baby and Toddler and Smoothie-licious: Power-Packed Smoothies and Juices the Whole Family Will Love were released in 2015 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. My third book, Baby-Led Feeding, debuted in March 2018, and The Multi-Cooker Baby Food Cookbook launched in November 2019. My latest cookbook, Bare Minimum Dinners, was released in September 2021. (Bio Provided by Jenna Helwig)

Through my books, blog, magazine writing, and video I’m excited to continue helping families eat easily, happily, and deliciously.

Rosaberry http://rosaberry.com/

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Sarah Gailey is a Hugo Award Winning and Bestselling author of speculative fiction, short stories, and essays. They have been a finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards for multiple years running. Their bestselling adult novel debut, Magic For Liars, was published by Tor Books in 2019. Their most recent novel, Just Like Home, and first original comic book series with BOOM! Studios, Eat the Rich, are available now. Their shorter works and essays have been published in Mashable, The Boston Globe, Vice, Tor.com, and The Atlantic. Their work has been translated into seven different languages and published around the world. You can find links to their work at sarahgailey.com and on social media at @gaileyfrey.

Magic for Liars https://www.amazon.com/Magic-Liars-Sarah-Gailey/dp/1250174619

Just like home https://www.amazon.com/Just-Like-Home-Sarah-Gailey/dp/1250174724/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

The Echo Wife https://www.amazon.com/Echo-Wife-Sarah-Gailey-ebook/dp/B07WPNG138?ref_=ast_sto_dp

Know your station https://www.amazon.com/Know-Your-Station-Sarah-Gailey-ebook/dp/B0BLV1BRGZ?ref_=ast_sto_dp

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This episode is sponsored by Culinary Historians of Northern California, a Bay Area educational group dedicated to the study of food, drink, and culture in human history. To learn more about this organization and its work, please visit its website at www.chnorcal.org

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Atava Garcia Swiecicki is guided by her dreams and her Mexican, Polish, Hungarian, and Diné ancestors. She received a BA in feminist studies from Stanford University and a master’s degree from the Indigenous Mind Program at Naropa University in Oakalnd. Atava has studied healing arts extensively for over thirty years and has been mentored by herbalists, curanderas, and traditional knowledge keepers. She works as a clinical herbalist and teacher. She is the founder of the Ancestral Apothecary School of Herbal, Folk, and Indigenous Medicine on Ohlone territory in Oakland, and she currently lives in Tewa Pueblo territory in Albuquerque. Her personal website is ancestralapothecary.com, and the website for her school is ancestralapothecaryschool.com.

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A sourdough-fermenting, backyard-wasabi-growing culinary adventurer, Matt began his career as a science publisher. As co-founder of open-access publishing pioneer BioMed Central, he helped to bring the 350-year-old science publishing industry into the digital age. Next up, cookbooks! He is based in London, and when he is not working, cooking, or drinking coffee, he likes to burn off excess calories with marathons and endurance swimming.

Favorite foods: Hamachi nigiri, crispy pork belly, and homemade waffles.

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CKBK: https://www.ckbk.com/

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Bio: Hi, I'm Emily.  Growing up in suburban NJ, there were plenty of good bagels around.  But when my father had business take him to the Upper West Side, he would stop by Zabar's for lox, sable, whitefish, and chive cream cheese, and H&H for bagels, which we would have as a special treat.  These bagels were on a whole different level of unique deliciousness.  After moving away, I would look forward to possibly having them when visiting home.  And then one day I learned that they had gone out of business, and I was deeply upset.  I took this news like the death of a loved one I just hadn't been in contact with in a long time, and grieved, and said I didn't want to let those bagels cease to exist.  And so I embarked on what became my five-year quest, through trial and error, to create a bagel I longed to eat. (From the  Boichik Bagel Website)

Boichik  Bagels https://boichikbagels.com/

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Culinary educator Kim Kushner is the best-selling author of 'The Modern Table', 'I Heart Kosher', 'The New Kosher', and ‘The Modern Menu’. Raised in Montreal, Canada, Kim learned to cook at an early age from her Moroccan-born mother and spent summers with family in Israel. A graduate of the Institute of Culinary Education in Manhattan, she has developed recipes for Food & Wine and Chile Pepper magazines, and has worked as a private chef. In 2005, she launched Kim Kushner Cuisine and now travels the world teaching her wildly popular cooking classes. Kim's cooking style reflects her busy life as a mother of four, a teacher, and an author. Her flavor-packed recipes are made using straightforward techniques that bring ease, time-savings, and creativity to the kitchen. She's become well-known in New York City and abroad for her healthy and hearty dishes made from locally grown produce-not necessarily the first thing that comes to mind when thinking of kosher cuisine.

Kim has appeared on the Today Show and has been featured in the New York Times International Edition, Huffington Post, Saveur, and The Chicago Tribune, and is recognized as a leader in redefining kosher cuisine; her cookbooks feature everyday recipes for delicious and artful dishes made from accessible, seasonal ingredients. Kim lives in New York City with her husband and children.

Kim Kushner Website: https://kimkushner.com/

The Modern Table https://www.amazon.com/Modern-Table-Recipes-Everyday-Gatherings/dp/1773271660

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Bio: Faith Kramer is a food writer and recipe developer concentrating on the food ways, history, and customs of the Jewish diaspora. She develops recipes and writes about Jewish customs and food as well as travel, and global ingredients.

As a columnist for j., the Jewish News of Northern California, she writes articles on food and cooking along with original recipes.

Faith has taught cooking classes on food from around the world, presented programs on Jewish customs, celebrations, and holidays, and led food-related walking tours that explore the economic, geographic, and political underpinnings of the food as well as how to use international ingredients in other contexts.

She lives with her family in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Blog Appetit http://www.clickblogappetit.com/

52 Shabbats: Friday Night Dinners Inspired by a Global Jewish Kitchen https://www.amazon.com/52-Shabbats-Dinners-Inspired-Kitchen/dp/1951412184/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1GOBE9KQTO5WA&keywords=faith+kramer+52+shabbos&qid=1671484965&s=books&sprefix=faith+kramer+52+shabbots%2Cstripbooks%2C192&sr=1-1

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This episode is sponsored by Culinary Historians of Northern California, a Bay Area educational group dedicated to the study of food, drink, and culture in human history. To learn more about this organization and its work, please visit its website at www.chnorcal.org

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