From Scratch with Michael Ruhlman
Better cooking comes from deeper understanding. This instructive food series from acclaimed cookbook author Michael Ruhlman highlights essential kitchen techniques, ingredients and ideas. It draws from Ruhlman’s best-selling books, decades of experience and personal relationships with the country’s best chefs. Driven by an insatiable curiosity to learn and teach, Ruhlman approaches his topics every episode by exploring the stories of one notable chef, and one non-chef with surprising connections to the focal ingredients – all with the goal of getting listeners to engage with food more fully, and to cook more confidently.
- Update frequency
- every 5 days
- Average duration
- 29 minutes
- Episodes
- 39
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2020
From Home: Wrapping Up Our Pantry Visits
In the final installment of our “From Home” series of mini-episodes, we hear from a chef, a bartender, and a food writer.
Cory Bahr is a chef and the owner of Parish Restaurant & Bar, Bahr Food Truck…
Quarantine Report: The Future of Restaurants
In our final episode of the "Quarantine Report" series, host Michael Ruhlman talks with two of the food industries most forward thinking minds about the future of the restaurant industry.
Chef Dan Bar…
From Home: Hawa Hassan
Hawa Hassan is the Founder and CEO of Basbaas Condiments. The word basbaas comes from the Somali term for chili. Her products are inspired by the Somali staples that she would cook with her family. F…
From Home: Mimi Maumus
Mimi Maumus is the chef-owner of home.made in Athens, Georgia, a restaurant and catering business specializing in bridging the modern and the traditional in Southern cuisine. You can also find home.m…
From Home: Brad Miller
Chef Brad Miller is chef/owner at California’s Inn of the Seventh Ray. This episode he discusses a foolproof way to make the overlooked egg salad sandwich something special, and shares where he’ll go…
From Home: Matt Bumba
Matt Bumba is the executive chef and co-owner of Milk Money Brewing, opening later in 2020 in La Grange, Ill. On today’s episode, we check in with Matt from his home outside Chicago, where he shares …
From Home: Drew Belline
Drew Belline is both the executive chef of No. 246 in Decatur and the VP of Creative at restaurateur Ford Fry’s other Atlanta-area restaurants. In this dispatch from his home in Decatur, Georgia, che…
From Home: Nic Vanderbeeken
Chef Nic Vanderbeeken leads the kitchen at Apéritif, the creative restaurant and bar in the Viceroy Ubud resort. Located on the island of Bali in Indonesia, the restaurant combines traditional Indone…
From Home: Chuck Bryant
My guest today is Chuck Bryant, who co-hosts the iHeart podcast Stuff You Should Know as well as his own solo show Movie Crush. We check in with him to learn about a quick lunch he’s been making for …
Quarantine Report: The Grocery Store
In this episode, host Michael Ruhlman explores the current state of the grocery store. Ruhlman begins by speaking with Tom Heinen of Heinen's Grocery Stores in Cleveland and the greater midwest. Late…
From Home: Eugenio Jardim
Today’s “From Home” mini-episode visits with Eugenio Jardim, one of the Bay Area’s most noted wine experts. He shares a recipe for the Brazilian dish feijoada and suggests wine pairings. For more on …
From Home: Emily Spurlin
Emily Spurlin is the new pastry chef at the landmark Lula Cafe in Chicago’s Logan Square neighborhood. On this “From Home” mini-episode, she shares an easy cake recipe listeners can make with common …
From Home: Claudia Martinez
Claudia Martinez has been relying on the versatility of the frittata to get her through this time. She’s the much-celebrated pastry chef at Atlanta’s Tiny Lou’s, the restaurant in the base of the Hot…
From Home: Shyretha and Mike Sheats
The culinary duo of Shyretha and Mike Sheats run The Plate Sale, a pop-up dinner series in Georgia that’s won acclaim for its warm yet refined take on Southern cuisine. Follow them on Instagram at @t…
From Home: Jess Shadbolt
Jess Shadbolt is one of the chef-owners of New York’s King, a restaurant with a daily-changing menu of dishes inspired by Italy and Southern France. For more from chef Shadbolt, find her on Instagram…
From Home: Dr. Krishnendu Ray
Dr. Krishnendu Ray wrote the book (books, plural, actually) on how immigrants influence food culture, most recently “The Ethnic Restauranteur.” In our new bonus “From Home" series, Michael checks in …
From Home: Brian Polcyn
Chef and cookbook author Brian Polcyn has been practicing and teaching butchery and Charcuterie for decades. In our new bonus “From Home" series, Michael checks in with chefs and food personalities t…
From Home: RIchard and Jazmin Blais
Richard Blais is an accomplished chef, TV personality, and the host of the game-show style podcast “Food Court with Richard Blais” on iHeartRadio.
In our new bonus “From Home" series, Michael checks i…
From Home: Esther Choi
Esther Choi is a talented chef and restaurateur and host of the podcast "Get Down with K-Town" from iHeartRadio.
In our new bonus “From Home" series, Michael checks in with chefs and food personalitie…
From Home: Simon Majumdar
Simon Majumdar is a noted food critic and the host of the podcast Eat My Globe.
In our new bonus “From Home" series, Michael checks in with chefs and food personalities to bring you short audio glimps…