Kochleffel (From Let's Talk About Food)
From Let's Talk About Food, Kochleffel is a new special series that focuses on the remarkable contributions of Jewish women to the world of food. Host Louisa Kasdon interviews chefs, writers, and more, giving us a picture of women who have contributed to food and food dialogue.
- Update frequency
- every 12 days
- Average duration
- 32 minutes
- Episodes
- 84
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2024
Hidden Gem at the General Store
One of the great pleasures of collecting people's stories is that they often surprise you. You discover a gem just by asking a question, like how did you get come to food? Today, we talk to Megan Fal…
00:30:02 |
Mon 19 Jul 2021
How do you learn to Love Food?
This week we share two "food love origin stories". One from Celeste Croxton-Tate, a cook, author, and Boston Police officer. And one from me, because I too had to learn to love food.
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00:25:20 |
Mon 12 Jul 2021
A Candid Conversation with Erin French
Erin French is the owner and chef of The Lost Kitchen, a 40-seat restaurant in Freedom, Maine, that was recently named one TIME Magazine’s World’s Greatest Places and one of "12 Restaurants Worth Tra…
00:43:58 |
Mon 28 Jun 2021
Troublemaker at the Helm
Dr. Peter Lurie is the head of Center For Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), arguably the most important defender of food safety and justice in the US. Lurie is the grandson of a South African fe…
00:33:31 |
Mon 21 Jun 2021
From Bats, to Fish, to Farming
Kathleen Finlay, the President of Glynwood Center for Regional Food and Farming, in New York’s Hudson Valley has been a leader in the regenerative agriculture movement for most of her career. Now, as…
00:29:07 |
Mon 24 May 2021
David Waters: When the Community needs Feeding
Today we talk to David Waters, the CEO of Community Servings. Launched during the AIDS crisis, Community Servings has made and delivered over 9 million medically tailored meals to homebound people wi…
00:35:55 |
Mon 17 May 2021
Let's Talk About Food, Louisa Kasdon, food, talk radio, podcast, Babson College's Lewis Institute for Social Innovation, Cheryl Kiser, entrepreneurial, leaders
Today we talk with Cheryl Kiser, a longtime friend and the visionary behind Babson College’s Lewis Institute for Social Innovation. That’s a big deal. In case you did not know, Babson is the number o…
00:31:56 |
Mon 10 May 2021
It All Started with Donuts
Today we talk to chef Andy Husbands. Husbands now operates The Smoke Shop, a Boston-based emerging chain of BBQ restaurants. He’s a six-time cookbook author and–– importantly–– a Pitmaster. The co-fo…
00:28:13 |
Mon 03 May 2021
When Kids Become Cooks
Sally Sampson is an author, a healthy food champion, and a magazine publisher.
When I first met Sally, I was wowed by her productivity–23 cookbooks and counting! But that was never the whole stor…
00:26:51 |
Mon 12 Apr 2021
A Cookbook Creates Community
Karl Schatz and Margaret Hathaway live on Ten Apple Farm in Maine with their three daughters. Margaret is a writer; Karl is a photographer. Once they decided to make Maine their home and raise their …
00:33:06 |
Mon 05 Apr 2021
A Former Ballerina's Food Struggles: For herself and her child
Today, we hear from Jenny Best. It’s a story of a top tier New York City ballerina, who conquered her own struggles with food, and then was gob-smacked when it came time to begin feeding solids to he…
00:30:59 |
Mon 29 Mar 2021
When Covid steals a chef's sense of taste and smell
Nina Simonds is simply one of America’s culinary superstars. Trained in Taiwan in the 70’s by China’s culinary royalty, author of 11 cookbooks, former Asia editor for Gourmet, and reporter for the Ne…
00:25:23 |
Mon 22 Mar 2021
Wild Asparagus & the Way Back to Wellness A Post Pandemic Conversation with Exercise Physiologist Mike Siemens
As the Corporate Director of Exercise Physiology for the world-famous Canyon Ranch wellness resorts, Mike Siemens knows a thing or two about food. And health. And how the two go together. The good. T…
00:26:16 |
Mon 15 Mar 2021
Her Dinner with Andres
Today we talk to Kate Sullivan. She is the host of the PBS Series, To Dine For ––now in its third season. An accomplished television reporter, she crafted a fantasy job for herself – having a meal an…
00:17:15 |
Mon 08 Mar 2021
There Will be Gangsters
Today we are having a chat with my good friend, Charles Draghi --universally called "Chuck." Chuck inhabits the rarified strata of top chefs in Boston, mentor to many, revered by diners at his resta…
00:24:14 |
Tue 23 Feb 2021
Never Make a Chef's Blood Boil
“It was as though somebody had poked a hole in the hull of a ship and we were sinking.”
Chef Jody Adams is one of a very few chefs in town whose first name alone makes her instantly recognizable. Li…
00:21:18 |
Mon 08 Feb 2021
Never Take Candy from a Stranger
Her mother told her “Never Take Candy from a Stranger.”
Especially in Moscow. Darra Goldstein was a young Russian graduate student, working on a US trade show in the USSR in the 70’s when a seemingl…
00:30:03 |
Mon 25 Jan 2021
Fathers & Stepfathers
Dan Michaud "Ron, Jade Valley and the Power of Place"
When his soon-to-be stepfather Ron rolled into teenage Dan’s mother’s house in an orange Fiat convertible. They began a thirty-year conversatio…
00:20:36 |
Mon 11 Jan 2021
Meet Cute
Every good Rom-Com starts with a “Meet Cute” story. And what could be cuter than a first date story that revolves around food? In this episode we share two: a cheese-infused one from Sarah and Chris …
00:19:44 |
Tue 15 Dec 2020
Feeding the Many
In this episode we’ll hear from the President of the Greater Boston Food Bank, Catherine D’Amato and from Northeastern University’s Dining Director, Maureen Timmons.
Most of us are inspired to cook …
00:17:21 |
Tue 08 Dec 2020
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