The Front Burner with Jimmy & Andrew
Two pro-cooking insiders (a chef and a writer) analyze the week’s biggest industry news and engage in shop talk with a wide variety of guests, ranging from A-list chefs to line cooks, culinary students, writers, and icons. With guests booked just days before each episode, THE FRONT BURNER WITH JIMMY AND ANDREW will help listeners make sense of goings-on in the cooking trade by allowing them to hear directly from newsmakers and experts live and in their own voices. Think of it as Meet the Press, for chefs.
- Update frequency
- every 8 days
- Average duration
- 50 minutes
- Episodes
- 37
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2017
Episode 37: All She Wrote
In The Front Burner's last episode (details and future plans at episode's end), we talk with Boston chef Barbara Lynch about her no-holds-barred memoir OUT OF LINE: A LIFE OF PLAYING WITH FIRE, which…
00:48:54 |
Thu 20 Apr 2017
Episode 36: THE LAST MAGNIFICENT: A FRONT BURNER SPECIAL REPORT
Three of the biggest names in chef-land join us to discuss the new documentary JEREMIAH TOWER: THE LAST MAGNIFICENT, which opens in New York and Los Angeles this Friday, April 21. Executive producer …
01:02:03 |
Mon 17 Apr 2017
Episode 35: The Human Touch
Front Burner regular Amanda Cohen, chef-owner of New York City's Dirt Candy, joins us to discuss a variety of subjects: the relationship between chefs and critics (from the New York Times to the civi…
00:48:46 |
Thu 06 Apr 2017
Episode 34: Peace, Love, and Understanding
Customers expect more from restaurants than ever before, but is what they want reasonable, or even realistic? In a business that draws people pleasers, why can't chef-owners always give the people w…
00:46:03 |
Thu 30 Mar 2017
Episode 33: Au Revoir, Annisa
After 17 years in business, Chef Anita Lo will be shuttering her beloved Greenwich Villiage, NY, restaurant this spring. Anita and her Chef de Cuisine Mary Attea join us to discuss the decision to cl…
00:46:23 |
Thu 23 Mar 2017
Episode 32: Paths of Glory
There are more ways than ever to be a chef today, something that's become a bit of a sub-theme this season on The Front Burner. This week, we talk to Brian Bistrong about the myriad opportunities ava…
00:46:28 |
Thu 09 Mar 2017
Episode 31: The Waxman Cometh
Chef legend Jonathan Waxman joins Jimmy and Andrew to talk about his career, past and present, from what it's like running restaurants in far-flung cities to the evolution of his iconic chicken dish …
00:48:32 |
Thu 02 Mar 2017
Episode 30: Scrubs
For the first time this season, we assemble a few trusty members of our Chef's Council for an All Shop Talk episode about one of the least considered members of the kitchen team: The Dishwasher. Many…
00:48:24 |
Thu 23 Feb 2017
Episode 29: Tasting Menu
We kick around a grab bag of news items with Chef Rob Newton of Brooklyn's Nightingale 9, Wilma Jean, Smith Canteen, and Black Walnut. On the menu: This week's big profiles of chefs Dominique Crenn (…
00:46:51 |
Thu 16 Feb 2017
Episode 28: Everything French is New Again
Chef Daniel Eddy of New York City's Rebelle restaurant is at the forefront of a movement of young American chefs going back to the future by cooking their own personal take on French Cuisine. As Rebe…
00:50:03 |
Thu 09 Feb 2017
Episode 27: Honoring Harlem
On the second day of February, the always entertaining Chef Marcus Samuelsson discusses his recently published Red Rooster Cookbook, and a special Black History Month menu he’s cooked up at Red Roost…
00:53:43 |
Thu 02 Feb 2017
Episode 26: American Dreams
On the same day the new American president announced his plans to force undocumented immigrants out of the country, the USA won the Bocuse d'Or for the first time in the event's 30-year history. How …
00:48:32 |
Thu 26 Jan 2017
Episode 25: Pasta and Politics
The Front Burner returns after our fall hiatus with Mark Ladner, who's moving on from his perch as chef of the four-star Del Posto to launch Pasta Flyer, a fast-casual concept he's been developing fo…
00:47:38 |
Thu 12 Jan 2017
Episode 24: Begin Again
What does it take to relocate, and reimagine, a classic? Chef Carmen Quagliata of Union Square Cafe is about to relaunch the venerable Manhattan restaurant, after three decades in its original locati…
00:47:46 |
Thu 11 Aug 2016
Episode 23: Something Fishy?
The relationship between chefs and critics has been a hot topic this year and this week, San Francisco Magazine's Rebecca Flint Marx took an unsparing look at Michael Bauer of the San Francisco Chron…
00:49:01 |
Thu 28 Jul 2016
Episode 22: Exit Interview: Peter Hoffman
What's it feel like to depart the pro cooking trade after decades at the stoves? Chef Peter Hoffman, who helmed the landmark SoHo, New York, restaurant Savoy for two decades, just closed his second f…
00:52:30 |
Thu 21 Jul 2016
Episode 21: The Family Stone and the Wisdom of Wine
Chef Curtis Stone just launched his ambitious new tasting-menu restaurant Gwen in Hollywood this week (in collaboration with his brother Luke), and we've got him on the line from Los Angeles to tell …
00:56:00 |
Thu 14 Jul 2016
Episode 20: Out of the Frying Pan
Making the leap from chef de cuisine to chef-owner is no small feat, and we've got somebody fresh off that transition in the studio to tell us all about it. Chef Greg Baxtrom was known to followers o…
00:56:24 |
Thu 23 Jun 2016
Episode 19: Setting the Chef's Table
Netflix's documentary series Chef's Table--currently in its second season--examines the evolution of some of the best chefs in the world as few entertainments have. Creator and director David Gelb (w…
00:48:13 |
Thu 16 Jun 2016
Episode 18: The Goldberg Variations
On the heels of launching their new Bastion bar and restaurant, brothers Benjamin and Max Goldberg--owners of Nashville, Tennessee's Strategic Hospitality--join us to discuss their place atop the Nas…
00:48:54 |
Thu 09 Jun 2016
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