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 17: 10 Years, 32 Yolks
Ten years is a milestone for any business and an especially gratifying one in the increasingly competitive restaurant landscape. This week we visit with Sohui Kim and Ben Schneider of Brooklyn's belo…
00:48:01 |
Thu 02 Jun 2016
Episode 16: Harlem State of Mind
Chef Marcus Samuelsson has made celebrating Harlem a part of his professional mission, from basing restaurants like Streetbird Rotisserie and Red Rooster there to co-founding the Harlem EatUp! Festiv…
00:47:42 |
Thu 19 May 2016
Episode 15: For the Love of Alan
Slow news week? No problem! We've got veteran chef Alan Harding – widely considered to be among the very first Manhattan chefs to colonize Brooklyn – in the studio for an all-shop-talk episode.
Fran…
00:44:23 |
Thu 12 May 2016
Episode 14: Postcard from LA
Los Angeles got some major love at the James Beard Foundation Awards this week and we have some of the best, most successful chefs (and JBFA winners) on the show to talk about it. Suzanne Goin of Luq…
00:50:51 |
Thu 05 May 2016
Episode 13: Remembering Josh Ozersky
One of the great chroniclers of American chefs and food was lost a year ago, when Josh Ozersky died suddenly at the age of 47. We remember Josh with some of his friends and colleagues including write…
00:56:34 |
Thu 28 Apr 2016
Episode 12: Class of 2016: Food & Wine's Best New Chefs
Food & Wine magazine was calling attention to up-and-coming toques before just about any other organization; its Best New Chefs program--which debuted in 1988--even predates the James Beard Foundatio…
00:49:37 |
Thu 07 Apr 2016
Episode 11: Spring Fever!
The Chefs Council is hereby called to order! We've asked a few past guests who were especially fun/funny/insightful to be a part of a recurring roundtable and three of them--Dirt Candy's Amanda Cohen…
00:51:40 |
Thu 31 Mar 2016
Episode 10: Toward a More Perfect Kitchen
Gender imbalance in media coverage and awards recognition... maternity leave in the hospitality business ... sexual harassment. A number of topics have been heating up around women in the pro kitchen…
00:50:41 |
Thu 24 Mar 2016
Episode 9: Chefs on Film
We're living in a golden age for chef-focused documentaries and on this week's show, we go deep on two recent video-on-demand releases that examine two generations of chefs--King Georges, about Phila…
00:55:00 |
Thu 10 Mar 2016
Episode 8: Found in Translation
What chef doesn't want their own cookbook? Capturing your recipes, ideas, and dishes between two covers makes the transitory permanent and--from a practical standpoint--can be a powerful marketing to…
00:52:40 |
Thu 03 Mar 2016
Episode 7: Chef, Owner?
Let's dish! No, we mean, let's talk about dishes–as in: Who owns a dish, the chef or the restaurant? And where is the line between inspiration and plagiarism drawn? We hash out this timelessly thorny…
00:51:12 |
Thu 18 Feb 2016
Episode 6: The Things We Think and Do Not Say
“The Problems with Food Media that Nobody Wants to Talk About” was the provocative title of a provocative article recently published on the website First We Feast. We’ve assembled a roundtable to has…
00:53:38 |
Thu 11 Feb 2016
Episode 5: Pressure Cooker
The apparent suicide of three-star Michelin chef Benoît Violier this week called attention to one of the facts of kitchen life, especially at the highest level: the intense and often unending pressur…
00:46:48 |
Thu 04 Feb 2016
Episode 4: Critical Condition
A number of long-simmering tensions between chefs and the media recently boiled over following the New York Times bombshell Per Se review. An all-star round-table representing both camps, and several…
00:58:51 |
Thu 28 Jan 2016
Episode 3: David Kinch’s Next Act
David Kinch of Manresa restaurant in Los Gatos, CA, joins us to discuss his just-opened restaurant The Bywater, a casual, resolutely non-pretentious ode to the food and drink of the city where he gre…
00:47:02 |
Thu 21 Jan 2016
Episode 2: Minds of the Chefs
Mental illness, psychological disorders, and substance abuse have been a part of the DNA of professional kitchens for generations. Often glamorized or joked about, and just as often swept under the r…
00:46:54 |
Thu 14 Jan 2016
Episode 1: Staying Alive!
_ The Front Burner _ kicks off its debut episode with an all-star trio of guest chefs ready to dissect the most pressing issues facing the pro-cooking trade as we embark on 2016. Amanda Cohen of New …
00:48:59 |
Thu 07 Jan 2016
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