Why Food?
Do you daydream about dropping everything and opening a restaurant? Have you always wondered what it would be like to start your own line of condiments? So many trailblazers in the food world actually started their careers in entirely different fields. How did these folks decide to hit the brakes, start over, and become inspiring the chefs, entrepreneurs, farmers and activists they are today? Hear their stories and learn how you too can fulfill your food dreams. Join cohosts Vallery Lomas and Ethan Frisch on Why Food?
If you made a leap of faith to work in the food industry and want to share your story, please get in touch at [email protected].
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 49 minutes
- Episodes
- 176
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2021
Miro & Shilpa Uskokovic: Extra Helpings
Join Vallery and Ethan for a conversation with husband-and-wife pastry chef duo Miro & Shilpa Uskokovic. They met as students at The Culinary Institute of America, and when NYC restaurants closed bec…
00:56:10 |
Thu 27 Aug 2020
Loren Cardeli: Fighting for Farmers
Join Vallery and Ethan for a conversation with Loren Cardeli, Founder and President of A Growing Culture, an organization that promotes ecological agriculture across the globe. Loren believes the key…
00:52:30 |
Thu 20 Aug 2020
Auria Abraham: Auria's Malaysian Kitchen
Join Ethan for a conversation with Auria Abraham, founder of Auria's Malaysian Kitchen. Auria was born and raised in the small town of Seremban, Malaysia where she grew up surrounded by multi-ethnic…
00:44:34 |
Fri 07 Aug 2020
Jenny Dorsey: Catching Up
Join cohosts Vallery and Ethan for a catch-up with former Why Food? cohost Jenny Dorsey. Jenny is a professional chef, author and speaker specializing in multi-platform storytelling fusing food with …
00:49:56 |
Thu 30 Jul 2020
Eric Adams: Brooklyn Borough President and Plant-Based Champion
Join co-hosts Vallery and Ethan for a very special conversation with Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams. Born and raised in Brownsville, Borough President Adams was drawn to a career in public ser…
00:30:21 |
Thu 23 Jul 2020
Auzerais Bellamy: Blondery
Join Vallery & Ethan for a conversation with Auzerais Bellamy, pastry chef and founder of Blondery. Auzerais is classically trained pastry chef, the former pastry sous-chef at Thomas Keller's Bouchon…
00:48:10 |
Thu 16 Jul 2020
Jennifer Crawford: My Queer Kitchen
Join cohosts Vallery and Ethan for a conversation with Jennifer Crawford. Jennifer has been cooking non-stop their whole life, especially since getting sober in early 2018 and subsequently winning Ma…
00:47:10 |
Thu 09 Jul 2020
Adrian Miller: The Soul Food Scholar
Join cohosts Vallery and Ethan for a conversation with Adrian Miller, aka The Soul Food Scholar. He's a recovering lawyer and former special advisor to President Bill Clinton, who changed careers to …
00:38:26 |
Thu 02 Jul 2020
Gaïana Joseph & Allegra Massaro: Food activism for Black Lives Matter
Join cohosts Ethan & Vallery for a conversation with Gaïana Joseph and Allegra Massaro, co-founders of Fuel the People, an organization in NYC and DC guided by the belief that food is the fuel for th…
00:57:13 |
Mon 29 Jun 2020
Jesse Szewczyk: Pride Cooking
Join cohosts Vallery and Ethan for a conversation with Jesse Szewczyk, food writer and author of the cookbook Tasty Pride! We'll discuss his career in food media, his thoughts on the ongoing shifts i…
00:51:18 |
Thu 18 Jun 2020
Rochelle Oliver: New Food Media
Join cohosts Vallery and Ethan for a conversation with Rochelle Oliver, founder and editor of IslandAndSpice.com, an online magazine about food, culture and the Caribbean.
HRN will be donating 10% o…
00:46:19 |
Thu 11 Jun 2020
Vallery & Ethan: A brief conversation
In the days after George Floyd’s death, cohosts Vallery and Ethan sit down for a conversation about the Black Lives Matter movement, the role of food businesses in making change, and opportunities fo…
00:41:18 |
Thu 04 Jun 2020
Stephen Satterfield: From wine to Whetstone
Join Vallery and Ethan for a conversation with Stephen Satterfield, cofounder of Whetstone Magazine. A self-proclaimed "origin forager, Stephen is a food writer, multimedia producer, podcast host (Po…
00:53:01 |
Wed 03 Jun 2020
Zaid & Haifa Kurdieh: NYC's Favorite Farmers
Join co-hosts Vallery and Ethan for a conversation with Zaid and Haifa Kurdieh, owners of Norwich Meadows Farms. We'll discuss the long road to starting their farm, how they've grown (literally and f…
00:49:27 |
Tue 26 May 2020
Steve Sando: King of Heirloom Beans
Join Vallery & Ethan for a conversation with Steve Sando, founder of Rancho Gordo. Steve's career has spanned radio, writing and restaurants before he found his way to launching Rancho Gordo. His bus…
00:51:21 |
Thu 07 May 2020
Simran Bindra
Join Ethan & Vallery for a conversation with Simran Bindra, co-founder of Kokoa Kamili. Kokoa Kamili, based in Tanzania, is one of the world's best cacao companies, emphasising ethical sourcing and e…
00:45:36 |
Thu 30 Apr 2020
Laurie Woolever
Join co-hosts Ethan and Vallery for a conversation with Laurie Woolever, food writer and editor. For nearly a decade, Laurie was the right-hand to author, TV host and producer Anthony Bourdain, with …
00:55:20 |
Thu 23 Apr 2020
Bryan Ford: From Accounting to Artisan Baking
Join co-hosts Vallery and Ethan for a conversation with the baker Bryan Ford (recorded pre-coronavirus, but so relevant today!) Bryan shares his story of leaving accounting to become a baker, incorpo…
00:46:19 |
Fri 17 Apr 2020
Alexander Smalls: From Opera Singer to Restaurateur
Alexander Smalls is a James Beard Award winning chef, author, and raconteur, and the visionary co-owner of renowned restaurants Minton’s and The Cecil, which was named “Best New Restaurant in America…
00:46:48 |
Thu 09 Apr 2020
Ori Zohar & Ethan Frisch: Beautiful Spices, Equitably Sourced
Join cohosts Vallery and Ethan for a conversation with Ori Zohar and...Ethan Frisch! Cofounders and Co-CEOs of Burlap & Barrel, the country's first and only comprehensive single origin spice company.…
00:55:13 |
Thu 02 Apr 2020
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