Hello beautiful people! Welcome to Food & Wine Pro's weekly Communal Table podcast. Chefs and restaurant workers take great care of everyone else, but often they need a little help themselves. Each week, Food & Wine’s senior editor Kat Kinsman talks with hospitality pros about how they manage their business, brain, and body for the long haul. Some of our very special guests include Samin Nosrat, Angie Mar, Seamus Mullen, David Chang, Pete Wells, and more. Subscribe now.
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Communal Table Presents: Tinfoil Swans from Food & Wine
Friday, July 7, 2023 • Duration 01:58
Food & Wine has led the conversation around food, drinks, and hospitality in America and around the world since 1978. Tinfoil Swans continues that legacy with a new series of intimate, informative, surprising, and uplifting interviews with the biggest names in the culinary industry, sharing never-before-heard stories about the successes, struggles, and fork-in-the-road moments that made them who they are today. Each week, you'll hear from icons and innovators like Guy Fieri, David Chang, Mashama Bailey, and Maneet Chauhan, going deep on their formative experiences, the dishes and meals that made them, their joys, doubts and dreams, and what's still on the menu for them. Tune in for a feast that'll feed your brain and soul — and plenty of wisdom and quotable morsels to savor later.
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Nigella Lawson Talks Solitude, Imperfect Housekeeping, Squishy White Bread, and Listening to Your Food
Saturday, April 17, 2021 • Duration 01:29:03
Like many of us, Nigella Lawson has spent the last 13 months hunkered at home, in an endless cycle of cooking, eating, washing up (reluctantly), and doing it all again just hours later. Unlike the rest of us, she's adapted her practices into a glorious cookbook—called Cook, Eat, Repeat—that celebrates and elevates this cycle into something contemplative and pleasurable. The renowned author and TV star joined Communal Table for an intimate conversation about isolation, grief, keeping house, re-entering society, the nature of gathering, and the pleasures of a long and non-photogenic braise.
Nigella Lawson
https://www.nigella.com/
Cook, Eat, Repeat
https://www.amazon.com/Cook-Eat-Repeat-Ingredients-Recipes/dp/0063079542?&linkCode=ll1&tag=fwnigellalawsoncommunaltablepodcastshownoteskkinsman0421-20&linkId=816e0
Antara's Mom's Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/pal_dough_pal/
Tadka Dal with Roti
https://www.foodandwine.com/recipes/tadka-dal-with-roti
Nigella's Chicken in a Pot with Lemon Orzo
https://www.foodandwine.com/recipes/chicken-in-a-pot-with-lemon-orzo
Best Practices: Nigella Lawson
https://www.foodandwine.com/fwpro/best-practices-nigella-lawson
Food & Wine Pro
https://www.foodandwine.com/fwpro
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Claudette Zepeda Talks Cutting Through White Noise and Becoming the Leader She Needed to See
Friday, February 5, 2021 • Duration 01:16:01
When Claudette Zepeda was at her most stressed-out, as she puts it, "my neck went away." Her shoulders were in a permanent state of hunch and she'd been advised at a new job to bring her "knives and anti-anxiety medication." But she learned along the way to advocate for herself, for people who'd always been marginalized in the world of food, and for the Mexican dishes that generations of her family held dear. The Top Chef alum and executive chef of the Alila Marea Beach Resort joined Food & Wine for a conversation about breaking bad patterns, communing with her ancestors, being completely humbled by her teenagers, and mentoring the next generation of chefs.
Food & Wine Pro
https://www.foodandwine.com/fwpro
Learn more about Claudette
https://chefclaudettezepeda.com/
Follow her on Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/claudetteazepeda/
Mother, Militant, Empath, Hard-Ass
https://www.foodandwine.com/chefs/claudette-zepedas-tijuana
Make Claudette's birria tacos
https://www.foodandwine.com/recipes/birria-tacos
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Angie Mar Talks about Money, Mentorship, and Hustle
Thursday, March 21, 2019 • Duration 01:10:18
You may think you know Angie Mar from her ultra-luxe Instagram feed, or maybe you've had the pleasure of indulging in a meal at her inventive, over-the-top restaurant, The Beatrice Inn. But the 2017 Food & Wine Best New Chef wants you to know about the blood, sweat, tears, and terrifyingly lean times that led up to her buying this classic property and pushing its legacy forward. And that has an awful lot to do with the way she hires, and how she mentors her team. Mar sat down with Food & Wine Senior Editor Kat Kinsman for a from-the-heart chat, and you're welcome to pull up a chair.
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Samin Nosrat Talks about Television, Traveling And Depression
Thursday, March 14, 2019 • Duration 01:01:40
Say Samin Nosrat's name to a food lover and their face will break out in a smile. The chef and author's debut cookbook, Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat, is a New York Time bestseller and James Beard Award Winner, lauded for its innovative approach to cooking, culled from years of work in restaurant kitchens and teaching. Her four-episode Netflix show of the same name has turned her into a household name, with viewers around the world falling in love with Nosrat's inimitable blend of expertise, curiosity, passion, and one of the best laughs ever committed to film. It may seem to casual viewers that Nosrat's rise has been meteoric, but to the daughter of Iranian immigrants to California, who fell in hard, fast love with restaurants after a chance meal at Chez Panisse, the path to becoming a successful author and breakout TV star had yet to be paved. In this intimate, revealing conversation, Nosrat opens up about her sometimes-challenging financial journey, struggles with depression and self-care on the road, the responsibility of representation, and the network of support that gets her through it all.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ciaosamin
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ciaosamin/
Show: https://www.netflix.com/saltfatacidheat
Website: http://ciaosamin.com/
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Hello Beautiful People!
Tuesday, March 5, 2019 • Duration 04:58
Subscribe to Communal Table, from Food & Wine Pro, launching March 14, 2019.
Chefs and restaurant workers take great care of everyone else, but often they need a little help themselves. Each week, Food & Wine’s senior editor Kat Kinsman talks with hospitality pros about they manage their business, brain, and body for the long haul.
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Norma Listman and Saqib Keval Talk Mole, Valuing Mexican Food, and What Restaurant Family Means
Friday, January 29, 2021 • Duration 01:23:57
It's hard to open a restaurant. It's indescribably stressful to have to open your restaurant four separate times, for reasons (earthquake, local government corruption, pandemic) out of your control. But Norma Listman and Saqib Keval believe in the vision of Masala Y Maiz, their Mexico City restaurant and co-op, so fiercely that they keep on working. They joined Communal Table for a fascinating conversation about recipes as documentation of a culture, the impact of white supremacy on food media, the might of masa, and their blueprint for a restaurant culture that is built for the health of the workers.
Food & Wine Pro
https://www.foodandwine.com/fwpro
Editor's Note: Why a Recipe Is More Than a Recipe
https://www.foodandwine.com/news/editors-note-why-a-recipe-is-more-than-a-recipe
Mole Verde con Pollo with Corn Tortillas
https://www.foodandwine.com/recipes/mole-verde-con-pollo-with-corn-tortillas
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The Food & Wine Team Talks Dal and Roti, Sopping, Broiling, and Citrus
Saturday, January 23, 2021 • Duration 01:15:36
January is a particularly cruel month. The days are short, the holidays past, and hey—we're still living in a freaking pandemic. But we've all got to find joy where we can, and this comes in the form of the recipes and stories we're running this month, celebrating the particular pleasure of sopping up stews and soups with bread, making perfect flank steak (and other things) under the broiler, and getting as much citrus into your life as physically possible. Plus: We're adding something pretty special to the end of the episodes from here on out, so be prepared to get blissed.
Food & Wine Pro:
https://www.foodandwine.com/fwpro
Get the Recipes:
https://www.foodandwine.com/holidays-events/recipes-make-in-january
Citrus Is My Therapist:
https://www.foodandwine.com/fruits/growing-citrus-trees-indoors
Remembering Lulu Peyraud, a Quiet Legend in the World of French Food and Wine:
https://www.foodandwine.com/news/remembering-lulu-peyraud
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Carl Sobocinski Talks About Investing in People and Closing His Restaurants to Stop the Spread
Friday, January 15, 2021 • Duration 59:23
Restaurateurs live their lives by the numbers, and when Carl Sobocinski saw COVID-19 case rates racking up in Greenville, SC, he knew he had to take action. Even though it wasn't mandated by local or state law, he voluntarily closed down all but one of his restaurants for a period after the holidays in an effort to keep his team and his diners safe. It was a tough decision that carried a price tag, but for him, it was the right thing to do. He joined Communal Table for a discussion about the mechanics and money behind this move, the efforts he's making to give his team members a path to ownership, and what keeps him grounded in tough times.
Learn more about Carl
https://table301.com/
Food & Wine Pro
https://www.foodandwine.com/fwpro
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Kiki Aranita Talks About Closing Her Restaurant, Collective Trauma, and Selling Sauce
Friday, January 8, 2021 • Duration 01:32:40
A year ago, Kiki Aranita was in Hong Kong for a cousin's wedding when she heard the first rumblings about a virus that was highly contagious and beginning to spread. There's no way she could have known that just months later, she'd have to shut down her much-loved Philadelphia restaurant Poi Dog because of its impact. It was an agonizing decision, but the multi-talented chef, writer, and artist is finding purpose in the pivot with a line of condiments that are based in her Hawaii heritage, making objects that soothe her soul, and finding new ways to keep the Poi Dog dream alive and thriving. She joined Communal Table for an in-depth conversation about the practical, financial, emotional, and intellectual work it takes to be a chef in an age of unrest.
How It Feels to Close Your Restaurant for Good
https://www.foodandwine.com/news/how-to-close-your-restaurant-permanently-kiki-aranita-poi-dog-coronavirus
Buy Kiki's Sauces at Gotham Grove
https://gothamgrove.com/pages/poi-dog
Food & Wine Pro
https://www.foodandwine.com/fwpro
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