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Culinary Characters Unlocked

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Frequency: 1 episode/6d. Total Eps: 118

Emmy Winner, International Acclaimed Journalist, Executive Producer, Food & Travel Lover, and Creator of the Beloved show “Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives” David Page takes us deep into the world of chefs, restaurateurs, and everything “foodie” from the nationally and internationally awarded to the locally loved on Culinary Characters Unlocked. New episode every Tuesday.

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Chef Melissa Perello on winning a Michelin star, then walking away from fine dining to cook HER way

Tuesday, September 8, 2026 • Duration 31:39

Mesmerized by the chefs see saw on TV, chef Melissa Perello fell in love with cooking as a child. Her mom still talks about the leg of lamb she made from a cooking show recipe when she was 8 years old! After attending the Culinary Institute of America, she rose through the ranks of fine dining in San Francisco, even winning a Michelin star, before deciding great food could be comfortable, approachable, and casual. And she proves it every day at her own restaurants, Frances and Octavia. She even invented bacon beignets. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Chefs Jack Gingrich and Chris Weber on taking a legendary farm-to-table restaurant into the future.

Tuesday, September 1, 2026 • Duration 35:42

Their Washington state restaurant boasts of doing farm to table since 1986 and is credited with helping define Pacific Northwest Cuisine. It even has its own farm, and what they don’t grow there they get from a network of trusted local producers and foragers. When we talked in early Spring their remarkable seasonal tasting menu was spotlighting local specialties ranging from sturgeon to polenta to a Walla Walla sweet onion tart. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Chef Ana Sortun on introducing Americans to the wonders of Turkish cooking—and no, it isn’t the same as Greek

Tuesday, August 25, 2026 • Duration 43:47

Chef Ana Sortun knew as a teenager that she wanted to cook. At 16 she decided to move to France for culinary school. It changed her life. But so did another trip many years later, to Turkey, where she found her true culinary passion. At her Boston area restaurants, she is cooking up the dishes she has found in more than 30 trips to Turkey, as well as some other flavors of the Mediterranean. And she’s won a James Beard award as Best Chef Northeast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Chef Spike Gjerde on making less money to feed us better, and why farm to table is “more or less dead”

Tuesday, August 18, 2026 • Duration 37:34

James Beard Award winning chef and restaurateur Spike Gjerde has totally re-thought the way restaurants ought to be feeding us. He’s obsessed with doing things his way, building a restaurant group to pursue that passion. And by the way, his food is terrific. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Chefs Kari Lauritzen and Sonya Sanford on helping Americans turn cooking from a chore to a pleasure

Tuesday, August 11, 2026 • Duration 38:50

Kari Lauritzen and Sonya Sanford met and became best friends when both were private chefs in Los Angeles. Now they are coaxing non-cooks into the kitchen and teaching home cooks how to make fabulous meals (and enjoy doing it) on their podcast Food Friends. And in this conversation, they offer some great tips for upping anyone’s home cooking game. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Chef Travis Herbert on the bold flavors that earned him a James Beard finalist nomination, and the culinary inspiration of his Montana childhood

Tuesday, August 4, 2026 • Duration 34:25

Chef Travis Herbert began cooking with his grandmother as a child, but it was sharing a chairlift with a chef at a Utah ski resort that got him into the business. Now he’s got two restaurants at the center of a culinary boom in Salt Lake City, serving up bold flavors and unique dishes—like elk osso buco. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Chef Star Maye on the path from prison to champion on Chopped

Tuesday, July 28, 2026 • Duration 37:21

Chef Star Maye has had a remarkable rise through the culinary world. Born in a small Alabama town, this self-described “black, queer single mother” went from a small Alabama town to the U.S. Navy, to prison, where she found a mentor who pointed her to the culinary world, to becoming a celebrated executive chef in Nashville and a champion on the Food Network show Chopped. Her creative southern cooking is groundbreaking, rooted in the concept of food from as close to the soil as possible. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Chef Andrew Black on the journey from his grandmother’s kitchen in Jamaica, to the Ritz in Paris, to winning a James Beard award in Oklahoma City

Tuesday, July 21, 2026 • Duration 35:55

Chef Andrew Black got his first cooking job in his native Jamaica in his teens. That began a stellar career that took him to the Ritz in Paris and the Peabody in Memphis. When he was offered a job in Oklahoma City he sneered, “Where the hell is that?” But he checked it out, liked what he found, and has been at the forefront of a culinary revolution there. Chef Black now owns three restaurants in OKC, including the celebrated Grey Sweater, which he says is built on imagination to take diners on a journey of memorable moments, and where he won the 2023 James Beard award as Best Chef Southwest. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Chef Renee Erickson built a restaurant empire from the bounty of the Pacific Northwest

Tuesday, July 14, 2026 • Duration 39:22

As a child, Chef Renee Erickson would go salmon fishing with her father. And fruits and vegetables came from the family garden. She’s taken that grounding in the fabulous foods of the Pacific Northwest and built a celebrated group of Seattle restaurants that serve up a range of cuisines, heavy on local seafood. She bought her first restaurant at the age of 25, she’s seen all the ups and downs of the restaurant business, and in this conversation, she is brutally candid about the financial challenges facing her and other restaurateurs in today’s tough economy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Chef Zak Baker on cooking in Milwaukee the way they really do in Italy

Tuesday, July 7, 2026 • Duration 38:25

Chef Zak Baker cooks what he calls Midwest Italian and it's unlike anything most folks have ever had before. It began when he first went to Italy and was thrilled by the food, but also surprised. He'd never had anything like it at any Italian restaurant he'd visited in America. He returned to cook in Italy again and again. And that’s what inspires him at his Milwaukee restaurant Ca'Lucchenzo, where he’s serving dishes created with traditional Italian techniques and flavors, but using the best ingredients of the Midwest. It got him named a 2026 James Beard Awards finalist. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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