Season 9

Bio: Tina’s curiosity as a young child led her into the kitchen where her mother and grandmother laid the foundation for a lifetime love of baking. She has passionately studied baking for most of her life while developing and...

Bio: Marissa Rothkopf Bates writes about food for the New York Times, Newsweek (RIP) and Publishers’ Weekly, among others. For Newsweek she wrote the “Gadget Lust” column, where she reviewed all manner of weird and inventive ...

Bio: BRIAN THEIS is a resident of New Orleans and New York. He is a recipe developer, teacher, and home cooking maestro, passionate about twentieth-century culinary history. His New Orleans side of the family encouraged his i...

Bio: Douglas Weissman is a graduate of the Master of Fine Arts program in Creative Writing at the University of San Francisco. He is an award-winning travel writer and has published 8 novels spanning Young Adult, New Adult, a...

Bio: Maggie Zhu started her website, Omnivore’s Cookbook, in 2013. Born and raised in Beijing, she moved to Austin, Texas, in 2015. Now she’s a full-time New York–based blogger, writer, recipe developer, and photographer. Hav...

Bio Yumi Komatsudaira is the president of K-Seaweed, a leading ocean greens provider since 1960’s and an author, recipe developer, food stylist and food photographer for her latest cookbook, “Japanese Superfoods: Learn the Se...

Bio Vasudha Viswanath is the founder of We Ate Well, a community for foodies that brings you the inside scoop on everything vegetarian. Her mission is to help you eat mindfully, joyfully and sustainably on a vegetarian diet. ...

Bio: Leah Su Quiroga cooked for over a decade at Alice Waters’s renowned California restaurant, Chez Panisse, where she started out as an intern and quickly worked her way up to head chef. She currently lives in Sebastopol, C...

Bio Jenay Marontate began learning the secrets of kitchen witchery at an early age from her mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother. Now, she applies her knowledge of herbs, oil, magic, and kitchen witchery to her loose-le...

Jenna Helwig Bio: When I first started preparing my own meals as a young adult, my idea of cooking was boiling pasta and heating up a jar of store-bought tomato sauce. My salads were topped with bottled dressing, and I …

Sarah Gailey is a Hugo Award Winning and Bestselling author of speculative fiction, short stories, and essays. They have been a finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards for multiple years running. Their bestselling adu...

Atava Garcia Swiecicki is guided by her dreams and her Mexican, Polish, Hungarian, and Diné ancestors. She received a BA in feminist studies from Stanford University and a master’s degree from the Indigenous Mind Program at N...

Matt Cockerill A sourdough-fermenting, backyard-wasabi-growing culinary adventurer, Matt began his career as a science publisher. As co-founder of open-access publishing pioneer BioMed Central, he helped to bring the 350-year...

Bio: Hi, I'm Emily. Growing up in suburban NJ, there were plenty of good bagels around. But when my father had business take him to the Upper West Side, he would stop by Zabar's for lox, sable, whitefish, and chive …

Bio: Culinary educator Kim Kushner is the best-selling author of 'The Modern Table', 'I Heart Kosher', 'The New Kosher', and ‘The Modern Menu’. Raised in Montreal, Canada, Kim learned to cook at an early age from her Moroccan...

Bio: Faith Kramer is a food writer and recipe developer concentrating on the food ways, history, and customs of the Jewish diaspora. She develops recipes and writes about Jewish customs and food as well as travel, and global ...

This is a Hanukkah Week Rebroadcast of a previously aired episode. Bio: BETH A. LEE who grew up on the East Coast before moving with her family to Northern California, thousands of miles away from the traditional Jewish food ...

Bio: BETH A. LEE who grew up on the East Coast before moving with her family to Northern California, thousands of miles away from the traditional Jewish food she was raised on. She attended the University of California, Berke...