Shane Mitchell's terrific collection, The Crop Cycle: Stories with Deep Roots, has the journalist traveling throughout the South, uncovering history both past and modern.

As one of the partners of popular NYC Korean restaurants, David is at the center of Korean cooking.

In this episode, we hear about Tom Parker Bowles' reporting on how the Royal Family really eats

Lee writes for the terrific business and culture publication Feed Me and files unflinching restaurant reviews and observations.

Malcolm Livingston II is a chef with some serious chops, having spent time in the kitchens at Per Se, Le Cirque, running the pastry program at wd~50 and Noma.

In her latest book, author Luisa Weiss has collected and mastered the essential everyday recipes of Germany and Austria.

Today on the show we have conversations with two terrific chefs in New York City.

The London chef and author has a recipe development process that is part Warhol’s Factory, part Bon Appétit Test Kitchen, and pure Ottolenghi.

We loved catching up with legendary Seattle chef Renee Erickson

Today’s episode is really special. It’s a conversation with Innis Lawrence, who runs restaurants in one of our favorite towns in New York: Kingston!

Steve is a French speaker and a shameless Francophile, and his love of France shines through in his terrific memoir, A Season for That: Lost and Found in the Other Southern France.

In this episode, we speak with the restaurant’s longtime chef, Nick Curtola. Nick is one of New York’s most consistent and skilled chefs and a real culinary force.

Hannah Heimbuch is an Alaskan salmon fisherman with quite the story to tell.

Danny Lee is one of the most influential chefs and restaurant operators in Washington, DC, running some of our all-time favorite Korean restaurants in America.

It’s been a very busy year for our two guests, Chris Hansell of Chrissy’s Pizza and Brooks Headley of Superiority Burger.

We’ve long been fans of the Big Green Egg, the kamado-style ceramic charcoal grill and smoker that has a legitimate cult following.

Emily Schildt wants food shopping to be a more fun and mind-expanding experience, and with her company, Pop Up Grocer. PJ Monte is behind Monte’s Fine Foods, a historically rich (and legitimately incredible) New York City pasta sauce company.

Snaxshot, the curatorial and slightly mercurial grocery newsletter and community, has grown into an industry force, read by CPG executives and members of food media on a near-religious level. (We are among these readers.)

We had to break in on a Saturday with this very cool conversation with Melissa Clark, discussing her recent restaurant review in the NYT.

Jon Bonné is an erudite observer of food and culture trends and the author of many books, including the monumental, two-volume The New French Wine.

All fall, Aliza and Matt have been talking about many of the season’s new cookbooks, from the biggest “influencer” books to baking, memoir, biography, and the return of restaurant books to the mix.