The name Maya Kaimal may be familiar to many. She runs an amazing packaged foods company that sells delicious premade South Asian sauces and dals in more than 10,000 stores across the United States. She is grocery store royalty.

Rich Torrisi is a prolific New York City chef and empire builder behind some of the most buzzed-about restaurants in the United States.

Grabbing ingredients off a moving platform to cook a dish for Gordon Ramsay to judge truly sounds like a stress dream we’ve had before—but for Mehreen Karim, it’s a good time.

It’s a great day when our friend Alison Roman turns up at our New York City studio. We’ve really enjoyed reading and cooking through her new baking book, Sweet Enough, and we wanted to ask her all about it.

There is no food writer we would rather talk to about Italy—and, really, talk to about food in general—than Katie Parla.

How does a venture capitalist working in and around food actually grocery shop? Elly Truesdell, founder and managing partner of New Fare Partners, joins us on the show to tell us all about it.

Gail Simmons is a very cool human being—had to say that from the jump! While many know her best from Top Chef, Gail’s career in food expands way beyond a judge’s table.

Chef and budding TV personality Daniel Harthausen is one of the most exciting voices in food, having just won the first season of HBO’s very good cooking competition show The Big Brunch. 

Trigg Brown is the chef and co-owner of Win Son and the coauthor of a really great new book, Win Son Presents a Taiwanese American Cookbook.

Talia has one of the sharpest minds in food media, and we talk about the publication she has run for nearly a decade, PUNCH.

Yay, it’s Smitten Kitchen day, and we’re really, really excited to welcome back our friend Deb Perelman.

Indian chef and Unapologetic Foods co-founder Chintan Pandya is a James Beard Award– winning chef and runs some of the best restaurants in NYC, including Adda, Dhamaka, Semma, Rowdy Rooster, and his latest Bengali triumph, Masalawala & Sons.

Bill is our favorite critic, writing about our favorite food city in the United States, and we talk about what’s exciting about LA right now.

Ryan is one of the most respected critics in the game, and we wanted to invite him to the studio to talk about his career and some of the memorable stories he’s worked on.

After working as a fact checker for years at the New Yorker and contributing to the magazine’s Tables for Two column, Hannah Goldfield was named the magazine’s first full-time restaurant critic in 2018.

Cathy is a prolific writer and cookbook author behind the great new book, Win Son Presents a Taiwanese American Cookbook

Justin Smillie is the chef of Il Buco Alimentari and the author of the now-classic live-fire cooking book Slow Fires: Mastering New Ways to Braise, Roast, and Grill.

Sohla is a prodigious recipe developer, a fixture of food YouTube, and a judge on HBO’s cooking competition The Big Brunch.

On this episode, we catch up with Ben Van Leeuwen, the cofounder of a namesake chain of ice cream shops with an accompanying grocery store freezer section line.

Stay calm and…just act like Eric Ripert. Ripert, a celebrated chef and TV personality, is a balancing force. We talk about how he keeps the exquisite (and massive) Le Bernardin empire running, day after day.

James is one of the coolest dudes on the Coffee internet, and we wanted to have him on the show to talk about all things coffee at home.