Ari Kolender is a 20-year veteran of some of the top seafood restaurants in America, and opened his first restaurant, Found Oyster, …

Jordan Salcito is an award-winning sommelier turned entrepreneur based in Paris.

Chelsea Fagan is also a passionate dinner party host (and guest), and she has now written a savvy ode to having people over.

Cassie Yeung is a wildly popular food content creator known for her straight talk and delicious, approachable recipes.

Hetty Lui McKinnon is one of our favorite recipe developers, and she writes a mean ⁠Substack⁠ to boot.

Nick Tamburo and Nikita Malhotra are the chef and wine director of ⁠Smithereens⁠, a New England-style seafood spot in New York's East Village.

Will Thompson is co-owner of the modern steakhouse Sunny’s in Miami.

Kiki Couchman is the cofounder of ⁠Sourmilk⁠, a well-positioned yogurt company with more hustle than the average start-up.

Michael W. Twitty is an acclaimed culinary historian and the author of the two-time James Beard Award–winning book

We talk about Nite’s amazing journey and her terrific new cookbook, ⁠My Cambodia⁠.

Sean Sherman is an award-winning chef, educator, author, and activist.

The one and only Alice Waters joins us in the studio for an amazing conversation.

Eric Wareheim is an actor, director, winemaker, and writer based in Los Angeles.

Jon Bonné is Resy’s managing editor, author of The New French Wine and other books, and a winner of awards from most major food organizations.

Nikita is an editor in the Food section of The New York Times and the creator of the “⁠Where to Eat: New York City⁠” newsletter.

Jesse Burgess is behind ⁠Topjaw⁠, the wildly popular, restaurant-centric social media account covering the food scene in London

Rosie Grant is the creator of ⁠Ghostly Archive⁠, a project documenting the real-life phenomenon of recipes inscribed on tombstones.

Joshua is a chef based in Oregon and the author of one of the most beloved cookbooks of all time, ⁠Six Seasons⁠.

Jonathan Nunn is the London-based founder and coeditor of ⁠Vittles⁠, a food and culture newsletter based in the UK and India.

Antoni Porowski is best known as the food and wine expert on the Netflix series Queer Eye, which will be airing its final season later this year.

Every couple of weeks, Matt invites a journalist to talk about some favorite recent food writing as well as their thoughts on the industry as a whole.