Today on the show, we have Claire Saffitz back in the studio for a really entertaining conversation. Claire is the author of a great recent cookbook, What’s For Dessert, and she’s truly one of our favorite cooking instructors and personalities on the internet.

Maurizio Leo is the big bread brain behind The Perfect Loaf, an incredibly popular online community of bread fans and home bakers.

Fly By Jing is one of the most exciting brands in food, and we were lucky to have the company’s founder, Jing Gao, live in conversation at Rizzoli Bookstore in New York City.

Sanaë Lemoine is a novelist and cookbook author whose work is united in its ability to make you very, very hungry.

Today on the show we welcome in Ethan Frisch and Ori Zohar, the co-founders of the Burlap & Barrel, a very well-regarded spice company that may very well play a starring role in your kitchen.

Abena Anim-Somuah is the host of The Future of Food Is You, a Cherry Bombe podcast network show. Also on this show Matt catches up with Margie Nomura. Margie is a UK chef and the host of a great podcast and Instagram, Desert Island Dishes.

Today on the show we are featuring three classic conversations from some big names in coffee: James Hoffmann, Nigel Price, and James Freeman.

Yossy Arefi is a recipe developer and back with a new book, Snacking Bakes. Natasha Kravchuk is the creator of the popular website Natasha’s Kitchen, and the author of the NYT Best Seller of the same name.

Christina Ward is the author of Holy Food: How Cults, Communes, and Religious Movements Influenced What We Eat.

Andrew Rea is the man with the sharp knives behind Binging with Babish, a wildly popular YouTube channel and series of food and food-adjacent productions (we can call them short films).

If you’d call yourself a “fruit person,” you’ll eat this episode up. William Mullan is a photographer and marketing manager whose book, Odd Apples, documents the stunning, strange world of heirloom apple varietals.

For over a decade Ben Goodwin, the cofounder of Olipop, has been building a better-for-you soda that aims to change the soda game.

Joshua Weissman is one of the strongest (and largest) voices on the food internet and the host of a series of YouTube shows that clock more than eight million subscribers.

Chris is a cookbook author, podcast host, and the cofounder and former editor in chief of Lucky Peach. He’s currently running point at Majordomo Media, and he cohosts the podcast The Dave Chang Show. 

We’re thrilled to welcome Sohla El-Waylly back to the show. Sohla is a prodigious recipe developer, a fixture of food YouTube, and a judge on HBO’s cooking competition The Big Brunch.

Yewande Komolafe is a recipe developer, food stylist, and author of the New York Times “10 Essential Nigerian Recipes”. She also has a terrific new cookbook out now, My Everyday Lagos: Nigerian Cooking at Home and in the Diaspora.

Here are two classic conversations with two of our favorite people in food, Jamie Oliver and Alison Roman.

Luke Fortney is a reporter at Eater New York, where he keeps an eagle eye on openings and closings. Ravinder Bhogal is a British cookbook author, journalist, and chef. 

What a fun time it is having Max La Manna in the studio. Max is a recipe developer and former NYC and Los Angeles line cook. He’s also big on TikTok and various other social media channels.

As writer and podcast host Chris Black tells it, he sits at the heart of American culture. “The bridge between the high and the low; the very high and the very low.” This is a very good—and often entertaining—place to live.

Robert Simonson writes about cocktails, spirits, bars, and bartenders for the New York Times and the author of a terrific new book, The Encyclopedia of Cocktails: The People, Bars & Drinks, with More Than 100 Recipes.