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.

We wanted to have journalist Anne Helen Petersen on the show not only to talk about modern office lunch culture...we wanted to have journalist Anne Helen Peterson on the show to talk about soup!

Himanshu Suri is best known by his rap name Heems, and he is our guest on this wild episode of the show.

If you’ve ever clicked onto the NYT Cooking or Bon Appétit websites looking for something to make for dinner, you’ve probably seen Hetty McKinnon’s name.

Do you know the story behind Spanish olive oil company Graza, one of our favorite upstart food brands around?

Christina Tosi is a chef and TV personality as well as Milk Bar’s CEO and CCCO (Chief Compost Cookie Officer) and the author of a new cookbook, All About Cookies (among many others).

Odette Williams is the author of Simple Cake and Simple Pasta, and she was really fun to have back in the studio.

The social media meme can be funny, biting, poignant, and oftentimes ubiquitous. Eli Sussman, a talented chef and cookbook author, has mastered the form.

Jamie Oliver returns to the show, and we could not be happier to talk with him about so many things.

Frankie Gaw is the author of a new cookbook, First Generation, and one of the most original voices writing in food today.

Eunji Lee is a pastry chef running one of New York City’s most exciting new dessert spots, Lysée.

We catch up with Omsom co-founder Kim Pham about what the journey has been to found one of the most exciting brands in food.