It was such a treat to have Sara Jenkins on the TASTE Podcast, and this conversation really delivers. Matt has followed Sara’s career for over a decade, dating back to her amazing restaurants Porchetta and Porsena in New York’s East Village. We talk about her childhood growing up in Beirut and Italy—and how, to this day, she returns to the Tuscan farmhouse her family bought in the 1970s for their annual olive harvest and some recent writing on TASTE.

Also in this episode, TASTE editors Anna Hezel and Matt Rodbard discuss three things each of them have been excited to eat, cook, watch, and read lately.

Buy: Olives and Oranges and The Four Seasons of Pasta

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google, Stitcher, Art19

Additional Reading and Listening:

• Who Called the Carbonara Police? [TASTE]

• A Very Roman Rice Ball [TASTE]

• Substack’s Food Fellows [release]

• TASTE Podcast 71: Eric Kim