Episode Archives

Emmanuel Laroche – Podcast Host

Emmanuel Laroche, host of the “flavors unknown” podcast says “Everyone who knows me would say that it’s obvious that I love food. I always loved food. It started when I was a kid with my mom. I’m obviously French. You can tell from the little tiny accent people say that I have. My parents were…

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Kim Alter – Creating Food Memories

I just really wanted something that was a little bit more lighthearted where we could come and sit. There aren’t tablecloths and we’re not too precious and the music might be a little bit louder. But you’re still getting the refinement of food that you would get in a more upscale restaurant. So I think…

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Johnny Spero – A Global Culinary Database

I use ingredients and techniques that I have learned from elsewhere and just, as long as it’s cohesive, and that it doesn’t seem to recreate some classic dish with a spin on it. We don’t need to do our take on something. I think we want to be as authentic as we can or to…

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Alison Trent – The Future is Creative Collaboration

You walk in and it opens up into this beautiful urban oasis and you’re sitting with fairy lights and olive trees and really beautiful sort of antique furniture everywhere just really really beautifully designed. And then the menu is not fine dining, it’s definitely more casual. We encourage people to share. But really high end…

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Jose Garces – A Competitive Mindset

“I’m competitive and I always have. And I think that’s why I really enjoyed Iron Chef because it was the time when I knew I was going into battle or going in the Kitchen Stadium. Butterflies in my stomach floating and all of my culinary and cooking senses were alive and so I think that…

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Brian Ahern – A New Brasserie Style

If you’re a culinary student and you’re going on your internship or extra. Find the highest quality most difficult kitchen you could find and go and see if you can really do it. Day in and day out and day in and day out and day in and day out and you’ll be fine. You…

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Edward Lee – The Marco Polo of American Cuisine

I think one of the things that I’ve always spoken about is that the South is a very large place. From North Carolina or Virginia down to parts of Florida, west to Texas, north to the eastern part of Kentucky. It’s incredibly vast. One third of the United States. So to say that the South…

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David Burke – A Creative Mind

I like a challenge. It’s very challenging to be in this business and try to stay relevant. I mean you can. There’s so many things. The opportunities are there if you will look for them. There’s so many beautiful things about the food industry. You can figure out what you can do. I like to…

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Andre Natera – The Culinary Yoda

I think what I’m most proud of as a chef is the people that I’ve worked under me. The different people that I’ve seen come up from a cook right out of culinary school or maybe even a cook with no culinary school that maybe grows into a sous chef position or an executive chef…

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Trigg Brown – Taiwanese Food through American Lens

I feel like my creative process is very intertwined with my learning process and how I come to understand Taiwanese food. And typically that’s through a historical approach, or an effort to contextualize a dish in Taiwanese history, or understand where it comes from, and how it found its way to Taiwan. It usually touches…

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