The Corner Table: Top Chef Wisconsin
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The Corner Table: Top Chef Wisconsin
Hear from guest judges, chefs and competitors on 'Top Chef Wisconsin.' A limited series from The Corner Table, a podcast about food and drink in Madison, Wisconsin, produced by The Capital Times.
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Episode 14: The creator of 'Top Chef Wisconsin'
"Top Chef" executive producer/showrunner Doneen Arquines joined the “Top Chef” team during its very first season, working as a production assistant. S...
Episode 13: Stocking the 'Top Chef' kitchen
Kyle Knall, chef/owner of Birch in Milwaukee, joined the judges' table during a recent "Top Chef" episode filmed at Harbor House. Kyle reflects on his...
Episode 12: The art of the recap
Stephanie Bedford, a local book critic, food freelancer and fiction writer, reserved the URL TopSteph.com about 30 seconds after learning the show was...
Episode 11: 'Milwaukee Dan' Jacobs
This week we hear from Wisconsin's first "Top Chef" contestant, James Beard-nominated Milwaukee chef Dan Jacobs.
Jacobs talks about how team ch...
Episode 10: Native ingredients
Amber Bristow is a fifth generation cranberry grower, but even she had never seen cranberry soup before the cranberry challenge on "Top Chef." "I was...
Episode 9: Restaurant Wars
Restaurant Wars is an iconic "Top Chef" challenge. Chefs must create a whole restaurant with a coherent concept, smooth service and good food in 24 ho...
Episode 8: Sausage races
This week on the podcast, we're talking ballpark food.
Loren B. Rue grew up loving baseball, and now has his dream job — executive chef at Amer...
Episode 7: What chaos means to me
Chef Paul Bartolotta, the Milwaukee restaurateur and two-time James Beard winner, was bemused by a recent challenge on "Top Chef Wisconsin."
"W...
Episode 6: The capital for a reason
No drone shot of Madison would be complete without a view of the Memorial Union Terrace and its iconic sunburst chairs.
That, in fact, is where...
Episode 5: Supper club style
This week on our "Top Chef Wisconsin" companion podcast, we have a full Madison episode!
First, host Lindsay Christians takes a deeper dive into...
Episode 4: Build a better dinner
The architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright inspired the challenges this week, on episode 4 of Top Chef Wisconsin. Host Lindsay Christians talks with Talie...
Episode 3: Beer and cheese
Theater artist and educator Erica Halverson has seen every episode of "Top Chef" from Season 1 to now. This week, the UW-Madison professor and host of...
Episode 2: Roll out the red carpet
We walked the red carpet in Milwaukee, and all the stars were there.
This week, Destination Madison's Sarah Warner and I, Cap Times food editor...
Episode 1: How did Top Chef come to Wisconsin?
This week, Corner Table co-host Chris Lay joins to talk about the first episode (mild spoilers, with ample warning!) and reflect on whether one chef h...
The Corner Table: Top Chef Wisconsin
Lindsay Christians, food editor at the Cap Times, resurrects The Corner Table podcast for a special, limited series all about Top Chef Wisconsin.
"Madison Chefs" Book Release Q+A
Farm-to-table is a cliché, but its roots among the farmers and chefs of south-central Wisconsin are deep, vibrant and resilient. From brats and burger...
Reopening Sardine, Part 5: Back in the booths
This is the final episode of Reopening Sardine, a limited series from The Corner Table podcast. This week, hosts Lindsay Christians and Chris Lay expa...
Reopening Sardine, Part 4: One Month In
A few things have changed since we last checked in with the folks at Sardine on opening day, May 19. For one, Dane County mask mandates have changed....
Reopening Sardine, Part 3: Opening Day
Well, friends, we’re finally here. After more than a year of uncertainty, fear and frustration, on May 19, Sardine was ready to open its doors to the...
Reopening Sardine, Part 2: A new way of service
Sardine, a French-inspired restaurant in downtown Madison, had 70 employees when it closed in 2020. As staff prepared to reopen in mid-May at half cap...
Reopening Sardine, Part 1: Sardine’s pandemic year
When quarantine kicked in last spring, we refocused The Corner Table to examine and document effects the pandemic was having across so many facets of...
In the kitchen with Cortney Burns
This bonus episode is adapted from a live (virtual) conversation and cooking demonstration Lindsay hosted on Tuesday, featuring Cortney Burns — a chef...
Remembering restaurants
As we reach the end of 2020 and COVID-19 continues to stomp on our dreams, it’s pretty clear not all the restaurants we love are gonna make it through...
Gingerbread architecture 101
Chef Molly Maciejewski has made hundreds of gingerbread houses. As the executive chef and general manager at Madison Sourdough on Madison's east side,...
Take a crack at these nuts
One of our favorite things about the holiday season is all the snacks. Between the traditional meals, it's more than acceptable to absentmindedly nibb...
Brandy, you're a fine spirit
The pandemic has put an undeniable damper on the Wisconsin way of life, and probably cut down on the number or quality of old fashioneds we're drinkin...
Robot, bring me lunch!
If you've spent time around the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus in the last year, you've probably spotted the adorable white robots rolling alo...
Eat right, not sexy
What do you think about going paleo? Did you do a Whole30 January? Ever been served up an ad on Instagram for a DNA diet — whatever that means? This w...
Heavy Kevy wants YOU to cook
One of our favorite things to do lately is check Instagram to see what “Heavy Kevy” is making for dinner. Kevy is not a chef. He’s not a brand ambassa...
Knives out, again
Thanks to summer vacations, we're repurposing an entertaining and educational episode from the archives that doubles as a kitchen safety public servic...
School lunch goes home
Kids are going back to school this week. Well ... sort of. Some of them are going to school in buildings, while others are learning fractions over Zoo...
Where drinking is anything but serious
After finding success with their canned mojitos and brandy old fashioneds, Tom Dufek and his Plain Spoke Cocktail Co. business partners set out to giv...
Ahan finds a home
Back in February, Jamie Hoang and Chuckie Brown were cooking for cocktail-sipping crowds at their Robin Room pop-up, doling out mini veggie egg rolls...
Starved for sports
Even for minor sports fans, a typical Madison summer might involve a random Brewers game with friends or a trip or two out to the Duck Blind for a Mal...
For your quarantine pleasure: The cream puff kerfuffle
The Wisconsin State Fair has joined a long list of events across the country canceled in response to the coronavirus pandemic, but there's one thing C...
A recipe for change
Will Green started Mentoring Positives almost 16 years ago to help teens in the Darbo-Worthington neighborhood on Madison's east side learn some of th...
Forage for your supper
With so many activities off limits due to the coronavirus, this summer practically demands that we get outdoors as often as possible in order to maint...
Bartender to the stars ... of this podcast
Before the pandemic hit, bartender Karlin Langley was working at Sardine, mixing Sazeracs and French 75s behind their pewter bar. Lately he’s been tur...
Behind the scenes as restaurants reopen
A couple months ago, COVID closed restaurants everywhere. Dane County is now in the first phase of its reopening plan, but with masks and distancing,...
Cooking class goes virtual
Just before the pandemic hit, Mel Zastrow was preparing to teach her middle school students to cook the old-fashioned way, piled into a kitchen togeth...