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Lunch Therapy
Food writer Adam Roberts (The Amateur Gourmet, Secrets of the Best Chefs) has a knack for analyzing people's lunches. Now in its fourth season, Lunch Therapy showcases the lunches of a wide variety of guests: chefs (Fergus Henderson, Marco Canora), actors (Ryan O'Connell, Karan Soni), writers (Mary...
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Amanda Hesser's Persian Rice Bowl with Barberries
One of my all-time favorite food writers is Amanda Hesser, the co-founder of Food52 and author of The New York Times Cookbook, and it's a huge thrill...

John Birdsall's "Pretty Boring" Cheese Sandwich
The James Beard award-winning biographer of James Beard, John Birdsall, swings by the office today for a lunch therapy session. We talk all about who'...

Dwight Garner's Peanut Butter and Pickle Sandwich
Dwight Garner is one of the most feared and yet funny voices in the pages of The New York Times Book Review, where he's one of their most beloved crit...

Abi Balingit's Ground Beef and Corn Tortillas
Welcome back to Lunch Therapy! Today's patient, Abi Balingit, is the creator of the blog The Dusky Kitchen and the author of the brand new, Filipino...

Leah Koenig’s Fajitas with Leftover Chicken and Peppers
Today's Lunch Therapy patient, Leah Koenig, is the author of seven cookbooks, including The Jewish Cookbook and Modern Jewish Cooking. Her latest, Por...

Amy Thielen's Leftover Baked Potatoes and Onions from the Garden
This week's Lunch Therapy patient is Amy Thielen, the multitalented cookbook author and chef whose latest cookbook, Company, is hot off the presses an...

Alex Jung's Miyeokguk
Today's patient, Alex Jung, is an accomplished journalist for New York Magazine and Vulture, who's profiled countless celebrities and been nominated f...

Rosie Schaap's Northern Irish Latkes
Raise your glass to this week's Lunch Therapy patient: Rosie Schaap, the author of two books (Drinking with Men, Becoming a Sommelier) and the former...

Susan Spungen's French Vegetable Salad
My patient today is the illustrious food stylist and recipe developer Susan Spungen, the author of the brand new book Veg Forward, and the founding ed...

Anya von Bremzen's American Slice
This week's Lunch Therapy patient, Anya von Bremzen, is the author of a brand new book, National Dish, that's been called "a fast-paced, entertaining...

Jeff Gordinier's Asparagus and Mushroom Sandwich
Jeff Gordinier is one of the most prolific, influential food writers in the biz: not only does he work on Esquire's Best Restaurants list every year,...

Lee Sung Jin's Classic Shakshuka
Welcome back to Lunch Therapy! We start this brand new season with Lee Sung Jin, the creator of Netflix's hit show BEEF. I worked with Lee several yea...

The California Veggie Sandwich with Starlee Kine
My guest today is the creator of one of my favorite podcasts of all time, The Mystery Show with Starlee Kine. If you haven't listened to that, turn th...

Ramen Noodles with Mushrooms, Chiles, and Lime with Chris Tucker
Vegan chef Chris Tucker (@veganchefchristucker) is a private vegan chef -- he's making vegan desserts for Elton John's Oscar party in two weeks! -- wh...

Whey Pancakes with Homa Dashtaki
Today's guest, Homa Dashtaki, is the co-founder (along with her father) of The White Mustache yogurt, some of the most celebrated yogurt in the countr...

Baked Chicken Thighs with Butter and Onions with Aaron Hutcherson
Our guest this week, Aaron Hutcherson, is a writer and recipe developer for The Washington Post's Voraciously and recently moved to Washington, D.C. f...

Keema Pau with Karan Soni
This week Karan Soni, who you may recognize from Deadpool or Miracle Workers, shares a recipe from the Dishoom cookbook for Keema Pao: a punchy combin...

Sheng Jian Bao with Jenn Harris
This week we're shaking things up, shifting from a "you've got to taste this" recipe to a "you've got to taste this" field trip! LA Times food writer...

Silesian Heaven Crispy Pierogis with Nicole Rucker
One of my favorite bakers (and favorite people) is Nicole Rucker, owner of Fat & Flour in the Grand Central Market here in L.A., and the very first gu...

Makoviy Rulet with Felicity Spector
This week's "You've Got to Taste This" recipe comes to us from Felicity Spector, a Harvard Fulbright scholar and London-based journalist, whose intere...

Porcini Rosemary Tomato Sauce with Noah Galuten
Welcome to "You've Got to Taste This," my brand new podcast centered around dishes that are so good, you've simply got to taste them. My first guest i...

Thanksgiving Pies with Charlotte Druckman
Now I know most of you already have your Thanksgiving desserts planned out, but just in case you need a little inspiration, I invited Charlotte Druckm...

Cooking Puerto Rican with Illyanna Maisonet
The author of the brand-new, hotly-anticipated Puerto Rican cookbook DIASPORICAN, Ilyanna Maisonet, swings by the podcast today to talk all about cook...

Weeknight Dinners with Melissa Clark
Everyone's favorite cookbook author and NYT columnist, Melissa Clark, is back on the pod to talk all about that tricky old subject: weeknight dinners....

Food and Fatherhood with Jonathan Melendez
Jonathan Melendez is a chef, food photographer, and the creator of the blog The Candid Appetite. Recently he's started the biggest job of all: he and...

A Broadway Cookbook with Gideon Glick
I've been cooking along to show tunes since I first started cooking twenty years ago... so imagine how excited I am that the Broadway cookbook that I...

The Cookbook Biz with Andrea Nguyen
Andrea Nguyen ís the prolific author of eight cookbooks, including Vietnamese Food Any Day, The Pho Cookbook, Asian Tofu, and The Banh Mi Handbook. Sh...

Cooking Who You Are with Chef Vishwesh Bhatt
When Chef Vishwesh Bhatt started serving his Indian-inflected Southern food at SnackBar in Oxford, Mississippi, the food world was so dazzled, the Jam...

Gays Who Love Food with Grossy Pelosi
What's it like to be gay and to love food? Today's guest Dan Pelosi (aka: Grossy Pelosi) knows a little something about it. Having grown up 3/4ths Ita...

TikTok Food Fame with Chef Jon Kung
What's it like to be famous on TikTok? Ask Chef Jon Kung who has 1.5 million followers on there and is frequently on lists of TikTok's best food accou...

How to Pitch the NYT Food Section with Emily Weinstein
For years, I've been trying to pitch articles to the New York Times food section and for years I've been failing. On a total lark, I invited Emily Wei...

The Pie Episode with Kate McDermott
Kate McDermott is the author of two widely-celebrated books on pie (The Art of the Pie and Pie Camp; Publisher's Weekly called The Art of the Pie "one...

The Secret to Writing Recipes with Jessie Sheehan
What's the secret to writing a really good recipe? How do you make it unique while also making it simple enough for people to do at home? Enter Jessie...

Analyzing L.A.'s Vibrant Food Scene with Farley Elliott
This year's James Beard awards COMPLETELY shut L.A. out of the mix, awarding the country's second largest city zero citations for what is commonly con...

Latte Art at Home and Other Coffee Secrets with Ever Meister
Before I got hit by Covid, I spent an hour talking to the delightful coffee expert Ever Meister — who I met at my first favorite coffee shop, Joe on W...

Pyrex Obsessions with Nicole Miller
Have I got a podcast for you! Well: it's for you if you're, like me, OBSESSED with collecting vintage Pyrex and bowls and plates and other kitchen doo...

Where to Eat in NY with Ryan Sutton
I was the perfect audience for my own podcast this week because Craig (my husband, in case you're new) is going to be back and forth to NY over the ne...

The Julia Episode: Featuring Daniel Goldfarb (Creator of "Julia") and Dorie Greenspan ("Baking with Julia")
What a thrill to share this week's Amateur Gourmet Podcast: an episode dedicated entirely to Julia Child! We're lucky enough to have the creator of th...

The Mother's Day Episode with Sarah Copeland
It's Mother's Day this Sunday! Do you know what you're cooking yet? Or what you want your family to cook for you? Please welcome Sarah Copeland to the...

Collecting Cookbooks! with Paula Forbes
So excited to talk about my favorite subject — COLLECTING COOKBOOKS! — with none other than the founder of Stained Page News, one of the premiere dest...