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Episode 1: Social Justice to Food Justice – Martha Hoover
In this episode we meet one of the most inspirational restaurateurs in the States. Largely unknown because she doesn’t operate in sexy markets like New York or LA, Martha Hoover is the CEO and founder...
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Episode 10: The Curious Beginnings of Ample Hills with Husband and Wife...
Brian Smith and Jackie Cuscuna are the co-founders of the delicious, creative and playful ice cream company, Ample Hills. They both have past careers as teachers, Brian later went on to become a...
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Episode 11: Jonathan Mendez of Saloniki Greek
Jonathan Mendez, co-founder of Saloniki Greek introduces us to his new restaurant and his previous career path as a lawyer. Saloniki Greek takes traditional Greek dishes with New England ingredients to...
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Episode 12: The Dairy Queen from Wall Street – with Homa Dashtaki of the...
Homa Dashtaki is the owner of The White Moustache, a coveted New York producer of both Persian and Greek style yoghurts, labneh and whey probiotic drinks. Homa started the company with her father after...
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Episode 13: The Theatrical Chef with Chef Yo
Chef Yo graduated with a masters from the Theatre Directing program at Columbia University. A native of Thailand, he found himself working in Thai resturants in New York, climbing the ladder from...
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Episode 14: Sommelier – Max Coane
Imagine if you’re first restaurant job was at a two Michelin-starred restaurant and within that restaurant you were the Head Sommelier, quite the start in the industry. Max Coane’s life was dedicated...
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Episode 15: Food Critic – Alan Richman
A winner of 16 James Beard Foundation Journalism Awards during his 25 years as a food critic for GQ, Alan Richman is one of the most revered, yet controversial figures in the restaurant scene over the...
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Episode 16: Restaurateur Pt. 1 – Adam Eskin
As the founder & CEO, of Dig Inn, a successful farm to table restaurant group based in New York and Boston Adam Eskin was thrown in the deep end right from the start. With an Economics degree from...
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Episode 17: Food Author – Bianca Bosker
“I am obsessed with other people’s obsessions” This quote sets the tone for how engaged and involved you become when you read Cork Dork. Bianca Bosker, previously the executive tech editor at the...
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Episode 18: Food Academic – Darryl Mosher
This week I made the trip Poughkeepsie to chat with Darryl Mosher at the CIA campus. Darryl left a lucrative position at IBM in search of nature which led to a 70 acre family run farm. After two...
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Episode 19: Farmer – Ben Flanner
In the concrete jungle of New York City agriculture is sparse but Brooklyn Grange have developed the worlds largest rooftop soil farms which produce over 50,000 lbs of organically cultivated produce...
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Episode 2: From the Opera to the Hive – Casey Elsass
“The one through line of my early twenties was that there was no through line.” After many years of random jobs and a prolonged stint at the Metropolitan Opera, Casey made a pledge to himself that he...
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Episode 20: Home Cook – Donal Skehan
Donal Skehan has created a remarkable career for himself in the food world. As an author of seven cookbooks and the host to fourteen cooking shows in four countries he has showcased the power keeping...
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Episode 21: Coffee Connoisseur – Debbie Wei Mullin
Debbie Wei Mullin is passionate about poverty alleviation. After visiting her relatives in Vietnam at 15 years of age she decided to dedicate her career to community empowerment and providing...
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Episode 22: Marc Glosserman – Hill Country Hospitality
With a self-described ‘plain vanilla’ upbringing in the suburbs of D.C. where at least one parent of each of his friends was a lawyer, it was almost set in scripture that Marc would follow a career in...
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Episode 23: Hannah Cheng – Mimi Cheng’s
From finance and fashion, Hannah and Marian Cheng left successful careers to bring traditional and healthy Chinese dumplings to New York City. In this episode Hannah Cheng comes on the show to chat...
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Episode 24: Restaurateur – Matt Abramcyk
After falling out of love with finance Matt dipped his toe in hospitality as an investor in one of the most revered cocktail bars in New York City, Employees only. He then went on to make a name for...
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Episode 25: Q Drinks – Jordan Silbert
With a belief mixers should be of equal quality and beauty as their alcoholic counterpart, Q Tonic was born. Twelve years later Q Drinks carries seven products that can be found in bars and homes...
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Episode 26: Supercrown Coffee Roasters: Darleen Scherer
The DotCom Crash left Darleen unemployed and very uncertain of finding secure work. She took her savings and passion for excellent, transparent and sustainable coffee to Park Slope, Brooklyn to create...
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Episode 27: William Dean Chocolates: Bill Brown
At the tender age of 46 Bill Brown tapped in to his creative mind which had been subdued for nearly four decades, his creations were chocolate. It took friends, family and colleagues by surprise that...
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