CPN - Food Philosophy #5

Food Philosophy #5: Comments on Comments

There was some great discussion started from show #4, so in this episode Chef Mark joins me to talk about the compelling points that have come up regarding feminism, sensuality, and women in the kitchen. Also, an important update on the Bachelor's Boot Camp.


food, food podcast, sensuality, feminism, Food Philosophy, Culinary Podcast Network, Gilded Fork, Jennifer Iannolo

CPN - CHIC Podcast #18

CHIC Podcast #18: Soul Food with Cassandra Matthews

I work with some of the best people on the planet. One of these people is our registrar, Cassandra Matthews. She and I evaluated (I hate the word judged) a soul food contest recently. We had so much fun, we decide to do a podcast on soul food. She has some great insight for us so enjoy!

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New CPN Forums for each show!

We have just opened up the Gilded Fork Forum and added subforums for each of the shows on the Culinary Podcast Network. Now in addition to the comments section here, and the MyChingo Audio comments box on the sidebar, you will have a place for more in depth discussion, suggestions and thoughts. The subforums for each show are to be found at the links below:

General CPN Discussion
ReMARKable Palate
Food Philosophy
Hungry Magazine
On Food
Eat Feed
Simply Ming
All You Can Eat
Jim's Kitchen
CHIC Podcast
Chef Marc's Culinary Adventures

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CPN - Hungry Magazine #16

Hungry Mag #16: The Surgeon of Saltaus

Nadi Salti is a Jersusalem born practicing surgeon. In his free time, he also just happens to own and operate one of Chicago’s best new restaurants, Saltaus. Saltaus located in Chicago’s West Loop Neighborhood, is a zen like environment that melds the ingredients and traditions of the Middle East with Asian flavors.

In the podcast we discuss street food in Jerusalem and the perils of restaurant entrepreneurship including how sometimes it’s “easier to save a life than to serve a diner”.


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CPN - Simply Ming #10

Simply Ming #10

Chef Ming Tsai shows you how to break down and dice bell, serrano, and jalapeno chile peppers.

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CPN - ReMARKable Palate Podcast #36

ReMARKable Palate Podcast #36: Interview with Aimee Tang of Fremont's Fine Foods

Fremont's Fine Foods has been providing Albuquerque, NM with fine European and Asian specialty food products since 1918. Here, I speak with my friend and high school classmate Aimee Tang, the fourth generation to run this family store founded by her great grandfather.

Kitchen Quick Tip: Skinning fish filets (an audio clip from one of my cooking classes)

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CPN - Program Note

CPN - Program Note

I made a mistake in posting the enclosure for the CHIC Podcast #17 which went up last night, April 23rd. I accidentally pointed it to an old episode of the ReMARKable Palate Podcast. If you were confused about that, I'm sorry. I have fixed the feed, so please delete that episode and download it again, and you will be served Chef Tom's fabulous new show on sauces. Sorry for the inconvenience. Now back to our regularly scheduled program!

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CPN - CHIC Podcast #17

CHIC Podcast #17: Sauces

Chef Alisa Sing and I got together early in the morning to record this podcast about sauces. She has a great technique for getting the best and most flavor from her sauces. She also has some tips and techniques that make her sauces special.

food, food podcast, cooking, recipe, sauces, CHIC, Culinary Podcast Network, Gilded Fork

CPN - Food Philosophy #4

Food Philosophy #4: Feminism and Food

The lasting effects of feminism have not all been positive. One such effect is an entire generation of women who likely don't know how to cook, and when combined with a muddled message of sensuality as delivered by the mass media, it adds up to a recipe for culinary havoc. How do we get to the right ideas about femininity, sensuality, and their relation to food? It starts, as always, with philosophy.

Bachelor's Boot Camp: The Chef's Knife

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CPN - On Food #43a

On Food #43a: Cruisin' Along

A brief intermission as Hsiao-Ching takes two weeks off to visit the Far East. No podcasts while she's away but she will blog about her trip.


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CPN - Hungry Magazine #15

Hungry Magazine #15: Blackbird Cooking in the Dead of the Night

This week, I sat down with Paul Kahan, the executive chef at Blackbird and Avec restaurants in Chicago. Along with Charlie Trotter and Rick Bayless, Paul Kahan and Blackbird paved the way for independent restauranteurs and played a role in defining Chicago’s current fine dining scene. Chef Kahan has won many awards, including James Beard best chef Midwest and Food and Wine best new chef in 1999. He imparts clean pure flavors in all of his dishes and is focused on craftsmanship, whether its curing or smoking meats in house, celebrating the local small family farmer, or focusing on issues of sustainability. In this interview we discuss his new gastropub concept, as well as the power of chefs, the influence of architecture on food, and whether chefs take themselves too seriously.


food, food podcast, Chicago, Paul Kahan, Blackbird, Hungry, Culinary Podcast Network, Gilded Fork

CPN - Simply Ming #9

Simply Ming #9: Dicing and mincing onions and shallots

Chef Ming Tsai shows you how to dice an onion, including mincing shallots.




food, food podcast, cooking, onion, shallots, mince, dice, Ming Tsai, Simply Ming, Culinary Podcast Network, Gilded Fork

CPN - ReMARKable Palate Podcast #35

ReMARKable Palate #35: Chelsea Market Tour, Part 2

Rob Safuto and I took you on a tour of Buon Italia a few weeks ago. Here's the rest of our Chelsea Market Soundseeing tour, with visits to Chelsea Thai, Manhattan Fruit Exchange, and Bowery Kitchen Supply, with some gelato tasting along the way!

Kitchen Quick Tip: Keeping cookbooks and recipes clean


food, food podcast, cooking, New York Minute Show, food, ReMARKable Palate, Culinary Podcast Network, Gilded Fork

CPN - Food Philosophy #3

Food Philosophy #3: Food Lust and Sensuality

One hears an awful lot in the food media these days about aphrodisiacs and "sensual cooking." Unfortunately, cause and effect is being reversed in shilling such ideas, and the true roots of sensuality itself are being cast aside. Let's take a look at the real ideas behind embracing life as a sensual being.

I'm also introducing a new segment, Bachelor's Boot Camp, a.k.a. how to evoke and cook with the senses (and what to do before aphrodisiacs even come into play).


food, food podcast, sensuality, aphrodisiacs, Food Philosophy, Culinary Podcast Network, Gilded Fork, Jennifer Iannolo

Bugs in the Feed

There were some issues with our iTunes feed today, and we're not quite sure what the cause was, but it seems to be working now. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. If you are still having problems with iTunes, we recommend the "nuclear" option of re-subscribing to CPN, as that indeed fixes the problem.

Thank you!

CPN - CHIC Podcast #16

CHIC Podcast #16: Ice Cream

Chef Brian Karem is one of our best instructors at CHIC and he loves ice cream. We sat down last week to explore the finer points of how ice cream is made, what makes it feel and taste so good and what his favorite ice cream is.


food, food podcast, cooking, ice cream, CHIC, Culinary Podcast Network, Gilded Fork

CPN - Hungry Magazine #14

Hungry Magazine #14: Soul of a Food Writer

Writer Michael Ruhlman - If the writer thing didn't work out, Michael Ruhlman could have always opened a restaurant. On the afternoon I interviewed the writer and James Beard Award winner, he cooked a lunch of sweet cured confit pork belly which we ate on crusty French bread with Dijon mustard and a few glasses of Pinot Noir. It was exceptional. Thankfully, his food writing is even better. (Photo by D.T. Ruhlman)


food, food podcast, food writing, Michael Ruhlman, Hungry, Culinary Podcast Network, Gilded Fork

CPN - Eat Feed #40

Eat Feed #40: Rites of Spring

Easter candy for adults and celebrating a traditional Seder with stories and recipes

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CPN - Simply Ming #8

Simply Ming #8: Dekerneling Corn and preparing a corn salsa

Chef Ming Tsai shows you how to dekernel corn using a knife and make a corn salsa with tomatos, onions, cilantro, and lime.

food, food podcast, cooking, corn, corn salsa, Ming Tsai, Simply Ming, Culinary Podcast Network, Gilded Fork

CPN - On Food #43

On Food #43: Food and Music

On this first anniversary editon of the "On Food" podcast, Hsiao-Ching Chou visits with chef Vitaly Paley of Paley's in Portland who explains how he made the leap from Julliard to cooking. Also, find out what it takes to put together Alton Brown's Food Network show "Good Eats."

food, food podcast, cooking, Paley's, Good Eats, On Food, Culinary Podcast Network, Gilded Fork

CPN - Jim's Kitchen #25

Jim's Kitchen #25: Morimoto, the "Iron Chef"

Jim talks with Iron Chef Morimoto at his restaurant in NYC. Listen to Chef Morimoto talk about growing up in Japan and how he transformed his early experiences into becoming today one ot the world's leading culinary artists.


food, food podcast, cooking, Morimoto, Iron Chef, Jim's Kitchen, Culinary Podcast Network, Gilded Fork

CPN - ReMARKable Palate Podcast #34

ReMARKable Palate #34: A Day in the Life

Follow me on a Day in the Life of a Personal Chef. I take you through the ins and outs of a full cookday, where I make 8 different dishes for a client, all in a short 35 minutes (in podcast time)!

Guest Kitchen Quick Tip: Cooking temperatures for meat
Drawing for the lucky winner of the Caserta Italia luxury leather iPod case.

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CPN - Simply Ming #7

Simply Ming #7: Using a mandoline or knife for thinly sliced cucumbers

Chef Ming Tsai shows you how to cut cucumbers, using both a knife and a mandoline as well as using cucumbers as a inexpensive decoration for a crab salad in a martini glass.




food, food podcast, cooking, knife skills, Ming Tsai, Simply Ming, Culinary Podcast Network, Gilded Fork

CPN - Food Philosophy #2

Food Philosophy #2: Chef Jean-Louis Gerin

In my first chef interview, James Beard nominee Chef Jean-Louis Gerin from Restaurant Jean-Louis in Greenwich, CT shares his latest explorations of food and sensuality, and weighs in with some provocative thoughts on "foodies," celebrity chefs, and life behind the kitchen doors.


food, food podcast, cooking, Food Philosophy, Culinary Podcast Network, Gilded Fork, Jennifer Iannolo, James Beard, Jean-Louis Gerin

CPN - CHIC Podcast #15

CHIC Podcast #15: Chef Patrick Martin from Le Cordon Bleu

Chef Patrick Martin from Le Cordon Bleu in Paris, France visited The Cooking and Hospitality Institute of Chicago this week. I was fortunate enough to get some time to talk to him before his demonstration here at school yesterday. Chef and I talk about his work with Le Cordon Bleu, travel and our great students.


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Welcome Ming Tsai to the CPN Family!

We are thrilled to announce that Chef Ming Tsai is the newest member of the Culinary Podcast Network. The Simply Ming Videocast delivers his unique brand of culinary instruction, which has been an inspiration for both professional and amateur cooks, and we are honored to have him as part of our collection of shows.

Host Ming Tsai shares simple tips on everything from wine basics to filleting fish in this complementary videocast to Simply Ming, the PBS show from WGBH Boston. Ming is the Chef/Owner of the world-renowned East/West bistro Blue Ginger, Emmy award winning host of the Food Network’s East Meets West and Ming’s Quest, and author of cookbooks Blue Ginger and Simply Ming.

Since Chef Tsai's show is a videocast, you can watch it directly on iTunes, or on your video iPod.

We'd also like to thank Charles McEnerney of WGBH Boston, Managing Editor of Simply Ming's Videocast, for bringing this new show to CPN. Charles has his own indie music podcast, Well Rounded Radio. Check it out!




food, food podcast, cooking, recipe, Ming Tsai, Simply Ming, Culinary Podcast Network, Gilded Fork

CPN - Hungry Magazine #11

Hungry Magazine #11: Michael Symon

At Lolita and the soon to reopen Lola in Cleveland, along with his New York City venture Parea, Chef Michael Symon is practicing what might be classified as New Midwestern Cooking, a unique style that has earned him honors such as Food and Wine Best New Chef, a James Beard nomination, multiple appearances on the Food Network including an Asparagus battle with Iron Chef Morimoto, and even his own chapters in the book, Soul of a Chef. In this week’s podcast, I spoke with Mike Symon about curing his own meats, James Beard, his Iron Chef dream ingredient, and what’s going on in his new restaurants.

food, food podcast, cooking, Lola, Michael Symon, Hungry, Culinary Podcast Network, Gilded Fork

CPN - On Food #42

On Food #42: Barbara Kafka on "Vegetable Love"

Cookbook author Barbara Kafka shares her passion for vegetables in her latest book, which recently won the award for best single-subject book from the International Association of Culinary Professionals.

food, food podcast, cooking, vegetables, Barbara Kafka, On Food, Culinary Podcast Network, Gilded Fork

CPN - ReMARKable Palate Podcast #33

ReMARKable Palate #33: Interview with Vic Cherikoff, pt 2

I conclude my talk with Vic Cherikoff, Producer and co-host of Dining Down Under, who talks about the wide array of Australian spices and plants now available to chefs and home cooks. Vic also offers us this week's Kitchen Quick Tip.

Plus, a new addition to the CPN family.


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CPN - Chef Marc's Culinary Adventures #13

Chef Marc's Culinary Adventures #13: Le Comptoir

Chef Marc Vogel visits with Yves Camdeborde, restaurateur, hotelier and chef of Paris' Le Comptoir. Join him on another of his culinary adventures.



food, food podcast, cooking, Le Comptoir, Paris, Chef Marc's Culinary Adventures, Culinary Podcast Network, Gilded Fork

CPN - CHIC Podcast #14

CHIC Podcast #14: Sustainable Agriculture

Chefs John Fuente and Tom Beckman sit down to talk about sustainable agriculture. It?s a complicated subject and we just touch on a few of the top ideas. We need to make it possible for future generations to have the food that we have had through environmental health changes and reassessment of what makes it possible to grow so much food in this country.



food, food podcast, cooking, sustainable agriculture, CHIC, Culinary Podcast Network, Gilded Fork

CPN - Food Philosophy #1

#1: In my first show, we're diving right in with an examination of the word "foodie": what does it mean, why should it disappear from the culinary lexicon -- and why on earth is Steve Wasser my new best friend?

Chef Mark from the ReMARKable Palate Podcast joins me for a chat about my favorite food philosopher, Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin.

Theme Music: "New York Cheesecake", by Adam Buker. www.adambuker.com

The Food Philosophy podcast (www.foodphilosophy.com), a production of The Gilded Fork. www.gildedfork.com


food, food podcast, cooking, recipe, food philosophy, Culinary Podcast Network, Gilded Fork

CPN - Eat Feed #39

Eat Feed #39: March in Season

Mia Littlejohn talks with Chef Mark Stanley of the Illinois Institute of Art about spring lamb, mutton, braises, roasts, chops and more. Try his Braised Lambs Shanks.

A Meal for Cesar Chavez's Birthday
Ideas for a dinner party to honor a hero by serving food that shows your committment to the dignity of farmers and farm workers who labor to feed us.



food, food podcast, cooking, lamb, Cesar Chavez, Eat Feed, Culinary Podcast Network, Gilded Fork