Cooking By Heart with Chris Sarandon

Jan 21 2025 55 ep. 48 mins 19
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On this podcast, I will be talking with actors, authors, politicians, business figures, health care professionals, musicians, and comedians and we will center on memories of the meals or favorite foods we all grew up with, from the exotic to the mundane, dishes that still tickle or tantalize us as adults and, most importantly, we’ll discuss the stories and people that accompany those memories. Instagram: TheOfficialChrisSarandon Twitter: Sarandon_Chris Facebook: Chris Sarandon Website: https://www.chrissarandon.com/

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Cooking By Heart with Chris Sarandon with special guest James Naughton

Jan 21 2025 52 mins  
In this episode, multiple Tony Award-winning actor James Naughton talks about his father’s digestive problems which led to lots of bland Irish food at home, food discoveries as a student and in his burgeoning acting career, being discovered by TV and Film, and our mutual friendship with Roddy McDowell. He also gives an impassioned shout-out to two amazing charities close to his h

Cooking By Heart with Chris Sarandon with special guest Camryn Manheim

Jan 07 2025 53 mins  
In this episode, Award Winning actress Camryn Manheim remembers her teacher-mother’s faux gourmet cooking, her professor-father’s love of spicy food, & intellectual banter at the dinner table. She also relates how her mother’s skill at party food inspired her own parties of 80 or more guests while in grad school in NYC, with celeb guests like Jude Law and JFK, Jr. Then, a

Cooking By Heart with Chris Sarandon with Special Guest Victor Garber

Dec 24 2024 44 mins  
In this episode, award winning actor Victor Garber talks about growing up with his local celebrity mom, his funny, depressed father’s amazing French toast, and his developing type 1 diabetes at 11. At 16, he leaves home & school to pursue a folk singing career, which leads to a hit record, and a subsequent stage, movie, and TV career and his life changing work with J.J. Abrams an

Cooking By Heart with Chris Sarandon with special guest Bonnie Hammer

Dec 10 2024 41 mins  
In this episode, former NBC/Universal vice-chair Bonnie Hammer remembers her mother’s “kosher” cooking as tasteless and uninspiring, eating college food featuring plentiful carbs (enhanced by ice cream and burgers), and an early marriage where she took up recipe cooking. There are inspiring and hilarious stories of her advancing at early jobs from picking up dog poop to becom

Cooking By Heart with Chris Sarandon with special guest Chef Paul Smith

Nov 26 2024 39 mins  
From the time he could stand, James Beard Award winner Chef Paul Smith remembers helping his Italian grandfather cook, the presence of a large Italian contingent in the coal mines, & after school ‘butter steaks’ with his brother. He also discusses his extensive culinary training that led to his return home to communicate the food culture of Appalachia in his restaurants, se

Cooking By Heart with Chris Sarandon with Special Guest Jill Eikenberry

Nov 12 2024 52 mins  
n this episode, award winning actress Jill Eikenberry talks about her peripatetic Midwestern childhood, her diet heavy on luscious meat and cheese dishes, frozen vegetables, visits to her aunt’s farm, and a bloodthirsty story about her grandmother’s chickens. She also recalls a story about a blind friend guiding her through the school cafeteria during a college blackout, her in

Cooking By Heart with Chris Sarandon with Special Guest Illeana Douglas

Oct 29 2024 33 mins  
In this episode, Illeana Douglas talks about growing up in two worlds of food: that of her Hollywood Royalty Grandfather Melvin Douglas and her Queens, NY Italian/Romanian family. She describes her father’s creating a hippie commune and later her on-and-off-camera relationship with Martin Scorsese, along with an extraordinary evening with Scorsese and Marlon Brando. Join me for a

Cooking By Heart with Chris Sarandon with Special Guest Michael Urie

Oct 15 2024 53 mins  
In this episode, Michael Urie remembers his mother’s delicious eclectic cooking and his often-frustrated efforts to recreate it. He also describes his roundabout career route, the serendipity of his acceptance into the prestigious Julliard Acting Program, being introduced to his Queens NY Italian family & their raucous meals, and his efforts to find the perfect neutral eating

Cooking By Heart with Chris Sarandon with special guest Rosanna Arquette

Oct 01 2024 49 mins  
In this episode, Rosanna Arquette remembers her peripatetic childhood, her working artist parents, and eating lots of ‘high quality’ fast food. A vegetarian menu follows at a commune, then leaving home in her teens, being 'discovered' in LA, and becoming a self-taught cook with her sights on healthy food. She describes her go-to salad and stuffing, and longs for more ge

Cooking By Heart With Chris Srandon with Speciall Guest Alice Waters

May 28 2024 54 mins  
In this episode, Alice Waters recounts that as a child she didn’t look forward to going to the table to eat her creative mother’s pedestrian cooking, but began a life-long love of strawberries and anything garden-fresh. A trip to France changed her life and started a culinary revolution in America, and later provided the impetus for the creation of the Edible Schoolyard. A bril