Tip of the Tongue

Mar 25 2025 275 ep. 32 mins 6

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Liz's explorations into food and drink and culture, who she is talking to, what she is cooking and eating, recipes, and her podcast guests.

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Tip of the Tongue Episode 266: The State of Wine and Spirits Today

Mar 25 2025 34 mins

We talk to a founder of the Museum of the American Cocktail, Tim McNally, about the wine and spirits industry. A wine writer who spent much of his career judging wine, he is the perfect person to ask about the state of the industry today.He is a writer, and his book about the Sazerac is wonderful.Want to know more? Listen. It’s on Tip of the Tongue. Tip of the Tongue is a reader

Tip of the Tongue Episode 265: The Cocktail Parlor

Mar 17 2025 32 mins

Let’s not overlook the role of women and home entertaining in the story of the cocktail. Nicola Nice tells the story of how women brought the cocktail home, as a part of regular entertaining - how they entertained during Prohibition and into the cocktail party era. She explains it in fascinating detail in The Cocktail Parlor: How Women Brought the Cocktail Home.Nicola writes abou

Tip of the Tongue Episode: 264: Sours!

Mar 10 2025 33 mins

Remember those sour mixes in your parents’ home bar? And bartenders used them too. Those mixes gave sours a bad name. We talk to Philip Greene, the author of the new book, Sours: A History of the World’s Most Storied Cocktail Style, about this and other things Sour. Phil is one of the founder’s of the Museum of the American Cocktail, and has written a number of books about th

Tip of the Tongue Episode 263: Unpalatable

Mar 03 2025 35 mins

Carrie Helms Tippen sees the stories in cookbooks. Her interest in the cookbooks of the American south is very broad and very deep. Her latest book is Unpalatable: Stories of Pain and Pleasure in Southern Cookbooks. We talk aboutfinding the meaning in recipes and headnotes. This follows on the heels of her book, Inventing Authenticity: How Cookbook Writers Redefine Southern Identit

Dolci and Pasta Night

Feb 24 2025 34 mins

This is an encore presentation of this podcast. In yesterday’s ComplEAT Kitchen I wrote about my meal at Pasta Night, Renato’s restaurant in Brooklyn. I thought that listening to this podcast again, where he speaks about his new restaurant, would be fun.If you eat breakfast in Brooklyn you have probably eaten at Ciao, Gloria. Italian baking and lots more. Renato Poliafito’s 5

Koi Asian Fusion

Feb 18 2025 34 mins

There are fusion restaurants everywhere. Sometimes they are contrived, and frankly the fusion doesn’t happen. Usually they work best when the people involved have a foot in the food culture of the place where the restaurant is and in the culture of the source of fusion. There are no rules. But you know when it is successful, just as you might recognize something that isn’t. Koi

Tip of the Tongue Episode 260: Us Up North

Feb 10 2025 34 mins

Food and food culture does not observe political boundaries. Thus some important state foodways may be overshadowed by more well-known or more highly marketed foodways. In Louisiana, most people identify the food of south Louisiana when they think about the state’s foodways. Chef Hardette Harris wants to encourage us to remember the wonderful foodways of the northern part of the

Tip of the Tongue Episode 259: Will Write for Food

Feb 03 2025 31 mins

There is lots to say about food writing and how it has changed. Dianne Jacob is right on top of it all. She is the author of the multiple award-winning book, Will Write for Food, which is now 20 years old and in its 4th edition. She is a writer herself, a writing instructor, and a writing coach. She has a newsletter on Substack. Dianne is unlocking her article with Emily Weinstein

Tip of the Tongue Episode 258: Lustful Appetites

Jan 27 2025 42 mins

Rachel Hope Cleves has written a book full of sex and transgression. The book is all about food, the development of restaurants, and how we left some of the prejudices about good food and sex behind us in the world of foodies. Today we think of healthy eating as our path to good sex.You can also find Rachel on Blue Sky. If this podcasts interests you, I recommend a conversation tha

Tip of the Tongue Episode 257: Kat Craddock & Saveur Magazine

Jan 20 2025 29 mins

Do remember Saveur magazine from the 1990’s? Well, it’s back. Kat Craddock, who grew up reading and admiring the magazine, who found her first dream job working there in the test kitchen, is now the Editor and CEO. We talk to Kat about Saveur and its new incarnation. Listen, it’s on Tip of the Tongue. Kat’s New Book written with Dr. Marie Pierre St. Onge Get full access to