Feast Yr Ears

Peter Hertzmann is a culinary instructor and author living in San Francisco. He has travelled, cooked and written about many foods and recently returned from Japan where he photographed a lot of stoves. His writings and explorations of the history of Umami in western cooking will open your eyes to how much longer Umami has been a "thing" than you thought.

This week on Feast Yr Ears, Harry is joined in the studio by Peter Meehan, the editorial director of Lucky Peach magazine. Peter and the editors of Lucky Peach have just released a vegetable-focused cookbook called Power Vegetables, which is "designed to bring big-league flavor to your weeknight cooking" and "muscle meat out of the spotlight."

Harry is joined by three 2nd graders from PS132 in Brooklyn. Discussing the merits of bringing your lunch vs. lunch from the cafeteria, you'll get the inside scoop on what it's like in the lunch room of a NY elementary school.

Sean Gartland from Flint Food Works at the Flint Farmer's market joins Harry to talk about the incubator there and the state of small food producers in Flint in the wake of the nation's worst urban water crisis in more than a century.

Michael Troast is a packaging designer, surfer, dad, and coffee snob. Ace Coffee Co, his 18 month old old coffee company, is bringing good coffee to the people.

Michelle McKenzie is the director of 18 reasons in San Francisco. Progressive cooking school and food event space which is part of the Bi-Rite Market family. Michelle's book Dandelion and Quince is about vegetables you may never have eaten, or didn't event know you could eat. Harry and Michelle cover these topics and more!

On the season premiere of Feast Yr Ears, Bob Sewall of Sewall Orchards speaks with Harry about Maine Organic farming, cider, the FDA and vinegar making!

On the season finale of Feast Yr Ears, host Harry Rosenblum is joined in the studio by Phil Wong and Ann Yang of Misfit Juicery. Misfit reimagines the way we engage with food by finding flavor, purpose, and personality in the misfits. Over 20 billion pounds of fresh produce goes unharvested or unsold every year because it is the wrong size, shape or color to be sold at retail. Misfit makes their cold-pressed juices with 70-80% recovered fruits and veggies.

This week on Feast Yr Ears, host Harry Rosenblum is joined in the studio by Adele Loux-Turner, a yoga instructor and doula, and Adriane Stare, owner of Wild Was Mama, North Brooklyn's source for baby carriers, cloth diapers, birth education and other natural parenting needs. Tune in to hear them discuss eating habits before and after giving birth, the merits of eating placenta, and more.

Bill Reed has been on the restaurant scene in Brooklyn for more than 10 years. He's been a fixer, opener, closer, and done all the jobs you could imagine. Humboldt and Jackson is his American tasting room in Williamsburg. Harry and Bill discuss the finer points of drinking American beer, wine and spirits, and what's it like for a Philly boy to be making it in Brooklyn.

This week on Feast Yr Ears, host Harry Rosenblum is joined in the studio by Sarah Jampel, a senior staff writer and stylist at Food52. Tune in to hear them discuss what exactly food styling is, interpreting recipes in your own way, making scoby, food memories, and more.

Ben Sargent has been plying seafood to Brooklynites for more than a decade. With his show Hook Line and Dinner he hit the road on a motorbike to show us the best seafood. He and his good friend Dr. Klaw created an empire out of underground lobster rolls long before it was cool. He's now on the hunt for Dr. Klaw who's gone even deeper underground. Great stories and some fun times await.

This week on Feast Yr Ears – Jeremy Umansky loves fermenting, foraging and the freedom that comes from wrangling tiny bacteria and yeast to transform food into things we can only dream of. His soon to open deli, Larder: A Curated Delicatessen & Bakery will be taking Cleveland by storm.

This week on Feast Yr Ears, host Harry Rosenblum is joined by Jules Opton-Himmel, owner of the Walrus and Carpenter oyster farm. Located in Charlestown, Rhode Island, Walrus and Carpenter sits on a six-acre lease in the pristine waters of Ninigret Pond. Since launching in 2009, it has grown from a small passion project to one of the most recognized brands in the state. The goal from the beginning has been to work with the best chefs and thought leaders within the culinary world, mixing hard science with a commitment to sustainable food. Tune in to hear them discuss farming oysters, how they get to market, and what happens next.

This week on Feast Yr Ears, host Harry Rosenblum is joined in the studio by Vanessa Lee, a British Taiwanese model based in New York. She also hosts a bi-weekly foodie series on YouTube, revolving around her "ridiculously good-looking friends and the food [they] love to make." Tune in to hear them discuss modeling, making food, and how the two can coexist.

Claus Meyer opened Noma in Copenhagen along with a bakery and a vinegar company. Sounds like a rad life, so why leave it all and move to the hot dirty city? I know we all love it here, but I sometimes dream of living in a progressive European city...Harry talks with Claus about why he came to NY, What he's up to over at Agern in Grand Central.

Joining us in the studio is the one and only Lazarus Lynch, also known as Son of a Southern Chef. Lynch grew up living and breathing the food industry, and now works as a chef with a super active online presence (making YouTube videos to teach you how to cook miso honey ribs, gouda macaroni, and fried okra.

On this week's episode of Feast Yr Ears, host Harry Rosenblum is joined in the studio by Jesse and Kirk Sullivan, the twin brothers behind Sullivan Seafood. They believe seafood distribution can be improved with technology to be more efficient, providing higher quality fish. Tune in to hear how this unique distribution method ensures that only the best fish is delivered to your favorite restaurants.

David Vergona has been a contractor in New York City for more than 15 years. He's built some of the best specialty food shops and restaurants in the city including The Brooklyn Kitchen, The Meat Hook, Foster Sundry, and many more. Harry and David discuss growing up in Minnesota, life as a contractor, clogged pipes and broken refrigeration.

This week on Feast Yr Ears, Sarah Weiner joins Harry to talk about the Good Food Awards and why makers and sellers of food are so closely connected in the goals of Seedling Projects, the Good Food Awards, and the future of real food. Sarah has worked side by side with the sustainable food movement’s founders and visionaries across the globe. As the Director of Communication for the Slow Food International Office in Italy, she was immersed in the roots of the food movement before heading to California to become Alice Waters’ “Girl Friday” (in Alice’s words) for two years. Next she spearheaded the development of Slow Food Nation as its Content Director, produced the 20,000 person Organic Food Festival in Bristol, England for the Soil Association, developed the Art.Food.Hope fund-raising campaign on the eve of Barack Obama’s Presidential Inauguration, and co-founded Seedling Projects.