Culinary Characters Unlocked

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Cara Tobin got her first restaurant job at the age of 17, by lying about her cooking experience in the job interview—she had none at all. In the years that followed she went to culinary school, graduating number one in her class, then worked her way up the cooking ladder at several restaurants before falling in love with Eastern Mediterranean cuisine when she worked at Oleana in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Now she is cooking that cuisine at two restaurants she co-owns in Burlington, Vermont—Honey Road and The Grey Jay. And she and her business partner have been named finalists for the title of America’s Outstanding Restaurateur in the 2025 James Beard awards, which will be announced in June.

Chef André Bienvenu spent more than a quarter-century as executive chef at America’s highest grossing independent restaurant, Joe’s Stone Crab in Miami Beach. He considered that the pinnacle of his long career and was looking ahead to retirement, but those plans changed dramatically. Given an unexpected opportunity to partner on a new restaurant, he began a second chapter in his professional life, now as an owner, opening Catch & Cut in Fort Lauderdale, an old school seafood and steak restaurant that became an instant hit. He does things his way—a reservation book instead of an iPad, an obsession with running a civilized kitchen with no shouting, and of course his own take on stone crab.

Executive Chef Andre Bienvenu on his quarter century at the legendary Joe’s Stone Crab and his unexpected second chapter as a restaurant owner. EP 39

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SMALL TOWN CHEF AND RESTAURANT OWNER CARA TOBIN ON HER NOMINATION AS AMERICA’S BEST RESTAURATEUR IN THE UPCOMING THE 2025 JAMES BEARD AWARDS. Ep 40

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SMALL TOWN CHEF AND RESTAURANT OWNER CARA TOBIN ON HER NOMINATION AS AMERICA’S BEST RESTAURATEUR IN THE UPCOMING THE 2025 JAMES BEARD AWARDS. Ep 40

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Cara Tobin got her first restaurant job at the age of 17, by lying about her cooking experience in the job interview—she had none at all. In the years that followed she went to culinary school, graduating number one in her class, then worked her way up the cooking ladder at several restaurants before falling in love with Eastern Mediterranean cuisine when she worked at Oleana in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Now she is cooking that cuisine at two restaurants she co-owns in Burlington, Vermont—Honey Road and The Grey Jay. And she and her business partner have been named finalists for the title of America’s Outstanding Restaurateur in the 2025 James Beard awards, which will be announced in June.

Executive Chef Andre Bienvenu on his quarter century at the legendary Joe’s Stone Crab and his unexpected second chapter as a restaurant owner. EP 39

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Chef André Bienvenu spent more than a quarter-century as executive chef at America’s highest grossing independent restaurant, Joe’s Stone Crab in Miami Beach. He considered that the pinnacle of his long career and was looking ahead to retirement, but those plans changed dramatically. Given an unexpected opportunity to partner on a new restaurant, he began a second chapter in his professional life, now as an owner, opening Catch & Cut in Fort Lauderdale, an old school seafood and steak restaurant that became an instant hit. He does things his way—a reservation book instead of an iPad, an obsession with running a civilized kitchen with no shouting, and of course his own take on stone crab.

Food & Wine Best New Chef Karyn Tomlinson on her invention of “Grandma Chic” cuisine - EP 38

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Named a Food & Wine Best New Chef for 2024, Karyn Tomlinson has won raves for her restaurant Myriel in St. Paul, Minnesota. Her menu, combining elements of French, Nordic, and Midwestern cuisines has been dubbed “Grandma Chic.” A major advocate of local, seasonal cooking, she sources all her ingredients from local farms, which she visits every week. But she is pragmatic about getting people to eat better, encouraging them to simply do as well as they can (and she herself admits to enjoying a bowl of Honey Nut Cheerios after work).

CULINARY CHARACTERS UNLOCKED – MARY NGUYEN – EP 37

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After coming to the United States from Peru in his teens, Diego Sanchez found a sense of belonging in restaurant kitchens. He cooked under some of the world’s greatest chefs before striking out on his own and now owns his own restaurant on the Jersey shore, 39 Degrees North in Manahawkin, NJ—a diner he has reimagined his way, adding items like handmade gnocchi and lomo saltado to the traditional diner menu.

CULINARY CHARACTERS UNLOCKED – MARY NGUYEN – EP 36

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Chef Mary Nguyen grew up in a Vietnamese immigrant household in Denver, went on to work as an investment banker, then decided to make a major career change—into the world of food. She began by working three culinary jobs at once, and becoming one of America’s first female sushi chefs, before opening the first of several restaurants in her hometown, including Olive & Finch, which is now a growing restaurant group. It offers chef-driven, scratch-made food without the fine dining prices.

CULINARY CHARACTERS UNLOCKED - JOHN FRASER – EP 35

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Michelin star winning chef John Fraser worked for Jean-Georges Vongerichten and Thomas Keller, and in some of the most storied restaurants in France, before opening a restaurant of his own and then continuing to build a culinary empire. He has won Michelin stars at two different restaurants, including the vegetarian Nix in New York city. His restaurants focus on a range of cuisines, including French, Greek and Turkish, and vegetable-focused California style cooking.

CULINARY CHARACTERS UNLOCKED – SHEILA AND DUFFY WITMER– EP 34

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Sheila and Duffy Witmer bought the Pioneer Saloon in Ketchum, Idaho nearly half a century ago. And they’ve kept it a jam-packed favorite ever since, with scores of repeat customers including Clint Eastwood, Sandy Koufax, and Ernest Hemingway’s grandchildren. The menu is beef-heavy, featuring steaks and their legendary prime rib. And scraps from preparing the prime rib are the key ingredient in the Jim Spud, a massive twenty-two ounce baked potato stuffed with teriyaki beef, cheese, sour cream, caramelized onions and more.

CULINARY CHARACTERS UNLOCKED –CARLOS GAYTÁN – EP 33

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Carlos Gaytán has earned a Michelin star (the first Mexican-born chef ever to receive one) at two different restaurants. He is noted for combining regional Mexican cooking with classic French techniques. After working his way up from dishwasher in a hotel kitchen, he now owns restaurants in Chicago, Mexico, and recently opened several in the Downtown Disney District adjacent to Disneyland. He has appeared on Top Chef and as a judge on numerous cooking competition shows in the U.S. and Mexico.

CULINARY CHARACTERS UNLOCKED – ADRIAN MILLER - EP 32

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Called the Soul Food Scholar, Adrian Miller is renowned for his knowledge of African American and southern cooking. Author of multiple books, he won James Beard awards for two of them: Soul Food: The Surprising Story of an American Cuisine, One Plate at a Time, and Black Smoke: African Americans and the United States of Barbecue. Yet culinary history was not his original career path. He was a lawyer, worked for the Clinton White House, and then for the governor of Colorado, before turning to culinary research. His findings are profound and often surprising. Our conversation ranged far and wide – from the white history of chitlins, to vegan soul food, the German origins of chicken and waffles, and how, in his words, mac and cheese became “so black.”

CULINARY CHARACTERS UNLOCKED - KATIE BUTTON - EP 31.

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Chef Katie Button is a James Beard winner for her Asheville, North Carolina Spanish restaurant Cúrate, which is the flagship of her restaurant group. Button discovered her deep love for food when she was living in Paris, studying for a master’s degree in biomedical engineering. The awakening was so profound that she changed careers, worked for two of the world’s greatest chefs, Ferran Adrià and José Andrés, before opening tapas-based Cúrate, then building a culinary empire that includes a Catalonian restaurant, a Spanish market, European tours, a cookbook, and more. She is heavily involved in helping the Asheville community rebuild after massive flooding from Hurricane Helene.

CULINARY CHARACTERS UNLOCKED - CHEFS MELISSA REAGAN AND STEPHEN GONZALEZ - EP 30

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Melissa Reagan and Stephen Gonzalez met at Culinary School in Austin, Texas two decades ago, then followed their own culinary journeys through a variety of restaurants. Today she’s cooking at an upscale restaurant in North Carolina (but by contract she can’t name it) and with supermarkets challenging many restaurants by offering meals cooked on site, he is working for the H-E-B grocery chain, a major player in Texas. Both feel deeply about getting average folks cooking at home. Which is the impetus behind their Food for Thoughtcast podcast. We discussed that and much more about the world of food—now and in the future.

CULINARY CHARACTERS UNLOCKED – NOK SUNTARANON – EP 29

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Nok Suntaranon remembers eating like royalty growing up in Thailand, even though her family was poor, thanks to her mother’s skills in the kitchen. And it’s the food of her childhood that she is cooking at her Philadelphia restaurant Kalaya, named for her mom, which she did not open until the age of 50. She had been enjoying life as a housewife but says there’s only so much Pilates, yoga, and lunching a person can do. Just a few years later, she won the 2023 James Beard Award as best chef in the mid-Atlantic. She’s been featured on Top Chef. She’s written a cookbook, Kalaya’s Southern Thai Kitchen. And she contends that Philadelphia is now America’s number one food town.

CULINARY CHARACTERS UNLOCKED – CHEF MATT VAWTER – EP 28

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Named the 2024 James Beard Awards best chef in the mountain region, Matt Vawter began his culinary education going to restaurants with his grandparents and being taken into the kitchen to meet the chef. He got his first cooking job at the age of fourteen and worked his way up to big success in his hometown. Born in the Breckenridge, Colorado area, Vawter began culinary school while still in high school, cut his teeth in Denver working for celebrated chef Alex Seidel, then came back to Breckenridge to open Rootstalk, featuring local and impeccably sourced ingredients. It was a big hit and soon thereafter he opened Radicato, his Colorado take on Italian.

CULINARY CHARACTERS UNLOCKED – CHEF VICTORIA SHORE – EP 27

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Victoria Shore grew up in an adventurous culinary family (few American kids fall in love with Basque food but she did) and ended up cooking professionally because she could not get the job she wanted, culinary journalist, without kitchen experience. She’s always loved to cook—she was the kid making French fries in her dorm room—and has now worked her way up from positions in catering and restaurants to become the Executive Chef of all the restaurants at the Thompson Savannah Hotel in Savannah, Georgia. She discusses, among other things, the unique challenges of a hotel restaurant competing with celebrated fine dining establishments in a food forward town.

CULINARY CHARACTERS UNLOCKED - CHEF MICHAEL GULOTTA - EP 26

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Born and raised in New Orleans, Michael Gulotta began cooking for his family at the age of nine. He grew up to attend culinary school in his hometown, then trained under legendary chefs in Europe, before coming back to N’awlins and opening three restaurants that combine, to varying degrees, Asian, Italian, Cajun, and Creole flavors. He is a five-time James Beard Award semifinalist who has drawn raves from the most esteemed culinary publications. And he runs “no yelling, please-and-thank-you” kitchens.

CULINARY CHARACTERS UNLOCKED – AMELIE KANG – EP 25

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Amelie Kang grew up in northern China, moved to Beijing, and then to the U.S., where she graduated from the Culinary Institute of America. She worked for Michelin starred chefs, before going on to open the Málà Project in New York, where she offers food as eaten in China, and a more upscale dining experience than the typical American Chinese restaurant. Which makes her a pioneer in the movement being called Chinese 2.0.

CULINARY CHARACTERS UNLOCKED - CHRISTOPHER KIMBALL – EP 24

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Despite never having trained as a chef, Christopher Kimball has taught millions of Americans how to become better home cooks. He started a magazine devoted to perfecting recipes, turned that into the America’s Test Kitchen media empire, then moved on to found another, Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street, which includes a magazine, a TV show, a podcast, cookbooks, and more, and has expanded Kimball’s work to perfecting recipes from many other countries.

CULINARY CHARACTERS UNLOCKED – EP 23 – MARISSA GENCARELLI

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Born in Mexico, Marissa Gencarelli was working a corporate job and had never run a culinary business, when she and her husband opened a Tortilleria in Kansas City. Using traditional methods, combined with creative brilliance, their Yoli Tortilleria won the 2023 James Beard Award as America’s Butstanding Bakery.

CULINARY CHARACTERS UNLOCKED – CHEF NICHOLAS BAZIK – EP 22

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Budding academic turned touring musician turned chef turned restaurateur, Nicholas Bazik is striving for the top of the culinary world at his new restaurant Provenance, which is shaking up the food world in Philadelphia amid his audacious claim that there’s never been a restaurant like this in that city before, and where standards and equipment are so high that chefs are clamoring for a job there. And wait ‘til he tells you about his Rolls Royce of ovens!

CULINARY CHARACTERS UNLOCKED – CHEF MATTHEW GRAY – EP 21

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Chef Matthew Gray’s wild ride through life landed him in paradise. From touring with legendary rock bands in his youth, to studying at Le Cordon Bleu culinary school in London, cooking for the stars in Hollywood, reviewing restaurants for Hawaii’s biggest newspaper, running food tours in Hawaii, and now hosting his own podcast, 50 tastes of Gray. Our conversation ranged from the real reason celebrities hire private chefs to the delights of Spam musubi.

CULINARY CHARACTERS UNLOCKED – CHEF BJ DENNIS - EP 20

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Joe Busalacchi came to America from Sicily as a child and grew up to share his family recipes with a legion of fans through an empire of restaurants in his adopted hometown of San Diego. And it’s truly a family business, with Joe’s sons and nephew helping him continue his passion of serving the food he grew up with. And the menu is full of surprises, as was our conversation with the Busalacchi family.

CULINARY CHARACTERS UNLOCKED – THE BUSALACCHI FAMILY – EP 19

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CULINARY CHARACTERS UNLOCKED – CHEF PREETI WAAS - EP 18

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Born in southern India and with no culinary training, Preeti Waas is a two- time James beard award nominee for the Indian home cooking she dishes up at her restaurant Cheeni in Durham, North Carolina. And she says 90 percent of that menu consists of dishes that cannot be found at most Indian restaurants here. She also offers a history lesson on some of India’s most popular foods, and their roots in Scotland and Portugal.

CULINARY CHARACTERS UNLOCKED – GREGORY GOURDET - EP 17

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He’s won three James Beard Awards in a row—Best Cookbook, Best Restaurant, and the 2024 award as Best Chef in the Northwest. He trained at the Culinary Institute of America, was mentored by the legendary Jean-Georges Vongerichten, and cooked various Asian cuisines before opening Kann in Portland, featuring Caribbean cuisine and spotlighting the Haitian dishes he grew up on.

CULINARY CHARACTERS UNLOCKED – ZIGGY GRUBER - EP 16

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Born into a prominent delicatessen-owning family in New York and trained in London, where he worked at a Michelin three-star restaurant, Ziggy Gruber has become deli royalty in, of all places, Texas. His restaurant, Kenny and Ziggy’s New York Delicatessen, is among the very best in the country, serving up a massive menu of traditional deli and Jewish food, alongside his own take on American favorites such as sushi.

CULINARY CHARACTERS UNLOCKED – Chef PAUL SMITH - EP 15

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Classically trained at the Culinary Institute of America, Chef Paul Smith won the 2024 James Beard Award as Best Chef in the Southeast for his work at his 1010 Bridge restaurant in Charleston, West Virginia. It’s the first James Beard Award ever brought home to that state, where Smith was born, then returned after cooking at a wide range of fine dining restaurants across the country. He combines traditional Appalachian cuisine with an envelope-pushing creativity.

CULINARY CHARACTERS UNLOCKED –MARTHA SANDERS HOOVER - EP 14

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After law school and a stint as a sex crimes prosecutor, pregnant with her third child, and with no experience in the culinary business, Martha Sanders Hoover decided to open a restaurant. Now she has a dozen in and around Indianapolis. A pioneer in farm to table, with a deep commitment to employee happiness, and giving back to the community, she is a six-time James Beard semi-finalist, one of Food & Wine Magazine’s “Most Innovative Women in Food & Drink,” and a force of nature.

CULINARY CHARACTERS UNLOCKED - CHEF JOHN SHIELDS - EP 13

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Chef John Shields and his wife, Chef Karen Uri Shields, recently won a third Michelin Star for their Chicago restaurant Smyth, while their other restaurant (in the same building) the Loyalist has been cited as serving the best burger in that city. He discusses their journey together, the restaurant in a small Virginia town that put them on the map, and being mentored by both Charlie Trotter and Grant Achatz.

CULINARY CHARACTERS UNLOCKED - SARAH SIMINGTON - EP 12

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Sarah Simington has changed breakfast forever. She invented Cap’n Crunch encrusted French toast. And Cannoli French Toast. And a host of other breakfast and brunch creations she serves up at her Blue Moon Cafe (and spin-off Blue Moon Too) in Baltimore. Born into a restaurant family, raised—as she puts it—on a diner stool, she brings a rock-n-roll attitude to the food, and the experience. You may find her behind the counter singing into a spatula to create a meal and a show.

CHEF DONALD YOUNG - CULINARY CHARACTERS UNLOCKED EP 11

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Chicago chef Donald Young won a Michelin star before he turned thirty. Mentored by legendary chef Roland Liccioni, Young earned his chops at a variety of remarkable restaurants, including a stint at a Michelin 2-star in France. Young now stages surprise pop up dinners (diners aren’t told where they’ll be eating until shortly before the meal). He’ll even cook his superb cuisine at diners’ homes. He specializes in dry aged duck.

THE 2FOODTRIPPERS - CULINARY CHARACTERS UNLOCKED EP 10

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Daryl and Mindi Hirsch met over bagels, discussed his obsession with cheese, and as their relationship grew, they bonded over their shared love of food and got married. Eventually, they made food their jobs, traveling the world (now from their home base in Lisbon) to taste local cuisines and write about their experiences, on their website 2foodtrippers.com and on social media. On this episode, they discuss favorite foods, favorite food cities, the differences between food in America and food elsewhere, and why they’ve begun to prefer mom and pop restaurants over the Michelin-starred temples of gastronomy.

JENNIFER JASINSKI - CULINARY CHARACTERS UNLOCKED EP 9

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Chef Jennifer Jasinski is a powerhouse restaurateur whose Denver restaurants offer French, Spanish, and seafood menus, and whose cooking has won a James Beard award. She worked for her mentor Wolfgang Puck for years, rising to head chef in charge of dozens of his restaurants before opening her own. She talks about her journey, her passions, and why local product is great but not always the best.

TONY GEMIGNANI- CULINARY CHARACTERS UNLOCKED EP 8

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Tony Gemignani is one of the leading figures in the world of pizza. His pies were just named sixth best in the world by a leading Italian pizza guide. He has won countless international championships and runs a pizza empire from his San Francisco flagship, Tony’s Pizza Napoletana. He talks about all of it, including the pizza he’ll whisk away and replace if you take too long eating it.

ANNE QUATRANO - CULINARY CHARACTERS UNLOCKED EP 7

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Chef Anne Quatrano is the Grande Dame of the culinary scene in Atlanta, where her restaurant empire includes Bacchanalia, which is among the most renowned restaurants in the south. Much of what she serves was grown on her family farm. She has mentored a bevy of rising star chefs and is a major and pioneering force in farm to table cuisine. And a charming and witty interview, who has plenty of great advice for home cooks.

DAVID STANDRIDGE - CULINARY CHARACTERS UNLOCKED EP 6

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David Standridge, who just won the James Beard award as best chef in the northeast, honed his skills under, among others, legendary chef Joël Robuchon, before opening his own restaurant, The Shipwright’s Daughter in Mystic, Connecticut, where he serves fabulous—sustainable—seafood, shellfish, and even kelp! Yes, Kelp. It’s great!

DAVID PAGE TALKS WITH CHEF STEPHANIE IZARD EP 5

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The first woman to win Top Chef, who also won Iron Chef and was named James Beard best chef in the Great Lakes region, Stephanie Izard has blazed culinary trails in Chicago and Los Angeles. She’s mastered various cuisines, from China to South America, her featured ingredient is goat, and she can still song the happy birthday song from her early days at the Olive Garden.

DAN BARBER

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He’s got the Michelin stars, he’s got the James Beard Awards, he’s been named by Time Magazine one of the most influential people in the world, and he’s fighting to change what and how we eat. Dan Barber says it isn’t about political correctness; no, you don’t have to stop eating meat; and he explains why flavor is disappearing from the American table.

CHRISTINA NGUYEN

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Fresh off her 2024 James beard Award as best chef in the Midwest, Christina Nguyen talks with David Page about her path to celebrated restaurateur—growing up in Minneapolis to immigrants from Vietnam; entering the food world with no experience by opening a food truck selling South American sandwiches; turning a notorious strip club into a Southeast Asian restaurant. And she discusses her restaurant’s “no assholes” policy.

Legendary restaurateur Drew Nieporent is David Page’s guest.

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The New York Times said he may be the last old school American restaurateur standing. Founder of Nobu and The Tribeca Grill (with his partner Robert DeNiro) and dozens more highly acclaimed restaurants, Drew talks about an upbringing that included family visits to some of New York’s best restaurants, how revenge fueled his success after he was turned down for a job, celebrity chefs, phony Frenchy restaurants, his desire to open a deli, loyalty in the kitchen, and how social media has improved the culinary landscape.

Culinary legend Nancy Silverton is David Page’s very first guest.

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Winner of a Michelin star, and James Beard awards for Best Chef, Best Pastry Chef, and Best Restaurant in America, Chef Silverton has been—and remains—a huge influence on California cuisine, artisanal bread, and much more. She talks about her journey, discovering her profession by accident, working with mentors such as Wolfgang Puck, continuously pushing the culinary envelope, and what’s next for American food.

CULINARY CHARACTERS UNLOCKED – SHEILA AND DUFFY WITMER– EP 34

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CULINARY CHARACTERS UNLOCKED –CARLOS GAYTÁN – EP 33

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CULINARY CHARACTERS UNLOCKED – ADRIAN MILLER - EP 32

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CULINARY CHARACTERS UNLOCKED - KATIE BUTTON - EP 31.

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CULINARY CHARACTERS UNLOCKED - CHEFS MELISSA REAGAN AND STEPHEN GONZALEZ - EP 30

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CULINARY CHARACTERS UNLOCKED – NOK SUNTARANON – EP 29

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CULINARY CHARACTERS UNLOCKED – CHEF MATT VAWTER – EP 28

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CULINARY CHARACTERS UNLOCKED – CHEF VICTORIA SHORE – EP 27

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CULINARY CHARACTERS UNLOCKED - CHEF MICHAEL GULOTTA - EP 26

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CULINARY CHARACTERS UNLOCKED – AMELIE KANG – EP 25

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CULINARY CHARACTERS UNLOCKED - CHRISTOPHER KIMBALL – EP 24

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CULINARY CHARACTERS UNLOCKED – EP 23 – MARISSA GENCARELLI

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CULINARY CHARACTERS UNLOCKED – CHEF NICHOLAS BAZIK – EP 22

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CULINARY CHARACTERS UNLOCKED – CHEF MATTHEW GRAY – EP 21

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CULINARY CHARACTERS UNLOCKED – CHEF BJ DENNIS - EP 20

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CULINARY CHARACTERS UNLOCKED – THE BUSALACCHI FAMILY – EP 19

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CULINARY CHARACTERS UNLOCKED – CHEF PREETI WAAS - EP 18

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CULINARY CHARACTERS UNLOCKED – GREGORY GOURDET - EP 17

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CULINARY CHARACTERS UNLOCKED – ZIGGY GRUBER - EP 16

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CULINARY CHARACTERS UNLOCKED – Chef PAUL SMITH - EP 15

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CULINARY CHARACTERS UNLOCKED –MARTHA SANDERS HOOVER - EP 14

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CULINARY CHARACTERS UNLOCKED - CHEF JOHN SHIELDS - EP 13

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CULINARY CHARACTERS UNLOCKED - SARAH SIMINGTON - EP 12

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CHEF DONALD YOUNG - CULINARY CHARACTERS UNLOCKED EP 11

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THE 2FOODTRIPPERS - CULINARY CHARACTERS UNLOCKED EP 10

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JENNIFER JASINSKI - CULINARY CHARACTERS UNLOCKED EP 9

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TONY GEMIGNANI- CULINARY CHARACTERS UNLOCKED EP 8

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ANNE QUATRANO - CULINARY CHARACTERS UNLOCKED EP 7

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DAVID STANDRIDGE - CULINARY CHARACTERS UNLOCKED EP 6

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DAVID PAGE TALKS WITH CHEF STEPHANIE IZARD EP 5

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DAN BARBER

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CHRISTINA NGUYEN

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Legendary restaurateur Drew Nieporent is David Page’s guest.

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Culinary legend Nancy Silverton is David Page’s very first guest.

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Meet The Host

David Page

David Page is a long-time journalist who reinvented food television when he created Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives. He is also an author, having written the award-winning book Food Americana, which explores the creation of American cuisine from the foods of other countries and cultures. Now he’s talking with some of the most important—and entertaining— figures in the food world on Culinary Characters Unlocked. Previously, Page spent many years in news, producing for both NBC and ABC and covering some of the world’s most important events, (even walking through the Berlin Wall the night it opened).

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