Tanya Wenman Steele
Tanya Wenman Steele is editor in chief of the award-winning food website Epicurious.com. She is also the winner of a James Beard foundation journalism award and a regular guest on Today. She has written extensively for the New York Times, and has been ...
Pat Willard
Pat Willard is the author of the recently published, 'America Eats!--On the Road with the WPA. She has written three other books about food and has written numerous articles and maintains her website at www.patwillard.com. She has worked as a ...
Patricia Wells Returns (Author, Teacher)
Patricia Wells has lived in Paris with her husband, Walter Wells, for nearly 30 years. She runs a popular cooking school in Paris and is the author of over 10 books. She was also the restaurant critic for the International Herald Tribune from 1980 ...
Aldo Sohm
To say that Aldo Sohm knows wine is an understatement. The Austrian-born Sohm, who is currently the wine director at New York's Le Bernardin, was named the Best Sommelier in the world in May of this year at the International Association of ...
Livio Felluga (Italian winemaker)
Livio Felluga is an Italian winemaker whose estate reaches over 160 hectares in the hill country of Collio and Colli Orientali del Friuli. His wines range from dry to sweet and from red to white. His son Andrea joins us today to discuss his history ...
Michaele Weissman (Journalist and Author)
Michaele Weissman is a journalist and author who writes about food, families, business, and American culture. Her work appears frequently in publications such as the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal. She joins us ...
Georgeanne Brennan (Author)
There are certain words which come to mind when you hear the name Georgeanne Brennan. Cookbook author, food journalist, cooking teacher. Prolific. Winner of a James Beard Foundation Award. Brennan published A Pig in Provence in March of 2007, a memoir ...
George Naylor (Corn and soybean farmer)
George Naylor is a corn and soybean farmer from Churdan, Iowa. He is best known from Michael Pollan's best-selling book, The Omnivore's Dilemma. George was featured as a family farmer trying to cope with industrial food production. For the ...
The Last Call-In Show
The Guys take calls on the last regular weekday show on WCTC ? AM. They are taking it a bit easy for the summer and producing one show a week. They will ramp up production again in the fall. On this show, the guys took callers and had a bunch of ...
Sergio Esposito (Owner of Italian Wine Merchants in New York City)
Sergio Esposito is the owner of Italian Wine Merchants in New York City. He speaks at and hosts wine dinners throughout the country, has a much-visited Web site, and writes a popular e-mail newsletter about his discoveries and travels in Italy. He ...
Stephanie Izard (Top Chef)
Most people know our next guest by her first name. Her fans love her food, her grace, and of course her smile. We're proud to introduce Bravo TV's Season Four "Top Chef," Stephanie ...
Dr. Gary Paul Nabhan (Conservation Scientist)
Dr. Gary Paul Nabhan is a world-renowned conservation scientist. He is the author of countless books about America's environmental biology and a many-times-over winner of science awards, notably a "genius" MacArthur Fellowship. He is a ...
Taras Grescoe (Author)
Taras Grescoe has written articles on travel for The Times, Independent, Conde Nast Traveller (U.K.), National Geographic Traveler and the New York Times. His bestselling first book Sacre Blues: An Unsentimental Journey Through Quebec won the Mavis ...
Dr. Daphne Miller (uthor of The Jungle Effect)
Dr. Daphne Miller is the author of The Jungle Effect, which is not the ordinary diet book. Instead of miracles, Dr. Miller explains how returning to an indigenous diet will help Western society from diseases that seem to plague only us: heart disease, ...
Frederick Kaufman (Professor of English at the City University of New York)
Frederick Kaufman is a professor of English at the City University of New York. He has written about American food culture and other subjects for Harper's Magazine, the New Yorker, Gourmet, Gastronomica, and the New York Times Magazine. He is ...
Mark Kurlansky
Mark Kurlansky is an award-winning and best-selling author who has written more than a dozen books -- most of which explore the history of food and humanity. He's with us today to expand a bit more on a subject he's recently written about ...
Alan Richman
Alan Richman is a contributing writer for GQ, Conde Nast Traveler, and Bon Appetit, as well as the Dean of Food Journalism at the French Culinary Institute. He joins us today to discuss his recent article in Bon Apetit entitled "my days of whine and ...
Cat Cora
Cat Cora isn't just one of the best female chefs, she's one of the country's biggest culinary superstars, period. Cat has starred in a number of TV shows and has written several books, but now she has a new show on The Disney Channel. ...
Judith Jones
Judith Jones is senior editor and vice president at Alfred A Knopf, where she has worked since 1957. She is co-author with Evan Jones of three books. Recently, she has contributed to Vogue, Saveur, and Gourmet magazines. In 2006, she was awarded ...
David Wondrich
David Wondrich is widely recognized as one of the world's foremost authorities on cocktails and their history. He is one of the founders of Beverage Alcohol Resource, has worked with the Museum of the American Cocktail, and is author of several ...
Corby Kummer
Corby Kummer is one of the country's most respected food journalists. He is a writer for The Atlantic Monthly and the author of the book "Joy of Coffee" , which was heralded by the New York Times as "the most definitive and ...
Kim Haasarud and Jeanne Kelley
She's "the Liquid Chef," a professional beverage mixologist. Her name is Kim Haasarud, and she is the founder of Liquid Architecture, creating original beverage and bar concepts from Los Angeles. Past clients have included the TriBeCa ...
Michael White
Michael White has taken over the reigns as Executive Chef for two of New York's top Italian Restaurants L'Impero and Alto. He also is Chef -Partner at Due Terre in Bernardsville New ...
Eric Asimov (Chief Wine Critic for the New York Times)
Eric Asimov is the Chief Wine Critic for the New York Times. Although he formerly edited the renowned paper's "Living" and "Style" sections, he is most known for his reviews of all types of New York City restaurants, ...
Marc Vetri / Dr Elizabeth Babcock
Marc Vetri is chef/owner of Vetri and Osteria Restaurants in Philadelphia. He has won the James Beard award for "Best Chef -- Midatlantic" and has been named one of America's top ten new chefs by Food and Wine Magazine. Philadelphia ...
Andrew Zimmern
Andrew Zimmern is currently the host (creator and co-producter )of 'Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern' the hit show on The Travel Channel. In addition he is a chef, teacher, former restaurant concept consultant and an avid blogger. As a ...
Dan Koeppel
Dan Koeppel is the author of the critically acclaimed memoir To See Every Bird on Earth. His stories have appeared in National Geographic, Adventure, Wired, Audubon, and Popular Science. He has tried over twenty different kinds of bananas on five ...
Will Allen
Will Allen has been described as a visionary in organic farming. Allen co-manages the organic Cedar Circle Farm in Vermont and is the author of The War on Bugs, an expose on the fertilizer and pesticide industry. A Doctor of Anthropology, an ex-Marine ...
Paul Grieco
Paul Grieco, General Manager of Hearth Restaurant in New York City. He spent many of his early years in the company of his family perfecting the details of service. His career in New York City began at world-famous Remi Restaurant where he was a ...
Cary Fowler
Enough rice, maize and wheat to feed an army -- well, that's the hope (someday)! Nearly 3 weeks ago the Svalbard Global Seed Vault opened on a remote island in the Arctic Circle, with 100 million seeds (just the first shipment!) that originated ...