Today on Recommended Reading with Food Book Fair, Michelin-starred chef Anita Lo joins us in the booth. Her new cookbook, "Solo" is a modern blueprint on cooking for one, peppered with humor and real life cooking affirmations and encouragement. We'll chat with Anita about life after Annisa, how a party of one can truly be a party, and much more.

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Christmas comes early to Recommended Reading! Food writer, chef, columnist and television presenter Yvette van Boven joins us in the booth and it's the best present we could ask for. Together with her husband, photographer Oof Verschuren, we're diving into their latest book ""Home Made Christmas"" and lots more. Merry merry!

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On this week's show, Recommended Reading talks to Lebanon-born private chef and caterer Edouard Massih about what he's reading, watching and listening to — especially his recommendations for Middle Eastern food and his dreams for Lebanese-food in New York. Heads up to dairy-free listeners: This episode is dairy-forward (and delicious).

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Bi-coastal PR maven Rachel Krupa of Krupa Consulting joins us in the booth to chat all about her new brick and mortar project, The Goods Mart. "I’m shaking up the archaic 7-11 model with a fresh, socially-conscious rethink of the convenience store" says Rachel about her urban version of the gas station Quick-Mart which opened in Silver Lake, CA this past April, and more recently in New York. From snacks to butter and toilet paper to shampoo, every item stocked at The Goods Mart has been hand-curated for amazing taste or function and ethical, eco-responsible practices — all by Krupa and her team. Kelvin Slushies for everyone!

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We talk all things turmeric with Sana Javeri Kadri, founder (and "chief feelings officer") of Diaspora Co., the only direct-trade, single-origin turmeric company around. We chat about her new zine — "Cooking with Gold" — new products and what's new on her reading and watching lists.

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We cook up a good time in the studio with restaurateurs Nicole Ponseca and Miguel Trinidad. Their new book, ""I Am a Filipino: And This Is How We Cook"", highlights modern Filipino recipes that showcase the vibrant flavors of this diverse cuisine.

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On today's episode, we welcome Nik Sharma -- photographer and writer behind the acclaimed blog A Brown Table, and new author of the cookbook "Season." We talk identity, bicultural living, and beautifully seasoned — and seasonal — food.

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Performer, Director and Writer Daniel Isengart is in the studio! We'll chat about his books, "Queering the Kitchen: A Manifesto" and "The Art of Gay Cooking", an adaptation of The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook. Plus, his side hustle as an aura consultant and the best tips for a successful dinner party no matter what you serve.

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This week, we welcome Jeremiah Stone and Fabián von Hauske — gentlemen who have been described as a "wunderkind New York chef duo" for their first two restaurants, the tasting menu joint Contra and its more casual sister Wildair; partners in the rebooted Una Pizza Napoletana; and most recently, new authors. We chop it up in preview for their first book, "A Very Serious Cookbook: Contra Wildair," out next month.

This week we're very happy to be chopping it up with Cleopatra Zuli, educator, events curator, chef and one of the creative minds behind BLK PALATE, a production company and collective. Tune in as we talk about BLK PALATE's work to empower black queer folks through food and gathering, and the exciting new media project they're cooking up next.

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We love Put A Egg On It. (Note the "a," not "an," and say that ten times fast). This indie publication is one the OG food zines of this generation, inaugurators of Food Book Fair's signature magazine-festival-within-the-fair, and as of this year, celebrating a decade printing stories, photographs, comics and recipes on green paper. Sarah Forbes Keough and Ralph McGinnis join us in the studio to talk publishing, friendship, storytelling and good design — and of course, what they're reading, watching and listening to.

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Okay, okay, ladies, now let's talk representation:

Hello, world! We're especially excited to host Julia Turshen, celebrated cookbook author and founder of Equity at the Table — a new professional community and directory by and for queer and of color women and gender non-conforming folks in the food world. Described as "a practical and proactive response to the blatant gender and racial discrimination that plagues the food industry," EATT is inspired by the aphorism that it’s better to “build a longer table, not a higher fence.” We're also joined in studio by Klancy Miller, author of "Cooking Solo" and EATT advisory board member. Listen in as they talk about how EATT aims to change the game, what's on their reading lists as they feed the resistance, and much more.

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This week, we welcome the creative mind and handsome human behind pioneering gay food magazine Mouthfeel. Tune in as Mac Malikowski gives us the download on the new Mexico City issue of the mag — which includes "chef porn, furry graffiti, chilangos, drag tourism, dick tacos" and much more — plus what else he's consuming, reading, watching and listening wise.

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We’re honored to welcome our dear friend, Be Kind Be Fierce founder — and former executive director of Heritage Radio Network! — Erin Fairbanks back into our cozy shipping container behind Roberta’s. She sits down with Taylor Chapman, Senior Vice President of NationSwell Council on this week's episode of Recommended Reading. Stay tuned as they discuss all the things they are reading, eating and listening to.

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Multi-hyphenate culinary and design talent Mira Evnine joins us in the booth to chat all things around the table, plus her latest take on the community dinner party right here in Brooklyn.

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This week on Recommended Reading, we are joined by Casey Elsass, founder of Bushwick Kitchen and creator of our favorite sweet heat Bees Knees Spicy Honey! We discuss all things Bushwick Kitchen, what’s next for Casey and some surprising facts like his obsession with opera (!!). Tune in to hear more and to see what else we’re reading, eating and listening to.

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You say glou glou, I say glug glug: We say, YES to more natural, low-intervention wines with Jennifer Green, co-founder of Glou Glou Magazine (that's French, pronounced "glu glu" for utterly delectable, chuggable wines). On the list this week: What is natural wine anyway, and what we're reading — and what she's reading.

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On this week's show, we're thrilled to welcome Glory Edim, the founder of the coolest book club (and festival) we know: Well Read Black Girl, "dedicated to the phenomenal Black women on our bookshelves–past, present, & the 'beautyful' ones not yet born." We talk about the pleasure and magic of book clubs, online and IRL, #wellreadblackgirl book selfies, and much more.

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We welcome the inimitable Alexander Smalls: self-described "social minister," chef, restaurateur, opera singer, and creator of Minton's Supper Club and The Cecil in Harlem. Most recently, alongside JJ Johnson and Veronica Chambers, he's the co-author of "Between Harlem and Heaven: Afro-Asian American Cooking for Big Nights, Weeknights and Every Day."

Perhaps the only guest we'll ever welcome who is a winner of both a Grammy and Tony Award (for a cast recording of "Porgy and Bess" with the Houston Grand Opera, in 1976), AND Esquire's "Best New Restaurant in America" (for The Cecil, in 2014), Alexander gives us the low-down on the new book, his philosophies behind African diasporic cuisines, and, of course, what he's recommending.

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Inspired, Ignited and Inclusive: We break bread (well, Roberta's pizza) with Atara Bernstein of Pineapple Collaborative and Erin Fairbanks of Be Kind Be Fierce — two initiatives that support, empower and create a safe community space for women in hospitality.

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We talk to Gerardo Gonzalez and Carla Hougin, respectively the chef-owner and assistant general manager of Lalito, a crazy, sexy, cool lodestar of goodness in Chinatown that serves not only delicious food but events and vibes that celebrate uniqueness and doing your own thing. In the mix: Tres Leches (Lalito's popular all-you-can-eat buffet slash dope party), making and holding space for other POCs and queer folks, "being brown in the industry," and of course, what Gerardo and Carla are reading, watching and listening to.

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Alison Roman — cook, writer and author of Dining In, joins us in the booth to dish on dinner parties (it's just having people over!), what makes a "highly cookable recipe", #SaltedChocolateChip ShortbreadCookies and more.

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We kick off the winter season with special guest Hetty McKinnon, cookbook author and founder of the gorgeous new food magazine Peddler.

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We're grateful to have hosted Sean Sherman and Dana Thompson, co-owners of The Sioux Chef, while they were on a whirlwind book tour earlier this fall for the best-selling — and beautiful, engaging, and vital — new cookbook, "The Sioux Chef's Indigenous Kitchen." Listen in as they discuss indigenous foods in North America, food sovereignty, and much more.

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On today's episode of Recommended Reading with Food Book Fair, we're joined in the studio by chef, restaurateur, and author Seamus Mullen. We dive into his latest book "Real Food Heals" and talk all things health, healing and jamón!

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Bestselling author and #FBF2016 speaker Stephanie "Sweetbitter" Danler is in the HRN house! We're big fans of her debut novel — coming soon to a Starz channel near you in TV form — but we also can't get enough of her poetry, essay and fiction picks on Instagram. (Peep @smdanler for her #recommendedreading.) Listen in as we dish book stuff, TV stuff, that LA-to-NY life, and more.

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We're next-level proud to be supporting an amazing crew of friends, comrades, chefs, and educators in a new series celebrating the cuisine and history of Palestine, popping up Nov. 13-14 at Dimes and Lalito. Chef and artist Amanny Ahmad — one of the badass Palestinian women chefs leading the pop-ups — joins us with chef and community organizer Ora Wise on #RecommendedReading to talk food and sovereignty, here and everywhere.

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We welcome Amy Emberling and Frank Carollo, master bakers, co-owners of Zingerman's Bakehouse (part of the legendary Zingerman's family of businesses in Ann Arbor, MI, anchored by the world's best deli #dontatme) — and authors of the new bakehouse cookbook! Listen in for #sugarcrispmuffin intel, stories from the bakery's 25 years in business, and more.

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We go beyond bagels and babka this week with Jewish Food Society, in a preview of its upcoming storytelling event Schmaltzy. We're joined by JFS founder Naama Shefi and Schmaltzy special guest Marissa Lippert of Nourish Kitchen + Table as we talk Jewish foods around the globe.

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We're thrilled to be in the studio with Food Book Fair OGs Evan Hanczor and George Weld of Egg Restaurant, in advance of the latest installment of their #TablesofContents series. TOC started as a conceptual literary dinner at Food Book Fair in the Brooklyn days and evolved into dinners from Miami to Milan, and readings with some of today's most exciting authors.

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We welcome to the studio Athena Calderone, creator of lifestyle destination EyeSwoon and author of the brand new Cook Beautiful. We talk recipes, tablescaping (for real, for real), #swoontips, top kitchen and party playlists and more.

We're thrilled to welcome Naz Riahi, founder of Bitten — an event series that brings together disruptors to talk all things fun, exciting and innovative in food — in advance of the New York conference October 27th.

We're raising a glass with two of our favorite beverage authorities — Megan Krigbaum, contributing editor to PUNCH and author of The Essential Cocktail Book: A Complete Guide to Modern Drinks with 150 Recipes, and Thad Volger, owner of San Francisco's Bar Agricole and author of By the Smoke and the Smell: My Search for the Rare and Sublime on the Spirits Trail. Our cup has officially runneth over on this episode!

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#WomenDoingAmazingThings. We sit down with Journalist, Author and New Yorker Julie Scelfo to talk about her brand new book, The Women Who Made New York, which celebrates the women that define NYC values, humanism, art and good food.

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Bookworms and booknerds unite! We kick off the fall season with special guest Paige Lipari, owner and boss arancini cook of the food-and-books pleasuredome Archestratus.

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On this week's episode of Recommended Reading, in the booth with writer and editor Joshua David Stein (a contributing editor at Food & Wine, frequent contributor to the Village Voice, the New York Times, New York and The Guardian), we analyze JDS' analysis of The Grill, the Torrisi-Carbone group's Four Seasons reboot. In 2017, is it still possible to power lunch like it's 1959 — and should one want to?

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We chop it up this week with Kimberly M. Jenkins, a professor of fashion history who specializes in "the sociocultural and historical influences behind why we wear what we wear," and Yahdon Israel, founder of Literary Swag Book Club and #FBF2017 collaborator. On the agenda: the intersections of food and literature, literature and fashion, fashion and race, and much more. It gets lit!

Today on Recommended Reading with Food Book Fair we explore the world of culinary cannabis with two leaders in the field — Warren Bobrow, author of Cannabis Cocktails and Jennifer Shelbo, former pastry chef turned expert in cannabis farming and sustainability.

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Today, on Recommended Reading with Food Book Fair, we are joined by the team from NYC's first annual Food Waste Fair including chef Mary Cleaver of The Cleaver Co. The event which will be held on July 25th at the Brooklyn Expo Center, will showcase a “soup to nuts” approach to food waste prevention, recovery and recycling.

Get the scoop on "Oaxaca Suculenta" Thursday night's collaborative, roaming dinner at 99 Scott with event co-hosts Jessica Chrastil of Pocoapoco and Nahvae Frost of Eleven36.

On today's episode, we talk "Scraps, Wilt & Weeds," meadows and more with dynamic duo — and new co-authors — chef Mads Refslund and forager Tama Matsuoka Wong. Join us as we chat with Mads and Tama about turning wasted food into plenty, as well as (of course) what they're currently reading, watching and listening to.

On this week's show, we kick it back to the keynote panel of Food Book Fair 2017! "What We Talk About When We Talk About Eating" explored what it means to be engaged in the business, pleasure and politics of food today.

Recorded on-site at Ace Hotel New York on May 12th by our friends at Public Announcement.

Featured speakers: Ken Friedman, restaurateur Samin Nosrat, chef, author and teacher Mario Batali, chef, author, educator, TV host Myisha Priest, associate professor, New York University, author Moderated by Frank Bruni, author, The New York Times columnist

On this week's show, we sit down with Mark Rosati, Culinary Director of Shake Shack (dream job, am I right?!). We'll sink our teeth into the evolution of Shake Shack from a Hot Dog cart in Madison Square Park to a publicly traded company with locations all over the word — plus of course the brand new Shake Shack book!

On this week's show, we welcome to the studio Christine Sahadi Whelan — one of the third-generation owners of Atlantic Avenue's Middle Eastern-and-beyond bulk-bin fantasia — to chat about what she's reading, watching and listening to, including the forthcoming Sahadi's cookbook. And our pal Amanda Yee, an amazing Copenhagen-by-way-of-Oakland chef, calls in to tell us about her new restaurant, The Blueswoman.

This week on Recommended Reading with Food Book Fair, we flip the script and interview Sierra Tishgart, senior editor of New York Magazine's food blog Grub Street. We dish about what's playing on Hot97 while we cook, Carly Rae Jepsen, and Grub Street Diet, of course, the most exciting email to hit our inbox every Friday (Tom Hanks, if you're out there, you gotta do one ASAP).

Today on #RecommendedReading on we chop it up with dear friend, reformed photo agent, visionary labrador of Table on Ten, and man of many hats and talents, Julian Richards. We'll talk about how to reconcile the worlds of political reportage and lifestyle blogging, literary inspirations and community radio, and you can hear us drink spritzes on air. We might even read Jack Gilbert live. Two decades in the photography industry left Julian Richards with an acute understanding of all things trivial, priming him perfectly for a four year stint in the food industry with Table on Ten. In both cases he clung doggedly to the personal flotation device of creative skepticism. He stands now in his Speedo, contemplating the greasy springboard into senility; but there’s a reverse pike somersault or two in him yet.

On today's episode, we welcome Stephen A. Satterfield — founder of the newly launched Whetstone Magazine, digital media producer, food writer, poet, ATLien and "the other Steven/Stephen Satterfield" — as we wrap up Food Book Fair 2017. We recap all the Fair happenings (including a roundtable on diversifying food media where Stephen was a featured speaker), and talk about the independent publishing hustle, #foodieodicals, reading while traveling, and wine.

On today's episode of Recommended Reading, we preview the sixth annual Food Book Fair with our special guests — and #FBF2017 collaborators — Nicholas Morgenstern, founder of Morgenstern's Finest Ice Cream, and Melissa Clark, food columnist for the New York Times and author of Dinner: Changing the Game.

They're joining forces for a Saturday night "Art of Dinner" multi-sensory experience, featuring photographs by author and photographer (and event co-host) Melanie Dunea; a special reading with Kevin Young, poetry editor of The New Yorker and director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; and much more. Bring your appetites, all of them.

But first, we talk to Nick and Melissa about what's on their respective bedside tables, what they're cooking from, and why more anchovies and more poetry is always the answer.