Baker Paola Velez talks to Kate and Holly about why and how she started Bakers Against Racism and how its influence and warmth has spread—and continues to spread; ad-libbing baked goods and feeling passionate about getting others confident enough in the kitchen to do it, too; and how romance played a factor in her career choice.

We've got recipes from Paola's book, Bodega Bakes!

Chocolate Malta Cake: https://bittmanproject.com/recipe/chocolate-malta-cake/

PB&J Pots de Crème: https://bittmanproject.com/recipe/pbj-pots-de-creme/

The Lemon Cookie: https://bittmanproject.com/recipe/the-lemon-cookie/

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Revisiting our interview with Nasim Alikhani, the wildly popular Brooklyn-based chef, who talked to Kate and Mark about why the slow cook makes Iranian food special, the best way to enjoy a dinner party, and leaving Iran for the US in the 1980s.

Get Nasim Alikhani’s recipe for Date Scrambled Eggs on the Bittman Project:

https://bittmanproject.com/recipe/nasim-alikhanis-date-scrambled-eggs/

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The prolific writer talks to Kate and Mark about why her mom told her not to learn how to cook (and how the kitchen is now her happy place), the big problem with mainstream veganism (and the food that ended her vegan journey), and using food and cooking to manage loss.

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In this revisiting of a 2025 episode, writer, chef, and TV star Alton Brown talks to Mark and Kate about fame, "then" and now; the problem with memory—and memoir; falling up the stairs; his farewell tour; and eating on the road, monastically. 

Head to the Bittman Project for a special excerpt from Alton's collection of essays, Food for Thought: https://bittmanproject.com/alton-brown-meals-that-made-me-part-i/

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Liz Carlisle is an associate professor in the environmental studies program at UC Santa Barbara, Aubrey Streit Krug is the director of the Perennial Cultures Lab at the Land Institute, and Leah Penniman is an acclaimed activist and farmer who co-founded Soul Fire Farm in Grafton, New York. The three joined Kate and Mark to talk about why perennial foods should be seriously considered as part of the solution to the climate crisis; what real support for perennial agriculture would look like; and the changes they've seen in the young farming community in the past 30 years.

Read an excerpt of Liz and Aubrey's new book (featuring an essay by Leah), Living Roots: The Promise of Perennial Foods, on the Bittman Project: https://bittmanproject.com/living-roots/

Follow Leah on Instagram @leahpenniman and @soulfirefarm.

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In this revisiting of a 2022 episode, Mark talks to beloved chef Sheldon Simeon about learning to butcher chickens in first grade, the divide between Hawaiian natives and tourists, and cooking for three days straight.

Sheldon's on Instagram: @chefwonder, and you can get a bunch of his recipes on the Bittman Project!

Shoyu Chicken: https://bittmanproject.com/recipe/shoyu-chicken/

Loco Moco Gravy Rice: https://bittmanproject.com/recipe/loco-moco-gravy-rice/

Mac Salad: https://bittmanproject.com/recipe/sheldon-simeons-mac-salad/

Shoyu Dip with Sesame Crunch: https://bittmanproject.com/recipe/shoyu-dip-with-sesame-crunch/

Garden Poke: https://bittmanproject.com/recipe/garden-poke/

Maui Kale Salad with Sweet Onion Dressing: https://bittmanproject.com/recipe/maui-kale-salad-with-sweet-onion-dressing/

Pan Sushi Dynamite: https://bittmanproject.com/recipe/pan-sushi-dynamite/

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God's Love We Deliver CEO Terrence Meck and Northwell Health's chief experience officer Sven Gierlinger join Kate and Mark to talk about how they're feeding clients and patients (respectively) carefully, and well. The two chat about how their personal medical journeys got them to where they are today, how making and serving good food can actually save health care dollars, and how the emotion behind all of it can be the best part of the job.

Sven Gierlinger: https://www.linkedin.com/in/svengierlinger/

God's Love We Deliver: glwd.org, Instagram @godslovenyc

Terrence Meck: Instagram @terrencemeck 

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Dylan Alverson is the owner of Modern Times—now called Post Modern Times—in Minneapolis, a restaurant that stopped charging customers for food during the violent ICE occupation (and that will continue to be free). Jason Finder is the Executive Director of Good Food Works and Salad Days, which offers free grab & go salads to public spaces and high-need constituencies throughout New York City. The two joined Kate and Mark to talk about how they came to be passionate about food access and why what they're doing is working. 

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The historian and author of "Picky" talks to Kate and Mark about the history of "children's food," how pickiness is positioned at the intersection of biology and culture, generating a set of standards to get us back to a more pleasurable relationship with food (and why it'll feel counterintuitive), and the fear of parenting in "older ways" (and why people who are doing so tend to not talk about it). 

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Thousands of workers at the JBS beef plant in Greeley, Colorado, one of the largest US meatpacking facilities, have gone on strike over alleged unfair labor practices—the first major strike at a US beef slaughterhouse in 40 years. We're revisiting our conversation with journalist Ted Genoways, who last year reported on allegations of human trafficking at the JBS plant: the viral TikTok video that started it all, the thousands of Haitian migrants in the crosshairs, and how JBS' HR department saw it as a positive thing. 

Want to listen to Ted's reporting on Greeley? You can do that here: https://revealnews.org/podcast/immigrants-on-the-line/

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The chefs, and owners of Philly's much-loved Honeysuckle, talk to Kate and Mark about how they personally define a "Black" dish; the two very distinct formats behind the food that typically represents the US Black diaspora; why their original business model didn't work and how they fixed it—and learned from it; and their big love story.

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