Masahiro Urushido is a bartender, Managing Partner and Director of Deliciousness at Katana Kitten, a Japanese-American bar in NYC’s West Village. In 2019, his bar was awarded the titles of Best New American Cocktail Bar and Best New Opening by the World’s 50 Best Bars. That year, they also landed at number 14 in the […]
Read More Beyond the Drink: Masahiro Urushido’s At-Home Martini (S6/Ep.10)Jesse Tyler Ferguson is a celebrated theater, film and TV star. You most likely know him as “Mitchell Pritchett” on the award-winning ABC comedy Modern Family. He hosted the James Beard Awards in 2017 and 2019 and along with co-author Julie Tanous, released his first cookbook Food Between Friends in 2021. In this episode, we […]
Read More Jesse Tyler Ferguson (S6/Ep.09)Jahdé is a sommelier, bartender and self-proclaimed flavor junkie. In this episode, she walks us through a cocktail popping with green notes. We learn how she is actively working to disrupt the beverage industry from a space of love for people and cultural ownership. Jahdé is involved in her community in a number of ways […]
Read More Beyond the Drink: Jahdé Marley’s I’m Tasting Something Green… (S6/Ep.08)Nyesha Arrington was the first female finalist of Bocuse d’Or, the world chef championships. She is a chef, tv personality and entrepreneur who started her career working alongside some of the world’s most renowned chefs. In this episode we dive deep into her childhood and family, lessons she learned from closing two celebrated restaurants, her […]
Read More Chef Nyesha Arrington (S6/Ep.07)Gaby has been making cocktails for more than twenty years at some of the world’s best bars in the US and UK. Under her direction, her bars have won multiple accolades including “Bar of the Year,” “Best Culinary Cocktail Bar” and “Best Bar Team.” In this episode, the UK native walks us through a conversation […]
Read More Beyond the Drink: Gaby Mlynarczyk’s Rhubarb Strawberry “Pimms” Cup (S6/Ep.06)Reem Kassis is a Palestinian writer whose work focuses on the intersection of food with culture, history and politics. She grew up in Jerusalem, obtained her undergraduate and MBA degrees from UPenn and Wharton and her MSc in social psychology from the London School of Economics. She is the author of the best-selling and award-winning […]
Read More Reem Kassis (S6/Ep.05)Meaghan is an award-winning bartender, educator and curator of bar magic! She is responsible for creating some of the most celebrated bar programs at multiple NYC bars including Raines Law Room, Raines Law Room at the William Hotel, Dear Irving and Dear Irving on Hudson. In this episode, she walks us through one of her […]
Read More Beyond the Drink: Meaghan Dorman’s Pearl Collins (S6/Ep.04)Geoffrey Zakarian’s cooking career has spanned over 30 years having cooked in some of the greatest restaurants in the world. While he very well may be your Saturday morning entertainment on Food Network’s The Kitchen, in this episode we discuss his journey from Boston to France, and the moment that kickstarted his obsession with dining […]
Read More Chef Geoffrey Zakarian (S6/Ep.03)Suzu is a bartender in the San Francisco Bay Area where he was born and raised. In this episode, he walks us through one of his original cocktails, a Mikoshi Negroni. While having spent much of his childhood and teen years in restaurants and bars that his grandparents owned in Tokyo, we also learn about […]
Read More Beyond the Drink: Christian “Suzu” Suzuki’s Mikoshi Negroni (S6/Ep.02)Wolfgang Puck has been a culinary icon for nearly 40 years. Not only is he a chef, but also a restaurateur, TV personality, author, actor and father. In this episode we discuss what it was like to be a young apprentice in Austria and France, how he almost took his own life as a teenager, […]
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