Best Arati Menon Podcasts (2024)

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Cornbread and the Soul of African American Cuisine with Adrian Miller 28:32

2+ y ago28:32

28:32

On the season finale of My Family Recipe, host Arati Menon welcomes Adrian Miller, AKA “The Soul Food Scholar.” Not many people can boast their accomplishments as a food writer, James Beard award winner, attorney and certified barbecue judge; but Adrian Miller is one-in-a-million. Adrian talks about the dishes and characters who populated his child…

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Time-Traveling Butterscotch Pie with Jennifer Justus 36:34

2+ y ago36:34

36:34

The Little Blue Cookbook was a nearly lost family heirloom that Jennifer Justus discovered a few years ago. Decades prior to that, the cookbook’s butterscotch pecan pie recipe provided great comfort to her grandmother, who made the dish frequently when she and her husband were relocated by his Coast Guard duties during World War II. Inheriting this…

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The Curry That Reunited My Family with Nyanyika Banda 37:57

2+ y ago37:57

37:57

Nyanyika Banda has a passion for studying the foodways of the African diaspora. Growing up surrounded with the culinary traditions of her father’s Malawian culture, she has had a lifelong hunger for exploration. In April 2020, she published an installment of My Family Recipe titled "The Chicken Curry That Put My Broken Family Back Together Again." …

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Building Community, a Cabbage Bake at a Time with Lavanya Narayanan 33:21

3y ago33:21

33:21

Lavanya Narayanan’s culinary heart is deeply rooted in both Indianapolis and India. Her family found a unique community of immigrants and ties to their shared Tamil culture in the Midwest: sharing music, holidays, and (of course) food. In this episode, Lavanya and her mother Bhooma share the origin story of a baked cabbage dish that brought with it…

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Missing Mom’s Sunday Sauce with Gary Schiro 33:03

3y ago33:03

33:03

Gary Schiro had made plenty of his mother’s recipes, but one Sunday morning-not long after his mother passed away-an attempt to make her traditional meatballs and sauce went wrong. Gary wished he could have called her. He wished that he had asked her how to make the recipe properly. Despite having seen her make it 900 times, he never did. This epis…

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Get to Know Our Host, Arati Menon 20:18

3y ago20:18

20:18

Arati Menon’s voice is a part of every episode of My Family Recipe. Her empathy and humor tie together the threads of diverse family recipes into the beautiful tapestry that is this series. In this episode, Arati takes her seat on the opposite side of the mic. HRN’s Julia Child Foundation Fellow, Kelly Spivey invites listeners to get to know the sh…

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How Grandpa Unclogged a Toilet with Pie with Katie Workman 31:50

3y ago31:50

31:50

Katie Workman’s Grandpa Bernie was a smart-cookie, a storyteller, and...according to family vignettes, a very slow eater. Katie shares a comedy of errors about her attempts to connect with her grandfather about food. There are stories of pranks, memories of laughter-filled meals, and of course, the legend of how Bernie unclogged a toilet with lemon…

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Cake, Intimacy & an Asian-American Experience with Coral Lee 30:16

3y ago30:16

30:16

This episode features Coral Lee, Food52 Podcast Network’s Producer. For this conversation, she is on the other side of the mic sharing a deeply personal story of the cake that encapsulates her grandmother’s communal table. Coral explores the nature of intimacy, her hyphenated identity as an Asian-American, as well as the complicated relationship th…

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3 Generations of Women, 1 Leche Flan with Giselle Krachenfels 30:37

3y ago30:37

30:37

Leche flan became Giselle Krachenfels’ favorite dessert both because it was delicious and because it connected her with Filipino culture. Having mixed heritage, Giselle felt the need to prove her Filipino identity and leche flan became a way to do just that. Except that she couldn’t get the recipe right. This is a story about how one dessert helped…

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Baked Ziti is a Love Language with Joelle Zarcone 29:04

3y ago29:04

29:04

When Joelle Zarcone was growing up, her mom made bolognese sauce every Sunday. Even after leaving home, Joelle’s mom would bring along her wooden spoon for visits, leaving her daughter’s freezer well stocked with sauce. After unexpectedly losing her mother to illness, Joelle had to figure out how to make the sauce for herself for the first time. Th…

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Cheesy Bread is Made to Share with Khalid El Khatib 29:01

3y ago29:01

29:01

Khalid El Khatib’s childhood in Iowa was defined by its potlucks. Despite having relocated to New York City where the culinary landscape could not be more different from his hometown, Khalid’s mother’s cheesy bread is still near and dear to his heart. This is a story about the lasting power of his mother's Iowa dinner party staple. It’s a celebrati…

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Memories of Pizza at Chez Panisse with Fanny Singer and Alice Waters 31:54

3y ago31:54

31:54

Fanny Singer shares memories from her unconventional childhood, growing up in the revered Chez Panisse restaurant in Berkeley, California alongside her mother, legendary chef Alice Waters. She describes how the restaurant’s staff became an extended family (often referred to as “La Famille Panisse”), talks about the sophisticated palate she develope…

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Estrangement, Identity & a Wok with Jenny Dorsey 32:31

3y ago32:31

32:31

Jenny Dorsey was 28 when she decided to lay claim to a cultural heirloom: a wok. This tool is synonymous with Chinese cooking but for Jenny it was couched in complex emotions and family memories. She speaks about her childhood and the pressure immigrant families face to assimilate. Jenny also unpacks how her wok became a symbol of sadness, shame, a…

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Motherhood & Chocolate Cake with Lisa Ruland 33:29

3y ago33:29

33:29

A story about how chocolate cake - a festive treat if there ever was one - brought about unlikely healing through grief. Lisa Ruland is a food writer, professional baker, and the curator of The Food + Grief Project. She talks about her relationship to food after the tragic loss of her husband, how she found connection while mourning, and how a choc…

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Introducing: My Family Recipe 2:40

3y ago2:40

2:40

Adapted from Food52’s much beloved column, My Family Recipe (the podcast!) is brought to you by the Food52 Podcast Network and Heritage Radio Network. Enjoy interviews with writers and chefs, parents and children about what is passed down along with the foods we know and love.By Arati Menon, Heritage Radio Network, Food52

Podcasts Worth a Listen

Arati Menon Podcasts

Podcasts Worth a Listen

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My Family Recipe

Arati Menon, Food52, Heritage Radio Network

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Cornbread and the Soul of African American Cuisine with Adrian Miller 28:32

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Time-Traveling Butterscotch Pie with Jennifer Justus 36:34

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The Curry That Reunited My Family with Nyanyika Banda 37:57

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Building Community, a Cabbage Bake at a Time with Lavanya Narayanan 33:21

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Missing Mom’s Sunday Sauce with Gary Schiro 33:03

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Get to Know Our Host, Arati Menon 20:18

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How Grandpa Unclogged a Toilet with Pie with Katie Workman 31:50

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Cake, Intimacy & an Asian-American Experience with Coral Lee 30:16

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3 Generations of Women, 1 Leche Flan with Giselle Krachenfels 30:37

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Baked Ziti is a Love Language with Joelle Zarcone 29:04

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Cheesy Bread is Made to Share with Khalid El Khatib 29:01

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Memories of Pizza at Chez Panisse with Fanny Singer and Alice Waters 31:54

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Estrangement, Identity & a Wok with Jenny Dorsey 32:31

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Motherhood & Chocolate Cake with Lisa Ruland 33:29

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Introducing: My Family Recipe 2:40

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