Grant Achatz, author of Alinea

David talks with chef, author, and multiple-James Beard award winner Grant Achatz about his new book, his restaurant Alinea, in Chicago, and cooking restaurant food at home. They also discuss Grant’s surviving …

Food writer Elissa Altman reads her essay about the challenges her father faced when bringing back to Canada Jewish contraband: chicken fat and chopped liver.

Novelist, essayist, and food writer James Sturz reads his sensual and occasionally erotic piece about the pleasures of flesh—both animal and human—and the sometimes disquieting similarity between them.

read by Gary Allen
recorded live on January 18, 2007

Gary Allen, food history editor at Leite’s Culinaria, reads two of his essays at the first “Talking With Your Mouth Full” reading event in New York City. …

read by David Leite

David Leite reads his essay about the trials and tribulations, not to mention the indigestion, that comes from being a food writer with an expense account. While it may seem like a …