Episodes

  • EP16: "Food is Everything" Stanley Tucci

    EP16: "Food is Everything" Stanley Tucci
    Jul 19 2023

    The actor, filmmaker, author, family man and self-confessed food nerd, Stanley Tucci, tells all in the latest episode of Freshly Squeezed.
    In this fun conversation, the food-obsessed celeb recounts his earliest stories growing up in an Italian family, how his DNA in food has shaped his career and explains more about the impact of his iconic film ‘Big Night’ and his newest television series, ‘Searching for Italy’.
    From the time he ate the best cheese in the world, to sharing some of his favourite at home
    meal ideas. This is Mr Tucci at his best, talking about food.
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    26 mins
  • E17: The Extraordinary Life of Chef Jacques Pepin

    E17: The Extraordinary Life of Chef Jacques Pepin
    Dec 16 2022
    One of the most widely known and loved figures in American food media, Frenchman Jacque Pepin is a chef, author, television host, philanthropist, educator and artist. In this conversation with Fine Dining Lovers’ editor in Chief Ryan King, Pepin recounts his life’s journey from a small, rural landholding in France, through post-war France, cooking for international dignitaries and presidents along the way. And on to America, where he made, and continues to make culinary history.
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    41 mins
  • E15: "Hungry for Laughs" Dan Ahdoot

    E15: "Hungry for Laughs" Dan Ahdoot
    Dec 21 2021
    You might know Dan Ahdoot as a comedian and actor in shows such as Cobra Kai. But he is also a committed food explorer, restaurant investor and hunter, and in this episode of Freshly Squeezed, he shares incredible and hilarious stories about his food adventures, such as the time he sent a risotto back at the ‘World’s Best Restaurant’. He also touches on the war on cow’s milk, celebrity fridges and why you should befriend a food writer. Listen now.
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    55 mins
  • E14: "The Sioux Chef” Sean Sherman

    E14: "The Sioux Chef” Sean Sherman
    Oct 11 2021
    Sean Sherman is a chef and founder of The Sioux Chef, a group of indigenous American ethnobotanists, food preservationists, adventurers, and foragers, committed to revitalising Native American cuisine. After years of fieldwork and research into a lost knowledge base, Sherman and his wife Dana Thompson opened their first restaurant, Owamni, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Serving solely Native American cuisine, Sherman hopes it will become a template to empower other indigenous communities to reclaim their lost food histories, not only in the US but also across the world.
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    14 mins
  • E13: “Pie King” Calum Franklin

    E13: “Pie King” Calum Franklin
    Oct 11 2021
    Calum Franklin, the chef behind London’s Victorian-style Pie Room, is making pie-making fashionable again. He and his team’s incredible creations speak to centuries of British culinary tradition and have garnered a wealth of fans online and in real life seeking respite from extraneously colourful, Insta-perfect food. Franklin’s journey to the top has been a tough one, taking in addiction, overwork and serious illness. But throughout, he’s maintained his love for pie and the enduring appeal of brown food.
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    31 mins
  • E12: "The Power of Food" Clay Williams

    E12: "The Power of Food" Clay Williams
    Sep 3 2021
    Clay Williams is a Brooklyn-based photographer and co-founder of Black Food Folks, a platform that aims to promote and connect black food and drink professionals. What initially started as an idea for a meet-up in a bar has evolved into a full-blown community that is busting the myth that there is a lack of black talent in the industry, tackling the discriminatory power structures, inadequate decision making opportunities and chronic misunderstanding of diversity that feed it.
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    29 mins
  • E11: "Queen of Fusion" Ixta Belfrage

    E11: "Queen of Fusion" Ixta Belfrage
    May 27 2021
    Growing up in Italy to a British-American father and Latin American mother, chef Ixta Belfrage’s culinary outlook was destined to be international. Having worked in Yotam Ottolenghi’s test kitchen for a number of years, she recently published her first book with the London-based Israeli chef. Flavour, a celebration of all that is great about vegetables, is peppered with Belfrage’s experiments with Italian, Mexican and Brazilian cuisines in particular, and was one of the cookbook hits of last year. But could a change be in the air for Ixta Belfrage?
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    18 mins
  • E10: The Most Remote Michelin Restaurant in The World

    E10: The Most Remote Michelin Restaurant in The World
    Mar 8 2021
    Restaurant Koks is a two-Michelin-star restaurant in the Faroe Islands, a rocky archipelago in the North Atlantic. There chef Poul Andrias Ziska, himself Faroese, is crafting an avant-garde take on the local cuisine, using centuries-old techniques, as well as those picked up working at some of the world's best restaurants. It's made Koks one of the most coveted destination restaurants on the planet. But for a restaurant that relies predominantly on tourists, the pandemic has hit especially hard.
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    14 mins