Best Scene Snobs Podcasts (2026)

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2025 Reel Year Review | Best & Worst Movies of 2025 | Scene Snobs Podcast Ep. 406 1:45:13

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🎞️ The Scene Snobs Podcast – Episode 406: “2025 Reel Year Review” 📅 LIVE Friday, January 2, 2026 ⏰ 8:30 PM EST A new year begins… and it’s time to settle the score. This week on The Scene Snobs Podcast, Mick, Casey, Paul, and friends break down their BEST and WORST movies of 2025 in our annual Reel Year Review. 🎬 What movies ruled the year? 💥 What …

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Content Over Packaging: Are You Paying for the Box or the Cigar? | Habanos Saturday Ep 918 57:20

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Send us a text This week on Habanos Saturday, Ep 918 we go straight at one of the biggest questions in the cigar world: are we paying for the cigar… or paying for the packaging and the flex? We dig into content over product — when the box, branding, bands, and “presentation” start costing more than what you’re actually smoking. Then we take it a st…

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710: You Need to Get to Charleston with Kultura⁠'s Nikko Cagalanan 40:15

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Nikko Cagalanan is the chef-owner of Kultura in Charleston, South Carolina. Born and raised in the Philippines, Nikko began cooking in 2017 while still working as a nurse, discovering that the kitchen offered the same sense of purpose—to nurture, care for, and bring comfort to others. In 2019, he moved to Charleston to fully pursue his passion for …

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709: Kitchen Advice and Meditations with Tamar Adler 55:09

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Tamar Adler is the James Beard and IACP Award–winning author of An Everlasting Meal; Something Old, Something New; and the best-selling Everlasting Meal Cookbook. Currently living in Madrid, she stopped by the TASTE studio to talk about writing her new book Feast on Your Life: Kitchen Meditations for Every Day. It’s a thoughtful collection of dispa…

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Bear Breaks Into Bakery, Leaves $5 — Year-End Show 2025 | No Knobs or Snobs Ep 915 27:41

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Send us a text This year, we close out No Snobs or Knobs Ep 915, the only way we know how: Non-Knobs picking the absolute best of the best… the stories so weird they feel illegal to report. We’ve got an AI in China that reportedly refused a job because it decided the work wasn’t worthy of its “talents.” A bear that broke into a bakery, ate every pa…

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708: Shorting Protein, Starbucks’s Stumbles, and WTF Is Up with All This Farmer Cosplay with Snaxshot’s Andrea Hernández 1:21:59

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Snaxshot, the curatorial and slightly mercurial grocery newsletter and community, has grown into an industry force, read by consumer packaged goods executives and members of the food media on a near-religious level. (We are among these readers.) Andrea Hernández returns to the show to go over the big headlines from the year at the grocery store and…

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Deconstructing a Top 10 Cigar Collector 40 Years of Secrets Habanos Saturday | Ep 916 1:08:03

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Send us a text This week on Habanos Saturday, Ep 916, we’re doing something special—because it’s not just another episode… it’s our end-of-year show with a proper mix of cigars, chaos, and collector-level truth. First: we take you inside the mindset of a world-famous cigar collector—one of the top collectors on the planet—the kind of guy most peopl…

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707: Behind the Scenes at America’s Test Kitchen with Dan Souza 54:32

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It was a blast having Dan Souza in the studio. Dan is the chief content officer of America’s Test Kitchen and the former editor in chief of Cooks Illustrated. Dan has such a great style in the way he talks about home cooking, and we discuss his time working in food media before digging into a very cool and ambitious new drinks book: Cocktails Illus…

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706: The Secret History of the Bagel with Laurel Kratochvila 1:17:06

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Laurel Kratochvila is an American-born writer and baker based in Berlin and trained in France. She runs the iconic Fine Bagels bakery, and her first book, New European Baking, was a finalist for a James Beard Award in 2023. Laurel joins us in the studio to talk about her incredible new book, Dobre Dobre, which focuses on both the modern and traditi…

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Milk from Underarms? The Craziest News We Found | No Snobs Or Knobs Ep 909 31:21

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Send us a text Close out 2025 with a truly unhinged episode of No Snobs or Knobs. Ep 909 This week, we cover news stories so absurd you’ll swear we made them up—except… we didn’t. We break down the South Africa headline where a mannequin gets stolen from a dam (yes, really), the wild story about a woman claiming to have three breasts, and we finall…

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705: The Year in Los Angeles Restaurants with Jenn Harris of the Los Angeles Times & Jordan Okun and Max Shapiro of Air Jordan 1:13:25

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We wanted to close the year by talking about the year in dining in Los Angeles, a city that always inspires with new openings and truly singular legendary spots. We are joined by Jenn Harris, a columnist and critic for the Food section of the Los Angeles Times. The paper just released its annual 101 Best Restaurants in Los Angeles list, and we talk…

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Habanos Saturday End of Year Cigar Rankings Ep 912 1:09:59

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Send us a text It’s getting close to the end of the year, kids — and Habanos Saturday is closing out 2025 the only way we know how: by debating (and celebrating) the Best Cuban Cigars of 2025. This week, the three of us bring you our own brand of chaos, knowledge, laughs, and straight talk as we break down the cigars that actually stood out this ye…

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Spirits & Songs Mixtape | Scene Snobs Podcast Ep. 405 – Christmas Music Picks, Holiday Drinks & More 1:40:23

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🎄 The Scene Snobs Podcast – Episode 405: “Spirits & Songs Mixtape” 📅 LIVE Friday, December 19, 2025 | ⏰ 8:30 PM EST It’s a holiday party… Snobs style. This week, Mick, Casey, Paul — and a few friends — break out the ultimate Christmas Mixtape episode! We’re sharing: 🎶 Our personal Christmas music mixtapes 🥃 Holiday drinks, toasts & stories 🎁 Season…

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704: The Year in NYC Restaurants with Alan Sytsma of New York Magazine & Mahira Rivers of the New York Times 2:00:52

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We wanted to close the year by talking about the year in dining in our hometown of New York City. Matt has a great chat with New York magazine food editor Alan Sytsma. We talk about the magazine’s best new restaurants list as well as some long-standing favorites. Next up, Aliza has a wonderful conversation with Mahira Rivers, who covers the city th…

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703: Yara Herrera’s Hellbender Can’t Be Ignored 59:56

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Yara Herrera is the chef-partner at Hellbender, a Mexican-American restaurant in Ridgewood, Queens. Born and raised in Los Angeles, she honed her skills in the city’s fine dining restaurants like Wolfgang Puck’s Spago and Providence before moving to New York in 2018 to work at Momofuku Ko, Xilonen, and Sobre Masa. Today on the show, we talk about Y…

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025's Biggest Moments in Politics, Religion & UFOs | Sermon From The German Ep 905 51:28

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Send us a text As we close out 2025, Sermon from the German with Brown Car Guy goes full throttle into a year-in-review like no other. From the highs and lows of a wild 12 months to the biggest global shocks, we dive into politics, religion, culture, and of course… UFOs. Nothing is off the table and no sacred cow is left un-grilled. Join us as we u…

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45 Minutes with Greg Shapiro | Politics & Religion Debate | Funny Ha Ha Ep 904 34:28

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Send us a text This month on Funny Ha Ha Ep 904 we unleash 45 minutes of fun, funny, ha ha chaos with your host, the one and only Greg Shapiro (yes, that’s SHAPIRO, not SCHAPIRO — he will absolutely correct you on air). In this episode we dig into the strange, smelly truth about garbage in Amsterdam, wander straight into the chaos of the war in Ukr…

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702: Andrew Zimmern's Secret Restaurant Critic Past 58:00

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For over two decades, Andrew Zimmern has starred in some of the most thoughtful and compelling food television being made for TV and online. He’s the longtime host of Bizarre Foods and a number of other food travel shows that defined a generation of programming. He’s also a longtime friend of mine, and it’s crazy that this was his first time appear…

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Cigar Experts Smoke in a Graveyard | Habanos Saturday Ep 908 1:04:24

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Send us a text This week on Habanos Saturday, Ep 908, we take “live show” to a whole new level — broadcasting straight from a graveyard. Yes, we spare no expense on atmosphere. While the world is out visiting the dearly departed, we’re lighting up and breaking down our favorite non-Cuban cigars of the year, with a few legendary Cubans thrown in jus…

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701: Carla Hall Is the Best Kind of Cookie Snob 46:18

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It was so much fun having Carla Hall in the studio. Carla Hall is a chef and TV host who is currently serving as judge on Fox’s Next Level Baker, a show that tests both professional and home bakers on their baking bona fides. In this episode, Carla shares some great baking ideas for the holidays, and she answers the question that some of us have be…

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Choose Your Own Catastrophe | Scene Snobs Podcast Ep. 404 – Christmas Chaos, Top 5 Gifts & Holiday Movie Reviews 1:31:25

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🎄 The Scene Snobs Podcast – Episode 404: “Choose Your Own Catastrophe” 📅 LIVE Friday, December 12, 2025 | ⏰ 8:30 PM EST What Christmas catastrophe would you survive? Would Mick take on the Gremlins invading Kingston Falls? Would Paul try to survive a “quiet” holiday party at Nakatomi Plaza? Tonight… we find out. This week on The Scene Snobs Podcast…

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700: Elbow Bread's Zoë Kanan Makes the Case for the Knish 1:37:41

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Zoë Kanan is the baker-partner of Elbow Bread, a very special Jewish-American bakery in New York’s Lower East Side. She’s produced some of the most important pastries in New York over the past 15 years, from being one of the first-ever interns at Christina Tosi’s Milk Bar to baking bagels at Sadelle’s under Melissa Weller and running the bread and …

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699: Exciting News From the Land of Sqirl with Jessica Koslow 1:05:25

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It was really great to have Jessica Koslow in for a conversation. Jessica is the chef and founder of Sqirl in Los Angeles, a pioneering breakfast and lunch counter that serves inventive rice bowls and jams on toast and that inspired a whole generation of all-day cafés. In this episode, we talk a bit about Jessica’s early career before going into he…

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698: Best Cookbooks of the Year with Now Serving and Kitchen Arts & Letters 1:12:58

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What better way to talk about the year in cookbook publishing than by speaking directly with the source: the booksellers. Today on the show we are joined by Matt Sartwell of New York’s Kitchen Arts & Letters and Ken Concepcion of LA’s Now Serving. Matt and Ken tell us about what is selling in their stores and name some of their personal favorite ti…

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Inside the Most Expensive Cigar Collection Ever | Habanos Saturday EP 898 1:41:55

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Send us a text This week on Habanos Saturday, Ep 898, we go full cigar-nerd with world-famous collector Urs – the man with so many cigars he needs a spreadsheet just to find his next smoke. 💨 Urs walks us through how to keep a truly elite collection alive: humidity, storage, rotation, aging, and all the tiny details that separate “I own cigars” fro…

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Movie Court: In Defense of Jenny | Scene Snobs Podcast Ep. 403 – Top 5 Annoying Characters + Christmas Picks 1:48:15

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🎙️ The Scene Snobs Podcast – Episode 403: “Movie Court: In Defense of Jenny” 📅 LIVE Friday, December 5, 2025 | ⏰ 8:30 PM EST Court is officially in session. ⚖️🎬 This week, the Snobs step into Movie Court to argue one of the most debated cases in film history: Was Jenny really the villain in Forrest Gump? Tonight… we make the case In Defense of Jenn…

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697: Translating Italian Cooking’s Holy Grail 51:05

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Book editor Michael Szczerban joins us in the studio to talk about The Talisman of Happiness, a book he worked over a decade to have translated from Italian into English. As we find out, it’s an iconic (and quite unwieldy—1,680 recipes!) text that its author, Ada Boni, originally published in 1929. The book’s influence cannot be overstated, and for…

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696: Rich Torrisi Doesn't Do Vanilla 37:16

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Rich Torrisi is the prolific New York City chef and empire builder behind some of the most buzzed-about restaurants in the United States, including Parm, Sadelle’s, the Pool, Carbone, and his most personal venture,Torrisi. Matt was a fan of Rich’s breakout restaurant, Torrisi Italian Specialties, when it opened at 250 Mulberry Street in 2009. What …

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695: Holiday Cookie Boot Camp with Vaughn Vreeland & Marissa Rothkopf 1:14:25

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Vaughn Vreeland is a cookbook author, NYT Cooking writer, and longtime video personality—or, as he writes, “that guy from that thing I saw once.” His first book, Cookies: The Best Recipes for the Perfect Anytime Treat, was published in collaboration with NYT Cooking and includes 100 amazing cookie recipes from Vaughn along with a deep bench of reci…

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Cigars: Lifestyle or Just Smoke? The Big Debate with Jean-Marie | Habanos Saturday EP 896 1:18:52

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Send us a text This week on Habanos Saturday, EP 896, we’re diving straight into the hottest topic in the cigar world: Does sex really sell cigars… and does social media actually move product, or is it all smoke and mirrors? We break down the truth behind influencer hype, half-naked “cigar models,” algorithm tricks, manufactured clout — and what ac…

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694: Inside the New York Magazine Food Beat with Chris Crowley 1:00:35

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It’s the return of Food Writers Talking About Food Writing. Every couple of weeks, Matt invites a journalist to talk about some favorite recent food writing as well as their thoughts on the industry as a whole. In today’s episode, we talk with Chris Crowley. Chris is a senior writer at New York magazine covering food and culture around the five bor…

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A Studio Audience | The Scene Snobs Podcast Ep. 402 – Best Movies Per Studio + Major Studio Takeovers! 1:23:11

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🎉 The Scene Snobs Podcast – Episode 402: “A Studio Audience” (LIVE!) 📅 Friday, November 28, 2025 | ⏰ 8:30 PM EST What happens when Mick, Casey, and Paul each take over a MAJOR movie studio for one night? Find out in this week’s special episode of The Scene Snobs Podcast! This week’s theme: 🔥 TOP 5 COUNTDOWN — “Best Movies Per Studio” Each Snob is r…

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The Lost Dollar Breakdown: Home Schooling Robots & Money | Lost Dolaar Business Club Ep 895 58:45

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Send us a text This week on The Lost Dollar Business Club, Ep 895, we dove into the strange, brilliant, and occasionally ridiculous world we now live in — starting with homeschooling. Is it saving the next generation, or turning them into future basement-dwelling super-geniuses who refuse to go outside? We break it down with our usual mix of experi…

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693: Rome's Real Deal and Cracking Carbonara's Code with Katie Parla 1:03:13

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There is no food writer we would rather talk to about Italy—and maybe about food in general—than Katie Parla. Katie is the author of several books, and her latest is a return to her hometown of Rome. Rome: A Culinary History, Cookbook, and Field Guide to the Flavors that Built a City captures the history and modern culinary spirit of one of the wor…

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692: What Breaking 2 Million on Social Really Feels Like with Hannah Taylor 55:54

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Hannah Taylor is the fast-growing culinary creator known on TikTok and Instagram as LilyLouTay. She is the author of the New York Times Best Seller Measure with Your Heart, and she joins us in the studio with a really fun conversation about her Southern cooking roots and her journey from being a working mother of three to a social media megastar. A…

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Top 5 WILD News Stories You Won't Believe | No Snobs or Knobs Ep 892 30:40

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Send us a text This week on No Snobs or Knobs, Ep 892, we tackle the wildest, weirdest stories you won’t hear anywhere else. A Mercedes-Benz with wooden brakes sells at auction, a man goes to the doctor and somehow ends up in Italy, and another guy finances his wedding by selling sponsorships on his tuxedo. We dive into the disturbing case of a nur…

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691: Samin Nosrat Does It Again 1:07:29

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Samin Nosrat is a chef, teacher, and author of the bestselling, James Beard Award–winning cookbook Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat, and the star of the very popular titular documentary series on Netflix. Now, she’s back with a truly excellent new cookbook: Good Things. Today on the show, we go deep on the journey that led her to Good Things, why recipes are …

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Inside The Leaf Master Dubai — UAE’s Premier Non-Cuban Cigar Haven | Habanos Saturday Ep 893 1:29:01

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Send us a text This week on Habanos Saturday, Ep 893, we’re going international — all the way to Dubai. Our special guest is Ra’ed Saqfelhait, co-owner and partner of The Leaf Master Dubai, the UAE’s largest and most respected boutique cigar destination for premium non-Cuban cigars. Ra’ed is a true cigar aficionado with deep knowledge of global bra…

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Guess Who’s Back! | The Scene Snobs Podcast Ep. 401 – Casey Returns! | Top 5 Movie Revivals + More 1:40:26

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🎉 The Scene Snobs Podcast – Episode 401: “Guess Who’s Back” (LIVE!) 📅 Friday, November 21, 2025 | ⏰ 8:30 PM EST After 10 YEARS… the Madman rides again. CASEY “The Madman” PLOTT returns to join Mick & Paul for a massive celebration episode of The Scene Snobs Podcast! This week, we dive into: 🔥 TOP 5 MOVIE REVIVALS – Our favorite cinematic comebacks …

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690: Eating Along the Many Silk Roads with Anna Ansari 1:00:56

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Anna Ansari is a former New York international trade and customs attorney and now lives in East London. She's written a fascinating debut cookbook, Silk Roads: A Flavor Odyssey with Recipes from Baku to Beijing. It covers Anna's life growing up in an Iranian American family in Michigan and traveling throughout Asia from a young age on what she desc…

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689: Tom Colicchio's First Cookbook Says It All 59:12

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Tom Colicchio is a longtime chef who has operated some of America’s iconic restaurants, including Craft, Gramercy Tavern, and dozens more. He’s also the head judge on the show Top Chef. We welcomed Tom back to the studio to talk about the current restaurant landscape as well as the release of Think Like a Chef, the 25th anniversary edition of his d…

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No Snobs or Knobs EP 889 : Roman “iPhone,” Irish Lion Dog & Poland’s Boldest Burglar 31:27

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Send us a text This week on No Snobs or Knobs EP 889,we’re bringing you the world’s most “are we being punk’d?” headlines. • Archaeologists “find an iPhone” in a 2,000-year-old Roman dig—so… did time travel actually happen, or did Caesar just invent airplane mode? • In Ireland, a dog that looks exactly like a lion causes a mini-meltdown… until ever…

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688: Gabrielle Hamilton on Writing Hard Truths and Prune’s New Era 1:04:24

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Gabrielle Hamilton is the chef/owner of Prune restaurant in New York’s East Village and is the author of the New York Times best-selling memoir Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef and the cookbook Prune. Her moving new memoir Next of Kin is an unflinching portrait of her dynamic family and its dramatic dissolution t…

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PCA Dubai, Rare Collections, and Real Cigar Talk | Habanos Saturday Ep 890 1:23:19

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Send us a text This week on Habanos Saturday, we’re going live to Dubai. Usman is on the ground at the PCA event, giving us a real-time update on what’s hot, what’s overhyped, and what cigar people are actually talking about when the cameras are off. We’re also joined by Urs, back with his insane cigar collection and some hard-earned wisdom on how …

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687: Peak Private Label on Food Writers Talking About Food Writing with Maggie Hoffman 51:47

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It’s the return of Food Writers Talking About Food Writing. Every couple of weeks, Matt invites a journalist to talk about some favorite recent food writing as well as their thoughts on the industry as a whole. In today’s episode, we talk with Maggie Hoffman. Maggie is a cookbook author, editor, and founder of the terrific Substack The Dinner Plan …

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686: Cha McCoy Is Doing Wine Pairings for the People 1:14:53

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Cha McCoy is an entrepreneur, educator, and sommelier from Harlem. She is the founder of the wine event series the Communion and, later, the brick-and-mortar bottle shop the Communion Wine & Spirits. Now she’s sharing her wine knowledge in her first book: Wine Pairing for the People: The Communion of Wine, Food, and Culture from Africa and Beyond. …

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685: Restaurant Trends and Resiliency with Resy CEO Pablo Rivero 27:17

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Today on the show we have a great conversation with Pablo Rivero, CEO of Resy and Tock. Along with running Resy and Tock, Pablo is a passionate supporter of the restaurant industry and a prolific diner. We hear about the recent Resy Retrospective and what the Resy team is spotting across the United States. We also get into Pablo’s personal history …

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Weirdest Products You Never Knew Existed! No Snobs or Knobs Ep 886 33:50

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Send us a text This week on No Snobs or Knobs Ep 886 we unwrap the internet’s strangest “innovations” and outright scams: an Apple phone case that allegedly weighs six pounds (for the biceps you didn’t ask for), “magic” water from a Japanese wine company that promises health just by existing, and $119 underwear you can also use as a hair tie—becaus…

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684: Inside @cabagges.world with Anna Archibald and Kevin Serai 48:59

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Anna Archibald and Kevin Serai are the couple behind Cabagges World, an online platform where they share recipes, travel guides, and more lifestyle inspiration. Their respective backgrounds in graphic design and marketing helped turn a few viral home cooking videos into a career, and today on the show, we go deep on their backgrounds and perspectiv…

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Are You Being MISLED by Cigar Influencers? | Habanos Saturday Ep 887 1:22:03

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Send us a text Today’s Habanos Saturday Ep 887,is a straight-talking reality check: Steven & Reza break down the rise of “cigar influencers” who don’t actually know cigars. We cover red flags (paid plugs masquerading as “opinions,” fake scarcity hype, sloppy tasting notes), how to spot undisclosed sponsorships and affiliate traps, and why provenanc…