Michael J. Twitty on Savoring Sonoma: The Hour (Aired: August 14, 2022)
Michael J. Twitty is a national treasure. His book The Cooking Gene won a James Beard Award for writing and as Book of the Year in 2018. His new book, Koshersoul, the second in a trilogy he has pledged, explores the critical aspects related to being of many tribes; Black, Gay, Southern, of slaves and slave owners, indigenous, Jewish... Join host Clark Wolf as he Zooms in with Twitty in advance of his visit to the Bay Area on August 15th.
There are recipes in the book, but that may not be the main feast.
Savoring Sonoma: The Hour welcomes chef/owner Jamilah Nixon of JAM’s Joy Bungalow, when we dig into her history; from Sonoma County to the shrimp farms of Vietnam, and back. Her Mexican, Creole, and California ancestry, along with her formal and informal training, is expressed in foods she sells…
Patrick O'Connell has been spinning magic - now at a Michelin three star level - for 45 years at the famed Inn At Little Washington. Host Clark Wolf sat down with him on his lovely garden terrace recently and talked about the evolution of restaurants in ways reminiscent of how we consider things…
This week on Savoring Sonoma: The Hour we have a Farmers Dozen. That is, six folks in food and farming talking about the last 50 years here in that world of bounty in Sonoma County, and six young folks just getting into or carrying on the tradition of good farming in our community. It all happened…
Sometime after the Callahan family moved to thirty-four acres of bucolic Sonoma County near Petaluma, former nurse and bar certified lawyer Cindy Callahan realized that our pastoral region produces rich grasses, as high as an elephant’s eye. Her solution to a growing problem was sheep. Soon enough…
Few people alive today hold as much history and continue to have as much impact on our community of food than Lindsey Shere. Born in Chicago, her family came West, where she was raised on a 500-acre ranch in Healdsburg that included a stretch of the Russian River. In the kitchen from an early age,…
This week our guest is writer and photographer Yvonne Michie Horn who makes her home here in Sonoma County, where her family has lived for three generations. She’s written for Bon Appetit, Golf Digest, Quarterly Review of Wines, and metropolitan newspapers across the United States, including the…