This week, it's a conversation abroad with long-time food writer Marlena Spieler.
She’s written, or contributed to, more than 70 cookbooks over her long and storied career.
She authored a whole book on macaroni and cheese, and another on grilled cheese.
She also wrote The Complete Guide to Traditional Jewish Cooking.
Her most recent book, A Taste of Naples: Neapolitan Culture, Cuisine, and Cooking, is available in hardcover.
She was raised in Sacramento, California and has lived in San Francisco and New York.
She now lives in the English countryside and came into London, where Clark got the chance to visit with her while travelling there.
David Goodman, Executive Director, and Don Nolan, Kitchen Collective Chef, head up the key efforts at Sonoma County’s Redwood Empire Food Bank. 
This time on Savoring Sonoma host Clark Wolf spends the hour with one of the region’s, and nation’s, finest and most inspiring farmers. Tucker Taylor is the Director of Culinary Gardens at Kendal Jackson Estates, where he has designed and oversees some magical acres of precious farmland.
This week on Savoring Sonoma: The Hour the conversation is with two well known and loved cookbook authors and passionate home cooks.
First, it’s one of the world’s best known and successful food writers, authors, tv presenters and cooking competition judges, the incomparable Nigella Lawson. We talk about her new book Cook, Eat, Repeat: Ingredients, Recipes and Stories in advance of her appearance here in Sonoma County at the Luther Burbank Center for the Arts on November 16th, and a whole lot more.
Then it’s our hometown favorite Marcy Carriker Smothers, author of Delicious Disney: Recipes and Stories from the Most Magical Place on Earth. We talk about her tastings and adventures from within the world of Walt Disney properties, histories, culinary traditions, and the people who have been making some of America’s favorite foods.
Savoring Sonoma: The Hour airs second and fourth Sundays at 6:00 pm on KRCB 104.9.
Nigella Lawson is coming to the Luther Burbank Center for the Arts on Wednesday, November 16th, at 7:30 PM!
Live in conversation with Clark Wolf, Nigella will explore how cooking is a personal, intuitive, and connecting process; how one meal idea leads to another; and how one ingredient can spawn a multitude of recipes. Whether asking,” What is a recipe?” or publishing her groundbreaking essay, “A Loving Defense of Brown Food,” Nigella’s wisdom about food and life comes to the fore.
Tickets are available now at LutherBurbankCenter.org.
Host Clark Wolf visited with legendary food writer, Emmy Award winner and retired New York Times reporter Marian Burros at her home in Northern Vermont where they talked about the state of food in America, her famous plum tart recipe (number one forever at the New York Times), how cookbooks sometimes need to be updated, covering hard news food issues, and a whole lot more.
Later in the show, Clark welcomes John Toulze, Managing Partner of the beloved the Girl & the Fig. They talk about the history of that landmark Sonoma (the town) restaurant over the last quarter century on the occasion of its 25th Anniversary. They also explore the realities of serving 400-700 people a day with locally grown ingredients and working in collaboration with farmers, staff, neighbors, and friends.
Savoring Sonoma: The Hour, every second and fourth Sunday nights at 6:00 pm PDT, on KRCB 104.9.
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