Dorie Greenspan & Christine Muhlke

12/08/14 • 47 min

This week’s guests: Dorie Greenspan & Christine Muhlke

Over the past 20 years, Dorie Greenspan has written 10 cookbooks and won six James Beard and IACP awards for them, including Cookbook of the Year ... twice! She won the IACP Cookbook-of-the-Year Award for Desserts by Pierre Herme and for The New York Times Bestseller, Around My French Table. She’s also been named to the James Beard Foundation’s Who’s Who of Food and Beverage in America. Dorie’s latest book is Baking Chez Moi, Recipes From My Paris Kitchen to Your Kitchen Anywhere. Baking Chez Moi is filled with recipes for the simple, homey, wonderfully delicious sweets that she and her friends bake at home in Paris.

“Living in France has really meant that I can work in France. “I have the access to people who can share recipes with me.” [05:00]

“There are more women doing spectacular jobs that I didn’t think would be possible at the time I was being turned away.” [39:00]

— Dorie Greenspan on Radio Cherry Bombe

Bon Appetit Executive editor Christine Muhlke is the co-author of “Manresa: An Edible Reflection” with David Kinch and “On the Line: Inside the World of Le Bernardin” with Eric Ripert. She was formerly the food editor at the New York Times Magazine.

“One of the great things about being a writer is it gives you license to be nosy.” [12:00]

–Christine Muhlke on Radio Cherry Bombe

This week’s guests: Dorie Greenspan & Christine Muhlke

“Living in France has really meant that I can work in France. “I have the access to people who can share recipes with me.” [05:00]

“There are more women doing spectacular jobs that I didn’t think would be possible at the time I was being turned away.” [39:00]

— Dorie Greenspan on Radio Cherry Bombe

“One of the great things about being a writer is it gives you license to be nosy.” [12:00]

–Christine Muhlke on Radio Cherry Bombe

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Phin & Phebes

This week on Radio Cherry Bombe, Julia Turshen is joined by Jess Eddy and Crista Freeman, owners of Phin & Phebes Ice Cream and makers of delicious, all-natural ice cream. Jess and Crista talk about their inspiration to the art of ice cream making, from their beginnings growing up with different ice cream flavors, to dropping their day jobs to delve into the ice cream business, and finally the production and influence behind starting your own ice cream company. Learn more about the process of running an ice cream business, from finding the creative vision to creating an amazing packaging label, to experimenting and creating new ice cream flavors. This program was brought to you by The International Culinary Center.

“It’s important to have a vision when you’re starting out. That vision can always change over time but it helps define your trajectory as a business and where you’ll grow.” [19:00]

–Crista Freeman on Radio Cherry Bombe

“It’s kind of a fun game to think of how can we make this thing we’re eating or flavor we like into an ice cream.” [20:00]

–Jess Eddy on Radio Cherry Bombe

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Ina Garten

This week’s guest is Ina Garten

In 1978, Ina Garten found herself working in the White House on nuclear energy policy and thinking, “There’s got to be more to life than this!” She saw an ad for a small food store for sale in a place she’d never been: the Hamptons at the end of Long Island. She and her husband drove up to investigate and made the owner an offer on the spot. Two months later she found herself the owner of Barefoot Contessa, a 400-sq. ft. specialty food store.

Twenty years later, Barefoot Contessa grew to a 3,000-square-foot food emporium where twenty cooks and bakers prepared the food. Twenty-five more employees worked in the store helping thousands of customers to choose breads, salads, dinners and baked goods to take home. In 1996, Ina sold the store to her employees. In 2003, the new owners of Barefoot Contessa decided to close their doors and go on to new adventures.

In 1999, Ina wrote her first book, The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook, which was one of the best-selling cookbooks of the year. The book invites readers into her specialty food store and shares the recipes that made it such a success. In 2001, Ina followed with best-selling Barefoot Contessa Parties! in which she invites readers into her home and shares her ideas and recipes for having parties that are fun for all â€” including the host. Her follow-up cookbooks, Barefoot Contessa Family Style (2002), Barefoot in Paris (2004), Barefoot Contessa at Home (2006), Barefoot Contessa Back to Basics (2008), Barefoot Contessa How Easy Is That? (2010) and Barefoot Contessa Foolproof (2012) all continue her style of cooking with easy, delicious, and foolproof recipes that you can make at home.

In 2006, Ina and her business partner Frank Newbold started a successful line of Barefoot Contessa Pantry products, comprised of baking mixes and sauces developed from recipes in her cookbooks.

Ina has been a columnist for Martha Stewart Living magazine, O, the Oprah magazine and House Beautiful magazine.

Ina lives in East Hampton, N.Y., and Southport, Conn., with her husband Jeffrey, who is a professor at the Yale School of Management.

Ina currently hosts Barefoot Contessa on Food Network.

Photo: Quentin Bacon

“I don’t like when things are layered – flavors on top of flavors.” [11:00]

“When I bring wine to somebody’s house, I swear I don’t expect people to serve it. I’m bringing it as a gift to them, not me.” [20:00]

“If you don’t take care of business you don’t get to do the fun stuff.” [38:00]

–Ina Garten on Radio Cherry Bombe