Winner of the James Beard Media Award for Best Food Podcast.
A narrative-driven, sound-rich podcast that explores the forces that shape our meals.
2023 & 2019 James Beard Media Award Winner
Where to Start
If you’re a new listener…welcome! We’re glad you’re here. To help you get started, here are some of our most popular episodes.
Be A Girl: Brigade
Our first season, Be A Girl, is a sound-rich, serialized narrative focused on the question: why do women only represent 19% of chefs, and 7% of head chefs, across the culinary world?
We start with the Brigade, asking the questions: Why are restaurant kitchens organized the way they are? And what do women do to work their way up the ranks in a kitchen?
Winner of the 2019 James Beard Media Award for Best Podcast.
Tasting Menus: A Dining Experience
This 6-course audio experience takes you through dishes from pivotal points in the history of the modern tasting menu.
Abalone: The Cost of Consumption
In this episode, we explore the various forces that led to the near-extinction of abalone and how the government ban has criminalized the millennia-old culinary customs of indigenous people like Hillary Renick, a Pomo-Paiute woman who has risked jail time and fines to keep those food traditions alive.
Winner of the 2023 James Beard Media Award for Audio Programming.
Zero Stars: Why is a Tire Company Rating Food?
When Copper & Heat Radio host Katy worked in the Bay Area in her early 20s, she would have given the Michelin Guide 3 stars because those were the restaurants she had to work in to learn the most innovative and interesting food. How has that changed?
Katy and co-producer Rachel investigate the history, data, and money behind the Michelin Guide in the U.S. By the end of the research, Katy and Rachel have very different ratings for the Guide than what their 24-year-old selves would have given it.
About The James Beard Media Awards
Established in 1990 with the first awards given in 1991, the James Beard Awards are among the nation’s most prestigious honors recognizing leaders in the culinary and food media industries, and those in the broader food systems. The Awards are overseen by the Awards Committee. Each Awards program (Book, Broadcast Media, Journalism, Leadership, and Restaurant and Chef) has its own subcommittee members who volunteer their time to oversee the policies, procedures, and selection of judges for their respective program.