Amuse-Bouche
Kae Lani Palmisano • Food, Arts
Kae Lani Palmisano • Food, Arts
Amuse-Bouche
Kae Lani Palmisano • Food, Arts
Kae Lani Palmisano • Food, Arts

About

Amuse-Bouche is a podcast full of big ideas served in small bites. Just like the little taste that kicks off the meal, Amuse-Bouche introduces passionate foodies to the latest topics that are changing the culinary landscape. Join Emmy Award-Winning host Kae Lani Palmisano (WHYY/PBS, USA TODAY 10Best, KitchenAid Stories) for conversations with industry leaders and thoughtful tastemakers on all the small ways food makes a big impact on our lives and the world around us. Follow Kae Lani and Amuse-Bouche on Instagram @KaeLaniSays and @AmuseBouchePod!

Episodes

  • Matt Hershberger: Food Taboos
    What are food taboos? How are they created? And how do we break the power they hold over us? Matt Hershberger is back to explore the world of food taboos. We talk about the lobster's rise from taboo to luxury in colonial American history, we dish ab...
  • Dr. Geo Banks-Weston: How Social Media Builds Community
    Dr. Geo Banks-Weston was an early adopter of social media. Back in the day, when filters flooded people's Instagram feeds, he learned just how powerful of a tool it could be in building communities and how digital media as a whole could be leveraged...
  • Alexandra Jones: How to taste cheese
    There's eating cheese and then there's tasting cheese. Like... REALLY tasting cheese. We're talking about engaging every sense and being present in the moment while indulging in the ultimate dairy bliss. That's just a brief description of how a prop...
  • Bettina Makalintal: Dining in the Suburbs
    For a long time, food media portrayed the suburbs as a dining wasteland full of chain restaurants and unimaginative menus. But suburbia is changing. According to Bettina Makalintal, staff writer at Vice Munchies, we should be paying more attention t...
  • Emily Contois: Food and Gender
    Why are salads considered feminine? Why is steak seen as a manly meal? Gender and the roles they have come represent is one of the many factors that shape the way our culture perceives food, thus dictating our relationship with eating. Emily Contois...
  • Annemarie Dooling on the sweetness of doing nothing
    Annemarie Dooling is constantly in motion. When she's not performing her duties as the Engagement Experiences Product Lead with the Wall Street Journal, she's a writer, burlesque dancer, magician, a fan of antiques, and a home cook. Between her job ...
  • Matt Hershberger is Living La Vida Jersey Fresh
    When Matt Hershberger moved from Cincinnati to New Jersey, he felt a little out of place. Withdrawn from the local community in his new home he started experiencing depression with a whole cavalcade of symptoms that were only exasperated by growing a...
  • Sam Slaughter: Food and Nostalgia
    What do the '90s taste like? If this is something you’ve been pondering, you’re in luck! Food and drink writer, Sam Slaughter, has captured the spirit of the decade in his cocktail book "Are You Afraid of the Dark Rum?: and Other Cocktails for '90s K...
  • Dr. Neil P. Bardhan: Food and Improv
    Dr. Neil P. Bardhan is a professional storyteller. Seriously, he's one of Philadelphia's top improv performers and has a Ph.D. in Brain and Cognitive Sciences. In this episode he joins Kae Lani Palmisano for a discussion on improv in the kitchen, th...
  • Jessica van Dop DeJesus: Food and Multiculturalism
    Jessica van Dop DeJesus is an incredibly multifaceted person. She’s a marine, a food and travel writer, a world traveler, a talented producer and food show host, and does it all while being a mom. She sits down with Kae Lani Palmisano to explore how ...
  • Kate Morgan: Food and Memories
    Food connects us to one another not just in the present, but also reaches into our past and carries us into the future. Journalist Kate Morgan joins Kae Lani Palmisano to discuss Food and Memories, how food can elicit memories but also can create ne...