60-Second Stir Fry: Katie Carguilo of Counter Culture Coffee
If you can't stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen. Or away from the steam wand. Barista Katie Cargiulo, my guest this week on Last Chance Foods, submits to a lightning round of questions.Espresso or...
View Article60-Second Stir Fry: Jim Burke of Caffe Storico
If you can’t stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen. Jim Burke is in the kitchen all the time, as chef of Caffe Storico, the new eatery in the New-York Historical Society.The café specializes in...
View Article60-Second Stir-Fry: Rick Field of Rick's Picks
If you can't stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen and away from my iPod touch video camera!Rick Field is the man who spawned a renewed interest in pickles and pickling with Rick's Picks, which he...
View Article60-Second Stir-Fry: Peter Meehan of Lucky Peach
If you can't stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen and away from the hot seat in Last Chance Food's 60-Second Stir Fry. My advice to this week's guest, Peter Meehan, is to stick with the cold cereal...
View Article60-Second Stir-Fry: Jacques Gautier
If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen and stay away from the Studio 4 hot seat. My guest this week on Last Chance Foods, Jacques Gautier, clearly loves standing over a hot stove in...
View Article60-Second Stir-Fry: Perry Hack
Hydroponic greens farmer Perry Hack, of Two Guys from Woodbridge, gets out of the greenhouse and into the 60-Second Stir-Fryhot seat.Hack's operation is in Connecticut -- Hamden, actually, not...
View Article60-Second Stir-Fry: Tamara Duker Freuman
If you can't stand the heat, don't put your hand on a hot stove. And certainly don't sit still for the 60-Second Stir-Fry.Manhattan-based dietician Tamara Duker Freuman is not afraid of a hot stove,...
View Article60-Second Stir-Fry: Tama Matsuoka Wong
Our Last Chance Foods guest this week, Tama Matsuoka Wong, forages and eats stinging nettle, so we knew she wouldn't break a sweat when confronted with the Stir Fry's lightning round of...
View Article60-Second Stir Fry: Vinnie Calabro and Robert LaValva
Fisherman Vinnie Calabro of Karen Ann Charters and Robert LaValva, founder of New Amsterdam Market, thought they'd be "swimmin' wit da fishes" when they heard about the Stir Fry. Usually, there's...
View Article60-Second Stir-Fry: Christopher Toole
Leave it to the 60-Second Stir-Fry's lightning round to render speechless someone who has a lot to say. Christopher Toole, the Bronx-based fish farmer who raises tilapia in plastic bins -- don't call...
View Article60-Second Stir-Fry: Leda Meredith
Once again, we're tossing wild edibles into the 60-Second Stir-Fry, talking about burdock with forager Leda Meredith on this week's Last Chance Foods. But Meredith is a former dancer, and that's what...
View Article60-Second Stir-Fry: Antonio Ramos and Caroline Mak
It's sunny and warm outside, so we focus on wetting our whistle and keeping dangerous UV rays out of Mascot Cat's eyes in this week's 60-Second Stir-Fry.The sodas that Antonio Ramos and Caroline Mak...
View Article60-Second Stir-Fry: Anastasia Cole Plakias and Ben Flanner
Heat. Outside, it's making us sweat and making castelfranco and other greens bolt. Inside, in WNYC's Studio 4, the heat of the 60-Second Stir-Fry lightning round of hard-hitting questions is making...
View Article60-Second Stir-Fry: Tamar Adler
Tamar Adler, author of An Everlasting Meal, has shucked and peeled hundreds and hundreds of fava beans during her time in the kitchen at Chez Panisse, so she was unfazed by the prospect of a lightning...
View Article60-Second Stir-Fry: Diane Kochilas
Summertime makes me want to stay far away from anything hot, especially a stove or the hot seat of the 60-Second Stir-Fry. But chef and author Diane Kochilas teaches cooking classes in sunny Greece, so...
View Article60-Second Stir Fry: Caleb Leech and Ariel Nadelberg
This Stir Fry is less "fry" and more "stir." Brooklyn Botanic Garden herb curator Caleb Leech and BBG Terrace Café chef Ariel Nadelberg were allowed a do-over of my lightning round of questions, after...
View Article60-Second Stir Fry: Ron Binaghi III
Some of our Last Chance Foods guests go limp at the thought of the Stir Fry, but not Ron Binaghi III of Stokes Farm in Old Tappan, New Jersey. Just like his family farm's tomatoes, Binaghi thrives in...
View Article60-Second Stir Fry: Jennifer DiVello
Jennifer Divello of Patty's Berries and Bunches in Mattituck, on Long Island, does a 'berry' good job handling the heat of the stir fry lightning round of questions. Okay, had to do that. It's been a...
View Article60-Second Stir Fry: Annalee Sinclair and Robin Shulman
Community gardener Annalee Sinclair is no stranger to the hot seat. After all, she gardened in a syringe-infested abandoned lot on the Lower East Side, in the 1990s, when the neighborhood was a scary...
View Article60-Second Stir Fry: Mindy Fox
Cookbook author Mindy Fox spent part of her childhood growing up in Chicago, but she doesn’t hesitate to say that she prefers thin-crust pizza to the deep-dish pie synonymous with the Windy City. Maybe...
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