Kitchen Tape

Rose Wilde and Crystal Slonecker
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Kitchen Tape is for people who love food—and the stories behind it. Rose and Crystal speak with chefs, authors, creators, and the ecosystem of magic makers that bring stories about food to life. Curious, candid conversations about the obsessions, experiences, and creative choices that shape how we farm, cook, eat, and think. Edited by Mr. Z

  1. 3d ago

    Welcome Back to Season 3

    Heeeey! Rose Wilde welcomes listeners back to Kitchen Tape and previews a season of conversations about food, memory, craft, and the people behind culinary stories. She shares updates on her books Tiny Cakes and Bread and Roses, then reflects on what she learned from food and farming communities in Maine and California, stories from Denmark, Taiwan, and Lebanon, with themes ranging from family recipes and grief to food traditions under threat, land stewardship, and hopeful ideas for the future. Subscribe and share with your favorite food friend. Mentions: Tiny Cakes — Rose Wilde’s forthcoming book, illustrated by Asami Watsanabe and published by Chronicle. Bread and Roses — Rose’s earlier book about whole grains and cooking with what grows together. Norton International Year of the Woman Farmer @cagrownofficial @caprunes @cherrybombe @aussiebeeflamb @maingrainalliance Authors you can look forward to hearing this season and their books: Gus Constantellis — My Greek Mom’s Recipes: She Died. I Wrote This Cookbook. Ham El-Waylly — Hello, Home Cooking Martin Sorge — Great Bakes from the Midwest Robin Ha — Instant Noodles & Beyond Erin Jeanne McDowell — Bake Anything Nora Singley — One-Pot Pasta Susan Spungen — Cookie Queen Zola Gregory - Sheet Cakes! AND The Pasta Box Lucie Franc de Ferrière — Cake From Lucie Phyllis Grant — Everything Is Under ControlSarah Trad — A House in the Lebanese Mountains Mark Bittman — How to Cook Everything Vegan and the How to Cook Everything series Ali Francis — The Curious Lives of Vegetables Marie Havnø Frank — More Than Sweet Amy Halloran - The New Bread Basket Revisited Nichole Accettola — Scandinavian from Scratch Virginia Shaffer — Oyster Society Clarissa Wei — Sitting the Month and Made in Taiwan Anna Voloshyna — Ukraïne and Budmo!Laurel Kratochvila — Dobre Dobre: Baking from Poland and Beyond. Rachel Gurjar — East to East Lokelani Alabanza — Ice Cream Queen Tara Jensen — Pizza Practice Flour Power Sally Ekus — Cookbook-publishing special Rose Wilde — Tiny Cakes Noah Galuten — Grill Time! Farideh Sadeghin — The Hot Dog Cookbook AND Cheesy! And More! Follow us on instagram: @kitchentapepod Follow Rose @trosewilde and Crystal @crystalslonecker Subscribe on https://eatmore.substack.com/ Order Tiny Cakes: A Cookbook with 75 Recipes for Everyday Muffins, Party Cupcakes, and More by Rose Wilde Edited by @mr_z_______

  2. Jun 3

    Everyone Loves Dorie and her NEW Anytime Cakes!

    This week on Kitchen Tape, Rose and Crystal sit down with Dorie Greenspan, one of the most beloved and trusted voices in baking. We talk about the decades-spanning body of work that has made Dorie such a constant presence in home kitchens, from her collaborations with icons like Pierre Hermé and Julia Child to the warmth, clarity, and curiosity that define her own books. The conversation invites us into her sweet world and moves through intuition, endurance, recipe writing, family, the choice for a fully illustrated book and the quiet discipline of making people feel cared for through food. And at the very end, Dorie receives a reveal that’s been building quietly across the entire season! LEAVE A COMMENT TO WIN A COPY OF HER NEW BOOK! United States shipping addresses only. Mentioned in this episode: • Dorie’s Anytime Cakes: A James Beard Award Winner's Collection of 100+ Simple Illustrated Recipes • Baking with Dorie: Sweet, Salty & Simple • Everyday Dorie: The Way I Cook • Dorie’s Cookies • Baking Chez Moi: Recipes from My Paris Home to Your Home Anywhere • Around My French Table: More than 300 Recipes from My Home to Yours • Baking: From My Home to Yours • Baking with Julia: Savor the Joys of Baking with America's Best Bakers • The Settlement Cookbook by Simon Kander • The New York Times Cookbook by Craig Claiborne • Sift by Nicola Lamb • A Book of Mediterranean Food by Elizabeth David • Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat by Samin Nosrat

  3. May 27

    A Meaningful Life: Helen Goh on Baking, Ritual and Joy

    This week on Kitchen Tape, Rose and Crystal sit down with Helen Goh, internationally acclaimed pastry chef, longtime Ottolenghi collaborator, columnist for the Sydney Morning Herald and The Guardian, and author of Baking and the Meaning of Life and Sweet. Featuring 100 recipes that weave together Helen’s Malaysian and Australian heritage with Western and Middle Eastern influences, Baking and the Meaning of Life asks a larger question beneath the recipes: how do we build meaning in our lives? Through eight essays woven throughout the book, Helen explores baking as a practice of mindfulness, agency, competence, ritual, and connection — not simply as a way to make food, but as one of the many small acts that help us create purpose and community in a chaotic world. The conversation moves through her enviable cookbook collection, existentialism, the meanings of color, psychology, flavor, memory, and the quiet rigor behind recipes that feel both deeply comforting and profoundly intentional. Mentioned in this episode:• Baking and the Meaning of Life: How to Find Joy in 100 Recipes• Sweet by Helen Goh and Yotam Ottolenghi• Cooking: Simply and Well, for One or Many by Jeremy Lee• Kate Spade Green• The Australian Women's Weekly Children's Birthday Cake Book• The Flavor Thesaurus by Niki Segnit• Stars Desserts by Emily Luchetti• Flour Hour Baking Podcast hosted by Jeremiah Duarte Bills and Amanda Faber• Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott• Ma Vie en Rose by Rose Levy Beranbaum• The Artful Baker by Cenk Sonmezsoy• Jikoni by Ravinder Bhogal

  4. May 20

    Taste and Obsession: Author and Culture Writer Ella Quittner

    This week on Kitchen Tape, Rose and Crystal sit down with Ella Quittner, author of Obsessed with the Best, to talk about what happens when curiosity meets obsessive recipe testing. Built around dozens of head-to-head comparisons, Ella’s book asks not just what tastes best, but how we arrive there — through repetition, methodology, instinct, and the strange culture of mass food discourse. We discuss the lineage of deeply practical cookbooks, the rise of personality-driven food media, and how humor, rigor, and experimentation can coexist on the same page. We dig into the epic photography in her cookbook, including, a portrait in bed with dessert. And why the perfect whipped cream matters! Mentioned in this episode:• Obsessed with the Best: 100+ Methodically Perfected Recipes Based on 20+ Head-to-Head Tests• Joy of Cooking• The New Basics Cookbook by Sheila Lukins and Julee Rosso• The Food Lab by J. Kenji López-Alt• Sweet Enough by Alison Roman• Food Is a Feeling by Carla Lalli Music• Will This Make You Happy by Tanya Bush• Hello, Home Cooking by Ham El-Waylly

  5. May 6

    Writing with Hunger: Lisa Donovan on Food, Memoir, and Voice

    This week on Kitchen Tape, Rose and Crystal sit down with Lisa Donovan, James Beard Award–winning author of Our Lady of Perpetual Hunger, now widely regarded as one of the definitive food memoirs of our time. We talk about hunger as both subject and structure — emotional, creative, intellectual, and literal — and dig into the discipline of memoir, writing food as personal narrative, and claiming authority in a voice shaped by appetite, loss, labor, and desire. The conversation moves through literary lineage, publishing realities, and why food writing endures when it tells the truth plainly, without performance. Mentioned in this episode: • Our Lady of Perpetual Hunger by Lisa Donovan • David Black Literary Agency • Dear Women: Own Your Stories by Lisa Donovan for Food & Wine • M. F. K. Fisher • Blood, Bones & Butter by Gabrielle Hamilton • When French Women Cook by Madeleine Kamman • Everything Is Under Control by Phyllis Grant • Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone by Deborah Madison • Heartburn by Nora Ephron • Desserts by Pierre Hermé and Dorie Greenspan • Bernard Clayton Jr. (books) • Artisan Baking by Maggie Glezer • Samin Nosrat

  6. Apr 29

    This Will Make You Happy: Tanya Bush on Baking, Failing, and Storytelling

    This week on Kitchen Tape, Rose and Crystal sit down with Tanya Bush, author of Will This Make You Happy, to talk about baking as a way of moving through a year — emotionally, creatively, and practically. We discuss what it means to write from inside your own life, how recipes can hold both structure and feeling, and how Tanya expands the cookbook form through narrative, gently pushing against its traditional boundaries. We talk about what it means to break the mold without losing usefulness, and why baking often becomes a way to ask questions rather than answer them. The conversation moves between storytelling, routine, and the quiet search for meaning in everyday acts of making. Mentioned in this episode: Will This Make You Happy: Stories and Recipes from a Year of Baking by Tanya Bush “Party Girl” (1995) Trailer Brooks Headley's Fancy Desserts: The Recipes of Del Posto’s James Beard Award–Winning Pastry Chef by Brooks Headley Cooking As Though You Might Cook Again by Daniel Licht Ruby Tandoh Chloe Rose Crabtree, Bake Street London Oliver Lee Costello, Toad Bakery Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen: A Memoir and Cookbook by Laurie Colwin

  7. Apr 22

    Your Favorite Authors Favorite Author: Maria Zizka on Cookbook Collaborations

    This week on Kitchen Tape, Rose and Crystal sit down with Maria Zizka to talk about the art of collaboration in cookbook publishing. We dig into Maria’s own canon alongside the many influential books she’s helped bring into the world as a co-author, ghostwriter, and translator — working closely with some of the industry’s most respected voices. From shaping tone and structure to translating vision across cultures, projects, and personalities, Maria shares what it means to be a steady creative partner, how trust is built behind the scenes, and why some of the most enduring cookbooks are the result of deep, generous collaboration rather than singular authorship.

  8. Apr 15

    Soft Power: Publicist Carrie Bachman on the Life of Cookbooks

    This week on Kitchen Tape, Rose and Crystal sit down with Carrie Bachman, a renowned publicist and longtime champion of cookbook authors, to talk about advocacy, trust, and the quiet power behind a book’s success. From shaping long-term author careers to navigating launches, festivals, and press cycles, Carrie shares how taste, timing, and deep belief in a project help books find their readers — and why publicity, at its best, is about stewardship as much as strategy. Mentioned in this episode: • Big Bites: Wholesome, Comforting Recipes That Are Big on Flavor, Nourishment, and Fun by Kat Ashmore • Gluten-Free Orange-Ricotta Company Cake (Kat Ashmore) • Dorie Greenspan (including Dorie’s Anytime Cakes) • Ina Garten • Marcella Hazan • Tom Douglas’ Seattle Kitchen • The Betty Crocker Cookbook • William Morrow (now part of HarperCollins) • Barbara Kafka • Julia Child • Jacques Pépin • Emeril Lagasse • Heartland Masala by Jyoti Mukharji • Umma by Sarah Ahn and Nam Soon Ahn • American Library Association Conference • Fancy Food Show • Sisterly Love Collective • The New Making of a Cook by Madeleine Kamman • Nathan Myhrvold • Darlingside

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Kitchen Tape is for people who love food—and the stories behind it. Rose and Crystal speak with chefs, authors, creators, and the ecosystem of magic makers that bring stories about food to life. Curious, candid conversations about the obsessions, experiences, and creative choices that shape how we farm, cook, eat, and think. Edited by Mr. Z

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  • Creator
    Rose Wilde and Crystal Slonecker
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2026
  • Episodes
    52
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Rose Wilde and Crystal Slonecker
  • Show Website
    Kitchen Tape

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