Place Settings by SAVEUR

Place Settings by SAVEUR

For over 30 years, SAVEUR has brought food stories and recipes from around the world into the kitchens of home cooks and culinary enthusiasts. Follow along as we travel around the world to meet the chefs, farmers, makers, and creatives who are transforming the food space through their individual connections to a place. Each week, our editors will chat with a food innovator whose personal journey is as compelling as what they’re putting on the plate.

Episodes

August 14, 2025 22 mins
In El Paso, chef Emiliano Marentes is preserving Mexican culinary traditions while infusing them with a modern sensibility. At ELEMI, his intimate taco-focused restaurant, Marentes makes tortillas from scratch through the ancient process known as nixtamalization but takes a contemporary approach to plating. He joins SAVEUR editor-in-chief Kat Craddock to talk fresh masa, Sunday menudo, and his hometown of El Paso. Learn more about ...
Mark as Played
At Fort Worth’s Panther City BBQ, pitmasters Chris Magallanes and Ernest Morales are blending Tex-Mex tradition with smoky innovation in dishes like brisket guisada and pork belly jalapeño poppers. The duo joins host Stephanie Burt for a conversation on the importance of community, their penchant for post oak wood, and why barbecue is best when shared. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mark as Played
Top Chef alum Tiffany Derry brings wood-fire technique, family recipes, and Southern pride to Dallas at Roots Southern Table. In this conversation with SAVEUR contributing editor Ellen Fort, Derry dishes on gumbo, sustainability, and why representation in food media is vital—alongside reflections on her early forays into the restaurant business. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mark as Played
Chef Aaron Bludorn is building a Gulf Coast fine dining empire in Houston, Texas. Joined by host Alyse Whitney, he discusses the region’s local seafood, Houston’s adventurous dining community, and how his newest restaurant, Perseid, reflects the city’s diversity. Don’t miss this deep dive into Houston’s status as one of the most exciting culinary frontiers in the U.S. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mark as Played
At Nixta Taqueria in Austin, Texas, chef Edgar Rico is pushing the boundaries of Austin’s taco culture with duck fat, fermentation, and Oaxacan corn. In this episode, he sits down with host Meena Thiruvengadam to talk taco innovation, vegetable-forward menus, and why Austin was the perfect place to build a community-centric restaurant. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mark as Played
San Antonio-born chef Jennifer Hwa Dobbertin of Best Quality Daughter brings personal history, Asian American identity, and nostalgic flavors to her restaurant in the heart of the city’s Pearl District. In conversation with writer Dan Q. Dao, Dobbertin explores why restaurants are essential third spaces—and why creating a joyful, design-forward environment matters just as much as the menu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit me...
Mark as Played
When she opened her restaurant Chez Panisse in Berkeley in 1971, Alice Waters had no plans for pioneering California cuisine or launching the farm-to-table movement across the U.S. But following her passion for market-fresh, seasonal cooking—sparked by a trip to France as a student—led her to work directly with local organic farmers and spotlight the origins of each ingredient on her menu. Those ideals have since reshaped the entir...
Mark as Played
With Honeysuckle Provisions, co-founders Omar Tate and Cybille St.Aude-Tate are offering something comfortingly familiar but also radically new. Their Afrocentric grocery store and cafe opened last month in West Philadelphia to serve a neighborhood where fresh, organic produce and healthy food options were in short supply. Building on over a decade of experience working as chefs mostly in New York City—with both also running succes...
Mark as Played
Cheese grader and affineur Chris Gentine sees infinite possibilities in transforming an already excellent cheddar into something new and unexpected. Along with his wife, Julie, Gentine is at the creative heart of Deer Creek Cheese, the company they founded in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, just north of Milwaukee. Building on the state's classic cheeses as a base, the couple then infuses their own special alchemy of flavors, from juniper be...
Mark as Played
Since opening Bạn Bè last year, Doris Hồ-Kane has sparked a fast-growing following. As New York City’s first Vietnamese American bakery, the small-but-ambitious space is dedicated to celebrating Vietnamese food and community. Hồ-Kane’s butter cookie tin (featuring ingredients like tamarind, ube, and sesame) quickly garnered a 10,000-person waiting list when it started popping up in Instagram feeds. Now, customers line up for ...
Mark as Played
Nashville-based, award-winning chef and bestselling cookbook author Sean Brock has been busy over the last two-and-a-half years. He launched four restaurants—including his most personal project to date: a duo of restaurants called Audrey and June. Named after his grandmother Audrey (whose middle name was June), the spaces take up both floors of a sweeping A-frame building that’s inspired by the tobacco barns of Brock’s native Appal...
Mark as Played
Johnny Ortiz-Concha’s journey to finding himself as a chef doesn’t follow the typical career path—which has led him from the mountains of northern New Mexico to the kitchens of some of the country’s most prestigious restaurants. His first job was at Alinea in Chicago when he was only 19 (and the restaurant had just earned its third Michelin star), followed by a stint at Willows Inn off the Washington coast. At 23, while working at ...
Mark as Played

Popular Podcasts

    Gregg Rosenthal and a rotating crew of elite NFL Media co-hosts, including Patrick Claybon, Colleen Wolfe, Steve Wyche, Nick Shook and Jourdan Rodrigue of The Athletic get you caught up daily on all the NFL news and analysis you need to be smarter and funnier than your friends.

    On Purpose with Jay Shetty

    I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!

    Dateline NBC

    Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Follow now to get the latest episodes of Dateline NBC completely free, or subscribe to Dateline Premium for ad-free listening and exclusive bonus content: DatelinePremium.com

    New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce

    Football’s funniest family duo — Jason Kelce of the Philadelphia Eagles and Travis Kelce of the Kansas City Chiefs — team up to provide next-level access to life in the league as it unfolds. The two brothers and Super Bowl champions drop weekly insights about the weekly slate of games and share their INSIDE perspectives on trending NFL news and sports headlines. They also endlessly rag on each other as brothers do, chat the latest in pop culture and welcome some very popular and well-known friends to chat with them. Check out new episodes every Wednesday. Follow New Heights on the Wondery App, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts. You can listen to new episodes early and ad-free, and get exclusive content on Wondery+. Join Wondery+ in the Wondery App, Apple Podcasts or Spotify. And join our new membership for a unique fan experience by going to the New Heights YouTube channel now!

    The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show

    The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show. Clay Travis and Buck Sexton tackle the biggest stories in news, politics and current events with intelligence and humor. From the border crisis, to the madness of cancel culture and far-left missteps, Clay and Buck guide listeners through the latest headlines and hot topics with fun and entertaining conversations and opinions.

Advertise With Us
Music, radio and podcasts, all free. Listen online or download the iHeart App.

Connect

© 2025 iHeartMedia, Inc.