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

Exploring El Paso’s Culinary Heritage With Chef Emiliano Marentes of ELEMI, Hosted by SAVEUR EIC Kat Craddock

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 ...
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Inside Panther City BBQ’s Tex-Mex Twist on Barbecue

August 7, 2025 • 20 mins
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
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Bringing Creole Cooking to Dallas With Chef Tiffany Derry of Roots Southern Table

July 31, 2025 • 30 mins
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
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Aaron Bludorn’s Journey from Chef to Restaurateur in Houston

July 24, 2025 • 31 mins
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
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Exploring Austin and the Art of Ingredient Innovation With Chef Edgar Rico of Nixta Taqueria

July 17, 2025 • 25 mins
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
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Chef Jennifer Hwa Dobbertin Tells a Story With Every Dish at San Antonio’s Best Quality Daughter

July 3, 2025 • 30 mins
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...
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Alice Waters On Feeding People an Idea and Victory-Meets-Guerilla Gardening in Berkeley, California

December 1, 2022 • 37 mins
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...
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Omar Tate & Cybille St.Aude-Tate on Celebrating Black Foodways and Building Better Food Systems in Philadelphia

November 17, 2022 • 36 mins
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...
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Chris Gentine on the Joys of Culinary Collaboration and the Art (and Science) of Affinage in Wisconsin

November 10, 2022 • 29 mins
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...
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Doris Hồ-Kane on the Power of Punk Music, and Creating a Living Archive Through Food and Art in Brooklyn (By Way of Vietnam)

November 3, 2022 • 27 mins
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 ...
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Sean Brock on Why All Restaurants Might Need a Meditation Room, and Geeking Out in His Food Lab in Nashville

October 27, 2022 • 35 mins
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...
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Johnny Ortiz-Concha on Culinary Initiations and Honoring Time Through Food in Northern New Mexico

October 20, 2022 • 32 mins
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 ...
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