And we're back!  Jennifer comes out of podcast hibernation to talk about Thanksgiving with Meredith Heuer on her back porch in Beacon, NY, which is the closest they can come to cooking together in a kitchen during this very different holiday season.  For virtual cooking classes with Jennifer, visit www.homecookingny.com. Here are the links to the recipes that Jennifer and Meredith waxed poetic about. If you have questions or want to inquire about a recipe you don't see listed here, reach out to Jennifer's Thanksgiving Hotline: jennifer@homecookingny.com.  Olio Novello 2020 Butte ..read more

"How do I make my food taste better?" Salt, fat, and acid are the seasoning trifecta. Most people know that salt makes food taste better, as well as a dollop of butter, but "acid" is perhaps the least understand of the seasoning tools in the home cook's kitchen. But it is the most magical. Find out how to add just the right amount to make your food sing out for joy. Listen in. ----------- JENNIFER'S VIRTUAL COOKING CLASSES ARE 30% OFF for KR LISTENERS! Have you enjoyed this culinary tidbit, and are curious to learn more about cooking good food? Well, you are in luck! While her NYC flagship coo ..read more

Chef John Scoff hails from Charleston, South Carolina, where he was the executive chef of a low-country bistro before coming to his senses and joining Home Cooking New York's teaching team in 2005 (he was following his then-girlfriend, now-wife who was moving north for a teaching job). His most sought after class is Southern Brunch, so I asked him to share some of his signature takes on this Southern classic. RECIPE: John's Shrimp & Grits Take a virtual cooking class with Chef John! While our NYC flagship cooking school is closed as the country waits out the pandemic, all our cooking class ..read more

Erica Wides is one of our school’s beloved chef-instructors and the host of “Funny People Making Food,” a YouTube series that follows her attempts to teach comedians how to cook. Since Erica teaches our Handmade Bagel Workshop, and I’ve never attempted to make one from scratch, I thought it was time to remedy that hole in my repertoire and have her show me the ropes. I’ll happily gloat that the bagels we made were at the very least, on par with some of the best bagels I’ve ever eaten. I also created a signature bagel using some add-ins from Erica’s well-stocked kitchen, which I am surprised th ..read more

Joe Dizney learned how to make gumbo from watching his grandmother cook batches of it in her 1950s Louisiana kitchen. Now he makes it out of his own kitchen on special occasions (or whenever he has a poultry carcass lying around) using the same, well-worn cast iron skillet his grandmother used. In this episode, Joe shows Jennifer how to make a proper Cajun roux and how to temper it before adding it to the simmering stock (to minimize its “Cajun napalm” quality), which Joe seasons with his own blend of “leaves and seeds.” Jennifer also learns a thing or two about sassafrass leaves, okra, and th ..read more

Margot is tired of predictable flavor of the Indian food she makes at home, and wants to learn how to make a curry that will really knock her socks off. Her husband Josh is a newfound vegetarian, so we decided to cook up a batch of chana masala, a richly-spiced chickpea and tomato curry that has a secret, sour ingredient that will help Margot brighten up all of her future Indian dishes. Brought to you by Home Cooking New York, New York City's cooking school for home cooks, since 2002. RECIPE: Chana Masala SUBMIT A QUESTION FOR A FUTURE "SIDEBAR" EPISODE @ jennifer@homecookingny.com. COOKB ..read more

Meredith and I have spent a lot of time in the kitchen together over the years. We briefly had a radio show called “Chewing the Fat” on our local station, where we’d talk about what we cooked for dinner that week. Riveting stuff, folks. She also photographed my last cookbook, “Six Basic Cooking Techniques.” She originally wanted to learn how to cook liver for this episode, but I simply couldn’t get excited about that. So we settled on lamb, which I am very excited about. Listen in. Brought to you by Home Cooking New York, New York City's cooking school for home cooks, since 2002. FOLLOW MEREDI ..read more

Ryon is a contagiously-friendly photographer and optician, who manages my local uber-hip, eyewear store, Luxe Optique. He also doesn’t eat many meals at home, so I focused on teaching him how to make flavorful, one-pan meals at the end of the day. In order to do so, we first had to dig an old wok out of his garage, which we scrubbed and scrubbed until it was clean enough to cook up a classic stir-fry. Brought to you by Home Cooking New York, New York City's cooking school for home cooks, since 2002. FOLLOW RYON: @ryonophoto RECIPE: Gingery Turkey Stir-Fry with Roasted Broccoli + Red Onions SUB ..read more

Today I am in Astoria, Queens in the home kitchen of Chef Jae Jung. For this episode, I am thrilled to play the role of student as she teaches me how to cook a proper Korean pancake, one that is featured in a new cookbook called A Place at the Table, that highlights the recipes of the nation's top foreign-born chefs in America. Jae moved to New York from Seoul, Korea, at the age of 29 to attend the Culinary Institute of America. For the last 10 years, she has been working nonstop in the nation’s top restaurant kitchens with a pivotal stop in New Orleans -- where she found a lot of culinary sim ..read more

"What kind of salt should I cook with?" -- Julia, Los Angeles Listen in as Jennifer roots through the myriad salts in her own home kitchen and discusses when and why to use each kind.  ---- "Sidebar" is Kitchen Radio's bonus content,  where host Jennifer Clair takes time to answer listeners' culinary questions in between the bi-weekly cooking episodes. Email her your own question or -- even better -- send a voice memo to jennifer@homecookingny.com for a chance to have yours featured on a future episode.  ..read more