Today marks THE FOOD SEEN’s 100th episode! A big thanks to all the past guests, future interviewees, lovely listeners, and everyone at HeritageRadioNetwork.com for all the support!!!

Scottish-born, NYC-based illustrator, Peter Arkle, comes to the studio for a visit. Hear about Peter creative process, on how to roast (and draw) the perfect coffee bean, sketching potatoes on lazy Sundays, and what makes him say “slainte”! Recently returning from a trip to his native Scotland, Peter worked with Scotch whiskey makers, anCnoc, on designing their next bottle. They’ll be launching their brand stateside at the Manhattan Cocktail Classic come mid May. In the meantime, check out this video of the distillery on the “behind the scenes” of their collaboration.

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Got to take a roadtrip for Acura to Finger Lakes Distilling, makers of fantastic local spirits: whiskey, gin, vodka, brandy and more … stop in for a tasting and ask for the McKenzies!

On today’s THE FOOD SEEN, Mindy Fox, cookbook author and food editor at La Cucina Italiana magazine, takes a life trip through American suburbs, to Paris and back, begins cooking professionally, meets Julia Child, returns to publishing, co-authors cookbooks with chefs Sara Jenkins and Karen Demasco, writes her own, A Bird in the Oven and Then Some: 20 Ways to Roast the Perfect Chicken Plus 80 Delectable Recipes, which lands on the New York Times Best Cookbooks for the Year in 2010, and recently releases her follow up, Salads: Beyond the Bowl: Extraordinary Recipes for Everyday Eating, and she’s hungry for more!

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*photo by Nadya Wasylko

On today’s THE FOOD SEEN, with a life long interest in food and it’s ability to inspire, Elizabeth Thacker Jones presents the FOOD BOOK FAIR, the first ever event bringing together food publications from around the world alongside a dynamic set of events celebrating food writing, reading, and activism, with such authors as Harold McGee (On Food and Cooking), Marion Nestle (Why Calories Count and Food Politics), Colman Andrews (Author and Editorial Director, The Daily Meal). Held on FRI MAY 4 – SUN MAY 6, 2012, at the Wythe Hotel in Williamsburg (Brooklyn, NY), there will be a multitude of food-related panel discussions, and books abound!

On MON MAY 4 from 1030-1130AM, I’ll be participating on the Food + Art + Medium panel with a couple of prior guests of THE FOOD SEEN, Jennifer Rubell, Tattfoo Tan, and then signing copies of The New Brooklyn Cookbook from 1130AM-1215PM.

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*photo by Alex Perelman

*photo by Deb Perelman

On today’s THE FOOD SEEN, we dote on Deb Perelman of Smitten Kitchen, as she unmusses all the fuss in tiny kitchen cooking (her’s is 42 sq ft). Deb adventures through recipes with fearlessness, sharing new tastes, techniques, and personal food revelations, through her charming prose and insightful photography. I’m sure I’m not the only one excited for The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook, coming out this Fall!

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*photo by Chuck Ortiz for ACQTaste

On today’s THE FOOD SEEN, David McMillan and Frédéric Morin, Quebecers through and through, and proprietors of Montreal’s must, Joe Beef, grace us with their Canadian tongues. Right off the heels of their award-winning volume, The Art of Living According to Joe Beef: A Cookbook of Sorts, they track back their smoked meat heritage, butter up their French technique, and decant their carnal knowledge of dining, leading them to pleasured life in Little Burgundy. Horse is beef with a different face!

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Caffeinated coffee shots of Blue Bottle in Williamsburg for imbibe magazine’s March/April 2012 issue, “1010 Reasons to Love Drinking in New York”.

On today’s THE FOOD SEEN, Sara Moulton, a once reluctant on-air personality, is now one of the preeminent chefs on television. From behind the scenes with Julia Child, to being Gourmet magazine’s in-house chef, and correspondent to Good Morning America, Sara has shaped the way of our American palate, both visually and viscerally.

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I am beyond honored and deeply humbled to announce that I’ve been nominated for a James Beard Foundation Award, the category of Visual Storytelling for my BACK OF THE HOUSE photo essays on Craft, Keens, Savoy / Back Forty in Edible Manhattan. I can’t thank everyone involved enough, from the chefs and their crews, to all the restaurants that have let me behind the scenes over the past decade, to Edible for publishing my series for the past 5 years, and of course the James Beard Foundation, whom 7 1/2 years ago let me hang my BACK OF THE HOUSE project on their gallery walls, where I not only met my girlfriend of 7 1/2 years, but also realized I could bring a camera into the kitchen and share my POV about food and the great culinary community. With all this, it feels like I’ve already won, but we’ll see what May 4th has to bring, hopefully one of these …

On today’s THE FOOD SEEN, husband/wife owners of dinnerware/house Fishs Eddy, Julie Gaines and David Lenovitz, fell in love 25 years ago over antiques and glassware. Now they’re a stalwart in New York City’s ever-changing dining scene, as seen by their stockpile of classic restaurant plates; a bastion for unadorned Americana at it’s finest (China).

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