Eat Your Words

This week on Eat Your Words, host Cathy Erway is joined by Louise Miller, writer, baker, banjo player, and author of The City Baker's Guide to Country Living, a full-hearted novel about a big-city baker who discovers the true meaning of home—and that sometimes the best things are found when you didn’t even know you were looking.

This week on Eat Your Words, host Cathy Erway is joined in the studio by Diana Henry, an award-winning food writer, journalist and broadcaster. She is the author of ten books, including A Bird in the Hand, which was a bestseller and won a James Beard Award in March 2016. Her latest, Simple, takes the kind of ingredients we are most likely to find in our cupboard and fridge – or be able to pick up on the way home from work – and provides recipes that will become your friends for life.

This week on Eat Your Words, host Cathy Erway is joined in the studio by Hillary Davis, author, food journalist, cooking instructor, and writer and creator of the popular food blog Marché Dimanche. Davis is the author of Les Desserts, Le French Oven, French Comfort Food, Cuisine Niçoise, and A Million A Minute. She is presently at work on her fifth cookbook and a novel.

This week on Eat Your Words, host Cathy Erway is joined by Miriam Horn, the author of the newly published Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman: Conservation Heroes of the American Heartland. Horn tells us about food practitioners she's profiled in her book, all of whom live along the Mississippi River and represent an underreported movement to address environmental challenges in the US.

On the season premiere of Eat Your Words, host Cathy Erway is joined by Larry Olmsted, an award-winning journalist and author who has written several thousand articles for major newspapers and magazines worldwide over the past 20-plus years. He currently writes one of the most popular columns for Forbes online, is USAToday.com’s weekly Great American Bites restaurant columnist, is the Contributing Travel Editor for Cigar Aficionado magazine, and has held numerous other editorial or columnist positions for a variety of publications. His latest book, Real Food/Fake Food: Why You Don't Know What You're Eating & What You Can Do About It, is available now.

This week on Eat Your Words, host Cathy Erway is joined by Pascal Baudar, a wild food researcher and a self-styled “culinary alchemist” based in Los Angeles.He has served as a wild food consultant for several TV shows including MasterChef and Top Chef Duels, and has been featured in numerous other TV shows and publications. His new book is titled The New Wildcrafted Cuisine: Exploring the Exotic Gastronomy of Local Terroir.

On this week's episode of Eat Your Words, host Cathy Erway is joined by Los Angeles Magazine food critic Patric Kuh, author of the James Beard award-winning Last Days of Haute Cuisine, a history of the American restaurant business. The magazine’s chief restaurant critic since 2000, he was the recipient of the 2006 James Beard Foundation award for best magazine restaurant critic in America. Kuh's latest book is titled Finding the Flavors We Lost: From Bread to Bourbon, How Artisans Reclaimed American Food, and profiles major figures in the so-called “artisanal” food movement.

This week on Eat Your Words, host Cathy Erway speaks with Jessica Fechtor, author of the bestselling memoir Stir: My Broken Brain and the Meals that Brought Me Home. Jessica Fechtor’s debut memoir chronicles her recovery from a ruptured aneurysm at age 28, and how she reclaimed her life through food and cooking. A national bestseller and winner of the 2015 Living Now Book Award, Stir has been praised by Oprah.com as "a page-turning pleasure," and by The Wall Street Journal as "a recipe for living a life of meaning.” Fechtor lives in San Francisco with her husband and daughters. She doesn’t believe in secret recipes.

This week on Eat Your Words, host Cathy Erway is joined by Joel Salatin, a farmer, lecturer, and author who raises livestock using holistic management methods of animal husbandry, free of harmful chemicals, on his Polyface Farm in Swoope, Virginia, in the Shenandoah Valley. Meat from the farm is sold by direct-marketing to consumers and restaurants. Salatin's latest book is THE MARVELOUS PIGNESS OF PIGS: Nurturing and Caring for All God's Creation, which tackles the tension between environmental and faith-based communities.

This week on i, host Cathy Erway is joined by Sherri Brooks Vinton, author of the new book Eat It Up!: 150 Recipes to Use Every Bit and Enjoy Every Bite of the Food You Buy. Sherri is the author of the Put 'Em Up! series. Sherri's books, lectures, and workshops have taught countless eaters how to have a more delicious life. Her first book, The Real Food Revival: Aisle by Aisle, Morsel by Morsel, teaches readers how and why to enjoy sustainably raised foods. Sherri's current series of Put 'Em Up! books provide a modern take on home food preservation. She has been featured on numerous radio and TV programs, including Martha Stewart Radio and the Leonard Lopate Show. Sherri is a former Governor of Slow Food USA and is a member of Women Chefs and Restaurateurs, the Northeast Organic Farmers Association, International Association of Culinary Professionals, and Chefs Collaborative.

This week on Eat Your Words, host Cathy Erway is joined in the studio by Tyler Kord, chef-owner of the lauded No. 7 restaurant and four No. 7 Sub shops in New York. He is also a terrifically neurotic man who directs his energy into writing fall-down-funny stories and rants about sandwich philosophy, love, self-loathing, and the life of a chef. A Super Upsetting Cookbook About Sandwiches welcomes you inside Tyler Kord’s wonderfully off-kilter mind: a place where bread, condiments, vegetables, and meats mingle in delicious, unexpected recipes—and where his raves, rants, jokes, and stories run free. Most of these stories also happen to be truly excellent recipes in this convention-breaking cookbook. Come for the laughs, stay for the roast beef sub with fried shallots and smoked French dressing.

On this week's episode of Eat Your Words, host Cathy Erway talks to Derek Dellinger, the author of the homebrew and craft beer blog Bear Flavored, a contributing writer to the Upstate Brew York magazine and a homebrew advisor to Beacon Homebrew. Listen in as they discuss Derek's career, his year long fermented-foods diet, his thoughts on soda and much more.

This week on Eat Your Words, host Cathy Erway is joined by Elana Karp, author of the Plated cookbook. After graduating from Le Cordon Bleu Paris, Elana Karp chose a unique path. Instead of going to work for a high-profile chef in the $600 billion restaurant industry, she helped launch a startup with a bold social mission: to change the way America eats. As the VP of Culinary at Plated, Elana oversees the entire menu creation process, crafting new seasonal recipes each week. Working with local farmers and fishermen to address the broken food system, Elana is helping to bring healthy, high-quality meals into dining rooms across the country.

This week on Eat Your Words, host Cathy Erway welcomes author J. Ryan Stradal, whose first novel, Kitchens of the Great Midwest, was published by on July 28th, 2015, and reached the New York Times Hardcover Best Seller list at #19 on its third week of release. In April 2016, the American Booksellers Association named Kitchens the Indies Choice Book of the Year Award – Adult Debut Winner.

Whenever today's guest, author Catherine Price, told people she was working on a book about vitamins (Vitamania, out now), they would immediately think of bottled pills. It's easy to see why. While there are only 13 essential vitamins, thousands of supplements claim to boost our health. But should we be going back to basics, getting our vitamins from the foods we eat rather than the products of a powerful industry? Listen in to find out.

This week on Eat Your Words, host Cathy Erway is joined by Diana Abu-Jaber, author of the new culinary memoir, Life Without A Recipe. Diana was born in Syracuse, New York to an American mother and a Jordanian father. Her family moved to Jordan a few times throughout her childhood, and elements of both her American and Jordanian experiences, as well as cross-cultural issues, especially culinary reflections, appear in her work.

This week on Eat Your Words, host Cathy Erway is joined in the studio by Kate Daloz, author of the new book We Are As Gods: Back to the Land in the 1970s on the Quest for a New America, a nonfiction account of Vermont's Myrtle Hill commune in the 1970s. It follows the dreams and ideals of a small group of back-to-the-landers to tell the story of a nationwide movement and moment, and shows how the faltering, hopeful, but impractical impulses of that first generation sowed the seeds for the organic farming movement and the transformation of American agriculture and food tastes. Kate Daloz grew up in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom, in the geodesic dome her parents built after returning from a stint in the Peace Corps. She received her MFA from Columbia University, where she also taught undergraduate writing. Her work has appeared in the American Scholar among other publications. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and children.

This week on Eat Your Words, Cathy is joined in the studio by fellow HRN host Mike Edison, who just kicked off the tour for his new tragic-comic memoir, You Are a Complete Disappointment: A Triumphant Memoir of Failed Expectations. Tune in for this tale about being the person who you want to be, not the person you're told you should be.

Tune in for a special bonus episode of Eat Your Words, with an exclusive panel discussion from the recent Food Book Fair. How does one write a convincing, veiled-enough, but-believable-enough work of fiction inspired by a real place, people, and time when the subject is something as personal as food and the dining experience? And why are readers — whether they have worked in restaurants or not — so interested in the behind-the-scenes goings on at restaurants? featuring: Stephanie Danler, author of "Sweetbitter" Jessica Tom, author of "Food Whore" Helen Ellis, author of "American Housewife" Cathy Erway, moderator, host of Heritage Radio Network's "Eat Your Words" and author of "The Food of Taiwan" and "The Art of Eating In"

This week on Eat Your Words, host Cathy Erway is joined via phone by Karen Leona Anderson. Anderson grew up in Connecticut. She received an M.F.A from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, an M.A. from Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand, and her Ph.D. from Cornell University, where she wrote a dissertation on poetry and science. Her work has appeared in ecopoetics, jubilat, Verse, Indiana Review, Fence, Volt, and other journals. She is an associate professor of English at St. Mary's College of Maryland.