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This week on Inside Julia’s Kitchen, Todd Schulkin welcomes Chef Daisy Ryan and Greg Ryan of Bell’s restaurant in Los Alamos, California. They discuss how the pandemic shaped their approach to being restaurateurs, running a mini restaurant empire in a small town, how to make working in hospitality more equitable and sustainable, and their non-profit organization, Feed the Valley. Plus, Daisy and Greg share a double Julia Moment.

As the incomparable bell hooks wrote in 2016, ‘To truly be free, we must choose beyond simply surviving adversity, we must dare to create lives of sustained optimal wellbeing and joy.’  From creating equitable opportunities in the dairy industry, to telling the quiet parts loudly about kitchen life during American slavery, this week we round off Black History Month and head into Women’s History Month with a love letter to Black women in food who are embodying this ethos.  Further Reading:

This week on Inside Julia’s Kitchen, Todd Schulkin welcomes culinary entrepreneur Barkha Cardoz.

This week on Inside Julia’s Kitchen, Todd Schulkin welcomes food and travel writer Sylvie Bigar to discuss her new memoir, Cassoulet Confessions: Food, France, Family, and the Stew That Saved My Soul. They dive into the complex history of this legendary French dish, the actual vessel it’s cooked in, and how researching and writing about cassoulet led Sylvie to write a far more personal story about her Franco-Jewish family in Geneva.

This week on Inside Julia’s Kitchen, Todd Schulkin welcomes Leni Sorensen, the former African American Research Historian at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello, who now writes and lectures on food history and teaches rural life skills from her farm in Virginia. They discuss African America contributions to American food, how being a farmer informs Leni’s approach to culinary history, and the future of rural life. Plus, as always, Leni shares a Julia Moment.