Kathleen Flinn
Host of Hungry for Words
Kathleen Flinn is an award-winning author and journalist, best known for The New York Times best-selling memoir, THE SHARPER YOUR KNIFE, THE LESS YOU CRY. Her acclaimed follow-up, THE KITCHEN COUNTER COOKING SCHOOL, was named a 2012 Book of the Year by the American Society of Journalists & Authors (ASJA). That book became a major bestseller in Japanese under the title, MAGICAL COOKING LESSONS FOR BAD WOMEN in 2017.
Her third book, BURNT TOAST MAKES YOU SING GOOD, a multi-generational memoir of her quirky family’s culinary adventures in the Midwest was named a 2015 Notable Book by the Library of Michigan, and was a finalist in the IACP Cookbook Awards for literary writing, Goodreads Choice Awards and the Pacific Northwest Book Awards.
She serves on the board of trustees of The Culinary Trust, a national 5013c non-profit co-founded by Julia Child. She founded the popular food writing curriculum Hungry for Words in 2006 and has taught elements of the coursework at more than a dozen writer’s conferences, universities and culinary schools. She lives in Seattle with her husband, Mike, and their rescue dog, Maddy.
Kathleen Flinn has hosted 10 Episodes.
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S2E4: Robyn Eckhardt
Episode | December 14th, 2020 | Season 1 | 52 mins 11 secs
cookbooks, food, recipes, travel
Kathleen talks with Robyn Eckhardt about her remarkable journey scouring the country of Turkey for its culinary soul, even it meant brushing up with an active war zone.
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S2E3: Holly Hughes
Episode | December 11th, 2020 | Season 1 | 51 mins 1 sec
food, recipes, travel, writing
Kathleen talks with the longtime editor of the Best Food Writing series and uncovers some unexpected answers.
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S2E2: Michael Harlan Turkell
Episode | October 5th, 2020 | Season 1 | 59 mins 16 secs
balsamic, beer, brooklyn, cookbooks, cooking, foodwriting, michigan, seattle, travel, vinegar, white white
Host Kathleen Flinn talks vinegar with author Michael Harlan Turkell about his book, Acid Trip, and they even try some out-of-the-world examples, such as vinegar made from candy canes (!) You'll never think of vinegar the same way again.
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S2E1: Alana Chernila
Episode | October 3rd, 2020 | Season 1 | 49 mins 11 secs
cooking, food, recipes
Best-selling author Kathleen Flinn talks with Alana Chernila, creator of the popular blog Eating from the Ground Up, about home cooking, roast chicken and what to do with those scraps from your kitchen.
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S1E6: Joe Ray
Episode | December 12th, 2018 | Season 1 | 35 mins 43 secs
joe ray, lummi island, pacific northwest, recipes
Host Kathleen Flinn talks with food writer Joe Ray about his experience co-authoring the book Sea and Smoke with famed genius chef, Blaine Wetzel, as they sip a most unusual broth.
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S1E5: Joanne Weir
Episode | November 28th, 2018 | Season 1 | 48 mins 10 secs
cookbooks, cooking, food, food shows, joanne weir, recipes
Host Kathleen Flinn talks with PBS host and cookbook author Joanne Weir about her life as "Kitchen Gypsy," from her early days at Chez Panisse to cooking across Europe to life owning her own restaurant in San Francisco.
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S1E4: Dan Jurafsky
Episode | November 7th, 2018 | Season 1 | 36 mins 46 secs
Host Kathleen Flinn talks food with culinary linguist Dan Jurafsky, author of "The Language of Food" as they nibble on coconut macaroons. Get the recipe and more about Dan on the episode page at http://hungryforwords.show
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S1E3: Darra Goldstein
Episode | October 24th, 2018 | Season 1 | 47 mins 59 secs
cookbooks, darra goldstein, food writing, gastronomica, kathleen flinn, russian, scandanavian food
Host Kathleen Flinn talks with the legendary Darra Goldstein, founding editor of Gastronomica magazine and author about her Scandinavian-focused cookbook, "Fire and Ice."
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S1E2: Andrea Nguyen
Episode | September 23rd, 2018 | Season 1 | 48 mins 43 secs
cookbooks, dumplings, food, vietnamese food
Host Kathleen Flinn talks to noted Vietnamese food writer and author Andrea Nguyen about everything from dumplings to pho to her dramatic escape from her home country in 1975 at the height of the war.
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S1E1: Alex Prud'homme
Episode | September 16th, 2018 | Season 1 | 43 mins 18 secs
alex prud'homme, food, french, julia child, kathleen flinn, recipes
Is it true that Julia Child had an existential crisis at one point in her career? And what did she really think about Julie Powell? Kathleen talks with Alex about that, plus the origin of the infamous Dan Akroyd SNL skit, over beouf bourgignon