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Nadia Chaudhury spent a decade handing out Eater Awards in Austin. Now she’s helping pick the national list, which is out now. The deputy editor of Eater Northeast returns to break down the 2026 Eater Awards: 55 winners, 44 cities, and one very busy year of eating. She and Matt talk second-act restaurants from proven teams, Phila Lorn’s big year, and the comfort classics comeback.
And it’s the return of Three Things, where Aliza and Matt discuss what’s interesting to them in the world of food including: Matt is loving Tochi ube popcorn, he stops by Demo in the West Village, and makes it back to Moosewood in Ithaca after almost 30 years. Aliza checks out Ambassador’s Clubhouse, Sa Ram Rom Thai in Elmhurst, and Lok Kee in Manhattan's Chinatown.
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Fuchsia Dunlop is an English writer and cook who specializes in Chinese cuisine. She’s been researching Chinese culinary culture since the ’90s, when she became one of the first Westerners to train as a chef at the Sichuan Higher Institute of Cuisine (四川高等烹饪学校) in Chengdu. She has authored seven books, including the new cookbook Five Tastes: The Magic of Flavor in a Chinese Kitchen. It’s so special to have Fuchsia in the studio for the first time to share her expertise and what makes this new book so special.
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Jesse Jenkins grew up skating in Los Angeles, bused tables, moved to London, and spent a decade as a fashion photographer before a COVID lockdown instinct to start filming dinner made him ADIP—Another Day in Paradise—one of the most recognizable cooks online. In this episode, Matt catches up with Jenkins to talk about his California roots, his unique visual identity, and his mastery of cooking (and saucing and herbing) roast chicken.
And it’s the return of Three Things, where Aliza and Matt discuss what’s interesting to them in the world of food including a new coffee magazine from Bar Ista, a visit to the buzzy NYC restaurant Faux, and Buffet hosts a cool reading event. Also: Superiority Burger has a new chef, Diljān Bakery is doing great pizza, and on the scene at the California Olive Ranch fall harvest.
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Nixta Taquería is an award-winning, genre-bending restaurant in Austin, Texas, helmed by Sara Mardanbigi, head of operations, and Edgar Rico, a chef whose résumé includes Son of a Gun, Sqirl, and Pujol. The Iranian-Mexican couple has won the devotion of their city and recognition from Michelin and the James Beard Awards with an ambitious in-house masa program, duck carnitas tacos, and sholezard, a creamy Iranian rice pudding. Now they’re sharing Nixta’s greatest hits and plenty of homestyle recipes from their respective heritages in a new cookbook, Nixta Taqueria Presents: From Tacos to Tahdig.
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Anna Sonenshein and Niki Vahle are the chefs and co-owners of Little Fish in Los Angeles’s emerging Melrose Hill neighborhood. The pair met while cooking at Son of a Gun, turned a COVID-era pop-up fish sandwich into an Instagram sensation, and spent four years raising money to open their amazing restaurant. Anna and Niki join the show to talk about the money topics nobody likes to talk about. That includes cold-DMing restaurant owners to see their books and a $20,000 dry-aging fridge that lets them buy whole yellowtail straight from fishermen. We also talk about Little Fish Cafe’s return to Echo Park.
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