Top Chef winner stories, Michelin star achievements, and the real path to becoming one of New York’s most exciting chefs. In this deep and honest conversation, Chef Buddha Lo pulls back the curtain on everything that happened after his historic back-to-back Top Chef wins and how that momentum fueled his push for a Michelin star. Buddha walks through the early days cooking alone in a caviar shop, the grind of keeping a dream alive on slow nights, and the moment he realized HŪSO needed to evolv...
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Top Chef winner stories, Michelin star achievements, and the real path to becoming one of New York’s most exciting chefs. In this deep and honest conversation, Chef Buddha Lo pulls back the curtain on everything that happened after his historic back-to-back Top Chef wins and how that momentum fueled his push for a Michelin star. Buddha walks through the early days cooking alone in a caviar shop, the grind of keeping a dream alive on slow nights, and the moment he realized HŪSO needed to evolv...
103. Who Decides What’s Authentic? The Battle Over Food, Culture, and Identity
Eat Your Content
37 minutes
1 month ago
103. Who Decides What’s Authentic? The Battle Over Food, Culture, and Identity
When a restaurant says “authentic,” what does that really mean—and who gets to decide? In this episode, Rich sits down with Janna Tamargo, founder of AuthenticFood.com to unpack the complex and often heated conversations around authenticity in food. From a Japanese restaurant secretly run by Chinese owners to debates over who has the right to cook certain cuisines, Janna shares stories from her global research that reveal why authenticity is never black and white. They explore how memory...
Eat Your Content
Top Chef winner stories, Michelin star achievements, and the real path to becoming one of New York’s most exciting chefs. In this deep and honest conversation, Chef Buddha Lo pulls back the curtain on everything that happened after his historic back-to-back Top Chef wins and how that momentum fueled his push for a Michelin star. Buddha walks through the early days cooking alone in a caviar shop, the grind of keeping a dream alive on slow nights, and the moment he realized HŪSO needed to evolv...
