Tom Colicchio Returns! (to talk about 25 years of Craft & other hot topics)

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As the original Craft restaurant turns 25, Tom Colicchio sits down with Andrew to discuss the restaurant's recent menu-format change, Craft's influence on dining in the US, and a few hot topics, such as industry staging culture, the growing Noma scandal, and the problem with awards.

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And thanks to S.Pellegrino for their longstanding support of the pod.

Episode host/producer: Andrew Friedman

Producer/editor/mixer: Roderick Alleyne

Videographer: Edison Koo

LISTEN (audio only) to our live show from 2019 in which Tom tells the Craft origin story.

Here's the article Tom and Andrew talk about, about how food media's focus on restaurants conditions customers to do the same.

THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW:

Andrew is a writer by trade. If you'd like to support him, there's no better way than by purchasing his most recent book, The Dish: The Lives and Labor Behind One Plate of Food (October 2023), about all the key people (in the restaurant, on farms, in delivery trucks, etc.) whose stories and work come together in a single restaurant dish.

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Thank you for listening—please don't hesitate to reach out with any feedback and/or suggestions!