138: Alison Roman (Chef / Writer): Experimentation Was the Appeal
The First Ever Podcast
Jeremy Bolm
5.0 • 532 Ratings
🗓️ 19 April 2023
⏱️ 63 minutes
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This week Jeremy interviews chef and writer Alison Roman
On this episode Jeremy and Alison talk tour designs, Lilith Fair, homemade mixtapes, Marie Calendars, college, being a nanny, skipping culinary school, transitioning to writing, working for Bon Appétit, the MTV sketch comedy show The State, appearing on the Today Show, her new book "Sweet Enough", and so much more!
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| 0:53.3 | Podcast Welcome to the first ever podcast. Welcome to the first ever podcast. My name is Jeremy Bollm. I am your host, and if this is your first time here, this is a show where I interview artists of all kinds about the first experiences in their art form that led them to where they are today. This is episode 138. My guest this week, |
| 1:32.5 | it's Alison Roman. Wow, right? Allison Roman. She has a brand new cookbook out called Sweet |
| 1:41.5 | Enough. There's a lot of great taglines about it. One of the ones I like is |
| 1:45.5 | unfussy desserts to add a slice of joy to your every day. It is a awesome book for people who |
| 1:52.0 | think that they are not bakers or people who maybe don't even really like desserts. It's an interesting |
| 1:58.5 | concept and I'm so, so stoked for her. This is her third book. She released Dining |
| 2:03.3 | in in 2017, and then in 2019, she put out nothing fancy, which ended up being quite a hit |
| 2:09.6 | because a lot of people really connected to it over the pandemic. People found themselves inside, |
| 2:14.9 | wanting to make great food. that was their gateway really really cool |
| 2:19.3 | Allison and I as you will hear we go very far back we used to go to shows together when we were quite |
| 2:25.5 | young we talk emo we talk mixtapes a lot of fun stuff here I think you're going to have a good |
| 2:31.0 | time if you are new here which is very very possible I want to let you know going to have a good time. If you are new here, which is very, very possible, |
| 2:35.3 | I want to let you know that there's a bonus episode available right now where Allison |
| 2:41.0 | answered questions that were submitted by subscribers. You can access that by going to |
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