Chef Iliana Regan Burns It Down

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4.6 • 592 Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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One of the most unique chefs in America, Iliana Regan of Elizabeth Restaurant in Chicago, stops by Radio Cherry Bombe to talk about her searing new memoir, Burn The Place. She and guest host Jordana Rothman, Food & Wine magazine’s restaurant editor at large, talk identity, failure, and the power of memory. Iliana shares the reasons she closed her second restaurant, Kitsune, and explains how her newest venture, the Milkweed Inn B&B in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, is an exit strategy of sorts.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Sophia Rowe, chef and wellness enthusiast.
0:04.1	Did you know that nearly 340,000 or one in five, New York City children rely on soup kitchens and food pantries to eat,
0:10.7	especially during the summer months when school is out?
0:14.0	The folks over at Food Bank for New York City want you to know that unlike school, hunger doesn't take a break.
0:19.6	Help them end child hunger by providing meals to families and children in need during those challenging summer months.
0:25.9	Visit FoodBanknYC.org to learn how you can volunteer, spread the word, and more. Hi, Bombs and Girls are all fired up.
0:39.1	Boys and girls are all by her.
0:40.3	All the world's chicken, drinking, baby, and we're up.
0:48.2	Boys and girls are all right.
0:48.5	Hi, Bomb Squad.
0:49.4	You're listening to Radio Cherry Bomb, and I'm your host, Carrie Diamond.
0:53.7	Each week, we talk to the most
0:55.1	inspiring women in and around the world of food. Let's thank today's sponsors, La Cordon Blue
1:01.3	Culinary Schools and Traeger Woodfired Grills. I hope everyone has had a great summer. I am in
1:08.1	total shock, though, that fall is right around the corner. In all honesty,
1:11.9	I didn't have that much of a summer because I had to deal with everything around the closing
1:15.7	and the sale of my coffee shop, Smith Canteen, RIP, Smith Canteen. But I can't really complain
1:22.3	because I was in Ireland last week, and I had a really epic time. I was on a carry gold press trip, and it was pretty
1:28.8	life-changing. I'll be posting the highlights on the Cherrybaum Instagram and on my own Insta
1:33.7	at Carriebaum, so be sure to check it out. Lots of scones, butter, cows, grass. Just wait. What else is
1:42.2	going on? I'll be back on the road for the Radio Cherry Bomb Food for Thought Tour. We are coming to, are you ready? Ashville, North Carolina, Columbus, Ohio, Kansas City, Missouri, Houston, Philadelphia, and Miami to record live episodes and to hang with the bomb squad in each city. Tickets are on sale right
2:02.9	now at cherrybom.com. Thanks to our friends at Kerrygold for sponsoring our tour. Since I've been
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