Chef Iliana Regan Of The Milkweed Inn On Foraging And Connections

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4.6 • 592 Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Hosted by Kerry Diamond Produced by Catherine Baker and Jenna Sadhu Edited by Jenna Sadhu Recorded at CityVox Studios Music by Tralala, “All Fired Up” Chef Iliana Regan joins us to talk about her latest book, “Fieldwork: A Forager’s Memoir,” a moving story about her new life as proprietor, along with her wife Anna, of The Milkweed Inn, a getaway set on 150 remote acres of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. The book is a follow-up to Iliana’s 2019 National Book Award long-listed memoir, “Burn The Place,” about her life as a chef. “Fieldwork” is a story about foraging—for fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds during the different seasons in the forest—but it’s also about emotional foraging, and understanding the unseen ties that bond family, food, flora, and fauna. Iliana wants people who read the book to think about their connections to the people and things they love. Join Radio Cherry Bombe host Kerry Diamond, Boca Chef Maria Mazon, and other special guests at the Graduate Hotel Tucson Thursday, Feb. 23rd, for a special night of networking, talks, panel, and snacks and drinks. Tickets are available here. Radio Cherry Bombe is a production of The Cherry Bombe Podcast Network. Subscribe to our newsletter and check out past episodes and transcripts here. More on Iliana: Instagram, Milkweed Inn, her books "Burn The Place" and "Fieldwork"

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0:00.0	Hi, boys and girls are all fired up,
0:07.2	boys and girls are all bad at all.
0:11.0	Oh, world, chicken, drinking, baby, and we're up at.
0:16.7	Hi, everyone.
0:17.7	You're listening to Radio Cherry Bomb, and I'm your host, Carrie Diamond, coming to you from Rockefeller Center in the heart of New York City. I'm the founder and editor of Cherry Bomb Magazine, and each week I talk to the most interesting culinary folks around. Joining me in the studio today is Elena Regan, chef and owner of the Milkweed Inn in Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
0:38.4	Some of you might know Elena from her celebrated Chicago restaurant, Elizabeth.
0:42.4	Today, Elena is earning quite a reputation for her writing.
0:46.3	Her 2019 memoir, Burn the Place, was long listed for a National Book Award,
0:50.9	and her follow-up, fieldwork, a forager's memoir was just published i'm halfway through
0:56.1	and it is unlike any memoir i've ever read there are paragraphs so beautiful and evocative
1:01.4	they've made me gasp out loud and moved me to tears needless to say i recommend it highly
1:06.7	elena joins me to talk about her new book her milk milkweed in, and much more. So stay tuned.
1:13.1	Radio Cherrybaum is on tour. We had a great tour stop at the Graduate Hotel in Chapel Hill,
1:18.2	North Carolina earlier this month. Thank you to everyone who joined us. Next up is our stop at the
1:23.5	Graduate Hotel in Tucson on Thursday, February 23rd, with Chef Maria Maison and other special
1:29.3	guests. You can snag a ticket on Cherrybom.com or click the link in the show notes. I can't wait
1:35.1	to meet the Tucson Bomb Squad. I hope you all caught my interview with Chef Maria the other week.
1:39.6	If you did not, be sure to give a listen. She is a force. What else? We've got two new podcasts. The first one
1:47.1	is called She's My Cherry Pie and it's hosted by Baker, author, and recipe developer, Jesse Sheehan.
1:53.0	In each episode, a world-class baker joins Jesse to do a deep dive into their signature bake good.
1:58.8	New episodes drop every Saturday.
2:03.3	Thank you to Lucrucet and California Prunes for supporting She's My Cherry Pie.
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