FT Weekend: The good life, with chefs Daniel Humm and Alice Waters
FT News Briefing
Forhecz Topher
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2022
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
This weekend we’re returning to the first-ever episode of the FT Weekend podcast, from September. Lilah talks to Eleven Madison Park’s Daniel Humm and Chez Panisse’s legendary Alice Waters to discover how the world’s top chefs are finding purpose beyond their restaurants. Humm created a buzz in May when he announced that his world-famous restaurant would be going entirely plant-based. Has that risk paid off? And what does it mean to do good as a chef?
Plus: the FT’s design critic Edwin Heathcote gives us a tour of the world’s most vengeful architecture, and reporter Madison Darbyshire shares tips for how to furnish your home with old things.
Want to say hi? We love hearing from you. Email us at ftweekendpodcast@ft.com. We’re on Twitter @ftweekendpod, and Lilah is on Instagram and Twitter @lilahrap.
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Links from the episode
Lilah’s piece on chefs: https://www.ft.com/content/246cdc2a-f135-4d3d-9d74-e524e9217699
Edwin on the architecture of spite: https://www.ft.com/content/1161fbbe-5ae1-4328-bf59-dcd8b1d6564f
Madison’s masterclass in flea-market chic: https://www.ft.com/content/6c8bf8a2-ddee-11e9-9743-db5a370481bc
Sound design and mixing is by Breen Turner, with original music by Metaphor Music.
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| 0:32.0 | Hi FT Weekend listeners, this is Lila. We're taking a break this week. Our team is working hard |
| 0:37.7 | on a lot of great stories for you. Next week we are talking to the author Dan Brooks about ethics |
| 0:43.2 | on Twitter and the difference between being good and doing good. We'll also tell the story of how |
| 0:49.2 | China standardized its written language for a keyboard and how that's affected China's role |
| 0:54.5 | in the digital age. I also want to tell you that the first US FT Weekend festival is in Washington, |
| 1:01.2 | D.C. on Saturday, May 7th. It's coming up. Henry Kissinger, Chi-Mamanda and Gosia Dici, Chef |
| 1:08.0 | Mishama Bailey. The link is in the show notes. For a limited time we have an offer for half off of |
| 1:13.4 | your ticket and you can watch it virtually or you can come see us in person. This week we've decided |
| 1:19.6 | to go back to our very first episode from September, which is one of our favorites. Here we go. |
| 1:32.7 | And then all of a sudden you're number one and then what where are you going now? |
| 1:36.9 | If you feel like you have to have something you'll die if you walk away from it if you saw it on |
| 1:41.5 | somebody else's arm, it would cause you physical pain. You should just buy it in that moment. |
| 1:45.9 | The conditions were corrosive, the weather was terrible and even the water ran salty from the |
| 1:50.6 | taps, so it's a house haunted by its origin myth. In this episode we'll dig into a strange |
| 1:56.4 | and petty phenomenon with our architecture and design critic Edwin Hethkut and then here tips |
| 2:02.0 | on how to thrift for your home from my colleague Madison Darbyshire. Before that, for our first story, |
| 2:08.2 | I speak to two of the world's most revered chefs, but it's not about what you'd expect. |
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