Introducing FT Weekend: The good life, with chefs Daniel Humm and Alice Waters
FT News Briefing
Forhecz Topher
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 September 2021
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
In this first-ever episode of the FT Weekend podcast, host Lilah Raptopoulos 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 revengeful architecture, and reporter Madison Darbyshire shares tips for how to furnish your home with old things.
You can subscribe to FT Weekend podcast by searching for FT Weekend wherever you listen.
We’re on Twitter at @FTWeekendpod. Lilah is on Twitter and Instagram @lilahrap.
Links from the episode:
Lilah’s piece on chefs (paywall) - https://www.ft.com/content/246cdc2a-f135-4d3d-9d74-e524e9217699
Edwin on the architecture of spite (paywall) - 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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| 0:21.0 | Hi briefing listeners, Mark here. |
| 0:23.0 | Today and for the next few weeks we'll be dropping our new podcast FT Weekend into this feed every Saturday. |
| 0:29.0 | It's a show that brings the best of our award-winning weekend journalism into audio form, |
| 0:34.0 | with everything from culture and food in the arts to nuanced questions and big ideas. |
| 0:39.0 | We hope you like it. You can subscribe in your podcast app of choice by searching for FT Weekend. |
| 0:52.0 | Hi, I'm Lila Raptopoulos. |
| 0:55.0 | Thank you for finding your way here for the first episode, the very first of FT Weekend. |
| 1:01.0 | This is a showcase. It's a showcase of the stories and ideas inside the life and arts journalism at the financial times. |
| 1:08.0 | Regular readers of FT Weekend might know what that means. |
| 1:11.0 | You'll hear about art, food, travel, style, film, and also will take you places. |
| 1:18.0 | Places you're curious about and places you may not have known you wanted to go. |
| 1:23.0 | And if you're new to the financial times and don't know much about FT Weekend, stay tuned. |
| 1:28.0 | I have a lot of people to introduce you to. |
| 1:35.0 | If you feel like you have to have something you'll die if you walk away from it, |
| 1:39.0 | if you saw it on somebody else's arm, it would cause you physical pain. |
| 1:42.0 | You should just buy it in that moment. |
| 1:44.0 | The conditions were corrosive, the weather was terrible and even the water ran salty from the taps, |
| 1:49.0 | so it's a house haunted by its origin myth. |
| 1:52.0 | In this episode, we'll dig into a strange and petty phenomenon with our architecture and design critic Edwin Hethkitt, |
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