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Meredith Hayden Of Wishbone Kitchen On Martha, Meal Kits & Turning 30

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4.6592 Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2026

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Happy New Year, Bombesquad! For our first episode of 2026, we’re kicking things off with Wishbone Kitchen’s Meredith Hayden, the cookbook author, recipe developer, and private chef who happens to be one of the biggest culinary stars around right now. Meredith is known for her intuitive approach to home cooking, her seasonal sensibility, and her thoughtful way of blending food, style, and everyday life. Meredith joins host Kerry Diamond to talk about the success of her debut cookbook and why she’s focused on work-life balance as she heads into a milestone birthday—Meredith turns 30 this month. They also discuss her meal kit collaboration with Home Chef, the story behind the name Wishbone Kitchen, her love of farmers markets, the best meal she ate in 2025 (hello, Firenze), and whether she relates more to Martha or Ina. Plus, Meredith shares what she’s streaming, what’s always in her fridge, and what she can’t wait to eat on her upcoming trip to Japan. Jubilee NYC 2026 tickets here Order The Cake Issue Subscribe to our Substack Check out Cherry Bombe on ShopMy Check out Meredith's Home Chef collab on ShopMy More on Meredith: Instagram, Home Chef x Wishbone Kitchen, Substack, “The Wishbone Kitchen Cookbook” More on Kerry: Instagram

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0:00.0

Hi, everyone. You're listening to Radio Cherry Bomb, and I'm your host, Carrie Diamond, coming to you from New Stand Studios at Rockefeller Center in the heart of New York City. I'm so happy to be back after a little hiatus. Happy New Year to everybody. And I am very excited about today's guest.

0:21.3

It's Meredith Hayden of Wishbone Kitchen, one of the biggest culinary stars around right now.

0:26.5

Meredith is a cookbook author, recipe developer, and private chef, known for her intuitive approach to home cooking.

0:33.2

She and I cover a lot of ground.

0:35.1

We talk about her debut cookbook, her birthday. Meredith is turning

0:38.6

30 this month. Happy birthday to our culinary Capricorn. We talk about her meal kit co-lab with the folks at home

0:44.5

chef. And we talk about how Meredith almost worked at Cherrybaum. Yes, I interviewed Meredith to be

0:50.3

my assistant back in 2020. Stay tuned for my chat with Meredith Hayden. There's a lot going on at

0:56.3

Cherrybaum right now. We're working on this April's Jubilee Conference. Tickets are on sale. Also, Cherrybaum is on

1:02.5

Substack. I think most of you know that. Subsack is a great platform where you can find lots of

1:07.6

terrific writing. We have a few different newsletters you can subscribe to on substack,

1:11.9

you can find recipes from your favorite cookbook authors,

1:14.5

and fun stuff like Cherry Bomb magazine cover stories.

1:17.5

Right now, we have the cover stories live from our current cake issue.

1:21.0

Read about Lucy Fronde-Ferre, Amy France, and Amy Yip.

1:25.4

There's plenty of free content on our substack,

1:27.4

but you can also subscribe

1:28.6

for $6 a month or $55 a year and access all the content, plus our virtual member meetings

1:35.3

and discounts to things like Jubilee tickets. Visit cherrybom.com. Now, let's check in with

1:42.4

today's guest. Meredith Hayden, welcome to Radio Cherrybaum.

1:46.5

Thank you so much for having me.

1:48.1

Happy to be here.

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