Peter Hoffman, WHAT'S GOOD?: A Memoir in Fourteen Ingredients

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 11 August 2021

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Zibby is joined by restaurateur Peter Hoffman to talk about his debut memoir, What's Good, which not only takes readers through Peter's own history but through those of his favorite ingredients as well. The two talk about the people who shaped Peter's cooking style, what we all gain when we cook with local ingredients, and where to find the best strawberries in New York City.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Libby Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast, Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books.
0:07.0	I'm also the host of Moms Don't Have Time to Lose Weight, and I'm the editor of the anthology,
0:12.2	which you should run out and buy called Moms Don't Have Time to, a quarantine anthology.
0:16.8	All proceeds of that book go to COVID-19 vaccine research.
0:20.4	And I'm the editor-in-chief of Moms Don't Have Time to Write a new publication on Medium.
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0:29.1	And if all that isn't enough, you can follow me on Instagram at Zibi Owens.
0:32.9	And my website is Zibby Owens.com.
0:34.8	Okay, now back to this amazing podcast.
0:39.6	Peter Hoffman is the author of What's Good, a memoir in 14 ingredients. Peter is the curious cooks cook. As the former chef
0:46.1	owner of Savoy and Back 40 restaurants, he trailblazed farm to table cooking in New York City.
0:51.6	His opinion pieces have been published in the New York Times,
0:58.9	edible Manhattan, and food and wine. Hoffman served on boards of the Green Market and Chef's Collaborative and is a Slow Food, NYC Snailblazer Award recipient. On most market days, he can be found
1:05.0	on bicycle, foraging Union Square Green Market for the best in seasonal ingredients and partaking
1:10.2	in its village green
1:11.0	community life. Welcome, Peter. Thanks so much for coming on Mom's Don't have time to read books
1:15.5	to discuss what's good, a memoir, and 14 ingredients. Yeah, thanks, Zivie. It's great to be here with you.
1:22.1	No problem. So would you mind telling listeners about your book and how you decided to even make this a book?
1:29.0	What was the impetus for inspiration for starting it and why this format?
1:33.8	Yeah.
1:34.5	So let's see.
1:35.7	The book is both a memoir, which is sort of my development as how I became a cook and then a chef and then an owner of a restaurant running Savoy restaurant
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