4.6 • 601 Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2022
⏱️ 25 minutes
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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 [email protected]. 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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0:00.0 | Hi, FD Weekend listeners. This is Lila. We're taking a break this week. Our team is working hard on a lot of great stories for you. |
0:08.1 | Next week, we are talking to the author Dan Brooks about ethics on Twitter and the difference between being good and doing good. |
0:16.0 | We'll also tell the story of how China standardized its written language for a keyboard and how that's affected |
0:22.0 | China's role in the digital age. I also want to tell you that the first USFT weekend festival |
0:28.2 | is in Washington, D.C. on Saturday, May 7th. It's coming up. Henry Kissinger, Chimamanda |
0:34.7 | Ngozi Adichi, Chef Mashama Bailey. |
0:38.8 | The link is in the show notes. |
0:44.0 | For a limited time, we have an offer for half off of your ticket, and you can watch it virtually, |
0:45.9 | or you can come see us in person. |
0:52.0 | This week, we've decided to go back to our very first episode from September, which is one of our favorites. |
0:54.0 | Here we go. |
1:03.8 | And then all of a sudden, you're number one, and then what? |
1:05.1 | Where are you going now? |
1:07.9 | If you feel like you have to have something, you'll die. |
1:15.0 | If you walk away from it, if you saw it on somebody else's arm, it would cause you physical pain. You should just buy it in that moment. The conditions were corrosive, the weather was terrible and even the water ran salty from the taps. So it's a house |
1:20.1 | haunted by its origin myth. In this episode, we'll dig into a strange and petty phenomenon |
1:25.8 | with our architecture and design critic Edwin |
1:28.3 | Hethkut, and then hear tips on how to thrift for your home from my colleague Madison Darbyshire. |
1:34.2 | Before that, for our first story, I speak to two of the world's most revered chefs, but it's not |
1:40.6 | about what you'd expect. We're talking about their quest to do good |
1:44.4 | in an increasingly troubled world. |
1:48.1 | In New York City, there's a restaurant so popular |
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