The Moth Radio Hour: Delicious! Stories of Food & Feelings

The Moth

Arts, Performing Arts

4.6 • 25.9K Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Hungry? This week, mouth-watering stories of food and the connections it provides. A feast of gravlax, fudge, bolognese, and more. This episode is hosted by Moth Senior Curatorial Producer, Suzanne Rust. The Moth Radio Hour is produced by The Moth and Jay Allison of Atlantic Public Media. Storytellers: Arlene Stewart finds where she belongs as a chef. Di Zhao goes to war over quail eggs. Josephine Ferraro runs a con for spumoni. Michael Imber tries to become his grandmother’s “angel boy.” James Gallicio's nonna takes her bolognese sauce recipe to her grave. Podcast # 913 To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Imagine a delicious patty nestled between two buns with cheese and ketchup.
0:04.7	It's not a burger.
0:05.6	That patty is actually sausage, which makes this a sandwich.
0:08.6	A breakfast sausage sandwich, the new 199 sausage sandwich from McDonald's.
0:12.8	Made with RSPCA at short pork.
0:15.6	Until 11am.
0:16.6	Price and participation may vary.
0:17.8	Up charges and fees apply to delivery.
0:19.2	Subjects for availability.
0:32.9	Music Price and participation may vary. Up charges and fees apply to delivery. Subjects of availability. This is the Moth Radio Hour, and I'm your host, Suzanne Rust.
0:44.3	I live in a household with an Italian husband, where, while we're eating breakfast, we're thinking about lunch. And at lunch, we're planning dinner.
0:46.3	It's a family trait that we've passed down to our son and daughter.
0:50.3	We definitely live to eat, because a good meal brings such joy.
0:55.0	But beyond sustenance, food is a magical vessel.
0:59.0	It transports us, back to our childhoods, back to memories of meals shared with friends and family,
1:06.0	back to road trips and vacations, and through it, so many stories are born, nurtured, and remembered over the years.
1:14.8	Sometimes food is what you do for a living. Our first story comes from chef Arlene Stewart,
1:20.7	who told it at a show in East Hampton, New York, where Guild Hall was our venue and partner. Here's
1:26.3	Arlene, live with the Moth. It's late
1:33.9	spring, early summer, 1997 New York City Hudson River. It's the reopening and rebranding of an
1:42.0	acclaimed New York City chef's restaurant. We have to learn
1:46.6	his style, his techniques, we have to take his ideas, his palette, and put it on a plate.
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