Food with Mark Bittman

Mark Bittman, Kate Bittman

food@markbittman.com

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Booking Overview

This is a weekly food interview podcast covering cooking, cookbooks, food culture, sustainability, policy, and global food issues, with recurring conversations featuring chefs, cookbook authors, media personalities, farmers, activists, and policymakers. Agencies could credibly pitch accomplished culinary professionals, cookbook authors, food-system experts, sustainability advocates, and public figures with meaningful food-related stories; booking difficulty is medium because the show combines accessible experts with prominent guests.

Metrics

Episodes: 252

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.8/5.0

Estimated listeners: 10k-100k

Gender skew: Unknown

Location: USA

Instagram: 25.0k followers

Contact Information

food@markbittman.com

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Host

Mark Bittman - Former New York Times food journalist and bestselling author of How to Cook Everything, VB6, and Animal, Vegetable, Junk.

Kate Bittman - Food podcast co-host and daughter of Mark Bittman.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium
Typical Credentials:  
Established chefs, cookbook authors, culinary professionals, food media personalities, farmers, activists, policymakers, and experts working on food systems, sustainability, or public health; compelling personal food stories are also valued.
Required Achievements:  
Published cookbooks, Recognized culinary careers, Television or media appearances, Leadership in food policy, sustainability, or food systems, Notable personal or professional food-related experiences

Recent Guest Discussions

Shirley Chung - Tongue Cancer, Relearning Taste, Recovery, And Opening A Restaurant During Treatment.

Toya Boudy - Her Cookbook Cooking From Scratch, Rebuilding After Personal Hardship, Sobriety, Motherhood, And Malinda Russell's Culinary Legacy.

Courtney Roker Laga - Collaborating With Her Father On A Cookbook And Her Work As A Recipe Detective.

Al Roker - Collaborating With His Daughter On A Cookbook, Family Food Traditions, The Morning Show, And Food In Television.

Recent Topics

Food Policy, Sustainability, Cooking, Cookbooks, Agriculture

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
Food with Mark Bittman
:

Shirley Chung: What Tongue Cancer Taught a Chef About Taste

July 08, 2026

Shirley Chung is a Top Chef finalist, French Laundry veteran and José Andrés darling. In 2024, she was diagnosed with stage four tongue cancer, and it changed her life. Shirley talks about the diagnosis she almost missed, the treatment that saved her tongue, and what it felt like to slowly, painstakingly relearn how to taste. Along the way: an unlikely connection with Grant Achatz, who went through the same thing 19 years earlier and became her north star through the worst of it. She would go...

Toya Boudy Starts from Scratch

July 01, 2026

Toya Boudy is back. Since her debut cookbook came out in 2023, life has thrown a lot at her: divorce, her mother's health struggles, sobriety, and raising three kids. Her new book, Cooking from Scratch, is the result of all of it. Kate and Toya talk about rebuilding after everything falls apart, and about Malinda Russell, a free woman of color who published a cookbook in 1866 and packed it with everything her community might need to survive. Toya believes Russell came to her for a reason.&nbs...

Father-Daughter Time with Al Roker and Courtney Roker Laga

June 17, 2026

The father-daughter duo talks to our father-daughter duo about their new cookbook and why it's special – and what it was like working on it together. Plus, Courtney's "recipe detective" journey and Al's take on The Morning Show – and Mark's on The Bear. Get the recipe for Everything-Bagel and Lox Strata on The Bittman Project: https://bittmanproject.com/recipe/everything-bagel-and-lox-strata/Subscribe to Food with Mark Bittman on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you like to list...

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