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New Worlder
The New Worlder podcast explores the world of food and travel in the Americas and beyond. Hosted by James Beard nominated writer Nicholas Gill and anthropologist Juliana Duque, each episode features a long form interview with chefs, conservationists, scientists, farmers, writers, foragers, and more.
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Episodes
New WorlderEpisode #129: Christian Puglisi
Christian F. B. Puglisi is a Copenhagen-based chef and restauranteur that closed and sold all of his restaurants in recent years to spend time with his family…
New WorlderEpisode #128: Lara Espirito Santo and George McLeod
Lara Espirito Santo is from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and George McLeod is from New Zealand. Through their shared interest in reducing food waste and imagining a…
New WorlderEpisode #127: María Álvarez and Isaac Martínez
María Álvarez and Isaac Martínez are the co-founders of the Mexican culinary book publisher Novo. We had María on a couple of years ago when they had just…
New WorlderEpisode #126: Abril Macías
Abril Macías is the founder of the magazine Revista Chiú, a print and digital platform based in Ecuador. One of the most fascinating gastronomic destinations…
New WorlderEpisode #125: Sebastian Gallucci
Sebastian Gallucci comes from an Argentine Italian family, but grew up in Toronto, Canada. He now runs two restaurants in somewhat isolated part of Costa…
New WorlderEpisode #124: Claire McQue
There is a lot going on in Colombia right now, for those that are paying attention. There was a major earthquake that just devastated the Eje Cafetero…
New WorlderEpisode #123: The Fight for Trancoso
The village of Trancoso, Brazil is located not very far from where Portuguese explorer Pedro Álvares Cabral first reached the South American continent in 1500…
New WorlderEpisode #122: New Season Intro
The new season of the New Worlder podcast is finally getting underway. The break was a little longer than I expected because some of the final research trips…
New WorlderEpisode #121: Lucio and Pablo Usobiaga
I want to you to try to imagine an ancient lakebed where the decomposing aquatic life at its bottom was piled up within the lake and mixed with branches and…
New WorlderEpisode #120: Gregg Moore
Gregg Moore is a ceramic artist who is best known for his work with Dan Barber at the restaurant Blue Hill at Stone Barns. The Glenside, Pennsylvania based…
New WorlderEpisode #119: Shava Cueva
Shava Cueva is the Baja California, Mexico born photographer who created the book and platform Bebidas de Oaxaca. The self-published book, now in its second…
New WorlderEpisode #118: Peter Tempelhoff
Peter Tempelhoff is a chef and restauranteur in Cape Town, South Africa. While Pete lived and worked in Europe and the US, and worked with Marco Pierre White…
New WorlderEpisode #117: Nancy Matsumoto
Nancy Matsumoto is the author of Reaping What She Sows: How Women Are Rebuilding Our Broken Food System, which will be released in October but is available for…
New WorlderEpisode #116: Elspeth Hay
Elspeth Hay is the author of the new book Feed Us With Trees: Nuts and the Future of Food. The book helps us understand how many in Western society lost their…
New WorlderEpisode #115: Olivia Chase & Steve Sprinkel
Olivia Chase and Steve Sprinkel are the owners of The Farmer and the Cook in Ojai, California. What is The Farmer and the Cook? It’s a restaurant, café…
New WorlderEpisode #114: Nicolás Tapia
Nicolás Tapia is the chef and owner of the restaurant Yum Cha in Santiago, Chile. In the interview he talks about how he became interested in tea during a trip…
New WorlderEpisode #113: Stephanie Bonin
Stephanie Bonin is a Barranquilla, Colombia born chef and the owner of Patio Tropical in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. For years, Stephanie has been doing to legwork…
New WorlderEpisode 112: Martin Rosberg
Martin Rosberg is a natural cheesemaker that lives in Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay, a small community across the Río de la Plata from Buenos Aires…
New WorlderEpisode #111: Garima Arora
Garima Arora is the India born chef of the two Michelin star restaurant Gaa in Bangkok, Thailand. She is the only female Indian chef with two Michelin stars…
New WorlderEpisode #110: Maru Molina
Maru Molina lives in El Salvador, living somewhat of a nomadic lifestyle. She has a weekly pop-up event called Cocina de Jardin, where the events are held in…
New WorlderEpisode #109: Evan Rail
Evan Rail is based in Prague, in the Czech Republic and is prolific food and travel writer, and has covered beer and spirits for many years. His latest book is…
New WorlderEpisode #108: Carolina Colque & Sergio Armella
Sergio Armella is the owner of the restaurant Ephedra outside of San Pedro de Atacama, Chile. Let me be clear when I say that this is a very unlikely…
New WorlderEpisode #107: Bruna Fontevecchia & Max Wilson
Bruna Fontevecchia and Max Wilson are the cofounders of the food magazine and platform Anchoa. The magazine, which began in Argentina, has tried to create a…
New WorlderEpisode #106: Sarah Thompson
Sarah Thompson is the chef of Casa Playa in the Wynn Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. She was born in Boston, Massachusetts and is a Culinary Institute of America…
New WorlderEpisode #105: Lotta & Per-Anders Jörgensen
Based in Malmo, Sweden,Lotta & Per-Anders Jörgensen are the founders of the legendary food magazine Fool. Lotta is an art director and Per-Anders, or P.A. as I…
New WorlderEpisode #104: Dave Pynt
Dave Pynt is the Perth, Australia born chef of the restaurant Burnt Ends in Singapore. Burnt Ends, open since 2013, which followed a pop-up in London the year…
New WorlderEpisode #103: Meghan Flanigan & Mario Rosero
Meghan Flanigan & Mario Rosero are the owners of the restaurant Prudencia in Bogotá, Colombia. Prudencia is a timeless restaurant in La Candelaria, an old…
New WorlderEpisode #102: Olivier Bur
Olivier Bur is the chef and owner of the restaurant Casarré in the city of the Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic. Casarré is unlike any other restaurant…
New WorlderEpisode #101: Bryan Ford
Bryan Ford is the author of the new book Pan Y Dulce: The Latin American Baking Book. Bryan is a baker and a very good one, and I think he’s looking at Latin…
New WorlderThe 100th Episode Extravaganza
This is a very special 100th episode of this podcast. That’s not something I ever expected to say. I really had no understanding of what it takes to launch a…
New WorlderEpisode #99: Alejandro Osses
Alejandro Osses is a food photographer from Bogotá, Colombia who recently moved to Madrid, Spain. He recently published a book of his work documenting food in…
New WorlderEpisode #98: Shane Mitchell
Shane Mitchell is the author of the book The Crop Cycle: Stories with Deep Roots, which is a history of food in the American South, often reflecting on her…
New WorlderEpisode #97: Sabor Barranquilla
Rather than a straight forward interview, this episode is a report from on the ground in Barranquilla, Colombia during the city’s annual gastronomy festival…
New WorlderEpisode #96: Gilberto Briceño
Gilberto Briceño is the owner of RLT Cuisine, or Road Less Traveled Cuisine, in Playa Potrero, a small beach town in Guancaste, Costa Rica. RLT Cuisine is not…
New WorlderEpisode #95: María Álvarez
María Álvarez is the co-founder, along with Isaac Martínez, of the publisher Novo, the very first publishing house dedicated to gastronomy in Mexico. Maria and…
New WorlderEpisode #94: Rodrigo Pacheco
A lot of chefs say they want to preserve landscapes, but Rodrigo Pacheco of Bocavaldivia in Puerto Cayo on the coast of Ecuador at is actually doing it. He is…
New WorlderEpisode #93: Lisa Abend
Lisa Abend is a Copenhagen, Denmark based writer that covers food, travel and all sorts of other topics for publications like Time Magazine, The New York Times…
New WorlderEpisode #92: Gabriela Perdomo
Gabriela Perdomo is the owner of the tortillería and restaurant El Comalote in Antigua, Guatemala. More than just a place to buy tortillas and eat delicious…
New WorlderEpisode #91: Richard McColl
Richard McColl is a British Canadian journalist, podcaster and hotel owner based in Bogotá and Mompós, Colombia. I’ve known Richard for at least a decade. I…
New WorlderEpisode #90: Pablo Díaz
Pablo Díaz is the chef and owner of the restaurants Mercado 24 and Dora La Tostadora in Guatemala City, Guatemala. His restaurants have never been about…
New WorlderEpisode #89: Matthias Ingelmann
Matthias Ingelmann is the bar manager of Kol Mezcaleria and Kol Restaurant in London England. Matthias is German born and has worked in a lot of great bars…
New WorlderEpisode #88: Nando Chang
Nando Chang was born in Chiclayo, Peru and is the chef of Itamae AO, a Nikkei restaurant in Miami, Florida. It is the reincarnation of Itamae, the beloved…
New WorlderEpisode #87: Mariana Poo & Luciely Cahum Mejía
Today we are speaking with Mariana Poo, the commercial director of Traspatio Maya and its counterpart Taller Maya, and Luciely Cahum Mejía, a beekeeper…
New WorlderEpisode #86: Juan Luis Martínez
Juan Luis Martínez was born in Venezuela but has been living abroad and working in restaurants in Spain and Peru for many years. He opened Mérito in 2018 after…
New WorlderEpisode #85: Pietra Possamai
Pietra Possamai is the winemaker at Bodega Murga in the Pisco Valley of Peru. Born in Brazil, she has led the winemaking operations at Bodega Murga, which also…
New WorlderEpisode #84: Niklas Ekstedt
Niklas Ekstedt is the owner of the Michelin starred restaurant Ekstedt in Stockholm, Sweden. It’s a restaurant that was designed around live fire cooking, but…
New WorlderEpisode #83: Andrea Moscoso Weise
Andrea Moscoso-Weise, the restaurant manager and beverage director of the restaurant Gustu in La Paz, Bolivia. Born in the highland town of Cochabamba, Moscoso…
New WorlderEpisode #82: Jaime Duque
Jaime Duque (no relation to co-host Juliana Duque by the way) is the founder of Catación Pública, a brand of specialty coffee shops, roasters and educational…
New WorlderEpisode #81: Cyrus Tabrizi
Cyrus Tabrizi is the founder of Caspian Monarque, a producer and distributor of fine Iranian caviar. I first met Cyrus last year when we happened to be seated…
New WorlderEpisode #80: Andrea Petrini
Andrea Petrini, or Andy as I know him was born in Italy but has lived for many years in Lyon, France. He is a writer, author and founder of Gelinaz!, an always…
New WorlderEpisode #79: Melissa Guerra
Melissa Guerra is an author and food writer that lives on a working cattle ranch the Rio Grande Valley in South Texas near the Mexican border. She is someone I…
New WorlderEpisode #78: Juliana Duque
Today’s episode is an introduction to Juliana Duque as the New Worlder podcast’s new co-host. Juliana, or Juli as I tend to call her, was born in Colombia and…
New WorlderEpisode #77: Sebastian La Rocca
Sebastian La Rocca, who is the Argentina-born chef at the restaurant FYR in my hometown of Columbus, Ohio. It’s a Latin American live fire restaurant that…
New WorlderEpisode #76: Mariano Carranza
Mariano Carranza is a Lima, Peru born Emmy award nominated documentary filmmaker that lives in Brooklyn, New York. You may have seen some of his work, such as…
New WorlderEpisode #75: Giovanni Marabese
Giovanni Marbese, or Gio, as I know him, is an Italian food anthropologist and owns Tone Bread Lab, an experimental bakery in Milan. It’s a funny story how I…
New WorlderEpisode #74: Danny Childs
Danny Childs is the author of the phenomenal new cocktail book Slow Drinks. It’s a book about incorporating the ingredients that are growing around you into…
New WorlderEpisode #73: The Matey Seafood Festival
This episode is something I haven’t done before. It’s a special episode recorded during the Matey Seafood Festival on Iceland’s Vestmannaeyjar archipelago…
New WorlderEpisode #72: René Frank
René Frank is the chef and owner of the two Michelin star restaurant Coda in Berlin, Germany. Coda is a dessert restaurant, but what that means is probably not…
New WorlderEpisode #71: Luiz Filipe Souza
Luiz Filipe Souza, the chef restaurant Evvai, in São Paulo, Brazil. Evvai, is a Brazilian restaurant with Italian influences, though sometimes that gets lost…
New WorlderEpisode #70: Andrew Wong
Andrew Wong is the chef of the two Michelin star restaurant A.Wong in London, England. Andrew grew up working in his parents’ restaurant, a straightforward…