Kitchen Tape is for people who love food—and the stories behind it. Rose Wilde and Crystal Slonecker talk with cooks, writers, and the editors, publicists, and publishers who bring books to life. Curious, candid conversations about the obsessions, experiences, and creative choices behind books that shape how we cook, eat, and think.
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Heeeey! Rose Wilde welcomes listeners back to Kitchen Tape and previews a season of conversations about food, memory, craft, and the people behind culinary stories. She shares updates on her books Tiny Cakes and Bread and Roses, then reflects on what she learned from food and farming communities in Maine and California, stories from Denmark, Taiwan, and Lebanon, with themes ranging from family recipes and grief to food traditions under threat, land stewardship, and hopeful ideas for the future. Subscribe and share with your favorite food friend.
Mentions:
Tiny Cakes (https://www.amazon.com/Tiny-Cakes-Cookbook_75-Everyday-Cupcakes/dp/1797239929) — Rose Wilde’s forthcoming book, illustrated by Asami Watsanabe (https://www.artsami.com) and published by Chronicle (https://www.chroniclebooks.com).
Bread and Roses (https://www.amazon.com/Bread-Roses-featuring-Ingredients-Botanicals/dp/1682687430) — Rose’s earlier book about whole grains and cooking with what grows together. Norton (https://wwnorton.com/books/9781682687437)
International Year of the Woman Farmer (https://www.fao.org/woman-farmer-2026/en)
@cagrownofficial (https://www.instagram.com/cagrownofficial/) @caprunes (https://www.instagram.com/caprunes/) @cherrybombe (https://www.instagram.com/cherrybombe/)@aussiebeeflamb (https://www.instagram.com/aussiebeeflamb/)@maingrainalliance (https://www.instagram.com/mainegrainalliance/)
Authors you can look forward to hearing this season and their books:
Gus Constantellis — My Greek Mom’s Recipes: She Died. I Wrote This Cookbook.
Ham El-Waylly — Hello, Home Cooking
Martin Sorge — Great Bakes from the Midwest
Robin Ha — Instant Noodles & Beyond
Erin Jeanne McDowell — Bake Anything
Nora Singley — One-Pot Pasta
Susan Spungen — Cookie Queen
Zola Gregory - Sheet Cakes! AND The Pasta Box
Lucie Franc de Ferrière — Cake From Lucie
Phyllis Grant — Everything Is Under ControlSarah Trad — A House in the Lebanese Mountains
Mark Bittman — How to Cook Everything Vegan and the How to Cook Everything series
Ali Francis — The Curious Lives of Vegetables
Marie Havnø Frank — More Than Sweet
Amy Halloran - The New Bread Basket Revisited
Nichole Accettola — Scandinavian from Scratch
Virginia Shaffer — Oyster Society
Clarissa Wei — Sitting the Month and Made in Taiwan
Anna Voloshyna — Ukraïne and Budmo!Laurel Kratochvila — Dobre Dobre: Baking from Poland and Beyond.
Rachel Gurjar — East to East
Lokelani Alabanza — Ice Cream Queen
Tara Jensen — Pizza Practice Flour Power
Sally Ekus — Cookbook-publishing special
Rose Wilde — Tiny Cakes
Noah Galuten — Grill Time!
Farideh Sadeghin — The Hot Dog Cookbook AND Cheesy!
And More!
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3 Jun 2026
Everyone Loves Dorie and her NEW Anytime Cakes!
This week on Kitchen Tape, Rose and Crystal sit down with Dorie Greenspan, one of the most beloved and trusted voices in baking. We talk about the decades-spanning body of work that has made Dorie such a constant presence in home kitchens, from her collaborations with icons like Pierre Hermé and Julia Child to the warmth, clarity, and curiosity that define her own books. The conversation invites us into her sweet world and moves through intuition, endurance, recipe writing, family, the choice for a fully illustrated book and the quiet discipline of making people feel cared for through food.
And at the very end, Dorie receives a reveal that’s been building quietly across the entire season!
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Mentioned in this episode:
• Dorie’s Anytime Cakes: A James Beard Award Winner's Collection of 100+ Simple Illustrated Recipes
• Baking with Dorie: Sweet, Salty & Simple
• Everyday Dorie: The Way I Cook
• Dorie’s Cookies
• Baking Chez Moi: Recipes from My Paris Home to Your Home Anywhere
• Around My French Table: More than 300 Recipes from My Home to Yours
• Baking: From My Home to Yours
• Baking with Julia: Savor the Joys of Baking with America's Best Bakers
• The Settlement Cookbook by Simon Kander
• The New York Times Cookbook by Craig Claiborne
• Sift by Nicola Lamb
• A Book of Mediterranean Food by Elizabeth David
• Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat by Samin Nosrat
27 May 2026
A Meaningful Life: Helen Goh on Baking, Ritual and Joy
This week on Kitchen Tape, Rose and Crystal sit down with Helen Goh, internationally acclaimed pastry chef, longtime Ottolenghi collaborator, columnist for the Sydney Morning Herald and The Guardian, and author of Baking and the Meaning of Life and Sweet. Featuring 100 recipes that weave together Helen’s Malaysian and Australian heritage with Western and Middle Eastern influences, Baking and the Meaning of Life asks a larger question beneath the recipes: how do we build meaning in our lives? Through eight essays woven throughout the book, Helen explores baking as a practice of mindfulness, agency, competence, ritual, and connection — not simply as a way to make food, but as one of the many small acts that help us create purpose and community in a chaotic world. The conversation moves through her enviable cookbook collection, existentialism, the meanings of color, psychology, flavor, memory, and the quiet rigor behind recipes that feel both deeply comforting and profoundly intentional.
Mentioned in this episode:
• Baking and the Meaning of Life: How to Find Joy in 100 Recipes
• Sweet by Helen Goh and Yotam Ottolenghi
• Cooking: Simply and Well, for One or Many by Jeremy Lee
• Kate Spade Green
• The Australian Women's Weekly Children's Birthday Cake Book
• The Flavor Thesaurus by Niki Segnit
• Stars Desserts by Emily Luchetti
• Flour Hour Baking Podcast hosted by Jeremiah Duarte Bills and Amanda Faber
• Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
• Ma Vie en Rose by Rose Levy Beranbaum
• The Artful Baker by Cenk Sonmezsoy
• Jikoni by Ravinder Bhogal
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