On the Table with Ashley is a podcast presented by luxury home goods brand, Âme Atendre. Join host Ashley Gould as she speaks with thought provoking individuals on their varied life experiences and professions. On the Table with Ashley covers any topic we can put on the table, with the goal of increasing human connection through curiosity, respect and understanding.
Re-Release: Anne Kornblut - Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist & Silicon Valley Powerhouse
We have journalism, technology and life as a woman in the executive world on the table today. This is a palette cleanser and re-release of our episode with Anne Kornblut. Anne is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who is currently the Vice President of Global Product Content Operations at Meta, FKA Facebook. Anne previously served as a Senior Editor at The Washington Post where she oversaw national politics, national security, and health, science + environmental coverage. In 2013, she was the lead editor overseeing coverage of Edward Snowden's NSA revelations, which won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. She joins Ashley to talk about her career, from the newsroom to working as an executive at Meta, integrity within the news and media and the varied intersecting areas of her life.
You can connect with Anne on Linkedin.
Links to topics mentioned by Ashley and Anne in today’s episode:
Substack, an online platform that provides publishing, payment, analytics, and design infrastructure to support subscription newsletters.
Jessica Yellin on Instagram
Link to the small and large Crystal Bowls, Wooden Serving Spoons and Cocktail Napkins gifted to Anne and offered by Âme Atendre.
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9 Sept 2026
Food and Connection Series: Cooking Behind Bars with Chef Bruno Abate (Recipe for Change)
Rehabilitation through Food is on the table today!
On the final episode of our Food and Connection series, Ashley sits down with Chef Bruno Abate. Bruno is an Italian chef, restaurateur, and founder of Recipe for Change, a nonprofit organization that uses culinary education to support rehabilitation and create new opportunities for people who are incarcerated.
Bruno joins us to share the story behind Recipe for Change and the personal experience that inspired him to begin working with incarcerated youth. He opens up about the work he does inside the jail, where participants learn professional cooking skills, earn food safety certifications, work together in a kitchen, and prepare meals and pizzas.
Together, Ashley and Bruno explore what it means to truly rehabilitate rather than simply punish, and how something as simple as treating our incarcerated population with dignity, and equipping them with a chef's toolkit can change lives.
Learn more about Recipe for Change (https://recipeforchangeproject.org).
Follow Recipe for Change on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/recipeforchange?stkn=aXcydnlic2czZTBy).
Donate (https://recipeforchangeproject.org/donate) to Recipe for Change.
Read Dostoyevsky (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/314).
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26 Aug 2026
Food and Connection Series: How Food Kept a Sri Lankan Family Connected Across Continents with Dr.Thurka Sangaramoorthy
Diasporic Connection is on the table today
On the 8th episode of our On the Table with Ashley series, we are joined by Thurka Sangaramoorty. Thurka Sangaramoorthy is a cultural and medical anthropologist and public health researcher with 22 years of experience conducting research among vulnerable populations in the United States, Africa, and Latin America. Dr.Sangaramoorthy is a professor and chair of The Department of Anthropology at American University. Thurka is the author of the books, Treating AIDS, Rapid Ethnographic Assessments, and Landscapes of Care.
Thurka joins us to share the story of her family, who fled the Sri Lankan Civil War in the 1970s and sought asylum in the United States, exploring how food became a way to remain connected to their roots, their homeland, and one another.
Dr.Sangaramoorthy opens up about researching her own family and discovering how food allows traditions to be preserved and transformed, while also shaping gender and familial roles and protecting a sense of connection to home.
Together, Ashley and Thurka explore how the food we make and share can carry stories of migration, identity, belonging, and resilience, and how, sometimes, a recipe can hold an entire family history.
Learn more about the work of Thurka Sangaramoorthy (https://www.american.edu/cas/faculty/thurkas.cfm).
Read Food as Care: Stories of Forced Displacement and Connection (https://www.anthropology-news.org/articles/food-as-care-stories-of-forced-displacement-and-connection/)
by Thurka Sangaramoorthy.
Research The Public Ethnogrophy Lab (https://www.publicethnographylab.com).
Read Crying in HMart (https://www.amazon.com/Crying-Mart-Memoir-Michelle-Zauner/dp/0525657746) by Michelle Zauner.
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On the Table with Ashley is presented by Âme Atendre (https://ameatendre.com/), a luxury home goods and tableware brand with a mission to connect people to all that matters.
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Hugh Williamson
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5.0 / 5
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Podcast Authority Score: 56 / 100
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