The Zest
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<p>Because it’s strange and beautiful and hot, people from everywhere converge on Florida and they bring their cuisine and their traditions with them. The Zest celebrates the intersection of food and communities in the Sunshine State.</p>
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3/29/2019
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Recent Episodes
June 25, 2026
Bonus: Join “Retro Recipes” Author Bobby Hicks and Dalia Colón at Tombolo Books
“Retro food” can mean different things to different people. For today’s kids, it’s the Jell-O Pudding Pops and vintage Pizza Huts of their parents’ childhood. For <a href="https://www.instagram.com/retrorecipeskitchen/">Bobby Hicks</a>, retro means tuna noodle casserole, chicken Kiev and gelatin rainbow cake—the food of his parents’ and grandparents’ heyday. But retro recipes are more than a list of ingredients. They’re a feeling. During the pandemic, Hicks shared this nostalgia with a growing number of social media followers who watched him make these sentimental dishes, providing a much-needed sense of comfort. And now he’s captured that feeling in a new cookbook. It’s called <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Retro-Recipes-Vintage-Dishes-Modern/dp/1324117257/ref=sr_1_1?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.w2GdJuOEFBARsQP2sBvJGrjNIkoj7moq-AfpZX4QEXf4F41QId4i22wAX9_4P-83VYkOF55yURwhe8g8DTj4QOnP-54Y46XRRX_qrkQHZuKrAPX6p4tMr6CHQjhFlMYqr-tZlOiccc9E1WfvKslRoP1QeCap_sA6z4xMo5a55xl4ot3sSvP2cZ3beYXo17pb.7Ghim2lX_6E2R9DxwuIv7-tA_a_muAuJwd5t1fABuAQ&dib_tag=se&qid=1780419673&refinements=p_27%3ABobby+Hicks&s=books&sr=1-1&text=Bobby+Hicks">Retro Recipes: Vintage Dishes with a Modern Twist</a>. We caught up with Hicks, who grew up on a farm in Central Florida and now lives in South Florida. In this conversation, the content creator and self-taught private chef discusses how to modernize retro meals for the 21st century, staples of a vintage kitchen and which recipes should stay in the past. Want to hear more from Bobby? Catch him in conversation with Dalia at Tombolo Books in St. Petersburg on June 30. Get event details <a href="https://tombolobooks.com/events/5141620260630">here</a>.
May 28, 2026
Restauranteur Billy Dec Explores His Filipino Heritage in the PBS Documentary “Food Roots”
When our elders pass away, too often their recipes die with them. In recent years, this reality really began sinking in for actor and restaurateur <a href="https://www.instagram.com/billydec/">Billy Dec</a>. So Dec, the son of a white father and Filipina mother, decided to travel to the Philippines to find his last living maternal elders and learn his ancestral recipes. He brought along a film crew, and the result is the new PBS documentary <a href="https://www.pbs.org/show/food-roots/">Food Roots</a>. We met up with Dec at <a href="https://www.sundanewasian.com/tampa">Sunda Tampa</a>, the Southeast Asian restaurant he owns in Tampa’s Midtown district. In this conversation, he discusses what his journey taught him about himself, his struggle to fit in as a “Waisian” kid growing up in Chicago and the rising popularity of Filipino cuisine.
May 21, 2026
Inside Tampa’s 5-Star Bar Scene with The Tampa Edition’s Nihat Çam
A hotel bar is much more than a place to grab a drink while you’re on vacation or traveling for work. It’s about connection, relaxation and rituals as old as mankind. A really good hotel bar will even attract the locals. That’s the case at <a href="https://www.marriott.com/en-us/hotels/tpaeb-the-tampa-edition/overview/">The Tampa Edition</a>, a five-star hotel located on downtown’s bustling Channelside Drive. Throughout the hotel’s bars and restaurants, service is as important as what’s in the glass. Ensuring that hospitality is the Tampa Edition’s director of bars, Nihat Çam. We sat down with Çam at the hotel’s Punch Room speakeasy. Over virgin hibiscus cocktails, he shares how his Turkish upbringing and global travels led him to this role. Çam also shares the latest trends in alcoholic and nonalcoholic drinks and discusses the larger role that hotels play in society, as detailed in his book. It's called <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Bar-Culture-Hospitality-Hotel-Spirits/dp/B0GKZF2QQQ">Bar Culture: Hospitality, Hotel Bars and Spirits.</a>
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- What is The Zest?
<p>Because it’s strange and beautiful and hot, people from everywhere converge on Florida and they bring their cuisine and their traditions with them. The Zest celebrates the intersection of food and communities in the Sunshine State.</p> - How often does this podcast release new episodes?
This podcast updates daily.
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