Podcast appearances and mentions of elise kornack

In 2017, after five years of running Take Root, an impossible-to-get-into 12 seat, Michelin-starred tasting menu only restaurant in Brooklyn, Elise Kornack and her wife Anna Hieronimous closed their doors and moved to 2 hours north to regroup, reconnect, get re-inspired and start again. Host Dana Cowin catches up with Kornack as she is on the verge of announcing her next project. Listen in to hear how this quintessentially original chef assesses the benefits and sacrifices of leaving NYC; how she dreams of dishes informed by narratives that only she knows; how the constant state of revision as an art student informs her cooking and her life. For just under an hour, immerse yourself in a world where trends don't matter, and following your truth is everything. Speaking Broadly is powered by Simplecast.

Just six months ago, Elise Kornack was the chef and co-owner of one of the most unique tasting menu restaurants in the world, Brooklyn's 12-seat, Michelin-starred jewel box Take Root. Today, she's enjoying a breather in her new home in the woods of Saugerties, New York, two hours north of the big city, where she's been reflecting on her life and career and plotting her next professional chapter. Andrew recently threw his mics and recording equipment into his trunk and drove up to spend a Sunday with Elise and check in on her state of mind and future goals. She shared some previously guarded details about her reasons for shuttering Take Root and took us through the evolution she made as a young woman from artist to line cook to chef. Here's a thought: If you like what you hear, please tell your chef-fascinated friends, subscribe to Andrew Talks to Chefs (it's free) on iTunes or Stitcher, follow us on your favorite social media platforms @ChefPodcast, and/or review us on Apple's podcast store. Thanks for listening! Andrew Talks to Chefs is powered by Simplecast

Dan Saladino is at Food On The Edge, a gathering of people with food stories to tell; from a Black Panther breakfast to a chef convinced her emotions could be detected in her food. Held in Galway, the west of Ireland each year chef JP McMahon invites fellow cooks, chefs and restaurateurs to take to a stage and for 15 minutes share a food story of experience. Over two days more than 40 different stories from countries as diverse as Japan, Italy, Bolivia and Australia are told. Dan selects a handful of the stories that made an impact on him during his time at Food On The Edge. The first story is of how a Syrian kitchen came to be set up in Amsterdam. Tens of thousand of Syrians arrived in the city during the peak of the recent refugee crisis. Among them was a photographer, fashion designer, fitness machine repair man and a lawyer. Together they ran a kitchen in the Salvation Army centre where they were being housed, aiming to feed their fellow refugees with food from home. After spotting an appeal for help on Facebook, Dutch chef Jurriaan Momberg visited the kitchen to see if he could help teach them to cook. What he discovered were some of the greatest culinary talents he'd encountered in his career. It led to the creation of a pop-up restaurant which caused a sensation in Amsterdam. But all good things comes to an end and in the programme Jurriaan explains why one day he walked into an empty kitchen. Another story comes from Oakland California. It was there in 1966 that the radical political movement The Black Panthers were created in response to police violence against black communities. By 1969 what had first looked like a militia, promoting armed resistance, the organisation had also created a series of social programmes. The most successful of which was a breakfast programme set up to feed black children who were often going to school undernourished and hungry. Chef Saqib Keval of the People's Kitchen Collective, a group of cooks, historians and researchers who tell stories through food, explains why he's brought the free breakfasts back to California. Meanwhile Chef Matt Orlando of the Copenhagen restaurant Amass reveals some of the kitchen experiments he's been undertaking to convert so called "waste food" and by-products into delicious meals. He explains the ingenious way flavours and nutrients inside used coffee grounds can be released to make a meal. Irish chef Domini Kemp took to the stage to express her frustration of how, based on her own experience of cancer treatment, the medical profession neglect the power of food in conversations about prevention, recovery and long term health. Finally, New York chef Elise Kornack tells the story of how a mental breakdown led her to become convinced that her own powerful emotions were being transferred through her cooking and onto her customers. Like a scene from the book and film, Like Water For Chocolate, she believed every mouthful of food she was serving would result in diners sensing what was unfolding in her troubled mind. Produced and presented by Dan Saladino. Additional recording in Oakland, California by Meradith Hoddinott.

Elise Kornack is the chef and co-owner of Brooklyn's Take Root, the 12-seat tasting-menu restaurant she runs along with her wife, Anna Hieronimus. Take Root has received a coveted Michelin star for three consecutive years and was named one of the "Best New Restaurants in America" by Esquire magazine in 2014. Kornack has been a semi finalist for the "James Beard Rising Star Chef" award for the last three years, one of the “50 Most Influential People” in the Brooklyn food scene by Brooklyn Magazine and New York Magazine's critic Adam Platt named her one of five "Best New Chefs 2015" by in the annual "Where to Eat" issue. As of March 2017, Kornack will close Take Root to move her residence to Ulster County with plans to pursue new creative endeavors upstate.

Food is one of the main reasons we hit the road, so we wanted to know what the future of global cuisine might look like. We found 10 culinary talents making outsized impressions all around the world. This week, we talk about the list with some very special guests, including chef Elise Kornack of Brooklyn's Take Root, food writer Julia Bainbridge, and Matt Duckor of Epicurious.

In this episode of Radio Cherry Bombe, we bring you “Meet the Modernists,” a discussion with four chefs breaking rules and running kitchens their own way: Dominique Crenn of Atelier Crenn, Elise Kornack of Take Root, Iliana Regan of Elizabeth, and Anjana Shanker of Modernist Cuisine. The panel was moderated by Aki Kamozawa of Ideas in Food and introduced by Charlotte Druckman, journalist and author of “Skirt Steak.” This talk was recorded at the Cherry Bombe Jubilee conference in March 2015.

It’s a packed house for another star-studded episode of Radio Cherry Bombe. Host Julia Turshen is chatting with three incredibly talented chefs – Katy Sparks, Executive Chef at Tavern on the Green as well as Elise Kornack and Anna Hieronimus of Take Root. First – we hear from Katy, who’s background includes cooking at NYC institutions like The Quilted Giraffe and Mesa Grill. Find out what it’s like cooking at a restaurant that seats 700(!!) and comes with a storied reputation that rivals any other dining establishment in the country. Later – Julia chats with the team at Take Root, a celebrated Brooklyn restaurant featuring a tasting menu in a very unique setting. They discuss operating a business as a couple and the debate surrounding tasting menus in modern dining. This program was sponsored by The International Culinary Center.   #### “The A-hah moment for me was dropping out of college and having no skill set – being 19 years old and landing in a restaurant. What I liked about it so much was the camaraderie in the kitchen.” [04:00] “I’m just doing what I do which is largely seasonal/local as a foundation. I create a kitchen that has a lot of direct heat elements. I organized the menu around the cooking medium and designed it to be quick.” [11:00] –Katy Sparks on Radio Cherry Bombe “We get to do something together that’s extremely rewarding and have experiences that other couples don’t get to have. It can be stressful but overall it’s great.” [20:00] –Anna Hieronimus on Radio Cherry Bombe “I like to take humble ingredients and introduce them to people in a way they haven’t seen.” [22:00] –Elise Kornack on Radio Cherry Bombe