April 3rd So much time and attention are given to a restaurant’s opening: Who’s the chef? How will the menu be different than everything that’s come before it? Who’s designing the space? Will there be craft beer or craft cocktails? We fill reservations books. We rush in to review. We Instagram furiously. But when a…
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Love and Hospitality on a Political Day
February 20th We’re not a political show. But we’re political people. And so for President’s Day, with Ben returning from Portland and Jacqueline holed up at home writing away, we’re sharing two clips from past episodes, with a bit more of J’s mooning. First, Floyd and Barkha Cardoz of Paowalla restaurant and our recent Power…
Relationship Goals for Valentine’s Day!
February 13th We just wrapped our series on Power Couples — five couples in hospitality who work alongside each other by day and someone manage to still love each other enough to share a bed together at night. The series came about for deliciously selfish reasons: we both need a little inspiration in the healthy marriage…
Power Couples! Barkha and Floyd Cardoz!
February 6th Barkha and Floyd Cardoz met at hospitality school in India and became close friends. Eight years later, after emigrating separately to New Jersey and New York, they met once again and started to explore romance. Twenty-five years later, they’re the owners of the New York restaurant Paowalla, where their Indian heritage is cooked up through…
Power Couples! Kristin and Andrew Wood
January 13th He covers savory, she covers sweet, and everything else comes together between them. That’s how chefs Andrew and Kristin Wood have been working together since they first met, and how they do now as parents and co-owners of Russet in Philadelphia. Many years, several moves cross-country, and two children later, they’ve got many pearls of…
Power Couples! Joe and Jill Dobias of Joe and MissesDoe
Prepare for laughs and tears, as we explore the first in our Power Couples series with Joe and Jill Dobias of Joe and Misses Doe.
Sugar Flowers and Gay Weddings with Ron Ben-Israel!
June 27th Weddings are magical, and many people dream of that singular day from a young age. Pastry chef Ron Ben-Israel and his team at Ron Ben-Israel Cakes play a fundamental role in that celebration for their clients, creating massive cakes with cascading sugar flowers, models of New York’s most iconic buildings, and pretty much…
Living IRL and Food & The City author Ina Yalof
June 20th We’re on a food-obsessed radio station, with shows solely focused on cheese, farming, Japanese food, hospitality, food tech, school food programs… you name it. We take a slightly broader approach on Love Bites, focusing on a breadth of relationships in the food field: between our minds and how we feed our bodies, between diners and…
Love Bites – San Antonio Edition!
June 13th Yeehaw for Texas! Today is our first Love Bites on the Road show! Jacqueline recently traveled to San Antonio for the Culinaria festival, asking folks in food and drink at restaurants, bars, wineries, boutique hotels, and the barbecue and Grand Tasting events at Culinaria how they love and eat well in Texas. She…
Building Better Bartender Bodies with Marcia Polas & Ba’Sik’s Russell Dillon!
May 9th Some jobs are just more physical than others. Actors, dancers, chefs and bartenders beat the shit outta our bodies doing what we love. But we don’t have to. Today’s show is the first in our OUR BODIES, OURSELVES series, where we explore how our bodies can help or harm our work and how…
Ladies Who Lyme: Illness and Relationships
MARCH 21 Dating is hard enough, and we all bring baggage into new relationships. For some, baggage comes in the form of an illness that leaves you with little power over how your body moves in the world. On today’s show, Jacqueline and Ben are joined by Allie Cashel and Erica Lupinacci, the co-founders…
The “This Is Why You’re Single” ladies and Co-Host Chef Daniel Holzman!
MARCH 14TH Pondering why you’re single? Well, you could peruse the Self Help section of Barnes and Noble (if you can find one still standing), spending your hard-earned dough on stacks of weepy books about how you’ve gotta Get Out There, Girl! or why life is really better without a spouse. Or you could laugh it off. Which…
Baggage and Young Love with Chef Thiago Silva
February 29th What is baggage, and how responsible are we for losing it before we start a new relationship? On today’s show, we explore the experiences that stay with us from one dating relationship to another, and how we can move on from it. Should we wait until we’re fully ready to immerse ourselves in…
Boring 1st Dates and Pastry Chef Paulette!
JANUARY 25TH 2016 After subsequent shows on embracing our imperfections, facing our relationship patterns and moving boldly into the future with that knowledge at hand, it’s time for the team to apply what we’ve learned to our dating lives. So in our first segment, we catch up on our recent dating scenes, and discuss a…
Pastries and Babies with Chef Lauren Resler
NOVEMBER 16TH, 2015 On today’s show, Jacqueline and Ben talk confidence. How do you own it on a first date? In a relationship? Where is the line between confidence and ego? And is “owning yourself” enough? Then they’re joined by Lauren Resler, the pastry chef of Empellon restaurant and the mothers to 9-month old Jaxon…
Second Dates or No Dates with Lisa Mendelson
NOVEMBER 9TH, 2015 On last week’s show, Ben prepared for a date with a woman he’d been hooked up with via a listener! Was he more or less nervous? Where was he gonna take her? This week, we get the scoop on how it went, and how a first date moves on (or doesn’t) to…
Brother/Sister Duo Will and Julie Horowitz
OCTOBER 26TH, 2015 Last week, Jacqueline published an article on Cosmopolitan about why she doesn’t want kids, and how that doesn’t make her any less of a woman or partner. So on today’s episode, we delve into how kids play into the dating scene: when do you bring up that you do or don’t want them?…
Chef Abby Hitchcock on Restaurant Relationships
OCTOBER 5TH, 2015 We talk with Ben’s former employer, Abigail Hitchcock about running her restaurant with her spouse and the romantic encounters she’s witnessed in her cozy French Bistro, Camaje. Abby also shares the meaning behind the name, Camaje, and the stories of the three men who inspired it. LISTEN
Sacrifice and Wedding Cakes with Chef Stephen Collucci
SEPTEMBER 28TH, 2015 Tune in as we get an update on Ben’s most recent date as Jacqueline plays devil’s advocate while discussing the dating euphoria versus the dating reality. Later, Colicchio and Sons pastry chef Stephen Collucci joins in! He made his own wedding cake, and last year guided host Jacqueline with making one, too….
Chef Shane Lyons on Getting Naughty
SEPTEMBER 21ST, 2015 In this episode of Love Bites, hosts Jacqueline Raposo and Ben Rosenblatt debate why the process of finding love online can be so exhausting, and why women should feel more empowered to talk about sex without shame. Then chef Shane Lyons of New York’s Distilled joins to spill about how hard…
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