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Season 1

  • S01E01 Joys of Jamaican Cooking

    • November 16, 2022

    Stephanie challenges herself to learn more about Caribbean food. Meeting with home cook Kat Williams, who teaches her about Jerk chicken and the art of rice and peas and then restaurant owner Chef Tony who shows her the secret to oxtail.

  • S01E02 Middle East Street Food Eats

    • November 23, 2022

    Stephanie highlights the diversity of Middle Eastern cuisine through the lens of street food. Cooking Pakistani kebabs with home chef, Izza Khan, and then learning the complexity of Israeli street food at Dr. Sandwich.

  • S01E03 Stephanie and the Pitmaster

    • November 30, 2022

    Stephanie joins home chef, Fernando Carrillo, for a backyard BBQ and a trip to LA institution Carnitas el Momo.

  • S01E04 Legacies and Thai Cuisine

    • December 7, 2022

    Stephanie makes Thai and Peruvian dishes with home chef Brittaney and swap stories about their mums' cooking.

  • S01E05 Key Ingredients of West African Cuisine

    • December 14, 2022

    Stephanie meets Nigerian chefs, Eros and JP, to learn the basics of cooking West African cuisine. From palm oil to locust beans to asaro; Stephanie tests her knowledge and her skills - using these unfamiliar ingredients.

Season 2

  • S02E01 Side Hustles

    • August 30, 2022

    From a lawyer to an actor to an insurance analyst, Stephanie discovers a world of folks who've turned their passion for cooking into side hustle food businesses. From dumplings, sushi and pretzels she explores how how they balance their day jobs.

  • S02E02 TBA?

    • September 6, 2023

    Not finding this one noted on TasteMade, like it was skipped.

  • S02E03 Cooking with Fire

    • September 13, 2023

    From Armenian kebabs to chicken parm heros to a Brazilian BBQ, it's all about cooking with fire.

  • S02E04 Secret Pizza

    • September 19, 2023

    From popups and secret menus to limited drops and van pizza, Stephanie explores L.A.'s pizza scene.

  • S02E05 Life After Restaurants

    • September 27, 2023

    From mariscos to Cantonese remixes of British hand pies to made-to-order slap noodles, Stephanie catches hangs with 3 chefs who left the traditional restaurant scene and found alternative ways to cook for a living and make the food they love.

  • S02E06 Farm Forward Cooking

    • October 4, 2023

    From a chef creating dishes that combine her Mexican and Indigenous heritage to a pizza pop up that improvs with farmers market ingredients to a backyard-run Indigenous dinner series, Stephanie Izard meets cooks taking their lead from the land.

  • S02E07 Origins to Originals

    • October 10, 2023

    From roast chicken to smash burgers, Stephanie sees cooks remixing classics from their heritage.

  • S02E08 Unique Eats

    • October 18, 2023

    From a chef making Italian pasta with Mexican flavors to a groundbreaking functional cocktail bar to a couple that roasts whole goats behind a tire shop, Stephanie Izard finds unique eateries serving up one-of-a-kind food.

  • S02E09 Family Style

    • October 25, 2023

    From brothers selling mom's Syrian food to a Filipino family remixing a classic dessert to a mom and son running an Indian restaurant out of their house, Stephanie meets multi-gen families turning family recipes into smash hit food business.

  • S02E10 Home Cooking

    • November 1, 2023

    From a homerun Greek dinner party series to a backyard that's become a gourmet deli to a Burmese pop up running out of an apartment kitchen, Stephanie Izard meets cooks finding ingenious ways to serve mouth-watering food out of their houses.