All kitchens are busy. But when you're a psychic medium the clamor can get particularly loud, as award-winning pastry chef and medium Heather Carlucci knows all too well. In this episode, Heather takes us through the moments in her life when food was powerful enough to shut out all the noise. A taste of Keema Matar prepared by one of her pastry students inspired her to open Lassi, her West Village Indian joint, with absolutely no experience cooking Indian. But Heather had her own secret sauce: a feverish passion for the way a human being can be fundamentally changed by food. Heather's life has been an epic journey of creating and chasing that experience. From a burrata pizza in Sicily to the Turmeric Fish Noodle at LA's Viet Noodle Bar, Heather recounts her best meals like another might describe art—a tango of technicality and magic.
