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Let Me Tell You Why...with Jeremy JacobowitzHow Does a NYC Restaurant Close in Under a Year?NEW SUBSTACK: https://substack.com/@jeremyjacobowitz NEW MERCH: https://www.jeremyjshop.com NEW NEWSLETTER: https://jeremyjacobowitz.beehiiv.com/subscribe Jeremy Jacobowitz is taking a closer look at what it really takes to run a successful restaurant in 2025, along with the unique challenges facing the industry today with restaurateur Alex Shapiro of Flex Mussels, Hoexter's, and Il Totano. Plus tons of new restaurant news! 12 Chairs has a new concept, Jose Andres has a new restaurant, and way more! And of course, what I’m into this week with a quick review of Hannah Selinger’s Rat Cel...2025-05-0754 min
The Culture Show PodcastApril 29, 2025 - Hannah Selinger, Eephus, and Rock to Baroque: Four Decades of Music PhotographyHannah Selinger is a James Beard Award-nominated lifestyle writer. She joins The Culture Show to talk about her debut memoir, “Cellar Rat: My Life in the Restaurant Underbelly.” On April 30th she’ll be at the Boston Public Library Central Library in Copley Square for an author talk. To learn more, go here.From there director Carson Lund joins The Culture Show to talk about his debut feature film “Eephus,” a quintessentially New England baseball film. Find out more, here.Finally, photographer Eric Antoniou discusses his new book “Rock to Baroque: Four Decades of Music Photography...2025-04-2955 min
DOTJ - Drinking On The JobEpisode 275: Hannah Selinger, author of "Cellar Rat," makes The New York Times Book Review.Send us a textFrom Elite Sommelier to Fearless WhistleblowerIvy League-educated Hannah Selinger rose to sommelier stardom before risking everything to expose industry misconduct. Though blackballed for her courage, her explosive memoir is now captivating the literary world.Check out the website: www.drinkingonthejob.com for great past episodes. Everyone from Iron Chefs, winemakers, journalist and more. 2025-04-1448 min
Freelance Writing Direct with Estelle: Conversations with authors, journalists, agents, novelists, memoirists, niche writers, publishers, writing teachers, assigning editors and media experts.#134 Writing a Memoir That’s Also an Industry Exposé Featuring Hannah SelingerHow do you turn personal experience into a powerful memoir that names names? Estelle Erasmus talks with Hannah Selinger, author of Cellar Rat, about transitioning from essayist to memoirist while tackling the dark side of the restaurant industry. In this episode: How Hannah’s viral essay led to a book deal What it means to write a memoir that’s also investigative Naming names and dealing with backlash The role of narrative in exposing abuse and toxic culture About Hannah: Hannah Selinger, author of Cellar Rat...2025-04-1028 min
Listen to the StoryNotes from Underground: A New Memoir Settles Scores in the Restaurant IndustryHannah Selinger’s ‘Cellar Rat’ is full of fascinating intel on the business of selling wine, plus petty grievances against the hospitality world.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.2025-03-3007 min
Book Friends ForeverCellar Rat By Hannah Selinger (Audiobook Excerpt)On sale March 25th, 2025
What happens when a career you love doesn’t love you back?
As Hannah Selinger will tell you, to be a good restaurant employee is to be invisible. At the height of her career as a server and then sommelier at some of New York’s most famed dining institutions, Selinger was the hand that folded your napkin while you were in the bathroom, the employee silently slipping into the night through a side door after serving meals worth more than her rent.
During her tenure, Selinger rubbed shoulders with David Chang, Bobby Flay, Johnny Iuzzini, and...2025-03-2504 min
Tom Carrington Smith's Podcast‘I told him to stop’: the elite restaurant culture that consumed me | Food | The GuardianWelcome to Pocket to Podcast. Today we have one article covering the intense and often troubling culture within elite restaurants.In the article titled "I told him to stop: the elite restaurant culture that consumed me," Hannah Selinger shares her experiences working at Jean-Georges, a prestigious four-star restaurant in New York City. The restaurant, located in Trump’s building on Columbus Circle, is described as a place of extravagance and strict discipline. Selinger notes that in such an en...2025-03-1402 minTom Carrington Smith's Podcast‘I told him to stop’: the elite restaurant culture that consumed me | Food | The GuardianWelcome to Pocket to Podcast. Today we have one article covering the elite restaurant culture and its hidden challenges. The article, written by Hannah Selinger for The Guardian, delves into the demanding and often harsh environment of a four-star dining room, specifically focusing on her experiences at Jean-Georges, a prestigious restaurant in New York City. Selinger describes the atmosphere as one devoid of pleasure or joviality, where strict rules govern the behavior of servers, leaving no ro...2025-03-1402 min
This is ManitobaManitobans react to Trudeau's decision to step down as prime ministerHost Marcy Markusa talks to Ryan Tumilty, a political reporter with the Toronto Star, about the resignation of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, how a new Liberal leader will be chosen and when Canadians could be heading to the polls. How do Winnipeggers feel about Justin Trudeau stepping down as prime minister? There are lots of questions out there about who will replace him. CBC's Jim Agapito had a chance to talk to some folks at the University of Manitoba. It's party time! Our partisan political panel joins us to ha...2025-01-0727 min
Finding the Throughline with Kate Hanley[Hannah Seliger: What’s coming up]: Why Hannah hopes her upcoming memoir will “piss off the right people” + the books, food, and music bringing her pleasureIn this final installment of the Finding the Throughline interview with James Beard Award-nominated journalist Hannah Selinger (whose book, Cellar Rat: My Life in the Restaurant Underbelly, will be released in 2025 and is available for pre-order now), we talk about what’s coming up next for her as well as what she’s been reading, watching, and eating, including:- The badass Martha Stewart documentary- “Health and Safety,” a memoir by Emily Witt, staff writer at “The New Yorker”- Her invention of the term #Scandivol- How “The Real Housewives” se...2024-12-0617 minFinding the Throughline with Kate Hanley[Hannah Selinger inner stuff]: The dreams that take a decade to come true are worth the wait + loudmouth troll shitpostingWelcome back to my interview with Hannah Selinger–James Beard Award-nominated lifestyle journalist, Certified Sommelier, about-to-be memoirist, and–surprise!-someone who just sold her first novel.In this episode we really get into the nitty gritty of the mindset it takes to build a career as a journalist and author.We covered:The amazing feeling that happens when a longer piece of writing falls into placeHow starting the actual writing or a new piece gives her the heebie jeebiesFighting imposter syndrome after reading another writer’s stellar work2024-12-0419 minFinding the Throughline with Kate Hanley[Hannah Selinger, practical matters]: The reality of making a living as a freelance writer + shifting from articles to books + the death of a tortoiseThis week my guest is Hannah Selinger, a James Beard Award-nominated lifestyle journalist who is also a Certified Sommelier.Hannah's work has appeared in a long list of prestigious places, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Travel + Leisure, Food & Wine, The Wall Street Journal, Slate, Wine Enthusiast, Al Jazeera, and more. Her book Cellar Rat: My Life in the Restaurant Underbelly, will be released in 2025 (and it’s available for pre-order now).Fun fact: Hannah has traveled to 25 countries and currently lives in Boxford, Massachusetts with her husband, two sons, two dogs, and on...2024-12-0225 min
UBCNews - Food & BeverageBest Place To Eat In Reading, MA: New Local Steakhouse Stuns With Gourmet MenuIt is very seldom that a restaurant opens its doors to shake the very foundation of the local culinary world. We imagine shocking, innovative cooking as being a product of Paris, perhaps, or Tokyo, or even Austin. Rarely can we imagine a change maker sprouting up in our own backyard, but when it does happen, there is only one thing to do: eat.
Eat, and eat well. Eat lovingly, enjoy deeply, lick your fingers, sit back, savor. These are the behaviors that are encouraged - or, rather, mandated - at Post 1917, a newcomer to the Reading culinary...2024-10-2203 min
Proof100 Proof: The Dark Ages (Episode 5)
The 1950s to the 1990s are often dubbed as the cocktail's Dark Ages where drinks like Long Island Iced Teas and Midori Sours reined supreme. The drinks from this time are often reviled or ridiculed, but they made important contributions to cocktail history, too. In this episode: How TGI Fridays, Madonna, and the Cosmopolitan helped define this era of the American cocktail.Further Reading:A Proper Drink by Robert Simonson"1970s Ockctails & Disco Drinks" Difford's Guide"History of the Nightclub" American Nightlife Association"How TGI Fridays...2024-07-0337 min
The Common A reckoning in restaurants, continued... For the last several months The Common has been talking about the lack of accountability for harmful behavior from local chefs and restaurateurs, such as the allegations against Barbara Lynch, as well as comments made by Ming Tsai on WBUR's CitySpace stage.
Last month, CitySpace continued that conversation with a panel discussion called “A Reckoning in Restaurants: Combating Toxic Restaurant Culture.”
During the event, audience members submitted questions for the panel, which included Hassel Aviles, Co-founder and executive director of Not 9 to 5 (a non-profit in mental health advocacy for the foodservice sector); Irene Li, Co-founder of M...2023-06-2813 min
Literally Delicious PodcastEpisode 6 - Recipes from Nora Ephron's HeartburnThe BIG episode is here, food nerds! In this extra long episode, Nick makes SIX recipes from Nora Ephron's 1983, semi-autobiographical novel, Heartburn. There's so much cooking in this episode that you might worry that Nick won't have enough time to be nerdy. But, fear not. Nick deep dives the origins of "back-of-the-box" recipes and argues for their importance to American food culture.If you would like to suggest a meal (or beverage) from a work of literature for a future deep dive, send an email with the dish’s name, title of the literary work, and the au...2022-04-0551 min
Best Original Podcast‘WALL-E’ (2008), Written by Andrew Stanton & Jim Reardon - With Kyle Genther!In outer space, no one can hear you…clean?! Animation Month continues to roll along right on schedule, and for Week 5, Kyle Genther joined the show to talk ‘WALL-E’ (2008). We discussed the film's unique ability to blend genres, how it stands out from the rest of Pixar’s filmography, and our different interpretations of the ending. Later, I gave Kyle two quizzes to determine if he could survive in Outer Space, and, if so, which planet he would live on. 14 films down, 386 to go.
Opening Song: Put On Your Sunday Clothes (from the ‘Hello Dolly’ Soundtrack)
Closing Son...2021-06-251h 22
From the Desk of Alicia Kennedy PodcastA Conversation with Hannah SelingerI knew I wanted to talk to writer Hannah Selinger when she was openly angry that her Eater essay “Life Was Not a Peach,” about her experience working for David Chang, wasn’t included in Best American Food Writing 2021. The rule is that we writers aren’t supposed to comment on whether we’ve been snubbed for an anthology or an award, even when it’s a clearly egregious way to keep a highly critical essay out of the canon, in an anthology edited by a fellow chef. So we talked, not just about the anthology, but about her cul...2021-06-1829 minFrom the Desk of Alicia KennedyA Conversation with Hannah SelingerI knew I wanted to talk to writer Hannah Selinger when she was openly angry that her Eater essay “Life Was Not a Peach,” about her experience working for David Chang, wasn’t included in Best American Food Writing 2021. The rule is that we writers aren’t supposed to comment on whether we’ve been snubbed for an anthology or an award, even when it’s a clearly egregious way to keep a highly critical essay out of the canon, in an anthology edited by a fellow chef. So we talked, not just about the anthology, but about her cul...2021-06-1829 min
Bartender at LargeToxic Bosses w Hannah Selinger | ep. 251In can often be difficult to stick up for yourself & your coworkers when you find yourself in a toxic and abusive work environment. But what do you do when the abuser is a renowned celebrity chef such as David Chang of Momufuku fame. In situations such as this, it can be extremely difficult, as the power dynamics can be so lopsided, both in power & resources. This is only magnified by things such as media access and the proliferation of non-disclosure agreements. To help shed some light on this pertinent topic, we are joined by Hannah Selinger -- acclaimed writer...2021-06-1428 min
Beatrice Institute PodcastMediating Relationships: Technology and HospitalityMichael Sacasas is an independent scholar focusing on technology and culture. Michael joins Elise to talk about the way technology shapes our society. They discuss the role media can have in disintegrating a sense of the common good and why technology tends to reflect ourselves back to us. Together they ask: Is online “real life”? What constitutes reality in digital spaces? And what’s at stake when we refer to the digital as “space”? Digital and media environment Online identity formation Mediation Spatial metaphors for digital life Digitized r...2021-03-031h 20
Hot Takes on a PlateDavid Chang & Accountability (with Hannah Selinger)It’s no secret David Chang has a temper; he’s personally shared accounts of his rage for years, most recently (and vividly) in his 2020 memoir, Eat a Peach. Chang has always controlled the narrative around his anger -- until writer and former Momofuku corporate beverage director Hannah Selinger wrote a thorough essay this past December for Eater about her time working for Chang and the toxic work environment he fostered.In this special Hot Takes on a Plate, Selinger discusses with Rob Petrone how and why Chang has avoided any major backlash for his...2021-01-1842 min
DOTJ - Drinking On The JobEpisode 88: THE REDUX - Hannah SelingerSend us a textHannah Selinger's Eater article on David Chang was an epic call out on abuse. I expect nothing less from this brilliant writer. Check out the website: www.drinkingonthejob.com for great past episodes. Everyone from Iron Chefs, winemakers, journalist and more. 2021-01-1843 min
Shelf Love: Romance Novel Discourse065. Glitter Pirates in Glitterland by Alexis HallDr. Eric Selinger is back to discuss Glitterland by Alexis Hall and how it's basically a big old allegory for the romance genre. Eric and I speak authoritatively about books we've never read, and how Glitterland addresses mental health stigma.-Show Notes:Shelf Love:Sign up for the email newsletter list | Website | Twitter | Instagram | Goodreads | Email: Andrea@shelflovepodcast.com58 Romance Novellas For A Quick Hit of HopeCheck out Shelf Love’s updated website including the transcript for this episodeShelf Love episodes with transcriptsGuest: Eric SelingerDePaul website | Tw...2020-10-1747 min
Shelf Love: Romance Novel Discourse052. The Modern Romance CanonWho among us hasn't started a project and then realized that you've inadvertently wandered into a longstanding and contentious debate? I enlist the help of two experts to unravel why I started the Shelf Love Modern Romance Canon project. First, Katrina Jackson helps me unravel some of the ways my professional and educational background made me think this was a logical thing to do. Then, Eric Selinger gives some backstory into the academic and institutional reasons canons exist, and why those who study, read, and write the popular romance genre have been circling this question for decades and will...2020-07-2147 min
Cream of CarolineEpisode 27: Béchamel, the Whitest SauceWriter and béchamel enthusiast Hannah Selinger and I get granular about the creamiest of mother sauces: how to make it, how you can screw it up (and fix it!), what wines to drink with it, and all the ways you can use it to make a simple, delicious dinner. We also talk about nostalgic 90s snack foods, growing up with magazine cuisine, and what and who is important to support in the food world right now.
2020-05-1831 min
DOTJ - Drinking On The JobEpisode 60: Hannah SelingerSend us a textHannah Selinger got a broken nose over a baseball argument, received multiple death threats after an article she published and can wax poetically about food and cult wines.Check out the website: www.drinkingonthejob.com for great past episodes. Everyone from Iron Chefs, winemakers, journalist and more. 2020-03-0243 min