Andy Baraghani on Yearning for Flavor Across Borders

Andy Baraghani is the internet’s favorite second-generation Iranian American cook, Bon Appétit alum, and James Beard Award-winning author. He joins the show to discuss how his multicultural upbringing and global travels, from Vietnam to Beirut to Sicily, continually shape and expand his culinary id…

Jenna Lyons on Seeing Color and Finding Contrast

The designer who transformed J.Crew into a cultural institution and redefined American style? That is of course Jenna Lyons. In this episode, she joins David to trace the eye for color and texture she's spent a lifetime collecting on the road. From Milanese cafés and silk factories in China to kara…

David Remnick on Notebooks, Reporting, and the Stories That Shape Our Time

David Remnick is a Pulitzer Prize winner and has helmed The New Yorker for 27 years. He joins the show not only to recount his own travels – from Moscow to Tel Aviv to campaign trails and tour buses – but also to reflect on what nearly three decades of dispatching the world's finest writers has rev…

Athena Calderone on Aspiration and an Endless Aesthetic Education

Self-taught designer, cook, and creative force Athena Calderone — dubbed "the modern girl's Martha Stewart” by T magazine — joins David to trace the restless curiosity that took her from Long Island to New York's nightlife scene, and on to Ibiza, Morocco, and Rome, always finding beauty and inspira…

Introducing Traveling Through

In Traveling Through, David Prior—travel writer and founder of experiential travel company Prior—sits down with friends and culture-makers like Jenna Lyons, David Remnick, Deborah Needleman, Athena Calderone, and more to trace the trips, objects, and encounters that shaped who they are. Because the…