Patric Kuh's guest appearances

Patric Kuh

Live Talks Los Angeles

NorthwestPrime

Wine Talks with Paul K.

Robyn Eckhardt

Jane Fonda

Rachel Hollis

Rachel Martin

Carla Hall

Matt Wilson

Piero Incisa

Eric Asimov

Isabelle Legeron

Jonathan Waxman

Colman Andrews

Dan Kluger

Paul Freedman

Mary Lambert

Dorie Greenspan

OwlTail

Patric  Kuh was LA Magazines food editor for  17 years and won a James Beard award for his book "The Last Days of Haute Cuisine". Just off a stint writing "Becoming a Restaurateur"; you will find Patric engaging  and interesting. Both books are must  reads. Enjoy.

Patric  Kuh was LA Magazines food editor for  17 years and won a James Beard award for his book "The Last Days of Haute Cuisine". Just off a stint writing "Becoming a Restaurateur"; you will find Patric engaging  and interesting. Both books are must  reads. Enjoy.

James Beard winning food author Patric Kuh speaks of 15 years as a food critic.

The multiple-James Beard Award–winning restaurant critic for Los Angeles Magazine, Patric Kuh, delivers an arresting exploration of our cultural demand for “artisanal” foods in a world dominated by corporate agribusiness.We hear the word “artisanal” all the time—attached to cheese, chocolate, coffee, even fast-food chain sandwiches—but what does it actually mean? We take “farm to table” and “handcrafted food” for granted now but how did we get here? In Finding the Flavors We Lost, acclaimed food writer Patric Kuh profiles major figures in the so-called “artisanal” food movement who brought exceptional taste back to food and inspired chefs and restaurateurs to redefine and rethink the way we eat.Kuh begins by narrating the entertaining stories of countercultural “radicals” who taught themselves the forgotten crafts of bread, cheese, and beer-making in reaction to the ever-present marketing of bland, mass-produced food, and how these people became the inspiration for today’s crop of young chefs and artisans. Finding the Flavors We Lost also analyzes how population growth, speedier transportation, and the societal shifts and economic progress of the twentieth century led to the rise of supermarkets and giant food corporations, which encouraged the general desire to swap effort and quality for convenience and quantity.

The multiple-James Beard Award–winning restaurant critic for Los Angeles Magazine, Patric Kuh, delivers an arresting exploration of our cultural demand for “artisanal” foods in a world dominated by corporate agribusiness. We hear the word “artisanal” all the time—attached to cheese, chocolate, coffee, even fast-food chain sandwiches—but what does it actually mean? We take “farm to table” and “handcrafted food” for granted now but how did we get here? In Finding the Flavors We Lost, acclaimed food writer Patric Kuh profiles major figures in the so-called “artisanal” food movement who brought exceptional taste back to food and inspired chefs and restaurateurs to redefine and rethink the way we eat. Kuh begins by narrating the entertaining stories of countercultural “radicals” who taught themselves the forgotten crafts of bread, cheese, and beer-making in reaction to the ever-present marketing of bland, mass-produced food, and how these people became the inspiration for today’s crop of young chefs and artisans. Finding the Flavors We Lost also analyzes how population growth, speedier transportation, and the societal shifts and economic progress of the twentieth century led to the rise of supermarkets and giant food corporations, which encouraged the general desire to swap effort and quality for convenience and quantity.

Author & Food Critic Patric Kuh, Talks "Finding The Flavors We Lost"