Talkhouse

One-on-one pod today: Chris is in Colorado, and Jason is in Biarritz, France.

Tanya Sichynsky isn’t a vegetarian—but as the editor behind NYT Cooking’s newsletter The Veggie, she’s spent years making the case that vegetables belong at the center of the plate. Her new book, Veg Everything, curates 100 recipes from NYT Cooking’s deep bench of recipe developers, including Melissa Clark, Eric Kim, Hetty Lui McKinnon, and many more, for weeknights, parties, and everything in between.

You poddin' to me? Well, listener, actually - we are podding to you. For nearly FOUR HOURS. The great Tracy Letts joins us to talk about Scorsese's monumental Taxi Driver, a film that is both fully ingrained in the American psyche and completely surprising and effective on every rewatch.

Three Great Things: James Ashcroft Three Great Things is Talkhouse’s series in which artists tell us about three things they absolutely love. To mark the current release on Netflix of writer-director James Ashcroft’s new dark thriller The Whisper Man, starring Adam Scott, Michelle Monaghan, Robert DeNiro and Michael Keaton, the New Zealand filmmaker shared some of the things he loves most in life. — N.D. Books I’ve always had a real love for literature, and I love to collect books.

Mood Board is our column where artists share a few of the things that inspired their new record. This time, the Chicago quintet Dos Santos tells us about the importance of finding harmony and space in the making of Es Amor — out today on Otherly Love. — Annie Fell, Editor-in-chief, Talkhouse Music 1. Décima I helped craft some of the lyrics on the record by integrating my original poems and décimas (traditional ten-line poetic stanzas found throughout Latin America).

Polina Chesnakova’s latest cookbook, Chesnok, opens with a hard question: What do you call the food of a diaspora that has outlived the country that made it? Polina—born in Ukraine to a Russian mother and Armenian father and raised in a Rhode Island community of Soviet refugees—joins us to talk about food in the context of “post-Soviet,” the Book of Tasty and Healthy Food, her family’s uncompromising Olivier salad, and her prolific cookbook career.

We welcome back Colombian-Canadian artist Lido Pimienta this week to tell us about her newest collection, Caribenya - a companion album to 2025's orchestral masterpiece, La Belleza. An artist and a disruptor to her very core, Lido goes deep on topics of toxic female friendship, the lifelong journey to discovering her own physical beauty despite societal and industry pressures to conform to unattainable standards, and why she still aspires to be like Enya.

On this week’s Talkhouse Podcast, we’ve got a pair of fantastic music makers who also happen to be… women in music. That’s their joke, not mine—you’ll hear. It’s Johanna Samuels and Madison Cunningham. Though she’s from New York, Johanna Samuels’ music has always had West Coast vibes—it makes perfect sense that she now calls Los Angeles home.

Tristan Wheeler is a Toronto-based filmmaker whose debut feature, Toronto Apartment, was released this year; Ember Knight is an LA-based musician and comedian. Ember is the creator of the Ember Knight Show, an instructional etiquette web series, which they have been showing on the road this past month. If you’re in LA, you can catch it on the big screen September 2; otherwise, it’s available to stream on NoBudge.

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