We’re headed to Chicago for the weekend to podcast live on one of the smaller stages at Food Network in Concert at Ravinia. So to get us pumped up we’ve got…

CHEF ALEX GUARNASCHELLI

…on the podcast this week to talk music. (She’ll also be at the festival this weekend.)  You probably know Alex as a judge on Chopped, an Iron Chef, and the Executive Chef of Butter in NYC.  But did you also know she is huge fan of Priest and Maiden?  And that her mom, the famous cookbook editor, had a kick ass record collection? She also tells us about cooking for Prince (eat your heart out Marcus Samuelsson!), the time Nile Rodgers played at her restaurant The Darby, and the time she saw the Jerry Garcia Band at the Garden and left early to get a burger at Big Nick’s on the Upper West Side. And then, her 7 year old daughter plays drums at the end of the episode to close things out.

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