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Podcast: Taste Buds With Deb
Episode: From Ballet to Food, the "Iron Chef" Influence & Meringues with Ariel Kanter
Description: On this episode of Taste Buds with Deb, host Debra Eckerling speaks with food and lifestyle writer Ariel Kanter, whose Substack is called Rel's Recs, and who fell in love with food by accident.  Growing up as a ballerina, food was not part of Kanter's lifestyle. Then in high school, she discovered the original Japanese version of "Iron Chef" on the Food Network. Kanter loved the experimentation and all of the wild ingredients. Mostly, though, it was the warmth, something Kanter was missing in ballet.  "The ballet studio is beautiful, but I al...