This week, setlist curator Chef Michael Cimarusti is joined by Matt, Tom, and Drane.

Michael is a James Beard Award-winner and co-owner of Providence in Los Angeles, which in 2025 earned three Michelin stars. It also carries a Green Star for sustainability.

Michael is also chef and partner at Connie & Ted’s in West Hollywood. He trained at Spago, Le Cirque, and Water Grill, after graduating from the Culinary Institute of America. He’s one of the chef judges on America’s Culinary Cup, which is midway through its first season on CBS and Paramount+.

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Providence

Connie & Ted's

America's Culinary Cup

Ears of Maize, Tom's show on KALX, 90.7FM Berkeley

Matt's show on 106.5 FM Philadelphia

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This week, Dr. B. Steve Csaki curates the setlist as returning champ Adam is joined by Grayson and Barry.

Steve is an Assistant Professor in English, Humanities, and Languages at Southeastern Oklahoma State University. He’s co-editor of The Philosophy of the Western, and a member of the Grateful Dead Studies Association. For Volume 6 of their annual compilation of scholarly papers, Steve contributed “Caught on a Limb”: Authorial Intention, He’s Gone, and the Music of the Grateful Dead.

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Recorded live at Copperfield’s Books in Sebastopol, I sit down with cookbook author Gabi Moskowitz to talk about Dead in the Kitchen: The Official Grateful Dead Cookbook.

We get into what makes a recipe spiritually Dead, why the book is vegetarian, how Dave Lemieux helped shape its structure, and how cooking—like improvisation—depends on preparation, a good pantry, and letting go of perfection.