2024 Guest Gulletiers
Each week we’re joined by a different Guest Gulletier [guhl-let-e-yey] who shares a story about a memorable meal. In alphabetical order:
Adara Blake is a lactation consultant, speech-language pathologist, and yapper. You can find her at adaranicole.com
Read her story Chicken Soup for the (Hungover) Soul
Anna Hadingham is an educator, theater artist and youth worker. she has spent over 15 years supporting a grassroots youth arts organization in Guatemala, and is currently working to produce a new documentary about their work called Comparsa.
Read her story Dread and Butter
Bethany Caliaro is the Front of House & Beverage Director at Oberlin and Gift Horse. She's Southern transplant who first found her way to Rhode Island via college. Starting off as Johnson & Wales graduate with experience working in kitchens and dining rooms via various eateries from casual to fine dining, she has collaborated on countless pop-ups with local peers, chefs, and venues around town, and has established herself as a fixture in Rhode Island’s hospitality industry. Through her continued wine and beverage studies and WSET Level 2 certification, she has built a network of small producers rooted in traditional practices, she champions female winemakers as well as local producers of New England. Her interests are ever expanding and further include sake, amaro, and low abv beverages.
Read her story Working Through the Menu
Cassie Kliesch is an operations manager by day, a boutique travel planner by night, and a food enthusiast always. Currently residing in the foodie haven that is Providence, RI with a fiance that loves her cooking and their two Persian cats.
Read her story Dopamine Diet
Danny Bradley (he/him) lives in the Hudson Valley and works in human rights and gender justice advocacy.
Read his story Squash Carpacci-OMG
David Dadekian is president and primary writer/editor of Eat Drink RI ( eatdrinkri.com ); "RI’s unofficial Food Laureate"—Philip Eil, Providence Phoenix; PR Director for Blackbird Farm ( blackbirdfarmri.com ); Past Chair of the Rhode Island Food Policy Council ( rifoodcouncil.org ); RI Foundation 2014 Innovation Fellow; writer/photographer; husband and father of two girls; Dadekian also dislikes writing in the third person.
Read his story Memories of a Martini
Derya Hanife Altan is a multidisciplinary designer, artist, and maker. She received her MFA in Fiber from Cranbrook Academy of Art, and her BFA from Parsons School of Design. Currently, she lives and works in Brooklyn.
Read her story My Life In Lasagna: A Love Story
Emma Jane Gonzalez is a vegetable enthusiast who books and manages events for a rooftop farm in Brooklyn. She would describe her personal style as Fran Fine meets Your Annoying Little Brother. She has one dog and a growing collection of whistles.
Read her story A Hideous Coleslaw
Felicia Fitzpatrick is a New York City-based writer and content creator. Her writing has been featured in publications such as AV Club, BuzzFeed, IndieWire, Teen Vogue, and Time Out New York. Between her podcast call and response, which explores the intersection of Blackness and performing arts, and being an on-camera host, Felicia has interviewed top theatrical and television talent, including Lin-Manuel Miranda, Audra McDonald, Ben Platt, Sarah Paulson, and the principal cast of HBO Max’s The Gilded Age. She is the proud owner of NOW That's What I Call Music! albums 4, 7-8, 10 and 16.
Read her story Scone Abroad
Gaby Gignoux-Wolfsohn is a co-owner of sea & soil, a worker-owned bakery and sandwich shop where they bake, cook, experiment with fun flavor combinations and talk to lots of cool people. They are happiest in the ocean.
Read their story Sunset Over New York
Gloria A. Lee 애영 (Gleetz) is a content creator from NYC who makes Korean recipe vIdeos for her online community on Instagram. She shares her journey in exploring her Korean-American heritage through vivid, fast-paced and oftentimes silly recipe videos. Through her content, Gleetz hopes to share her growing knowledge of Korean food while delivering themes regarding identity, politics, and history in an easily digestible format.
Read her story Right The Hwae
Herberto Da Silva is data fraud analyst living in Providence, RI. He attended Northeastern University in Boston but vows never to return to the city. He was raised in an extremely Portuguese household, and discovered his love for cooking through his late grandmother who taught him that when all else fails, just make soup.
Read his story That’s A Wrap!
Holly Richards is a curious connecter who enjoys discovering ideas, building networks and envisioning a future filled with collaboration. Her career so far has involved sustaining and developing international institutions through these talents under the headings of communication and public affairs. She’s a proud Rhode Islander who has also resided in Paris, France and is currently in Washington, DC. She is passionate about creation and likes to spend her time cooking, gardening, listening to people wax poetic and laughing with her husband and child.
Read her story Smallest State, Best Plates
Jay Eisenberg is a theatre-maker, arts educator, and cultural consultant based in Minneapolis, MN by way of NYC. He has his mother’s laugh, his father’s smile, and with any luck, will one day have Stanley Tucci’s arms. More at: www.jay-eisenberg.com
Read his story What Ails You
Jessica Daly is an Art Director and creative multi-hyphenate, living in Brooklyn. She received her BFA from RISD. She loves word puzzles, vocal harmonies, & weird beer.
Read her story Blood, Oats & Irish Rome
Jessica Grindstaff is a director, writer and artist living in New York City. All of her work is largely based on collage and achieved through deep collaboration with luminaries and luminous children.
Read her story To Have Courage
Justin Khan is a Brooklyn-based editor, cinematographer, and musician. Currently he's focused on having a good summer. He loves his 2 cats and espresso martinis, obviously.
Read his story My Espresso Martini Era
Kelsey Padgett is a talker, writer, editor, sometimes-journalist and sometimes-podcaster living in the very spooky Sleepy Hollow, NY. In 2014, she won a Peabody award for her work on “60 Words” for the public radio program, Radiolab. Since then she’s been deep diving into weird little stories and trying to tell them to as many people as possible.
You can listen to yap to (the world renowned) Delta Werk about famous rivalries here.
Or if learning about spiders is more your style…
Read her story Chill Graham Cracker Zone
Lauren Holmes is a playwright in NYC. She also runs a digital agency. In her free time, she plans trips back to Italy, visits family in Boston, and naps.
Read her story Ravioli Revelation
Mike Fish is co-owner of Pogliani Select, the Hudson Valley food enthusiasts' source for the finest olive oils and balsamic. Before following his passion for Italian food and culture, Mike fine tuned his marketing, media, and writing skills with a 30 year career spanning media planning, advertising account management, communications, and advertising sales.
When Mike is not touring the Hudson Valley with his husband Walter to give olive oil and balsamic tastings, he enjoys running, cooking, traveling, watching old films, and naturally eating.
Currently his favorite foods are: mushroom (porcini) risotto, fettuccine with bolognese, farfalle with summer peas, and his husband's brodo (made with both chicken and beef). But he would never say no to a really good hamburger, a plate of aged prosciutto, or most fruit flavored gelatos.
Read his story Thoroughly Modena, Grazie Mille
Morgan Yezzi is a chef, self-created food historian, and lover of all things handwritten and ancestral. He can be found in Erie, Pennsylvania and is currently revising a 19th century cookbook.
Read his story (Meat) Free Ballin’
Nora MacLeod is an acupuncturist and writer based in Los Angeles.
Read her story The Scuttlebutt
Rebecca Orchant is the co-owner of Pop+Dutch, a sandwich shop and market in Provincetown, MA, where she has lived with her husband Sean since 2014. Formerly a food editor at The Huffington Post, Orchant also performs burlesque, serves on the board of The Provincetown Commons, and contributes to The Provincetown Independent.
She was born and raised in Albuquerque, NM, and earned a BFA in Dramatic Writing from The University of New Mexico. She was a national finalist for the John Cauble Award for Outstanding Short Play from The Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival.
Read her story New Orleans: I Missed You Both So Much at Lunch
Rubyn Wasserman is a fan of pigeons, senior citizens, neon, food, traveling, music, children's books, art, film, and dancing in grocery stores. She splits her time between St. Louis and New York while working for an NGO and occasionally writing her funtivities newsletter.
Read her story She Came For Dessert
Ryan Bush is an artist and TikTok star based in New York City. He makes art with Raphael Martinez Cohen under the moniker Ficus Interfaith. He is not a chef, but he is very creative in the kitchen.
Read his story A Star is Born
Sam Bolen acts, sings, writes, and lives in Brooklyn. A dog person with a cat named Dave. More piano bar than karaoke, more Provincetown than Pines. The best guest, the consummate host.
Read his story My Summer Fling
Samara Breger is a writer and performer from New York. Her novel, A Long Time Dead, has been featured on multiple occasions in the New York Times as one of the best romance books of 2023. Shorter pieces have appeared in Autostraddle, Reactor, Hey Alma, and a few other places. In addition to writing, she likes musical improv, olympic weightlifting, and spending time with her wife and dog.
Read her story Do You Know About ARFID?
Sarah Palumbo is an underpaid social worker out of Providence, Rhode Island. She has an unhealthy addiction to lint-rolling everything and taking in homeless dogs. Sadly, her coolest talent is curling her tongue into a three-leaf clover. She's also probably the only thirty-something who has never had an Insta, and she apologizes to all her fans for the inability to “@” or “add.”
Read her story An Eggceptional Friend
Sean Rameswaram is the hype man at Today, Explained - the best daily news podcast.
Read his story Steak Out
Stephanie Rudig (she/her) is a designer, writer, and illustrator who lives in Washington, D.C. with her three-legged cat, Special Agent Dale Cooper. Her varied accomplishments include taking second place in a spoken word pun competition, a feminist street art blog that was inducted into the Library of Congress, and an artist book composed entirely out of Saltines.
Read her story The Half Enchilada
Steph Seibel is a clothing designer, tailor, MSW candidate, and emerging maple enthusiast. Check out her hand drawn t-shirts on her poorly run Instagram business account, 1.800.stehcool.
Read her story Maple Bender
Tanya O’Brien is a Rhode Island transplant and owner of Savory Stitch, a small craft business focused on teaching and sharing cross stitch. Savory Stitch cross stitch kits are designed to teach how to cross stitch from start to finish and features patterns based on locally loved foods and culture.
Read her story Breakfast Person
Todd Clayton lives in Brooklyn with his husband. They don’t have kids or pets or plants, but do have a beautiful spray of dried eucalyptus on their dining room table. He just finished watching The Sopranos for the first time.
Read his story Send Noods
Wendy Wood is a London-based textile designer specializing in knitwear and industrially knitted fabrics. When she is not knitting she enjoys puttering around in the garden. She has never come across a dahlia or a ball of yarn she didn't like.
Read her story Reel Food
Read her story Fritos On A Chili Day
Zach Laks is a travel writer and editor based in New York. He can and will travel the world for roller coasters, frozen yogurt, and the perfect vegan meal. Zach was also once a Just Salad VIP Black Bowl holder.
Read his story A Cocktail From the Salad Bar