||Welcome to WORD OF MOUTH with Leiti Hsu on HeritageRadioNetwork.org! Leiti, a fixture in NYC dining culture, is joined by #peoplewelike Chef Leah Cohen, owner of Pig & Khao restaurant and former Top Chef finalist. They’ll talk what it was like to grow up in suburban Scarsdale, NY as a ‘Jewippino’ and how Leah nearly flunked out of traditional college to go on to the Culinary Institute of America — a far better fit, we realize! Also, lessons learned from her reality television ‘showmance’ and how a makeout session with a fellow contestant turns into a storyline on national TV. It was so disastrous that she then ducked out of the country for a pivotal year of cooking and learning in Asia. Finally, Leah describes how scoring a job in the kitchen at Eleven Madison Park is a lot like performing under pressure on Top Chef, and the role that mentor that Daniel Humm played in Leah’s career.||
