Taste Buds With Deb

Updated: 13 Aug 2025 • 121 episodes
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Hosted by Debra Eckerling, Taste Buds with Deb features bite-sized conversations about food, cooking, and community. Guests range from chefs and foodies to leaders, innovators, and authors. Jam-packed with anecdotes, recipes, and tips, Taste Buds with Deb is pure comfort food. Distributed by the Jewish Journal Network.

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On this episode of Taste Buds with Deb, host Debra Eckerling speaks with Natalie Kalmar, the creator behind FitnessFoodieSTL, a resource that empowers women and families to live well without the pressure of perfection.   “ There are so many ways that you can move your body, whether it's dance fitness, playing a sport,

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On this episode of Taste Buds with Deb, host Debra Eckerling speaks with Peter Shankman, entrepreneur, speaker, best-selling author, and founder of Source of Sources. A Jewish single dad, Shankman became an amateur chef, because he loves cooking with his 12-year-old daughter.   “I used to think [cooking] was just about

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On this episode of Taste Buds with Deb, host Debra Eckerling speaks with Georgia Freedman, author of “Snacking Dinners: 50+ Recipes for Low-Lift, High-Reward Dinners That Delight.”   “We put a lot of pressure on dinner,” Freedman explains.    You need a protein, a starch, and at least one kind of vegetable - five if yo

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On this episode of Taste Buds with Deb, host Debra Eckerling speaks with Jewish romance author Jean Meltzer, founder of Jewish Joy Inc, which includes the Jewish Joy Book Club and the Jewish Joy Box.   Last week, Meltzer announced the inaugural Jewish Joy Con. The three-day cultural convention, set for March 13 to 15,

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On this episode of Taste Buds with Deb, host Debra Eckerling speaks with performance chef Aaron Clayton. Performance chefs are those who prepare nutritionally focused meals for athletes.    “We're there to make sure that they're able to perform on the field, the court, wherever it may be,” Clayton says.    When asked w

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On this episode of Taste Buds with Deb, host Debra Eckerling speaks with Warren Rockmacher, known as the godfather of kosher barbecue. Rockmacher discovered competitive barbecue in 2013. He competes with his kosher barbecue team around the country and has started competitions of his own, including the Great American Ko

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