Cooking By Heart with Chris Sarandon

Cooking By Heart with Chris Sarandon with Special Guest John Markus

In this SEASON 3 FINALE, I sit down with Emmy, Peabody, and Humanitas Award-winning writer and comedy icon John Markus. From memories of his mother's hearty Eastern Europ

Cooking By Heart With Chris Sarandon With Special Guest Caroline Aaron

In this episode, SAG Award-winning actress Caroline Aaron shares what it was like growing up Jewish in the South, dining out gratis, thanks to her father’s work as a rest

Cooking By Heart with Chris Sarandon with Special Guest Nick Castle

Director/Actor Nick Castle remembers growing up in Hollywood with his Italian-American family eating traditional ethnic fare, having his famous movie choreographer father

Cooking By Heart With Chris Sarandon with Special Guest Dori Greenspan

In this episode, 5-time James Beard Award Winner Dorie Greenspan remembers her non-cooking parents, learning to love food by going out to dinner and burning down the fami

Cooking By Heart With Chris Sarandon With Special Guest Sachi Parker

In this episode, Sachi Parker, the daughter of award-winning actress Shirley MacClain, talks about moving at age 2 from LA to Japan with her father, producer and gourmet

Cooking By Heart with Chris Sarandon with Special Guest Peter McCrea

In this episode, Peter McCrea, the son of Hollywood legends Joel McCrea and Francis Dee, talks about growing up on their ranch with cattle, chickens, an organic vegetable

Cooking By Heart with Chris Sarandon with Special Guest Nancey Silvers

In this episode, TV writer/producer/showrunner Nancey Silvers describes her southern Mom’s grits and fried chicken, eating deli food with her father, the magnificent come

Cooking by Heart with Chris Sarandon With Special Guest Griffin Dunne

In this episode of ‘Cooking By Heart,’ Griffin Dunne described this soup served by his mother’s Mexican family as being the go-to comfort meal choice throughout his life.

Cooking By Heart with Chris Sarandon with special Stockard Channing

In this episode, award-winning actress Stockard Channing describes a privileged childhood, with bland food both at home and while eating out; surviving on lots of carbs i

Cooking By Heart with Chris Sarandon with special guest James Naughton

In this episode, multiple Tony Award-winning actor James Naughton talks about his father’s digestive problems which led to lots of bland Irish food at home, food discover

Cooking By Heart with Chris Sarandon with special guest Camryn Manheim

In this episode, Award Winning actress Camryn Manheim remembers her teacher-mother’s faux gourmet cooking, her professor-father’s love of spicy food, & intellectual bante

Cooking By Heart with Chris Sarandon with Special Guest Victor Garber

In this episode, award winning actor Victor Garber talks about growing up with his local celebrity mom, his funny, depressed father’s amazing French toast, and his develo

Cooking By Heart with Chris Sarandon with special guest Bonnie Hammer

In this episode, former NBC/Universal vice-chair Bonnie Hammer remembers her mother’s “kosher” cooking as tasteless and uninspiring, eating college food featuring plentif

Cooking By Heart with Chris Sarandon with special guest Chef Paul Smith

From the time he could stand, James Beard Award winner Chef Paul Smith remembers helping his Italian grandfather cook, the presence of a large Italian contingent in the c

Cooking By Heart with Chris Sarandon with Special Guest Jill Eikenberry

n this episode, award winning actress Jill Eikenberry talks about her peripatetic Midwestern childhood, her diet heavy on luscious meat and cheese dishes, frozen vegetabl

Cooking By Heart with Chris Sarandon with Special Guest Illeana Douglas

In this episode, Illeana Douglas talks about growing up in two worlds of food: that of her Hollywood Royalty Grandfather Melvin Douglas and her Queens, NY Italian/Romania

Cooking By Heart with Chris Sarandon with Special Guest Michael Urie

In this episode, Michael Urie remembers his mother’s delicious eclectic cooking and his often-frustrated efforts to recreate it. He also describes his roundabout career r

Cooking By Heart with Chris Sarandon with special guest Rosanna Arquette

In this episode, Rosanna Arquette remembers her peripatetic childhood, her working artist parents, and eating lots of ‘high quality’ fast food. A vegetarian menu follows

Cooking By Heart With Chris Srandon with Speciall Guest Alice Waters

In this episode, Alice Waters recounts that as a child she didn’t look forward to going to the table to eat her creative mother’s pedestrian cooking, but began a life-lon

Cooking By Heart with Chis Sarandon with Special Guest Ed Begley Jr.

In this episode, multi-talented actor/author Ed Begley, Jr. talks about the family cook who changed his life, the startling family secret he learned at 15, his wild youth