The Cook’s Compass is a bimonthly podcast hosted by food writer Matt Lardie that explores kitchens, cultures, and the stories in between. Through thoughtful conversations with chefs, home cooks, writers, and creatives, the show examines how food connects us to place, memory, and one another. Each episode uses cooking as a lens to better understand identity, tradition, and the ways we navigate an ever-changing world. New episodes of The Cook’s Compass air every other week on all major podcast platforms. Listeners can subscribe to The Cook’s Compass newsletter through the link in each episode description. Newsletter subscribers receive exclusive recipes, the opportunity to submit questions for upcoming guests, access to special subscriber-only episodes, and more.