The Four Top

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The Four Top
Presentation
Hosted by Katherine Cole
Genre
  • Food
  • Beverage
  • Interview Podcast
  • Talk Podcast
UpdatesMonthly (Monday)
Production
Production
  • Katherine Cole
  • Izzy Kramer
  • Kielen King
Theme music composed byKielen King
Opening themeEl Luchador Negro (Instrumental)
No. of seasons3
No. of episodes62 [1]
Related
Website thefourtop.org

The Four Top is an American food and beverage podcast hosted by wine journalist Katherine Cole previously presented by Oregon Public Broadcasting. [2] [3] [4] The podcast addresses current topics related to the food and drink industry in the United States and abroad. The Four Top debuted in September 2016 and airs weekly and seasonally. [5] [6] [7]

Contents

Format

The Four Top is a roundtable discussion of current issues related to food and beverage culture. [8] Episodes are broken up into three "courses," or discussion topics. Three guest panelists join Cole for each episode. A "four top" is a restaurant-jargon term for a table for four diners. [9]

Guests

The Four Top's panelists rotate from episode to episode. Guests have included food-media personalities like Christopher Kimball, Steven Raichlen, Sprudge founder Jordan Michelman and Andrew Knowlton; authors like Bianca Bosker, Alice Feiring, Michael Ruhlman, Karen Karbo, and Alex Prud'homme; and others including Harold McGee, Dave Arnold, Curtis Ellis, and Gregory V. Jones. [10] [11]

Awards

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