Brendan and Rico are cocreators, cohosts, and coproducers of The Dinner Party Download, a national public radio show and podcast about culture and food produced by American Public Media. It has been downloaded over 26 million times, was awarded an NEA grant, and was named “Best Food Podcast” by the Academy of Podcasters in 2016.
Brendan and Rico were named two of Food & Wine’s “Forty Big Food Thinkers Forty and Under” and appeared as judges on Top Chef Masters. In addition to producing The Dinner Party Download, they each write food, design, and travel articles for various national print outlets.
Brendan, based in Brooklyn, holds a JD and loves exploring his mother’s native Croatia. Rico, based in Los Angeles, is a native Pittsburgher with an MA in screenwriting from the American Film Institute who has a dangerous love of Amsterdam and vinyl records. They both like gin martinis, but Brendan’s is better.
Are we still on this? Mine is better.—RG
Yeah, but mine.—BFN
We agreed to do a joint bio page to avoid fights like this. Also, the better one is mine.—RG
I mean, yes, excluding mine.—BFN
Guys.—Editor
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