{"podcast":{"title":"The Perfect Bite","slug":"the-perfect-bite-7237404","podcast_index_feed_id":7237404,"rss_url":"https://feeds.cohostpodcasting.com/hiORgDxR","website_url":"https://www.cohostpodcasting.com","image_url":"https://files.cohostpodcasting.com/quill-file-prod/3619c374-2f55-4f02-9bc6-33f11b7b3c6c/shows/efbee974-5ac7-4494-8e32-d9f5de1dd016/cover-art/original_9dd9af5b71f3102ebe606708ce2ce51e.png","author":"Sarah Perkins","episode_count":72,"summary":"Your fusion of food and entrepreneurship, The Perfect Bite brings you inspiring conversations with chefs, restaurateurs, CPG brand founders, food tech founders, and more in the food and beverage industry, highlighting their experiences and how they've cooked up something new. From emerging brands to established business owners, you'll learn from the best entrepreneurs in food, beverage, hospitality, and agriculture about how they started their businesses, what problems they're solving, the tough times they've overcome, and their best advice for entering these industries or starting your own business. We end each episode with the world's best and hardest question: What is your perfect bite?","last_synced_at":"2026-07-24T00:19:00.231574+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-perfect-bite-7237404"},"episode":{"title":"Rita Sodi and Jody Williams: Iconic Food, Life and an Empire of Community","slug":"rita-sodi-and-jody-williams-iconic-food-life-and-an-empire-of-community","published_at":"2026-07-09T12:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-perfect-bite-7237404/rita-sodi-and-jody-williams-iconic-food-life-and-an-empire-of-community","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-perfect-bite-7237404","url":"https://the-perfect-bite.cohostpodcasting.com/episodes/rita-sodi-and-jody-williams-iconic-food-life-and-an-empire-of-community","audio_url":"https://pdcn.co/e/audio-delivery.cohostpodcasting.com/audio/3619c374-2f55-4f02-9bc6-33f11b7b3c6c/episodes/7c46b99c-51ec-4863-b24a-c9b69fb43306/episode.mp3","summary":"Some restaurants feel like places. Via Carota feels like a person. Warm, unhurried, deeply intelligent, and completely unconcerned with trends. That’s not an accident. It is the direct result of two women who have spent decades building exactly the places they wanted to eat in, and refusing to compromise on a single detail along the way. Rita Sodi and Jody Williams are the co-owners of I Sodi, Via Carota, Buvette, Bar Pisellino, Commerce Inn, Officina 1397, and Officina del Bere, among the most beloved and respected restaurant and hospitality concepts in New York City. Rita came from Florence via a career in fashion and denim, with a Tuscan childhood where her mother cooked everything from the garden and nothing arrived out of season. Jody came from California via a “fend for yourself” household, a hotel steward job she did not fully understand when she applied for it, and nearly six years cooking in Italy, three in Reggio Emilia and three in Rome. They met over asparagus. They fell in love and went into business because the only way to see each other was to open a place together. And they have been building community and their lives ever since. In this episode, host Sarah Perkins sits down with Rita and Jody for a conversation as rich and layered as their famous green salad. They talk about the Tuscan food rituals that shaped Rita's entire philosophy, the Diana Vreeland quote that guided Jody's early career (\"The eye must travel\"), the eight tables at I Sodi whose menu has barely changed in 18 years, and what it means to ask yourself \"How do we feel?\" before every single business decision. They also share exclusive details about fire roasted coffee coming from outside Florence in September, a new patisserie and forno expanding Bar Pisellino, and their new Via Carota s…","meta_description":"Some restaurants feel like places. Via Carota feels like a person. Warm, unhurried, deeply intelligent, and completely unconcerned with trends. That’s not…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2386,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-perfect-bite-7237404/episodes/rita-sodi-and-jody-williams-iconic-food-life-and-an-empire-of-community/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-perfect-bite-7237404/rita-sodi-and-jody-williams-iconic-food-life-and-an-empire-of-community.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}