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We're About to be Friends

Meet the personalities behind your favorite websites, cooking shows, and cookbooks!

Each episode Joy from Joy the Baker gets the scoop from someone that she totally admires. From huge internet personalities, to cooking show hosts, and best selling authors, Joy sits down and asks all the questions that you would want to ask. Lessons will be learned, secrets will be revealed... and hopefully, friends will be made. Get ready! We're about to be friends.


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Episodes

7Sarah Gim of Tastespotting

Sarah Gim runs the super popular food site Tastespotting.com.

Tastespotting is the spot to find beautiful collections of food from all over the internet.  It’s links, it’s community.  It’s completely drool …

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6Iliza Shlesinger

Iliza Shlesinger is the season 6 winner of Last Comic Standing.  She’s got her own Comedy Central Presents special.  She’s host of a hilarious dating show called Excused, has an internet show called The Weakly News, and she’s a …

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5Gluten-Free Girl

This week on We’re About to be Friends, Joy speaks with Shauna James Ahern of the immensly popular blog Gluten-Free Girl.  Shauna is a wife, mother, island dweller, belly laugher, food appreciator, former teacher, and beautiful writer.  She’s …

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4Bakerella

Oh… you just invented a whole food trend?

Oh… you started a blog, and three months later you’re baking with Martha on the Martha Stewart show?

Oh… you have one of the …

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3Sara Kate of The Kitchn

Sara Kate Gillingham-Ryan is a modern lady icon.  She’s founding editor of TheKitchn, and cofounder of Apartment Therapy with her husband, Maxwell.  Sara Kate is also author of The Greyston Bakery Cookbook, and most recently Good Food to …

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2Aarti Sequeira

 

This week Joy talks with Aarti Sequeira!  Aarti is the season 6 winner of The Next Food Network Star, and host of The Food Network’s Aarti Party.

Aarti is bubbly and warm, and …

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1CakeSpy

 

This week Joy talks with Jessie Oleson from CakeSpy.com.  Jessie is an illustrator, baker, and creator off every one of these sweet treat personalities.  Jessie lives in Seattle with her cast of dessert characters, her husband, and two unruly …

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Your Host

Joy the Baker

Joy is the voice behind the popular blog, Joy the Baker and co-founder of Homefries.  She is a self-taught, turned professional baker, turned full-time blogger and cookbook author.

Joy believes in the healing powers of chocolate chip cookies, the restorative qualities of chocolate pudding, and that happiness can be found in a cup of heavy cream.  Joy does a majority of her living, eating, and cocktailing in Los Angeles, California where she lives with an incorrigible kitten named Jules.  Find her on Twitter and Facebook.  Be friends!