Post Punk Kitchen

The Post Punk Kitchen began as a vegan cooking show created and hosted by Isa Chandra Moskowitz and Terry Hope Romero. It aired on Brooklyn and Manhattan public-access television cable TV from 2003 to 2004.¹²³ After the show ended, The Post Punk Kitchen turned into a recipe website.⁴

When Moskowitz was in her thirites, she became "largely disconnected from the punk scene" of her youth, and was dividing her time "between a cubicle job and cooking in a vegan cafe...[she] was also watching a lot of cooking shows on TV."⁵ Frustrated by the lack of vegan cooking shows, and inspired by the agency of punk rock, she decided to create her own cooking show.⁵

She took a class through BRIC Arts Media that took her through the basics of tv production. She then spent a few weeks developing a name for the show that would both sound "punk" but also reflect that she "wasn't feeling that punk anymore."⁵ Next she gave an interview to Bust (magazine), asked her friend Terry Hope Romero to do the interview with her, and to co-host the first episode of the show (Romero stayed for the entire series). Her neighbor Denise had a television production company and took over all production aspects of the show. The cooking took place in Moskowitz's actual kitchen.⁶⁴