San Diego Magazine's Happy Half Hour

Susan Feniger and Liz Lachman pop. I first encountered their mutual hurricane of wit at the Del Mar Wine + Food Festival. They were setting up their table to cook. It looked like a movie set. Lachman immediately cordoned me, made me one of her own. Both of them struck me as whip-smart, funny, alive. James Beard Award–winning chef Feniger and Emmy-winning filmmaker Lachman join us this week on Happy Half Hour, our podcast exploring the world and people of food. They talk life and art and their new documentary film, Susan Feniger: Forked.  They’re in San Diego tomorrow to screen Forked at the Coronado Island Film Festival. They’ll watch it with the crowd of food and film people, do a Q&A, cook some food, share some food, shoot the shit. They've been married for a long while, so Forked is Lachman capturing Feniger’s life and creative process on film as only a partner could. All Feniger’s defenses are dropped. We get to see one of the country’s top chefs with her quirks and impulses laid out, vulnerable, as s