SAVE THE DATE — Listen Up | An Evening with America’s Test Kitchen

The Tarkington at the Allied Solutions Center for the Performing Arts
3 Carter Green
Carmel, IN 46032

$60 General Admission
$110 VIP

Save the date, tickets coming soon!

Join WFYI Live for the next Listen Up on Monday, October 27 featuring America’s Test Kitchen’s hosts Julia Collin Davison and Bridget Lancaster. Julia and Bridget will offer an insider's look into how the Test Kitchen works — from recipe development to product and ingredient testing to the science behind cooking. And who does all that grocery shopping and dish washing? The hosts will share what they’ve learned after 25 years on set including techniques and tips, favorite recipes and what they can’t live without in their own kitchens. It’s a night for food lovers filled with ideas and inspiration with two of the culinary world’s best.

Enhance your experience by attending a special VIP pre-event with Julia and Bridget from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. featuring a meet and greet, book signing and complimentary refreshments for $110 per person. Limited VIP tickets are available. The main presentation starts at 7 p.m., with general admission tickets priced at $60. All tickets include The Complete America’s Test Kitchen TV Show Cookbook 2001-2026.

America’s Test Kitchen Season 26 premieres on WFYI Saturday, September 20 at 1 p.m.

Julia Collin Davison is an executive editorial director for America’s Test Kitchen. She is also co-host of America's Test Kitchen and Cook’s Country and is an original cast member of both shows, which are two of the highest-rated instructional cooking shows on television. Julia also is host of Julia at Home, which premiered on Pluto TV in November2021. Julia began working as a test cook for Cook's Illustrated in 1999 and led recipe development for America’s Test Kitchen cookbooks for more than a decade. Julia has been a guest on Good Morning America, Live with Kelly & Ryan, The Today Show, Hallmark Channel’s Home & Family, and The Tamron Hall Show. She graduated from the Culinary Institute of America in 1996. She received an Augie Award from the Culinary Institute of America and was inducted into the prestigious Disciples d’Escoffier culinary society in 2018. 

Bridget Lancaster is an executive editorial director for America’s Test Kitchen. She’s known to millions of fans as a co-host of America's Test Kitchen and Cook’s Country, which both air on public television. Bridget began working as a test cook for Cook’s Illustrated in 1998; she was also part of the launch team for Cook’s Country magazine and led the magazine’s recipe development. Bridget is the lead instructor for America’s Test Kitchen Online Cooking School and has created hundreds of instructional videos. In her earlier career she cooked in restaurant kitchens in the South and the Northeast, concentrating on pastry. She was inducted into the prestigious Disciples d’Escoffier culinary society in 2018.

The WFYI Live event series is supported by Busey Bank, Lumina Foundation, and Plews Shadley Racher & Braun with support from Bier Brewery.