The Stew

This week on The Stew we welcome Jordan Okun, a food writer based here in Los Angeles who is not only a talented eater, but a Stew fan, so he’s able to slide right in with Jason and Andre’s pod sensibilities. We chat about “MajorDomo," the new Momofuku restaurant here in LA, the bread at Cheesecake Factory, the best slice of Pizza in LA, Jonathan Gold still at the top? Grand Central Market, what’s a better idea for a first date, bar or restaurant, and so much more!

This week on The Stew Jason & Andre welcome Emily & Heather from the new and wildly popular LA restaurant “Botanica.” Known for fresh, healthy, thoughtful, and very attractive food on the eastside of town. We chat about their process of working in food media for years before switching over to the dark side, their backgrounds in cooking, and some listener questions too.

This week on The Stew we welcome Chef Hunter Pritchett, from the newly opened “Melody” restaurant in Los Angeles, specializing in self proclaimed lazy french cooking. Theres nothing lazy about what goes into his dishes though, Jason and Andre break down a bunch of stuff on his menu, his cooking career leading up to now, working in intense french kitchens making dover sole, to developing and consulting for the wildly popular Mendocino Farms. Hunter knows a lot about cooking and we’re all lucky to learn a thing or two from the fella.

This week on The Stew is all about meat! LA butcher god and A+ meat cutter Jered Standing is our guest this week. Jason and Andre chat with him all about off cuts, sustainable whole animal butchery, take tons of questions from listeners, which I may add are getting better and better every week! Great job guys :)

This week on The Stew you thought we were done in 2017 but hell no we’ve got one more on deck. Jason, Andre, and Stewie chat about our New Years Eve plans for a bit up front and then get into a nice recap of Stewie’s recent trip to London and France, and we talk about all the cool stuff he ate like 100 sea urchins and 70 baguettes. 

This week on The Stew: Jason and Andre squeeze in one last poddy of 2017 despite being sick! That’s how much we love you guys for making this year huge for us. We take a bunch of your questions like have we gone too far in to the healthy boy lifestyle, what was the best thing we ate all YEAR? air fryers, carbonara again why not, caviar, mint in the aioli, if we were stranded on a deserted island and we could only bring 3 chipotle ingredients, what would they be. Stuff like that. Love you guys and have a great Holiday season and thanks for listening !!!!

This week on The Stew: special guest Luke Reyes, a chef here in LA who’s actually doing something cool and smart with food and marijuana, and he’s opening a ramen restaurant on the side. Jason and Andre chat with him about those two things pretty much, how to put pot in your food and not have to call 911 or lock yourself in a closet, plus the ins and outs of ramen stock making, hint: it sounds like way more work that I ever wanna do.

This week on The Stew our annual holiday gift guide! We basically list a bunch of gifts for your foodie friends, some curve balls, some odd and practical, some lavish and ridiculous, Jason Andre AND Stewie are all on board.

This week on The Stew Jason, Andre, AND Stewie are in the house to talk about Lady Bird, a sneak peek of our holiday gift giving guide, feast of the seven fishes, Jason’s cleaning habits, Eataly is open in LA now, a particularly large lunch tab at Stewie’s restaurant, Taco Maria review, Alex Stupak, Chinese stuffing, Halloumi cheese, we try to name a food that wouldn’t work with cream cheese, momofuku opening in LA, is ramen the #1 broke boy food? CBD cold brew, do we need to change our theme song? and the best thing we ate all week!

This week on The Stew our annual Thanksgiving recap, what we cooked, what we fucked up, what we’re gonna do with our leftovers, and we answer all your twitter and instagram question about coffee preparation, galettes, legs of lamb, new twists of shakshukas, deviled eggs, and so much more!

Marissa A. Ross is the wine editor for bon appetit, writer of the book “Wine All The Time,” and a bunch of other stuff. She’s a great person and funny and was nice enough to come chat with Jason and Andre about weed, writers block, burritos, a very specific and involved hangover cure, the pleasures of splitting open a nice young thai coconut, and so much more!

This week on The Stew: Jason & Andre welcome Ken Concepcion, longtime chef under the Wolfgang Puck team, and most recently owner of “Now Serving” your new favorite store in LA for all things food, except food, with his wife Michelle. We chat a lot about cookbooks, whats selling hot right now, old classics to study, tons of listener questions in the DMs are answered, and we learn that it helps to have an actual chef around to answer some of these damn questions! 

This week on The Stew our annual Jonathan Gold 101 list recap where we literally discuss every single restaurant on the list starting at 101 and going to 1. It’s long, arduous, unnecessarily unfair and ignorant. We voice somehow very strong opinions about dozens of restaurants, despite having never visited them a single time, many we’ve never even heard of, sorry! 

This week on The Stew we welcome Royce Burke from "Secret Lasagna” a late night lasagna delivery service here in LA, soon to be a brick and mortar with counter service. Jason and Andre chat with him about mainly lasagna, but also the pros and cons of serving food at 3am, his take on street dogs, flat leaf parsley vs regular ass parsley, mass transit, making vegan food, starting a hot sauce company with a male star, hiring his family to work for him, and so much more.

Jason and Andre open up about insulting someones latte art, etiquette for making DJ requests, healthy veggie loaves, scarpetta tomato basil sauce, al pastoral meatloaf developments, awful halloween foods and maybe better halloween foods, debunking the issue of dogs eating chocolate, what to do with a tiny crockpot, our favorite cocktails, twitter questions, expensive nut butters, and the best thing we ate all week is kinda weak tbh.

This week on The Stew we've got all three lads in today with a rare Stewie appearance! Our special guest is Richard Parks, known for many things like his food podcast that only had one episode but was arguably the best food podcast ever made, and more recently co-author of the "Guerrilla Taco" cookbook! We attempt to have an actual conversation about food but it slowly goes off the rails in a very ridiculous direction, A+ pod perhaps.

This week on The Stew we welcome Anthony Cailan! He’s a known wine mans around LA, has worked at Bestia, now at Hayden in Culver City, and also the younger brother of Alvin Cailan, the man behind Eggslut, and beyond. Jason and Andre chat with him about his wine training, some wine trends, fads, and myths, and then we tackle all of your twitter questions we didn’t get to last week.

This week on The Stew we welcome back a classic guest Zach Brooks, known for his infamous Midtown Lunch blog, Food is The New Rock podcast, and most recently curator of LA’s weekly food super bowl “Smorgasburg.” Tempers fly as Jason and Andre insult Zach about everything and then he does a great job defending himself, further proving Zach is a true treasure in the food world, offering great insights about all kinds of stuff, and then they fight about fried rice for 20 minutes and we answer 2 out of 40 twitter questions, we’ll get to them next pod I promise.

This week on The Stew, Jason & Andre one on one podcast, we talk about: Huang’s World, store openings, a new alternative milk enters the ring, bbq bone broth, cooking with marijuana, matcha, and a few more things.

This week’s episode is all about barbecue, with our special guest Burt Bakman, the man behind Trudy’s Underground Barbecue, a donation based Texas style barbecue run out of his backyard here in LA. Burt has an amazing story of how he grew to be a top contender for making proper barbecue here in America.  We start off with some In N Out chat and end up on the best thing we ate all week.