The Stew

Nicole Rucker is a great baker! She’s very well known for her pie making, has worked with Gjelina before taking over at Cofax, and is opening a spot of her own this summer. Jason and Andre chat about her cookbook deal, her disdain for chowder, her defense of sprinkles, being mistaken for an uber driver, pie contests, dog vomit, a dusting of st patricks day chatter, the California missions, food trends she hopes to change, soup, and the best thing we ate all week.

This week’s guest is Gillian Ferguson! She produced the KCRW show / podcast “Good Food” for 5 years and now she’s doing all kinds of things like being published in Lucky Peach, New York Times, etc! Jason and Andre chat with her about her childhood food habits, dining and ditching, taking LSD on a greyhound bus, stumbling into a career of baking, Mexico City, and the best thing we ate all week.

This week Jason Stewart and Andre Canaparo talk about Subway's chicken DNA, divorced fathers buying twinkies, intermediate fasting, and why we may have already been doing it this whole time, figuring out if coffee enemas are horrible or not, sousvide chicken breasts,  analyzing the way menus are written as a means of appealing to foodies convincing themselves their palates are advanced, and the best thing we ate all week!

This week Jason & Andre sit down with a nice glass of water and discuss microwaves being good for you or not, lunch bowls, the Alton Brown diet, Vegemite experiments, and so much more!

This week Jason and Andre do a Valentine’s Day meal re-cap, blow by blow of our super romantic meals, plus we take to twitter and answer your listener questions! 

We have a bunch of new listeners to the podcast thanks to iTunes for featuring us so thanks to everyone tuning in for the first time. This week we welcome Aniz Ansari, brother of Aziz, neighbor of mine, and fellow food lover. Jason and Andre chat with him about growing up in the south, Indian food, BBQ, cold Korean soup, Cereal, and we close out with our favorite stoner snack instead of the best thing we at all week.

This week Jason and Andre chat about some recipe experiments they’ve been working on, and then break into SuperBowl food ideas, lots of dip talk, and some oddly satisfying food trends bubbling lately. 

This week Jason & Andre welcome San Francisco based cheesemonger Samantha Klein on the show.  We basically ask her a bunch of random questions about cheese for an hour and it gets a little weird.  Hopefully you’ll learn something about cheese like we did!

This week Jason, Andre, and Chris go through a box full of food that a pod pal send us from a far away land, some good, some bad, some new food discoveries were made.  We chat about the Locol review from Pete Wells, some other stuff, and the best thing we ate all week.

This week Jason and Andre welcome our special guest, and Andre’s mom, Jill!  She’s a great woman who knows a lot about a lot of things, especially green teas, and Chinese philosophies of eating the right foods for a better, more enjoyable life.  We chat with her for the first half, and get into some highlights of our eating over the holiday weekend, plus the best thing we ate all week!

It’s been a couple weeks since we’ve podded, Andre has been out of town working, Stewie has been working.  We all catch up and talk about all our food adventures over the last few weeks, its a good pod I promise. 

This week Jason and Andre go over what they made for thanksgiving this year, we talk some udon, we talk some new food experiments, we talk some traveling pizza, and so much more! 

This week Jason and Andre open a bottle of some kind of Spanish wine that would pair well with an elk tartare and talk about vegetable french fries, sous vide ragu, what to do now that cottage cheese is trending, activating brown rice grains, maybe something about a broth, and the best thing we ate all week! 

This week on The Stew we talk about elk burgers and soba noodles and take a bunch of listener questions, and you may have noticed our new artwork from the wonderful May Sinargool.

This week the boys get delirious and talk about turkey meatloaf, sick remedies, shout out to our friend jimi who is sending us game meats and then we talk about the jonathan gold 101 list and probably sound pretentious and lame!

This week the boys start off by talking about meal skipping on holiday, then move right into a live taste test of a free pumpkin spiced yogurt, some recaps of NY food, some experiments in the world of nacho cheese involving hard to pronounce words, and the best thing we ate all week!

This week we open with an unnecessary amount of iphone talk that has nothing to do with food, Andre got the Joule sous vide machine finally and we complain about it and praise it before even using it once, i make my case for the renaissance of creme fraiche, we talk canapé and bulgogi pork shoulder, and more!

This week Jason, Andre, and Chris chat about leg casts made out of pasta, national taco day stuff, eastside food festival recap, edibles, San Francisco foods, baseball foods, and lots of dumb stuff!

This week the boys welcome our friend Terence Teh.  He’s co written cook books, done lots of very cool food things, contributed to Nowness, Dazed, the list goes on.  We chat about a bunch of food stuff and he’s even got a British accent!  

This week on The Stew the boys chat about tasting some Pappy Van Winkle 23 year old whiskey, having a hard time reading foreign wine labels, frozé, experimenting with reserved sous vide liquid and spitballing some strange ideas from it, cooking bacon in the plastic bag it came in, bison hot dogs, a throwback pesto story, and so much more!