The Stew

Jason went to Tulum, Mexico last week so the boys recap all the meals, plus we open with a good 20 minutes on how to whole foods properly.

This week Jason, Andre, and Chris welcome our pal Zach Brooks back on the show.  Zach runs the very popular podcast food is the new rock, and we ask him about some previous big guests he’s had over the years, we talk even more about the LA food world, tipping, benihana, crostini bars, xmas tamale making parties, our taco crawl, and organic produce delivery.

Doug Rankin is a chef here in Los Angeles, worked in many restaurants, most notably and recently running the kitchen at Trois Mec and then Petite Tois.  Doug recently left to pursue his own dreams and stuff like that, basically he has gone rogue.  The boys chat with him about all of that, plus some crazy stories, and some dishes he developed over the years at trois mec.  Also we drank scotch, so keep that in mind!

Peter Lemos is a chef from Los Angeles who’s worked at great spots all over town, but recently went in on his own venture, a small sandwich shop in LA’s Frogtown neighborhood.  It’s called Wax Paper, and features specialty sandwiches named after NPR hosts and it’s also delicious. Peter was also a contestant on CHOPPED, so thats tight.  We chat with him about his chef journey, what it took to open his own place, what goes down behind the scenes at Chopped, and so much more!

This week Jason Stewie & Andre grab a few beers and chat about service charge debates, whats working and not working, coffee companies being acquired by larger ones and how the pour over fallout effects us all, some holiday gift ideas, Star Wars, we do 20 minutes on popcorn, we talk about medieval devices you can buy for $2,500 at sur la table for squishing stuff and more!  

Jason and Andre have their friend Bob Zamudio over for a few beers and a chat about craft service meals on TV & Movie sets, what jason ate in Miami for Art Basel, we take some twitter questions from a few friends, and Bob drops a few recipe favorites!

This week the boys chat about Thanksgiving recaps, Hawaii, mezcal again, and the normal stuff we always talk about!  

Matthew Kang is the LA editor of Eater, a website that you probably know if you’re listening to a food podcast.  If you don’t, it’s basically the biggest restaurant and food news publication online!  We chat with Matt about his Korean upbringing, working with eater, tipping, enjoying meals more when they’re not free, coffee, restaurant recommendations, and much more!

This week the boys chat about the cold weather approaching, porridge recipes, postmates from the perspective of the restaurant, and more importantly we judge the Jonathan Gold top 101 restaurants of LA list.

This week Jason and Andre and you guys are lucky enough to have film producer Scott Mosier come pod with us!  Known for his work over the years with Kevin Smith, producing movies like Clerks, Dogma, Chasing Amy, and doing the weekly “smodcast” show with Kevin Smith.  Him and Andre went to the Belcampo Meat Company’s “Meat Camp” in Northern California earlier this month, and they came on to talk about all the great meat stuff they did!

Javier Cabral started out as a food blogger 10 years ago, slowly climbed his way to the west coast editor of Vice Munchies.  Jason and Andre chat with him about his beginnings as a food lover in high school, working with Jonathan Gold, being on Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern, tons of restaurant recommendations for spots all over LA, Mescal thats filtered over raw chicken breasts, the future of Vice Munchies and so much more!

Alvin Cailan is the man behind the extremely popular LA breakfast spot Eggslut.  He was nice enough to come by The Stew and talk about his journey from humble beginnings all the way to owning multiple businesses, how eggslut went from a food truck to and overnight success, his new restaurant ventures, and a bunch more!  Solid fella.

Football season is upon us, I don’t care about it at all, but you might, so we discuss wings!  lots of wing talk, some restaurants we went to this week, stuff we cooked, and we also drank!  it’s fun.

This week the boys meet up to chat about their week in food, sous vide corn taste test from last week, chicken liver pate experiments, salad olivieh, stewie got a searzall, katz’ deli, Sadelle’s in NY, trois mec recap, and so much more!

Sorry for the wait i’ve been out of town forever and we are back!  This week we still try to get a yeti sponsorship, I talk about a summertime desert dessert, repurposing beef pho meat, lil bit of wine, special grapes, farmers market etiquette, my Night+Market sandwich hack, poke chat,  sous vide corn on the cob debates, and so much more!

We’re back this week just made dinner with our friend and fan of the show Steven Krebs, the bros are drinking wine and talking about fruit in the salad, watermelon with the season salt, dutch crunch sandwich bread, bringing food on the airplane, review of our meal at Belcampo Meat Co, wild cocktails, cooking whole goats, yeti brand coolers, Chris getting interviewed on NPR about neighborhood gentrification, and so much more!

Fernando Lopez is the Oaxaca food and drink man.  I met him a few weeks ago at his family’s restaurant “Guelaguetza” here in LA, it’s known for being THE spot for authentic moles, mezcals, and everything else Oaxacan.  Jason and Andre chat with him about all that stuff whilst consuming mezcal!

Kevin Faerkin has an unusual journey in the restaurant world, running the famed Grand Central Oyster Bar in New York for years, before moving back home to LA to work with Bludsoe’s BBQ.  Traveling the world sampling wines in Chile, getting black out drunk with Japanese Royalty, and he has an amazing band called DRYNX.

Jason, Andre, and Chris crack some watermelon wheat beers and chat about some recent dishes Jason had in New York, how to nail wedding food, how to win your dinner party mole and mescal, how sad the food in Orlando is, how cheap lobster is in Maine, Jason has perfected his carbonara recipe, peas in the guacamole, and so much more!

Richard Parks is a James Beard award nominated food writer who recently started his own food podcast “Richard’s Famous Food Podcast.”  He’s written for Lucky Peach, amongst many other things, as was nice enough to join Jason, Andre, and Chris to chat about: the actual process of making a food podcast, what goes into his specific podcast, grits, bone broth, and some hilarious stories about Al Green.