Bacon Phat

Julia and Sasha are joined by Rafa, a New Yorker with a passion for cooking and eating good food, to discuss the legendary memoir that turned Anthony Bourdain from an average chef into one of the most incredible food and travel journalists of the 20th century. They discuss working in real NYC kitchens, tips for cooking at home, and some of the more memorable parts of the Bourdain's sensational book. Other topics include: Aunt Sandy and the Kwanzaa Cake, magic whisks, Sasha baking donuts at 2 am, sole meunière, Turkey in 2015, and more. Rafa's instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rafacampossalles/ Bacon Phat instagram: https://www.instagram.com/baconphatpodcast/ Show notes: https://www.baconphatpod.com/episode-26 Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/baconphatSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/baconphat?alert=2)

In this bonus episode, Julia and co-host Rique, our new friend we met at a BLM protest in Colorado Springs, discuss The End of Policing as a response to police brutality and racial equality. Too often, white people refuse to let Black Americans lead the discussion on issues of race. That has to end. "Defund the police" means fewer police antagonizing communities of color and more money directed to education and community initiatives. Police should not be the primary point of contact for the homeless or mentally ill. Prostitution and drugs should be legal. Other topics include the school-to-prison pipeline, the War on Drugs and the new Jim Crow era (see Michelle Alexander's incredible book), 13th on Netflix, and the racist, violent history of police in America. Black Lives Matter.Support BLM: https://nymag.com/strategist/article/where-to-donate-for-black-lives-matter.html Contact your reps: https://framinghamsource.com/index.php/2020/06/03/letter-contact-your-elected-leaders-tell-them-black-lives-matter/ Show notes: baconphatpod.com/bonus-episode Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/baconphat?alert=2)

Sasha and Julia are joined by Bison, Sasha's former co-worker at the outdoor retailer, to discuss Grandma Gatewood's Walk, the book chronicling Emma Gatewood's journey to become the first woman to thru-hike the Appalachian Trail at age 67. We discuss Mrs. Gatewood's life and legacy and Bison's experiences on the AT, including his favorite sections, luxury items, peeing while walking, and trail magic. Other topics include: the Kingdom Cot, Henry David Thoreau, JanSport, Johnny Appleseed, Miss Janet, and MORE.SHOWNOTES: https://www.baconphatpod.com/episode-25INSTAGRAM: @baconphatpodcastSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/baconphat?alert=2)

Sasha and Julia discuss Aron Ralston's incredible memoir about cutting off his right arm, which had been trapped by an 800-pound chockstone in Blue John Canyon in Canyonlands National Park, to save his life in 2003. The book is marvelously written with vivid imagery, harrowing adventures, and haunting spiritual experiences. It's one of Sasha's major influences. She might not be a rock climber and snowboarder moving to Colorado without it. And it serves to remind Julia of how tragically short life is and that we should spend our precious time doing something worthwhile. Additional topics include: pOoP, watching the Hills, HaNd SaNiTiZeR, Julia's TIPI, Sasha's fire starters, Chris McCandless, Sasha's OWN MULTITOOL RESCUE STORY, Johnny Kapahala, and MORE.SHOW NOTES: https://www.baconphatpod.com/episode-24INSTAGRAM: @baconphatpodcastSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/baconphat?alert=2)

Topics include: pOoPiNg while dRiViNg, delishus haute chocolate, RapphanNOCK, HUNTING TURKEYS, Vanessa Hudgens and Miley Cyrus, Sean Spicer, BEV's BREAKFAST BOWL, working at farmers markets in Washington, DC, food deserts, RACISM and MISOGYNY, ag subsidies (gross!), RAW MILK (cover your ears, epidemiologists!!), poobahs, the stupid bureaucracy, a RANT about libertarians, and MORE.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/baconphat?alert=2)

Hi everyone! We haven't posted an episode in a whiiiile, but we do still plan to read good books and talk about them. We've had some other projects and Julia's computer is super jank, but we'll be back next week, 5/11!Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/baconphat?alert=2)

Topics include: OUR FIRST INTERVIEW with LEAH, a hiker of the Pacific Coast Trail, dirty socks, ICE AXES, pack weights, bLaCk BeArS and RaTtLeSnAkEs, FB groups, leukotype, PEEING and POOPING on the trail, Mount Whitney, trail names, trail ANGELS, and MORE!Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/baconphat?alert=2)

Topics include: Rachel Khoo, PÂTÉ with RABBIT STOMACH, haggis, cognac vs. vermouth?, bonemeal, standing vs. sitting, Sun Dance ceremonies, medicine pipe BUNDLES, Indian vs. Native American, "American" as a controversial term for US citizens, BABIES packed in MOSS, tanning hides, mythical stories about Blackfoot transvestites, a wOmAn WhO mArRiEd a PiEcE oF pOoP, dried meat, preserved PHAT, Kutuyis, bLoOd cLoT SoUp, PAINTED TIPIS, one potentially explicit word???, and MORE!Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/baconphat?alert=2)

TOPICS include: Sa$ha SKIING ON ONE SKI, Julia in CAVES and hunting rabbits, Julia cutting up her rabbits and making DELISHUS food with the rabbits, POOP, a really GREAT PUN, Weston A. Price's BADA$$ research of the primitive societies, wide birthing canals, PEMMICAN, puddings, tribal life, fermented FI$H, mixtamalization, PARASITES, tRaShInG tHe PaLeO DiEt, and MORE!Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/baconphat?alert=2)

TOPICS include: the Eiteljorg Museum, Leah the PODCAT, skiing and snowboarding, living in TEEPEES, Julia's first HUNTING TRIP, grinding up meat, sea life in the ocean, AMPHIBIANS going EXTINCT, how humans destroyed other species, White Nose syndrome of BATS, stupid ROUNDUP, mesocosms, the saturation state, Couvier and Darwin, a bunch of extinct animals and a bunch of bone fossils, and MORE.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/baconphat?alert=2)

TOPICS include: JULIA ALL BY HERSELF, the Framers and Founders, their friendship with the INDIANS, how important Indian life was to the founding of our country and political ideals, METAPHORS, the Great Law of Peace, Julia hunting in KINGSBURY INDIANA, property vs. "pursuit of happiness", ADELE, Ben Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, excessive personal wealth (gross!), dumb AF Manifest Destiny, the Iroquois Confederacy and the American Confederacy, and MORE.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/baconphat?alert=2)

TOPICS include: Fair Trade USA, Howard Schultz, TURKEY 2, the Red Cross, sugar boycotts, Edna Ruth, Douwe Edberts, the NORTH and the SOUTH, LDCs, Guns Germs and Steel, how fair trade works, intermediaries, CONSUMPTION DEBTS, the beavers in FERAL, all kinds of books related to this topic, and the coolest thing of all: DEGROWTH!Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/baconphat?alert=2)

Due to problems with technology this weekend, only this first half is ready for listening. Stay tuned for the second half tomorrow, 12/14!Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/baconphat?alert=2)

Happy MoreMeatMonday! Unfortunately, Sa$ha and I don't have an episode for you guys this week because (1) Sasha was out of town snowboarding and adventuring in Colorado, and (2) Julia has to work more at her side hustle because she (a) doesn't get paid from her real job for a whole month due to Christmas break and (b) is going to meet Sally Fallon Morell in one week!! Become a Bacon Phat Cat on our Patreon page to support us so we don't have to resort to delays in the future. And get a sweet shirt/sweatshirt, sticker, and handmade card! :D We'll be back next week!Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/baconphat?alert=2)

Topics include: Sasha's SNOWBOARDING adventure, Julia's CAVING adventure, the GINGERBREAD HOUSE MAKING PARTY, website updates including RECIPES and BLOG, homemade Irish Creme, light-colored POOP, Julie Powell drinking goat's blood, Sally Fallon Morell is COMING TO INDIANAPOLIS IN JANUARY, motherhood is an unpaid/full-time job, Greta Thunberg, George Monbiot, the SIXTH EXTINCTION, reusable stuff so you can avoid plastic, Sasha's and Julia's FAVORITE books of 2019, and MORE!Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/baconphat?alert=2)

Topics include: we went BACK to Mammoth Cave National Park for ThAnKsGiViNg, eating CHICKEN FEET, pooping out whole cranberries, new probiotics, new air-purifying plants from Grounded, ORGANIC CHRISTMAS TREES FROM ILLINOIS!!, diverse guts, viruses that PROTECT against disease??, irradiation, NO TUNA EVER, sex-changing fish!!, CAFO cows are fed GUM in WRAPPERS, Nestle totally sucks, and MORE.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/baconphat?alert=2)

Topics include: the conventional theory of cancer, the METABOLIC theory of cancer, cell division, the WARBURG effect, lactic acid, SUGAR AND GLUCOSE, circadian rhythms, stress, APPLEGATE bacon, synthetic sausage casings (gross!), cancer meds, the alkaline diet MYTH LOL, Umeboshi vinegar, DIOXIN IN TAMPONS, and MORE!Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/baconphat?alert=2)

Topics include: OFFAL CONCOCTION, cubano sandwiches cooked in BACON PHAT, stupid dumb GLADE PLUGINS, ketosis, insulin and ghrelin and leptin, SKIPPING BREAKFAST vs FASTING, chi squares tests, ketosis and the Inuit, POOP, bear liver is TOXIC to humans, coffee enemas, the MEDITERRANEAN DIET (which is made up??), liver detox, low blood sugar, and MORE.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/baconphat?alert=2)

Topics include: sniffly noses, PESTO POOP, Mammoth Cave National Park, gypsum, colostrum, CAVIN BALASTER and How to Feed a Brain, persistent vegetative states, paleo JUNK FOOD, Greek green grapes, STEPHAN GUYENET and The Hungry Brain, Stephen Guyenet's fight with Gary Taubes, the insulin theory, PARABIOSIS IE ANIMALS THAT ARE SEWN TOGETHER FOR RESEARCH PURPOSES, the basal ganglia, lampreys, the COWS FROM WILDING, Chipotle, that one time Sasha ate a Hot Pocket, DAVID PERLMUTTER and Grain Brain, fecal transplants, Type 3 diabetes, neurons, prions, amyloid, statins, GLUTEN polypeptides, glycation, Dave Asprey, LDL cholesterol and the CRAZIEST THING EVER ABOUT VITAMIN D, ketogenic diets, AND MORE.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/baconphat?alert=2)

Topics include: schmaltz and gribenes, Himalayan SALT lamps, making CAMPFIRES in the RAIN, delishus curries, Gerber's origin story, MOMISM, Beech-nut lying, Gerber lying, Nestle lying, breastmilk and why it's NECESSARY, Senator George STUPID McGovern, "pep-up" drinks that have VEGETABLE OIL IN THEM WTF, salt, women shouldn't breastfeed because breasts are SEXUAL OBJECTS FOR MEN WTF, celebrities eating baby food, OG baby bottle nipples, OG baby formula, and MORE.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/baconphat?alert=2)

Topics include: MUSHY POOPS, beef heart curry, Beauty & the Briefcase, bows and arrows, REWILDING, why VEGANISM is not the answer to a better environment (!!!!!!), animal carcasses, tree roots, MYCORRHIZAE, Closed Canopy Theory, why animals BELONG in an ecosystem, STINKY PHEROMONES, stinky butterfly diets, weeds like RAGWORT, stupid monocultures (HI MONSANTO WE'RE BACK), changing baseline syndrome, oak trees, the secret to ACTUALLY SOLVING CLIMATE CHANGE, and MORE!Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/baconphat?alert=2)

TOPICS include: Sasha's BACK, corned beef water, gizzard water, what the HECK are giblets?! , BAREFOOT HIKES, candlelit nights, pooping SEEDS out of our BUTTS, Shapiro NOT Sherman, how to make GMOs, cross POLLINIZATION?? , microscopic DNA guns, BT cotton and suicides, Monsanto MAKING UP scientists, Monsanto WRITING gov't policy, Monsanto DESTROYING farmers' livelihoods, Monsanto OWNING most of the world's SOY, Monsanto GIVING SEEDS to Haitian farmers after the earthquake, and Monsanto BEING THE WORST OF ALL!Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/baconphat?alert=2)

Topics include: JULIA BY HERSELF, lame poops, enemas, climbing at the RED RIVER GORGE, fat globules, health coaching residentials, PCBs, idiots who DEFEND Monsanto but do not get paid for it, Monsanto GETTING SUED ALL THE TIME, dioxins, Agent Orange, chemical warfare (all things Monsanto LOVES), birth defects caused by Monsanto products, the difference between glyphosate and ROUNDUP, why Roundup is the ABSOLUTE WORST, sea urchin eggs, Recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone (aka the thing that's in ALL CONVENTIONAL DAIRY so STOP DRINKING IT), whistleblowers, what Monsanto does to whistleblowers, government corruption, and just a TINY sampling of Monsanto's many, many, many crimes.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/baconphat?alert=2)

Topics include: a SUPER SECRET special SURPRISE, carnivore diets, auto immune protocol and GAS, liver for breakfast, DOUGH conditioners EW, more fluorine and bromine!, metabolism, BRAZIL NUTS, delta-iodolactone, estrogen, probably some UMs and TSKs because Julia was falling asleep while editing, ATP, cancer cells, and MORE!Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/baconphat?alert=2)

Topics include: an UPDATE on Sasha's YARN making; Hannah B and Tyler C; soft poop; copperhead SNAKES; dietary sources of iodine; fluorine and chloride in our WATER; hypothyroidism and hyperthyroidism; XENOESTROGENS; all the thyroid hormones; supplements; environmental TOXINS; infections and the thyroid; STUPID MONSANTO; and balancing stress.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/baconphat?alert=2)

Topics include: KRISTA'S BIRTHDAY, show notes update, bacon photoshoots, PERIOD POOPS, kayaking, chemicals in your food, complexity of the industrial food system, FOLIC ACID vs FOLATE, "nutritionism", frozen vegan burgers with 23 ingredients, FRANKENBERRIES, Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, monarch butterfly migration, breastfeeding, the AHA "heart checkmark", calories in calories out, STUPID DUMB VEGETABLE OILS, and factory farming animals!Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/baconphat?alert=2)

Topics include: Sasha in Europe, making SAUSAGES at home, Hunza water, dehydration, cupping, difference between saturated and unsaturated fats, McGovern Committee, Mary Enig, the EVIL of industrialized food companies, why eating PUFAs lowers your cholesterol, vitamin A and face symmetry, interesterified fats, BLUE ZONES, why fast food companies cook EVERYTHING in garbage vegetable oil, SNARKY COMMENTS, the process of making STUPID VEGETABLE OILS, the decrease in consumption of butter and lard, and cod liver! Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/baconphat?alert=2)

Topics include: NON-PARALLEL structure, camping in New Orleans, becoming a BUTCHER, sleep systems, SPIKY PILLOW, sleeping on your back to relieve gas, eating KIDNEYS, the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, poooooop, Scotch eggs, loving food, being 28 and not knowing what to do with your life, Julia Child's LIVER RECIPE, the differences between the book and the movie, gimlets, Anthony Bourdain, Julie's SECOND book Cleaving, women having affairs, people being sexist, living with the Maasai, being true to yourself, 240-degree saunas, and EXCESSIVE MEOWING by LEAH the PODCAT.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/baconphat?alert=2)

Topics include: OEUFS EN COCOTTE, dry white wines, beef tallow hand lotion, biofilms, the HUBRIS of chemistry, LINKEDIN AND BORING NETWORKING EVENTS, cellulite due to VEGETABLE OIL, "fat" in food and "fat" in the body, carbons and hydrogens, the DIET-HEART HYPOTHESIS, bullying and bad science involving the NIH/ADA/USDA/NHLBI, the MYTH of the Mediterranean Diet, what "extra virgin" means, Ancel Keys and the "Seven Countries Study", the LIES of the food industry, George Mann, dietary cholesterol vs blood serum cholesterol, and the thing that BLEW JULIA'S MIND THE MOST!Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/baconphat?alert=2)

Topics include PULLED PORK BACON SANDWICH, Bachelor-viewing party Valentine's Day yummies, fasting and POOPING, Sasha's Honors College classmates, tonsil stones, sphincters, acid reflux (it's NOT what you think!), and NOT knowing which PHATS are good to eat!Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/baconphat?alert=2)

Topics include: Sasha's and Julia's dumb af INSIDE JOKE where we pretend to not know how people are related; our favorite TV shows; how we would spend our ideal day; JED'S DOG FOOD JINGLE; why we created Bacon Phat; what we hope to accomplish with the podcast; BUT FIRST OFFAL; Americans need to eat more MEATS; and Leah the Podcat!Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/baconphat?alert=2)