Whether you love cooking, hate it, don't know how you feel about it because you've never tried it before, or anywhere in between, congrats, you're in the right place. First host DC Pierson (author, comedian, and enthusiastic home cook) makes a dish, then he chats with a guest about where cooking does or does not fit in their lives at the moment, food memories, and everything food and cooking are related to, which is everything. Cook along at home or just listen for funny, relaxing, inspiring food-centric conversation and the ASMR of a guy pushing onions around a pan.
DC makes Kirby Mekler's brown butter sugar cookies with Cadbury Mini Eggs then welcomes Nicole Byer (NAILED IT, WIPEOUT) to talk Impossible Whoppers, Steve Aoki's ghost kitchen pizza, Rogue One spoilers, people-watching at Mastro's, Howlin' Ray's, whether our deceased parents would be in to conspiracy theories, injuries of all kinds, and a whole lot more! RECIPE: https://leisurefanclub.com/the-best-brown-butter-sugar-cookies-with-cadbury-mini-eggs/
DC makes Nigella Lawson's salt and vinegar roasted potatoes and then welcomes Rick Perlstein (author of "Nixonland," "The Invisible Bridge," "Reaganland") to talk airport food rituals, post-yoga-class Reubens, Reagan on the mashed-potato circuit, how a guy named Earl Butz destroyed the family farm, bachelor food shopping at CVS, Chicago grocery store culture, book club with the Watergate Babies, Reggie Bars, and a whole lot more! RECIPE: https://www.nigella.com/recipes/salt-and-vinegar-potatoes
DC makes Emily Nunn's easy orange salad and then welcomes Dhruv Uday Singh (Good Trouble, Prodigal Son) to talk about Korean fried chicken, eggs Kejriwal, being a part of air-fryer nation, the aching vulnerability of Zoom auditions, post-breakup weed intake, soufflé aspirations, and a whole lot more! RECIPE: https://eatsomesalad.substack.com/p/welcome-to-the-department-of-salad-d18
DC roasts a sweet potato for a really long time then adds butter, tahini, lemon and sea salt (do it!) then chats with Alex Scordelis (Difficult People, Billy On The Street) about depraved In-N-Out orders, the lineage of cakes with hidden good luck charms inside, Flaming Dr. Peppers, secret fantasy football tribunals, his Neil Young cover band the Cinnamon Boys, and a whole lot more!
DC rings in the New Year by making Mashama Bailey's stewed black eyed peas then talks to Shaan Baig (The Get Brown, Bollywood Boys) about his epic journey from high school forensics to pre-med to being a comedian slash dentist, Ramadan social scheduling, Lisa Simpson moments, white coat ceremonies, his mom's lamb biryani and a whole lot more. RECIPE https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1019833-stewed-black-eyed-peas?ds_c=71700000052595478&gclid=Cj0KCQiAlsv_BRDtARIsAHMGVSa-T6aQP_lizmJ74kjZGwR8rKLEPCF9uvn40njgdRHIQCY975sk_VoaAuToEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds SHAAN'S YOUTUBE https://www.youtube.com/user/notoriousBAIG BOLLYWOOD BOYS POD https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bollywood-boys-podcast/id1244580176 THE GET BROWN https://www.instagram.com/thegetbrown/
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DC makes Brinda Ayer's sugee biscuits AKA semolina butter cookies (or does he?) and then welcomes Ben and Kirby Mekler (Mortal Podkast and Leisure Fan Club, respectively) for the podcast debut of their new daughter Sunday, custom latke brainstorming live on the air, Kirby's food photography do's and don'ts, Mortal Kombat fighters' favorite foods, and a whole lot more! RECIPE https://food52.com/recipes/82214-sugee-biscuits-recipe KIRBY'S SITE leisure fan club
DC celebrates the culmination of a weeks-long ramen project by welcoming the authors of the comic-book cookbook LET'S MAKE RAMEN, Sarah Becan and Hugh Amano, to discuss how much a "bushel" is, what to do with 25 lbs of sweet potatoes, why banks have blue logos and restaurants have red logos, where ramen comes from and where it's going, snow monkeys boiling eggs, America's next top dumplings, and more! LET'S MAKE RAMEN: https://littleshopofcomics.com/products/lets-make-ramen-comic-book-cookbook-itm848409
DC preserves some lemons then welcomes Nikki Palumbo (The New Yorker) to talk about her connection to Italian food, her 93 year old nana's cavatelli / roast beef / deepest darkest secrets, adapting the family stuffed artichoke recipe to be vegan, adult slumber parties and vision boarding, whether physical therapists are more depressed than dentists, Pez dispenser injuries, her bloodiest kitchen mishaps, and more! RECIPE https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1016212-preserved-lemons
DC makes shio tare as the ramen project nears completion then chats with Carey O'Donnell (Heathers, Sexy Unique Podcast) about LA deli culture, NJ diner culture, candy rituals, home economics, condescending study abroad teachers, why God placed him at one very specific Coldstone Creamery on one very special day, and more!
DC makes chashu (the braised pork belly that goes on top of ramen) then chats with Andrew Farmer (Scary Stories To Tell On The Pod) about the legacy of Uncle Roy's restaurants, how signed headshots get on the walls of old restaurants, childhood dogs both phantom and otherwise, knishes, Smoking Bishop, warm vanilla cake, how New Hampshire in the 90s was actually the 80s, childhood dog sitting, why you should always order the kosher meal on a plane, and a whole lot more!
DC begins a ramen-making journey with tonkatsu broth from Hugh Amano & Sarah Becan's LET'S MAKE RAMEN and then talks to Matt Pais about his book ZACH MORRIS LIED 329 TIMES, specifically DC's complete lack of "Saved By The Bell" knowledge, whether or not Zach Morris laid the groundwork for Trump, food in the SBTB-iverse & more!
DC makes Ivan Orkin's shimeji mushroom rice then chats with Whitney Pastorek post-election day to talk getting food trucks to the polls with José Andrés' World Central Kitchen, doing TOO good a job getting out the early vote in Tennessee, difficult student government memories, being radicalized under Rudy Giuliani, overnight chicken and more!
DC makes possibly his favorite recipe of all time — Ruth Reichl's spicy Chinese noodles, then talks to director Michael Hoffman (ONE FINE DAY, A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM) about Helen Mirren's Christmas goose, learning to cook in Tuscany, slow food, the ins and outs of olive oil, the REAL tuna melt, Georgian cuisine, the best thing(s) he's ever eaten, and a whole lot more! RECIPE: https://food52.com/blog/25325-ruth-reichl-save-me-the-plums-memoir-excerpt
DC makes Deborah Madison's potato and green chile stew then chats with Susan Song live and direct from a South Korean quarantine hotel about her hilarious Koreantine Instagram stories, sweet corn, BBQ duck, raw marinated crab, becoming a one-person content factory, and more! RECIPE: https://food52.com/recipes/30727-deborah-madison-s-potato-and-green-chile-stew
DC makes Martha Rose Shulman's pappa al pomodoro then chats with Rob Kutner (Conan, The Daily Show With Jon Stewart) about homemade hummus and pickled watermelon rinds, making ramen with the whole family, our Mad Men parody past, how TikTok has given his kids good taste in music, making cordials out of fruit scraps, weaponizing brunch to see your otherwise-busy friends, his new show GANDER, and a whole lot more. GANDER: https://tubitv.com/tv-shows/542680/s01_e01_food_delivery_services RECIPE: https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1016451-tuscan-bread-and-tomato-soup-pappa-al-pomodoro
DC makes his butter-garlic-and-herb basted grilled cheese then talks to Joe Berkowitz about his new book AMERICAN CHEESE, his picks for the ultimate cheese board, cheese-turning robots named after Bernie Sanders, underground cheese parties and cheese-cutting competitions, how the phrase "cheese cutting" loses all comedic value in the cheese world, which Drag Race queen is which cheese, and much, much more. Cheese! AMERICAN CHEESE: https://bookshop.org/books/american-cheese-an-indulgent-odyssey-through-the-artisan-cheese-world/9780062934895
The 2nd part of DC's chat with Josh Gondelman! Bon Appetit's salted peanut butter and jelly ice cream pie, pandemic neighborhood baked-good drops, identifying with Speckle from TUCA & BERTIE, how his mom's lasagna is like a Jay Electronica album, Prince Paul's Ketel One rider hack, and a whole lot more!
DC doesn't cook this week but DOES talk with Josh Gondelman (Make My Day, Desus & Mero) about back when whole wheat was a vegetable, how his dad got busted by his rabbi uncle, baseball and hip hop on the radio, AOC's adobo mix, how sometimes the joy of cooking is NOT cooking, Dunkin Donuts culture, and a whole lot more!
DC makes fusilli with broccoli and anchovies then is joined by Mary Sasson to talk about when your mom's house doesn't have physical garlic, the best place to stash contraband soda, snack bar nachos, cooking as an art project you get to eat, how amazing stoves are wasted on the rich, strudel, being part of an endless cavalcade of siblings, Real Housewives, Vanderpump and more! RECIPE: https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1017909-fusilli-with-broccoli-and-anchovies
DC makes slow-cooker barbeque bourbon chicken drumsticks and then chats with Ali Bouzari (author, INGREDIENT: UNVEILING THE ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF FOOD) about food science vs. culinary science, how Breaking Bad nailed food science in a single scene, One Weird Trick to keep avocados from browning, the Chez Panisse fruit bowl, Texas peaches vs. California peaches, Sungold tomatoes and Sumo mandarins, the galaxy-brain way to store fruit, how too many herbs is exactly the right amount of herbs, and so much more! RECIPE: https://food52.com/recipes/81361-slow-cooker-bourbon-bbq-chicken-drumsticks WATERDROP LA: http://waterdropla.org
DC makes Darun Kwak's kimchi bibim guise then chats with Kath Barbadoro (What A Time To Be Alive, Lie Cheat & Steal) about homemade cardamom buns, wrestlers who throw pizza dough or belong to Bread Gang, wine forgery, moms who would really like you to get out of the kitchen and let them cook, counterfeit olive oil, cleaning out several roommates' worth of crappy pans, and a whole lot more! RECIPE: https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1021308-kimchi-bibim-guksu Southern Restaurants For Racial Justice: http://southernrestaurantsforracialjustice.com
DC makes David Tanis' pan con tomate and then chats with Kirby Howell-Baptiste (Infinity Train, Killing Eve) about her pickle journey, Marmite vs. Vegemite, having a freezer full of garbage, the magic of the mandolin, the lost jacket potato shop of Covent Garden, the wonders of duck fat, her nan's curry goat, fishermen's pie, and a whole lot more. NOT EXACTLY THE RECIPE I USED IN THE EPISODE BUT HEY: https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1019423-garlicky-tomato-toast-pan-con-tomate DE CAMPESINO A CAMPESINO: https://www.gofundme.com/f/gvpbx-de-campesino-a-campesino
DC makes summer shrimp scampi with tomatoes and corn, then welcomes Billy Jensen (I'll Be Gone In The Dark, Murder Squad: Jensen And Holes) to discuss Taco Bell's war on potatoes, a lost generation of animatronic pizza robots, a Delmonico's pilgrimage on the eve of the Golden State Killer's capture, how some of my eating habits are disturbingly similar to GSK's, and a whole lot more! RECIPE https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1021184-summer-shrimp-scampi-with-tomatoes-and-corn WATERDROP LA http://waterdropla.org
DC makes crispy chicken thighs with lemon a la Brooklyn's Canal House and then welcomes Open Mike Eagle (What Had Happened Was, The New Negroes) for a chat about air fryers and how nobody knows how they work, the tantalizing giveaways in 90s video game magazines, the rapidly diminishing appeal of eating Subway on tour, the enduring appeal of McDonalds and video game live-streamers, checking in on the conspiracy-theorist community, Mike's grandma, The Last Dance and how its timing may have affected American history, and a whole lot more. Recipe: https://food52.com/recipes/35813-canal-house-s-chicken-thighs-with-lemon Lebanese Food Bank: https://donate.lebanesefoodbank.org
DC makes currywurst then is joined by Kevin Porter (Gilmore Guys, Good Christian Fun) to talk about being a value-added friend, watching The Sopranos in 2020, Big Little Pies, how to be the Matthew McConaughey of hosting, whether or not Springsteen actually likes food, Succession popsicle parties, food in the Gilmore Girls-verse, kicking off the #RemasterFrasier movement, and a whole lot more! Recipe: https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1020505-currywurst Gleaners (Detroit food bank): https://www.gcfb.org/hunger-free-summer/
Haley Hepworth hops on the phone with her grandma Paula to get a download of her famous marble bundt cake recipe and uncover the secret of why it always seems to fall apart, learn how her approach to cooking has changed over the years, get tips on her equally famous Christmas cookies and lefse, and a whole lot more. Then Haley actually MAKES the cake... will it fall apart? Is it smart to turn it let it hang loose upside down hours before actually taking it out of the pan? FIND OUT! Restaurant Opportunities Centers United Pandemic Response Fund: https://rocunited.org/chapters/pandemic-response-fund/
DC makes Josef Centeno's hot sauce roast chicken with tangy kale salad then chats with Yoni Lotan all the way from NYC about leveling up his home cooking during quarantine, his family schnitzel, his mom's sudden culinary Instagram fame, hosting pandemic-era Zoom birthday parties for kids around the world, and a whole lot more! Recipe: https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1020629-hot-sauce-roast-chicken-with-tangy-kale-salad Civil Eats: http://civileats.com/donate
DC makes Meera Sodha's cauliflower, cashew, pea, and coconut curry then talks remotely with Gina Lacagnina (food systems coordinator for the Maricopa County Dept. Of Public Heath) about Rainbow Carrot Adventures and Cucumber Apocalypses, her dad's line-cook skills, what the food system even is, how the Farm Bill effects you as a non-farmer, who decides what goes into school lunches and how you can change it, why hospital food is "hospital food," and so much more! Recipe: https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1019911-cauliflower-cashew-pea-and-coconut-curry?action=click&module=RecipeBox&pgType=recipebox-page®ion=all&rank=2 Spaces Of Opportunity: https://dbg.org/community/spaces-of-opportunity/
DC improvises a fridge-clearing meal with meatballs and egg noodles then chats remotely with comedy power couple Kristen Bartlett (head writer, Full Frontal With Samantha Bee) and Jason Gore (The Best Show) about Kristen's bone collection, balcony jalapeños, old boomboxes in the compost chute, cherry yum-yum, pre-"Karen" Karens, fridge-inventory Google Docs, maximalist spaghetti, Jason bombing a pre-pandemic audition for $100,000 Pyramid, the superiority of British Burger King, and so much more. Food Chain Worker's Alliance: http://foodchainworkers.org Rao's Meatballs recipe: https://food52.com/recipes/22467-rao-s-meatballs
DC makes Jenny Rosenstrach's easy, delicious avgolemono then calls up his Granny Jan to talk rattlesnake sightings, HER grandma's chicken and homemade noodles, being genetically predisposed to love Snickers, being flown to 1950s Japan by the US Military with a one-and-a-half month old my dad, and more! Recipe: http://www.dinneralovestory.com/avgolemeno/ Black Church Food Security Network https://blackchurchfoodsecurity.net
DC makes Eddie Hernandez's pork roast with roasted jalapeño gravy then chats with Michelle Kwak (pastry chef, KIN restaurant in Boise, ID) about how she went from high school science teacher to working in fine dining, navigating food service in the pandemic era with meal kits and no-contact picnics, edible models of the solar system, deriving inspiration from those tins of Danish shortbread cookies, compost smoothies, worms as pets, and a whole lot more! Recipe: Pork Roast With Roasted Jalapeño Gravy Recipe - NYT Cookingcooking.nytimes.com › recipes › 1019254-pork-roast-with-roasted-jal... CivilEats Food And Land Justice Orgs list: https://civileats.com/2020/06/02/want-to-see-food-and-land-justice-for-black-americans-support-these-groups/ City Of Good, Boise COVID-19 food relief organization: http://cityofgood.com
DC makes tofu "chorizo" and then speaks remotely with Horton Foote Award-winning playwright Jaclyn Backhaus ("Wives," "Men On Boats") about chicken law, over-reliance on cooking as therapy, rhizome hate mail, the special magic of actors eating onstage, and a whole lot more! RECIPE: Tofu 'Chorizo' Recipe - NYT Cookingcooking.nytimes.com › recipes › 1016639-tofu-chorizo The Okra Project: http://theokraproject.com
Beginning to explore the intersection of food and racial justice, DC discusses what he's learned about USDA discrimination and its disastrous effect on America's black farmers. Then he makes chicken a la Kris Yenbamroong's Thai-style Korean BBQ recipe and gets Andrew Rose Gregory (The Gregory Brothers) on the horn for a remote conversation about focaccia, the rare hippie honey of the Park Slope Co-Op, The Dave Matthews Band Effect, and much more. National Black Food & Justice Alliance: http://www.blackfoodjustice.org Schell, Eileen. "Racialized Rhetorics of Food Politics: Black Farmers, the Case of Shirley Sherrod, and Struggle for Land Equity and Access." Poroi 11, Iss. 1 (2015): p. 1-22 https://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1214&context=poroi
Live and direct from Pittsburgh, DC's Grandma Mary spills the secrets of her red sauce, then DC makes it with some spaghetti and hot Italian sausage, then DC and Haley eat it and talk about the grandmas of their lives
The biggest event in comedic culinary podcasting CONCLUDES! DC and Haley drafted teams of six ingredients each, cooked with them, and now have to decide who wins. Also, DC pretty much botches a pot of red beans and rice, and DC and Haley try to determine who, if anyone, is the elusive third Bee Gee. Recipe: https://www.splendidtable.org/recipes/monday-night-red-beans-rice
The biggest event in quarantined culinary comedy podcasting CONTINUES! Two episodes ago DC and Haley drafted six real food items in their apartment to make into a dish in a head-to-head cookoff. Last time, DC cooked. This week, it's Haley's team's turn, and whatever she's making, it's got twists, turns, and game-time decisions. Then Haley and DC (who are also the judges, I mean, it IS quarantine) eat Haley's meal and the judgement rolls on.
Last episode DC and Haley drafted six real food items in their apartment to make into a dish in a head-to-head cookoff. This time, DC takes the field (or, y'know, kitchen) with his six draftees to make... you'll just have to listen and find out. Then Haley and DC (who are also the judges, I mean, it IS quarantine) eat DC's meal and the critiquing begins.
DC is joined by Haley Hepworth for the first ever Stay For Dinner INGREDIENT DRAFT! They each draft six ingredients to build a dish for a head-to-head cook-off. Who'll snag what? Will their marriage survive? Which ingredients match which members of the 1990s Chicago Bulls? And first, DC makes Marcella Hazan's legendary roast chicken with lemons. https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1015182-marcella-hazans-roast-chicken-with-lemons
DC makes caramelized onion pasta and Haley Hepworth RETURNS to eat it and talk MacGuyvering dorm-room pesto with a butter knife, her mom's legendary grilled cheese, bread baking under quarantine, the lost-to-history danish-but-not-really-a-danish of Ada County, and so much more! RECIPE: https://goingbackwards.wordpress.com/recipes-i-love/vegetarian-main-dishes/pasta-with-carmelized-onions/
DC makes braised pork all'Arrabbiata and is joined by Haley Hepworth (Just For Laughs New Faces Characters 2019) to eat it and talk about Big Bowls Of Stuff, the bygone smoked-meat joints of Boise, jammy yolks, cottage cheese pancakes, and a whole lot more! Recipes: https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1020877-braised-pork-allarrabbiata
DC makes vegetarian skillet chili and welcomes Mano Agapion (Drag Her, We Love Trash) over (on what turned out to be pretty much the last socially acceptable day to do so) to eat it and talk about Mano's spanakopita, the rocky legacy of Tommy's Burgers, the maturity of Greek pop stars, the non-ubiquity of lettuce in Greece, and so much more. Recipe: https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1017704-vegetarian-skillet-chili
DC makes fish & chips and tartar sauce and welcomes Demi Adejuyigbe (The Good Place, Late Late Show With James Corden) over to eat 'em and talk about cookies as a vehicle for awkward teen courtship, Nigerian food, getting dunked on in an imaginary group text, and much more. Recipe reference: https://food52.com/recipes/18493-ipa-battered-fish-and-chips
This week, DC makes fried rice and welcomes Kate Spencer (Forever 25, Dead Mom's Club) over to eat it and talk about Phish show lot food, assembling (and misassembling) nutritional wisdom, feeding kids with wildly divergent tastes, the mystery of Broccoli Bread, and so much more.
DC makes homemade pasta (and you can too!), makes it into fettuccine alfredo, then welcomes Emily V. Gordon (Little America, The Big Sick) over to eat and talk about cooking (or failing to cook) outta town, growing into an older generation's roles, putting too much effort into popcorn, sausage balls, and a whole lot more! Worked off of the following recipes: https://food52.com/recipes/40056-fettuccine-alfredo https://food52.com/blog/15912-how-to-make-fresh-pasta-dough-like-a-chef
A quick teaser for the forthcoming home cooking podcast STAY FOR DINNER, hosted by DC Pierson.
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