Taste Buds

Nothing else to say...Taste Buds is back !!!  --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tastebudspodcast/support

This week we're back with another food draft, this time with Italian food AND a special guest drafter, our buddy Evan. As always, we also discuss our bests of the week. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tastebudspodcast/support

We're baaaaaaaaaack! Mike and Brandon return with season 2 premiere, including "bests" of the week and the ultimate appetizer fantasy draft. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tastebudspodcast/support

It's been a looooong three weeks since our last episode, and the world is looking a lot different. In this ep, we discuss life in quarantine and how the restaurant industry may never be the same. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tastebudspodcast/support

This week we finally welcome on a longtime Taste Buds listener and food industry veteran, Joe Ackil, to talk about his experience working on all levels of the food supply chain - from B.GOOD to One Mighty Mill. Check out One Mighty Mill bagels, tortillas and pretzels at all Whole Foods in Massachusetts or at their brick & mortar location in Lynn! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tastebudspodcast/support

In this week's episode, we introduce a new segment: food top 5. This week, we tackle our list of the top steakhouse side orders. We also answer more mailbag questions and talk our bests of the week. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tastebudspodcast/support

In this week's episode, we preview the upcoming Oscars and provide our predictions for all the major categories. We also answer more mailbag questions - which includes a discussion of all things breakfast.. And as always, we give our bests of the week. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tastebudspodcast/support

In this week's episode, Mike discusses his ultimate food weekend in NYC, from celebrity chef run-ins to dining at the #1 restaurant in the world. As always, Mike and Brandon also reveal their bests of the week. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tastebudspodcast/support

In this week's episode, we invite our first industry insider to answer our burning questions about life as a high end restaurant waiter. We also discuss our thoughts on Oscar nominations as well as our best's of the week. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tastebudspodcast/support

In this week's episode, we discuss our "bests" of the week, recap the Golden Globes and answer your burning questions in our new mailbag segment. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tastebudspodcast/support

In this week's episode, we drop our "bests" of 2019 (best meal, best restaurant, best cuisine, best thing we saw & listened to) discuss highest trending Grubhub orders of 2019 and debate our final Spicy Take of the year: gift card etiquette. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tastebudspodcast/support

Coming off of a bye week, we have our first guest: our family wine sommelier, our Uncle Mark. Mark discusses how he came to love wine, and clears the air about certain wine myths and etiquette. Per usual, we also discuss our bests of the week as well as our spicy take. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tastebudspodcast/support

In this week's episode, we discuss the top food trends in 2019, and debate whether they deserve a place in 2020. As always, we'll touch on our bests of the week (best thing we ate, watched, and listened to), and give a quick Thanksgiving recap. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tastebudspodcast/support

It's Thanksgiving week (aka the most important food holiday of the year). In this episode, we discuss: Overrated/underrated Thanksgiving foods, Bests of the week (Best thing we ate, watched and listened to this week), Controversial food opinions, Spicy take of the week - is it ok to make food substitutions at a restaurant? --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tastebudspodcast/support

Pilot episode - intro to the Taste Buds podcast --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tastebudspodcast/support

Three generations of cooks — a former ego-driven chef turned recruiter, a recent cooking school grad who's fed up with low rates, and a workaholic "lifer" who trains and mentors young cooks — sit down with host Corey Mintz to speak candidly about pervasive issues in the industry, share their personal trajectories and horrifying training experiences, and grapple with how to push back against a culture of machismo and burnout. — Illustration by Andrew Barr.  This episode of Taste Buds is sponsored by Foodora, Canada's #1 food delivery app.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Should aspiring chefs go to culinary school? How do you ask for a raise when you’re earning less than minimum wage? What's 'the mandatory fourteen'? Braden Chong and David Schwartz are young cooks sweating out long, back-breaking days. And they eat a lot. Along with other young cooks in Toronto, they document their high-carb staff meals and late night eats on Budsnacks, a communally shared Instagram account Host Corey Mintz joins Braden and David on a double-breakfast eating spree—jumping from a mountain of chicken feet and turnip cakes at Dim Sum King to more fancified plates cooked up by Schwartz at his new restaurant, Omaw — where they talk about learning how to avoid being exploited by chefs, and then, how to avoid exploiting cooks once you become the chef. Basically: how to grow up and survive in the restaurant industry, while eating your weight in dumplings. Illustration by Deshi Deng. — This episode is sponsored byFoodora, Canada’s #1 food delivery app. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Are over-the-top food trends trumping taste? Should restaurants accommodate their customers, even when it means making their food worse?  Host Corey Mintz joins buds David Ginsberg, Hassel Aviles, and Monte Wan, to talk trends, taste, and the challenge of serving up authentic Thai food, at Wan's restaurant, Khao San Road. — This episode is sponsored by Foodora, Canada's #1 food delivery app.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Suzanne Barr found out she was pregnant the day she opened her restaurant. Then came the real problem: landlords so unhinged she had to call the cops on them.  Danny McCallum was a radical environmentalist whose roommates were BLOWN UP (possibly by the FBI). He’s now the chef of a steakhouse that serves $1200 steaks. Host Corey Mintz sits down to talk about beef and the ethics of cooking it, and both chefs realize that they’d each been vegan for 9 years. Life is full of surprises. So is this episode of Taste Buds. You can catch Suzanne cooking at the Sand and Pearl Oyster Bar in Prince Edward County, and if it’s steak you’re hungry for, Danny’s got you covered at Jacobs & Co. Steakhouse in Toronto. — Illustration by Lily Snowden-Fine. Taste Buds is sponsored byFoodora, Canada’s #1 food delivery app. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What happens when a restaurant owner sits down with the critic she blames for killing her business? Jen Agg is Canada’s top restaurateur. Chris Nuttall-Smith is Canada’s top critic. And Chris’ 2012 review of her beloved restaurant, Raw Bar (his description of the food as “awful”) has not been forgotten. The two sit down with host Corey Mintz for dinner at The Black Hoof — Jen’s trend-setting and much-imitated restaurant, which is closing after a decade — to argue over whether critics matter anymore. — Jen Agg is the owner of The Black Hoof, Rhum Corner, Cocktail Bar and Grey Gardens, as well as the author of the memoir I Hear She’s A Real Bitch. Chris Nuttall-Smith is the editor-in-chief of the recently launched review website The Taster.  Read Corey’s original review of The Hoof here. “That review was a big deal,” says Jen. “But at that time, reviews mattered. I don’t know that that’s true anymore.” And Nuttsy’s review of Raw Bar: “When Chris reviewed Raw Bar, that was like a death knell for the business.” — Taste Buds is sponsored byFoodora, Canada’s #1 food delivery app. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Corey Mintz joins restaurant insiders after hours to eat, drink, and dish about the industry and its culture. First episode drops Wednesday, July 18th.Here’s a taste. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.