The Stew

This week on The Stew we came back! It's been too long, I know, but we hope to bring you some more new pods soon. This week we welcome chef Miles Thompson, hes still a young man, but he's been cooking since he was a child. He's cooked all over the place but most recently he's taken over as executive chef of the infamous Michael's here in LA's Santa Monica. Jason and Andre chat with him about his epic journey to how he got here today, and all the crazy food he's cooked along the way.

This week on The Stew we welcome back Andre's mom Jill! She is a wonderful person full of weird knowledge and ideas about food, the last time she was on, it was a fan fav. We talk about our drinking stories, and we get into a lot of mushroom talk, and we obviously circle back to some new age theories on eating and how it effects our body, then we finish up with some listener questions! Also happy birthday to my mom Karen!!!

This week on the stew we welcome Jonah from the very popular LA restaurant Freedman's. He came from Toronto to open up late last year, has been reviewed by the god J Gold. We hear about the entire process of opening a new spot here, the challenges and joys of running a Jewish Deli, and a blow by blow of being reviewed by J Gold, great man great pod!

This week on The Stew we welcome back our friend and LA chef Royce Burke. We chat about a few food things we've been working on, but unfortunately recorded this episode the day we all heard the news about Anthony, so we do a good bit of commiserating on his impact on our world. 

This week on The Stew we welcome Nate Ru, one of Sweetgreen's founders and bossmans. Sweetgreen is a giant restaurant chain with 88 locations all over America that sells salads to hot people. Jason and Andre chat with him about all things salad related! we dive deep into the nooks and crannies of the salad biz.

This week on The Stew we welcome Courtney Storer, Chef at one of LA's most popular restaurants Jon & Vinny's. Known as a celeb hotspot serving irresistible home style Italian pizzas and pastas, Jason & Andre are lucky to have her on this week! Courtney tells us about her journey to running the kitchen at one of America's favorite new restaurants, she's great, we love her!

This week on The Stew we welcome Ryan Wilson, the damn executive chef of Lawry's! He's the third generation of the Lawry's fam, they're celebrating their 80th anniversary this year and he came on to tell us all the prime rib pro tips, creamed corn hacks, and doing an event today with Jonathan Gold and he even is a listener an reminds us to talk about the best thing we ate all week, he's a nice man and a fun fella.

This week on The Stew we're back after taking a week off (sorry) we get into the J Gold review of Majordomo, we're both kind of sick and not feeling very well, we answer a lot of listener questions and we talk about food poisoning as well.  

Thomas Raquel is the pastry chef at Le Bernardin, Eric Ripert's 3 Michelin star restaurant in New York. Jason and Andre get some stories about growing up and getting into cooking, what it's like working in a restaurant of that size and magnitude, and chat about some forward thinking sweet ideas after watching Chef's Table's new dessert series.

This week on The Stew! we discuss a recent deep fry party, Jason shares an intimate moment at Sweetgreen, and a trip to the San Gabriel Valley for interesting finds at the Asian Market, plus we take a crack at some of your listener questions, unfortunately we have many more to sift through. 

This week on The Stew is all about wine! well mostly. Jon Bonné joins us to talk about his new book “The New Wine Rules,” a short and sweet guide that tells you everything you need to know about getting into wine. We take some listener questions, learn about his writing habits, why he sounds like Patton Oswalt, hangover cures, and the best thing we ate all week!

This week on The Stew we welcome Hannah Goldfield, food writer and critic for The New Yorker! Jason and Andre are proud to have guests who are accomplished and impressive now. We chat about how one acquires a job writing about food for the New Yorker as that is very interesting to us. We cover Toronto style bagels, all the food she's been eating in LA, why the food here is better than NY, we talk listener questions that we've been meaning to tackle too, granola is mentioned, etc.

This week on the stew we welcome a very big food blogger and cookbook author Gaby Dalkin! She is homies with Alton Brown, sponsored by Cape Cod Chips, and runs her food blog operation like a well oiled machine. Jason and Andre chat with her about her journey as a private chef in Malibu, culinary school, and blogging it up, eating at the extra fancy restaurant at Disneyland, literally taking bites out of colby jack cheese logs, cooler ranch doritos, and we discuss if it's necessary to learn from a professional chef, or if you truly can master cooking by just watching youtube videos, plus the best thing we ate all week!

This week we have Angela Dimayuga, one of my favorite chefs in America right now, known for her work with Danny Bowien at Mission Chinese, now on her own journey. We learn all about how she got into her life of food, and how she's now using it to help people. Angela is an amazing person and we're all super lucky to have her on this weeeeeeek!

This week on The Stew we welcome back Darin Bresnitz, one half of the Snacky Tunes podcast, a food podcast that has been going on for 10 years??? thats crazy. Darin is obviously good at talking about food and is well versed in the culinary world despite not really working in the industry. We unfortunately spend a good amount of time during the pod eating some Courage Bagels, we talk about food in Austin, talk some listener questions, and discuss their live Snacky Tunes podcast happening this tuesday in LA, you should check it out if you can!

This week on The Stew we welcome back Farley Elliot, senior editor at Eater LA. The boys chat about an angry hot chicken shack owner threatening people on Yelp, what it means to be a regular at a restaurant, an upcoming trip to mexico city, an LA taco shop that's been weird for 25 years, the best breakfast burritos in town, Ugly Delicious, and your listener questions!

This week on The Stew we welcome Ari Skye, from Courage Bagels. Over the last year she's been making bagels and selling them and blowing up! Jason and Andre chat with her about the whole thing, take fun questions from the net, another classic Stew what can I say.

This week on the pod we welcome Lindsay Maitland Hunt, author of the new and very popular cookbook “Healthyish.” Jason & Andre chat with her about what we can all do to make what we eat healthier, tips on recipes, maybe some hating on restaurants, maybe lots of twitter questions! 

Garret Snyder is a writer here in Los Angeles, Food Editor of Los Angeles Magazine, and co-author of the Night + Market Song cookbook. Jason & Andre chat with him about his process of writing, eating at Majordomo, his past careers of working in restaurants, staging at Wolvesmouth, Wax Paper, Superbowl recaps, Burgers Never Say Die, and the best thing we ate all week!

This weeks Episode of The Stew features Karl Hess,  a stand up comedian who actually knows a lot about food, and cohosts the other food pod “Yelling About Pate.” Jason and Andre chat with him about wine tastings, LA's lack of “tapas,” his love for canned fish, sea urchin, other foods in Philly that aren't cheese steaks, Trader Joe's pre brined chicken, air fryers, pickle juice, Iron Chef, horse eating, edible flowers, and so much more!

This week on The Stew we welcome Jordan Okun, a food writer based here in Los Angeles who is not only a talented eater, but a Stew fan, so he's able to slide right in with Jason and Andre's pod sensibilities. We chat about “MajorDomo," the new Momofuku restaurant here in LA, the bread at Cheesecake Factory, the best slice of Pizza in LA, Jonathan Gold still at the top? Grand Central Market, what's a better idea for a first date, bar or restaurant, and so much more!

This week on The Stew Jason & Andre welcome Emily & Heather from the new and wildly popular LA restaurant “Botanica.” Known for fresh, healthy, thoughtful, and very attractive food on the eastside of town. We chat about their process of working in food media for years before switching over to the dark side, their backgrounds in cooking, and some listener questions too.

This week on The Stew we welcome Chef Hunter Pritchett, from the newly opened “Melody” restaurant in Los Angeles, specializing in self proclaimed lazy french cooking. Theres nothing lazy about what goes into his dishes though, Jason and Andre break down a bunch of stuff on his menu, his cooking career leading up to now, working in intense french kitchens making dover sole, to developing and consulting for the wildly popular Mendocino Farms. Hunter knows a lot about cooking and we're all lucky to learn a thing or two from the fella.

This week on The Stew is all about meat! LA butcher god and A+ meat cutter Jered Standing is our guest this week. Jason and Andre chat with him all about off cuts, sustainable whole animal butchery, take tons of questions from listeners, which I may add are getting better and better every week! Great job guys :)

This week on The Stew you thought we were done in 2017 but hell no we've got one more on deck. Jason, Andre, and Stewie chat about our New Years Eve plans for a bit up front and then get into a nice recap of Stewie's recent trip to London and France, and we talk about all the cool stuff he ate like 100 sea urchins and 70 baguettes. 

This week on The Stew: Jason and Andre squeeze in one last poddy of 2017 despite being sick! That's how much we love you guys for making this year huge for us. We take a bunch of your questions like have we gone too far in to the healthy boy lifestyle, what was the best thing we ate all YEAR? air fryers, carbonara again why not, caviar, mint in the aioli, if we were stranded on a deserted island and we could only bring 3 chipotle ingredients, what would they be. Stuff like that. Love you guys and have a great Holiday season and thanks for listening !!!!

This week on The Stew: special guest Luke Reyes, a chef here in LA who's actually doing something cool and smart with food and marijuana, and he's opening a ramen restaurant on the side. Jason and Andre chat with him about those two things pretty much, how to put pot in your food and not have to call 911 or lock yourself in a closet, plus the ins and outs of ramen stock making, hint: it sounds like way more work that I ever wanna do.

This week on The Stew our annual holiday gift guide! We basically list a bunch of gifts for your foodie friends, some curve balls, some odd and practical, some lavish and ridiculous, Jason Andre AND Stewie are all on board.

This week on The Stew Jason, Andre, AND Stewie are in the house to talk about Lady Bird, a sneak peek of our holiday gift giving guide, feast of the seven fishes, Jason's cleaning habits, Eataly is open in LA now, a particularly large lunch tab at Stewie's restaurant, Taco Maria review, Alex Stupak, Chinese stuffing, Halloumi cheese, we try to name a food that wouldn't work with cream cheese, momofuku opening in LA, is ramen the #1 broke boy food? CBD cold brew, do we need to change our theme song? and the best thing we ate all week!

This week on The Stew our annual Thanksgiving recap, what we cooked, what we fucked up, what we're gonna do with our leftovers, and we answer all your twitter and instagram question about coffee preparation, galettes, legs of lamb, new twists of shakshukas, deviled eggs, and so much more!

Marissa A. Ross is the wine editor for bon appetit, writer of the book “Wine All The Time,” and a bunch of other stuff. She's a great person and funny and was nice enough to come chat with Jason and Andre about weed, writers block, burritos, a very specific and involved hangover cure, the pleasures of splitting open a nice young thai coconut, and so much more!

This week on The Stew: Jason & Andre welcome Ken Concepcion, longtime chef under the Wolfgang Puck team, and most recently owner of “Now Serving” your new favorite store in LA for all things food, except food, with his wife Michelle. We chat a lot about cookbooks, whats selling hot right now, old classics to study, tons of listener questions in the DMs are answered, and we learn that it helps to have an actual chef around to answer some of these damn questions! 

This week on The Stew our annual Jonathan Gold 101 list recap where we literally discuss every single restaurant on the list starting at 101 and going to 1. It's long, arduous, unnecessarily unfair and ignorant. We voice somehow very strong opinions about dozens of restaurants, despite having never visited them a single time, many we've never even heard of, sorry! 

This week on The Stew we welcome Royce Burke from "Secret Lasagna” a late night lasagna delivery service here in LA, soon to be a brick and mortar with counter service. Jason and Andre chat with him about mainly lasagna, but also the pros and cons of serving food at 3am, his take on street dogs, flat leaf parsley vs regular ass parsley, mass transit, making vegan food, starting a hot sauce company with a male star, hiring his family to work for him, and so much more.

Jason and Andre open up about insulting someones latte art, etiquette for making DJ requests, healthy veggie loaves, scarpetta tomato basil sauce, al pastoral meatloaf developments, awful halloween foods and maybe better halloween foods, debunking the issue of dogs eating chocolate, what to do with a tiny crockpot, our favorite cocktails, twitter questions, expensive nut butters, and the best thing we ate all week is kinda weak tbh.

This week on The Stew we've got all three lads in today with a rare Stewie appearance! Our special guest is Richard Parks, known for many things like his food podcast that only had one episode but was arguably the best food podcast ever made, and more recently co-author of the "Guerrilla Taco" cookbook! We attempt to have an actual conversation about food but it slowly goes off the rails in a very ridiculous direction, A+ pod perhaps.

This week on The Stew we welcome Anthony Cailan! He's a known wine mans around LA, has worked at Bestia, now at Hayden in Culver City, and also the younger brother of Alvin Cailan, the man behind Eggslut, and beyond. Jason and Andre chat with him about his wine training, some wine trends, fads, and myths, and then we tackle all of your twitter questions we didn't get to last week.

This week on The Stew we welcome back a classic guest Zach Brooks, known for his infamous Midtown Lunch blog, Food is The New Rock podcast, and most recently curator of LA's weekly food super bowl “Smorgasburg.” Tempers fly as Jason and Andre insult Zach about everything and then he does a great job defending himself, further proving Zach is a true treasure in the food world, offering great insights about all kinds of stuff, and then they fight about fried rice for 20 minutes and we answer 2 out of 40 twitter questions, we'll get to them next pod I promise.

This week on The Stew, Jason & Andre one on one podcast, we talk about: Huang's World, store openings, a new alternative milk enters the ring, bbq bone broth, cooking with marijuana, matcha, and a few more things.

This week's episode is all about barbecue, with our special guest Burt Bakman, the man behind Trudy's Underground Barbecue, a donation based Texas style barbecue run out of his backyard here in LA. Burt has an amazing story of how he grew to be a top contender for making proper barbecue here in America.  We start off with some In N Out chat and end up on the best thing we ate all week.

This week we welcome Farley Elliott, senior of Eater.com's LA chapter. Jason and Andre chat with him about us making fun of his name on a previous podcast, breakfast burrito cross sections, a Vespertine review, some odd listener questions, possibly involving human flesh, football season is here and we ask the question: are frito pies considered nachos? Plus the best thing we ate all week, and a few more surprises.

This week we're super excited to welcome Helen Hollyman, editor in chief of Munchies!  Jason and Andre chat with her about nachos, hiking, and her new Munchies cookbook full of late night foods inspired by Chef's Night Out, tons of chefs from all over the world giving their best late night munch recipes, and we break it all down.  We also were chatting about MTV's The Hills before recording so I was nice enough to include the acoustic version of the theme song at the end of the show for you, it just felt right.

This week on The Stew we welcome our friend Andy Kadin from Bub & Grandma's Bread, one of the most sought after bread bakers in town, servicing restaurants like Osteria Mozza, Kismet, Wax Paper, etc.  Jason and Andre chat with him about all things bread! We learned tons about bread, and the best thing we ate all week, and even some stuff we hated.

This week on The Stew our special guest is Ari Taymor from the restaurant Alma. Jason and Andre chat with him about sourcing fish, weightlifting diets, aging chicken, smoking meats, cooking proteins gently to mimic sousvide, trying to succeed as a small business, farmers market oddities, sustainability, pastry techniques, one food item we can't live without, and the best thing we ate all week.

This week on The Stew: Jason and Andre dive even further into Whole Foods salad bar hacks, it's getting dark. A recent New York Times article on dieting being replaced by wellness, a new restaurant opening sparks a chat about drinking foods, and we take a wide assortment of great twitter questions!

This week Jason and Andre welcome chef Jon Yao from the LA restaurant “Kato” we chat about the evolution of his small shop to a very popular tasting menu. He was recently reviewed by Jonathan Gold, does weird stuff with foie gras, and is in the works for opening a new spot!

This week on The Stew Jason and Andre talk about a recent NY trip and what Jason ate, some chicken skin breakfast sandwich ideas, our favorite food scenes from a movie, is froyo over? and so much more!  

This week on The Stew: Jason is in New York so Andre is absent, I'm joined by Amanda and Kim from the Food Book Fair, a food book fair that happens annually in New York, they also have a food podcast of their own on the Heritage Radio Network called Recommended Reading. We talk about tampon delivery services, a Grub Street article about the possibly failing cookbook publishing model, some sensual things and various twitter questions from you guys!  

This week Jason & Andre sit down for a hot LA summer day to chat about potato chips, aqua fresca, chicken rice, the Roccbox pizza oven, Mexican coke, Equinox Gym, and so much more!

This week Jason, Andre, and Stewie are all on board for a spirited chat about how to make a better mozzarella stick, disappointing fruit modifications, secret ingredients for Korean potato salad, prime rib cooking methods, Persian Lasagna, and the best thing we ate all week.

This week on The Stew, Jason and Andre crack a couple cold ones and chat about eating baseball peanuts inside a moving car and the pleasures that brings, how bad the restaurant Lemonade is, LocoL closing in Oakland, Whole Foods selling out to Amazon.com and what may come from that, stolen magazines from 1985, pineapple juice meatloaf killers, and some  interesting recipes we've been working on.