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The Stew Podcast
The Stew is a weekly food podcast that's not always about food. Hosted by Jason Stewart, with Andre Canaparo & Chris Stewart
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.
This week on The Stew Jason and Andre spend a decent amount of time talking about how to get a dog to stop barking, then debate about confit egg yolks for awhile, we talk about stuff we’ve been cooking lately, and take some rapid fire twitter questions!
This week Greg and Darin from the podcast “Snacky Tunes” join Jason and Andre for a chat about their podcast and all the cool stuff they’ve done, we disagree about ramen, we talk about Guy Fieri for like 45 minutes, and get into some fun food debates and celebrations towards the end. Fun pod indeed!
This week on The Stew we’ve got a bit of a different episode. Jason went on location at the Food Book Fair in New York last weekend and conducted a series of mini quick style interviews loosely in the theme of a food related Proust style interview, the kind you may have seen in the back of a Vanity Fair Magazine. Jason chats with Julia Sherman, author of Salad for President, Kerry Diamond of Cherry Bombe Magazine, photographer and magical woman Andrea Gentl, former Food & Wine Magazine Editor and frequent Top Chef just Dana Cowin, Creatior of Mouthfeel Magazine Mac Malikowski, Liz Prueitt of the beloved Tartine Bakery, Aussie whole foods cookbook author Amy Chaplin, my friend and whiz kid barista Elliot Foos, and last but not least Ice Cream hunk Nick Morgenstern from Morgenstern’s Ice Cream.
This week’s episode came a little late because I got too busy! Sorry for that, this week Jason and Andre talk about the Food Book Fair in New York as if it were going to happen in the future but you will indeed hear this after it’s passed, sorry. I do a recap on the Chef’s Night Out video on Munchies which you can watch now online, I talk about the cookbook zine I did and is now available, an Eddie Huang dinner I went to last week, fava beans, Ethiopian food, and the best things we ate all week!
This week Jason and Andre chat about cinco de mayo foods, foraging mulberries and loquats, turmeric popcorn, we take lots of twitter questions such as what our favorite charcuterie meats and Jason realizes what it feels like to listen to people talk about food and crave it afterward, but for hearing himself talk about it, hard to explain, you’ll see.
This week on the Stew we record a quick show while getting ready for Stewie’s wedding! We chat about a recent kinda controversial Wolfgang Puck interview on the less good than us Eater Podcast, garbonzo bean juice, wedding stuff, sorry it’s late we’re still recovering!
This week on The Stew! Jason and Andre catch up after a week away, a bit delirious, we talk about Coachella foods, Jason’s highlights from filming a Chef’s Night Out for Vice Munchies, a pop up dinner for Evan Kleiman’s now closed Angelini Restaurant, and the best thing we ate all week!
This week Jason and Andre meet up with some wine and talk about Stewie’s bachelor party, some recent experiments in bone marrow as a fat for tortillas, expanding on the fattoush salad, and making a Filipino soup called “Arroz Caldo” out of ingredients that can only be found at Zankou Chicken, and finally we talk some listener questions from twitter and they’re all pretty good!
This week Jason and Andre do a one on one pod to talk about some food related departures. We open the show discussing Jason’s diet and fasting plans, and move straight into the recent shuttering of Lucky Peach Magazine, and why it may have happened. We dabble into some schmaltz related territory, some Tapatio pickling, and finish on the recent closing of LA’s Pok Pok restaurant, and why that may have happened! Sad but maybe interesting?
Nicole Rucker is a great baker! She’s very well known for her pie making, has worked with Gjelina before taking over at Cofax, and is opening a spot of her own this summer. Jason and Andre chat about her cookbook deal, her disdain for chowder, her defense of sprinkles, being mistaken for an uber driver, pie contests, dog vomit, a dusting of st patricks day chatter, the California missions, food trends she hopes to change, soup, and the best thing we ate all week.
This week’s guest is Gillian Ferguson! She produced the KCRW show / podcast “Good Food” for 5 years and now she’s doing all kinds of things like being published in Lucky Peach, New York Times, etc! Jason and Andre chat with her about her childhood food habits, dining and ditching, taking LSD on a greyhound bus, stumbling into a career of baking, Mexico City, and the best thing we ate all week.
This week Jason Stewart and Andre Canaparo talk about Subway's chicken DNA, divorced fathers buying twinkies, intermediate fasting, and why we may have already been doing it this whole time, figuring out if coffee enemas are horrible or not, sousvide chicken breasts, analyzing the way menus are written as a means of appealing to foodies convincing themselves their palates are advanced, and the best thing we ate all week!
This week Jason & Andre sit down with a nice glass of water and discuss microwaves being good for you or not, lunch bowls, the Alton Brown diet, Vegemite experiments, and so much more!
This week Jason and Andre do a Valentine’s Day meal re-cap, blow by blow of our super romantic meals, plus we take to twitter and answer your listener questions!
We have a bunch of new listeners to the podcast thanks to iTunes for featuring us so thanks to everyone tuning in for the first time. This week we welcome Aniz Ansari, brother of Aziz, neighbor of mine, and fellow food lover. Jason and Andre chat with him about growing up in the south, Indian food, BBQ, cold Korean soup, Cereal, and we close out with our favorite stoner snack instead of the best thing we at all week.
This week Jason and Andre chat about some recipe experiments they’ve been working on, and then break into SuperBowl food ideas, lots of dip talk, and some oddly satisfying food trends bubbling lately.
This week Jason & Andre welcome San Francisco based cheesemonger Samantha Klein on the show. We basically ask her a bunch of random questions about cheese for an hour and it gets a little weird. Hopefully you’ll learn something about cheese like we did!
This week Jason, Andre, and Chris go through a box full of food that a pod pal send us from a far away land, some good, some bad, some new food discoveries were made. We chat about the Locol review from Pete Wells, some other stuff, and the best thing we ate all week.
This week Jason and Andre welcome our special guest, and Andre’s mom, Jill! She’s a great woman who knows a lot about a lot of things, especially green teas, and Chinese philosophies of eating the right foods for a better, more enjoyable life. We chat with her for the first half, and get into some highlights of our eating over the holiday weekend, plus the best thing we ate all week!
It’s been a couple weeks since we’ve podded, Andre has been out of town working, Stewie has been working. We all catch up and talk about all our food adventures over the last few weeks, its a good pod I promise.
This week Jason and Andre go over what they made for thanksgiving this year, we talk some udon, we talk some new food experiments, we talk some traveling pizza, and so much more!
This week Jason and Andre open a bottle of some kind of Spanish wine that would pair well with an elk tartare and talk about vegetable french fries, sous vide ragu, what to do now that cottage cheese is trending, activating brown rice grains, maybe something about a broth, and the best thing we ate all week!
This week on The Stew we talk about elk burgers and soba noodles and take a bunch of listener questions, and you may have noticed our new artwork from the wonderful May Sinargool.
This week the boys get delirious and talk about turkey meatloaf, sick remedies, shout out to our friend jimi who is sending us game meats and then we talk about the jonathan gold 101 list and probably sound pretentious and lame!
This week the boys start off by talking about meal skipping on holiday, then move right into a live taste test of a free pumpkin spiced yogurt, some recaps of NY food, some experiments in the world of nacho cheese involving hard to pronounce words, and the best thing we ate all week!
This week we open with an unnecessary amount of iphone talk that has nothing to do with food, Andre got the Joule sous vide machine finally and we complain about it and praise it before even using it once, i make my case for the renaissance of creme fraiche, we talk canapé and bulgogi pork shoulder, and more!
This week Jason, Andre, and Chris chat about leg casts made out of pasta, national taco day stuff, eastside food festival recap, edibles, San Francisco foods, baseball foods, and lots of dumb stuff!
This week the boys welcome our friend Terence Teh. He’s co written cook books, done lots of very cool food things, contributed to Nowness, Dazed, the list goes on. We chat about a bunch of food stuff and he’s even got a British accent!
This week on The Stew the boys chat about tasting some Pappy Van Winkle 23 year old whiskey, having a hard time reading foreign wine labels, frozé, experimenting with reserved sous vide liquid and spitballing some strange ideas from it, cooking bacon in the plastic bag it came in, bison hot dogs, a throwback pesto story, and so much more!
This week the boys talk about what Jason ate in New York, bagels, Peter Luger, Whole Foods, cream cheese, steaks, Ojai, best baguettes, fried pickles and more!
This week is a Stew quickie, Jason and Andre only but we manage to sneak in some good stuff for such a short episode. what did we talk about? it’s anyones guess. It’s my birthday so go easy on me, will be back next week with a full ep!
this week the boys chat about korean food, some juice, restaurants closing, cuban sandwiches, ducks, and so much more!
This week Jason, Andre, and Chris talk about seeing Guns n Roses at Dodger stadium, throwback 80’s hair metal food, Oslo, Vino Verde, Sous Vide Brisket, what the most metal thing you can eat is, and so much more!
Hello after 3 months away for various reasons Jason, Andre, & Chris are back to sit around for an hour and talk about all things food. A recent trip to Mexican wine country, Toronto cuisine, Waffle House, opening a 46 year old bottle of wine, vegan burgers, and all kinds of fun stuff. Glad to be back!
This week we're back Jason, Andre & Chris chat about beef rolls, souplantation, lots of souplantation related ideas, best thing we ate, coffee, and other stuff !
This week the boys chat about soylent, caffeine, HGH, weight loss, staples we keep in our fridge every week, Szechuan chili oil, food photo tips, arroz caldo, instant ramen, and so much more.
This week Jason & Andre catch up for a chat before we eat chicken rice, we go through the hospitality rider for R&B sensation Mya whom I just produced a show for, it’s kind of boring but then we move on to autistic trivia(?) we eventually talk about food with some great twitter questions and even better questions my friend texted me, solid pod.
Jason and Andre welcome past pod pal Zach Brooks of the “Food is the new rock” podcast. We chat with him about trader joe’s, coachella food recaps, sushi nori trends, eddie huang’s new TV show premier, LA’s upcoming “Smorgasburg” food event, Jamaican food, a little bit of postmates chatter, and the best thing we ate all week!
This week Jason, Chris, and Andre do a little recap on on last weeks episode, looking back on eating dog treats, etc. coffee rubs, red eye gravy, we dig deeper into our past as vegans! how restricting your diet can help stimulate your creative process in the kitchen, tapatio, mystic pizza, meal prep tips for cooking your lunch for the week, and lots of other stuff its fun, thanks for listening and take a second to leave a rating and review on iTunes please :)
This week the boys have our friend and original Stew co-host Chris Chang on as a guest, we start the show off by convincing him to eat peanut butter from a can meant for dogs and it goes uphill from there, we talk about burgers, coffee, having a second fridge, fried chicken, the ideals of hunting for food, canned tuna, and we answer listener questions + the best thing we ate all week!
Adam Roberts is one of the first food bloggers ever, he started amateur gourmet over 10 years ago, has written cookbooks, hosted shows, traveled the world and cooked with many a chef, and now has transitioned to TV writing, currently working on the very funny “The Real O’Neals” on ABC. We chat with him about postmates, gay weddings, dunkin donuts, bagels, booths, cooking with a zillion chefs, and also he’s literally my neighbor.
This week the boys chat about my dog, breakfast burritos, suadero, pastrami burritos, free champagne, selling food at coachella, Amboy restaurant, all you can eat restaurants, king crabs, shaved catfish, eating on a fishing boat, the city of Irvine, Indian food dinner party suggestions, Ina Garten, and so much more!
This week our friend and reoccurring guest Adrianna Adarme aka A Cozy Kitchen joins the boys for a chat about waffle irons, fascination with american cheese, a lot of car talk for some reason, vitamix blenders, Adrianna’s favorite instagram to follow, cookbooks that are hard to follow, rare ovens, smoking vegetables, making boba at home, couple local restaurant reviews and the best thing we ate all week!
This week Jason & Andre catch up after our first pop up restaurant, go over the menu and the whole process, breakfast at Ikea, $25 shrimp cocktail, how the Pacific Dining Car stays open, Korean duck BBQ, wild happy hours in Koreatown, we answer twitter questions and recall our favorite bites we ate this week.
Andre and Chris are both VERY sick but Jason feels pretty great, we talk about some San Francisco food stories, chowder, making a jail salad, too thick pizzas, timing, listener questions, pop ups and the best thing we ate all week!
This week Jason and Andre have a big announcement! We’re doing a pop-up restaurant at the end of this month, so we go over what we’re doing there, take some listener questions, and talk about the best thing we ate all week!
Zack Pollack is the chef owner of the acclaimed Italian Restaurant "Alimento" here is Los Angeles. The boys have him over to chat about my dog, cuisine plateauing, Architecture, Italian foods, I try to get his chicken liver pate recipe but he won't give it to me at all, and so much more!
Jason and Andre chat with their pal Dan Oh in the absence of Chris about what to do with a lot of cheese, Superbowl Foods, nacho methods, ordering sushi on postmates, how to make Korean Soon Tofu Soup, BS Taqueria review, and the best thing we ate all week!
This week the boys chat about POS systems, new jobs, how shitty the food at Chateau Marmont is, Keurig beef broth, LocoL, and the best thing we ate all week!
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.
All the boys are back together and maybe drinking during this episode. We chat about pickle backs, judging restaurants, hot dogs, french fry debate, guy fieri, knife fight, hangover foods, micheladas, foods that should be left to the pros, and much more!
Sorry for the wait! I’ve been very busy working on a lot of other food related things that are coming soon, but we’re back on track with some new episodes. This was recorded last week on location in NYC where Jason sat down solo with Jeff & Eric Rosenthal from “It’s The Real” two super funny brothers born and raised in New York. They have a new podcast called “A Waste Of Time” where they invite rappers to their upper west side apartment and cook them dinner. I chat with them about all things new york food, bagels, fuku burgers, and so much more.
The boys sit down with Josh from The Oinkster, a great burger spot here in Los Angeles who do an annual burger week extravaganza, rolling out a new crazy burger special each day for a week, often selling well over a thousand burgers each day. We cover all their research and development for each burger, learn some new tips, and drink beers the whole time.
Noah Galuten is a chef and all around food guy working with LA restaurants Bludsoe’s, Cofax, Prime Pizza, Golden State, and more! He’s also a youtube food host, food writer, and a bunch more! The boys chat with him about his career path, how he learned to make proper texas BBQ, upcoming projects, recipe testing, and his food philosophies. Great episode and a great guy full of useful advice!
Even though it’s currently raining here in Los Angeles, Jason, Andre, and Chris discuss summertime grill season. Tips on BBQ etiquette, what equipment you need, and our favorite ways to grill veggies, fish, poultry, and red meat + lots of bad jokes and the usual stuff.
Dustin Lancaster is an LA based restauranteur, hotelier, thespian, and all around solid fella. We chat with him about his many successful restaurants and bars here in LA, what it took to get where he is, productivity tips, expensive wine, rare bison, oysters, and so much more.
Zach Brooks from the Food Is The New Rock podcast returns to chat with us about some New York hotspots, a longer than necessary shake shack vs in n out discussion, how having kids effects your restaurant experience, the Chef’s Table Netflix series, and so much more!
Lee Tilghman just moved from NY to LA recently, and has gained quite a following online for her healthy and beautiful creations. This weekend she’s doing a breakfast pop up at famed LA restaurant “Alma” serving smoothie bowls, granolas, and other little treats that I’m eating right now. We talk with her about how she got started, her favorite spots here in LA, learned some nutritional facts, in n out vs shake shack, working with Alma, and pop ups in general.
Andy Windak is a chef, fellow podcast host, producer of the Coconut Club pop-up, has appeared on Vice Munchies with TJ Miller, and a zillion other things. Andre and Jason chat with him about his career, what goes into producing a pop up restaurant, realistic expectation of trying to become a food personality, and a cool breakdown of some dishes and drinks from his infamous elevated Tiki themed menu.
Much like Coachella, baseball season started up this week, so we dig into updated stadium food, our baseball favorites, how to save money bringing your own food to games, smuggling beer, and we cover some non baseball topics like what guy fieri is up to, and a new kind of pour over coffee!
We sit down with Marcus Christiana-Beniger from famed Los Angeles based market and deli “The Little Jewel of New Orleans.” Since they’ve recently opened, Little Jewel has become one of our favorite spots for amazing po boy sandwiches, house-made sausages, and hundreds of regional market specialties, and kombucha! Marcus tells us what exactly makes a po boy, where and how he sources his ingredients, how the Chinatown neighborhood accepted them, and how we think he’s doing the lords work bringing all of this amazing food to LA for us.
Daddy Kev is an LA music veteran, founding member of the legendary event “Low End Theory” which has played home for the LA beat scene, and runs his own studio here called “Cosmic Zoo.” More importantly he’s a bit of a sushi fanatic, and we invited him on to chat about just that. We get into sushi do’s and don’ts for beginners, the journey of a proper omakase meal, hidden gems of Los Angeles Sushi, and a blow by blow of his full meal at Jiro Sushi in Japan. Great podcast for sushi beginners and experts alike!
Yeekai Lim is the man behind Cognoscenti Coffee here in Los Angeles. His shops can be found at Proof Bakery in Atwater Village, Culver City, Chinatown, and various other projects. We speak with him about how he started with coffee pop ups and moved on to full retail locations, and new ventures into bean roasting and beyond. We chat a bit about service and hospitality, yelp, tea, and how you can have the best cup of coffee in the world, but probably not other things.
Adrianna Adarme is known for the blog “A Cozy Kitchen” she’s written two cookbooks, has a corgi, and more importantly knows a good deal about pie. We’re one day late on the piecast but we still pack in tons of pie tips and tricks, get into the details of writing a cookbook, being confident in your palate, and learning more about wine.
Zach Brooks is the host of the podcast “Food is the New Rock” and our friend. We bring him on to talk about actual food podcasts! We also get into New Orleans food, Dumplings, Lucky Peach, his favorite episodes of his podcast, and so much more!
David Cho is a a really cool Korean guy who works at Grantland, does lots of cool things on the internet, has cool friends and loves food as much as we do. We chat with him about all things Korean food, specializing in Los Angeles’ own Koreatown.
Dave Martinez is the head chef of the beloved Los Angles restaurant Elf Cafe, focusing on Mediterranean and Middle Eastern cooking, usually vegetarian. We spoke with him about his journey to where he is today, his life changes, soylent, french techniques, paellas, wine, and so much more.
This week on The Stew, Jason, Chris, and Andre talk Valentines Day. Food ideas, tips, tricks, things to cook and more. We also get into some food news, and realize we need to learn more about sous-vide.
After a small hiatus, The Stew is back with some new co-hosts. Filling in for Chris will now be my longtime friend and cooking pal Andre Canaparo, and my twin brother and longtime professional restaurant man Chris Stewart. Our guest this week is Michael David from the band “Classixx.” The theme for this weeks episode is approaching cooking as an amateur, what equipment you need and don’t need, habits to get into, and so much more. Thanks for listening and look forward to new episodes every Saturday morning.
This week Chris and I chat about Foie Gras being legalized again in California, Jonathan Gold’s top 10 dishes of 2014, Flat Whites, Japanese Nabe Soup, and the usual horrible stuff!
2015 is here, so Jason and Chris list all the food trends of last year they hope will die a slow death, and predict whats gonna be hot this year in the food world. Also Jason just got a sous-vide machine for Christmas so we talk about that stuff for awhile. Happy New Year!
Josh Pressman is a cook here in LA at the famed restaurant Rustic Canyon. Chang and I chat with him about his career path, pop up restaurants, food on instagram, a look into some dishes he’s collaborated on at Rustic Canyon, we take some listener questions about dishes, foraging, preserving, and so much more!
Jason and Chris sit down with our friend Andre Canaparo, Jason’s old roommate and food friend. We steal the idea from Food is the new rock podcast that Jason was just on, and we do our own 2014 Holiday gift guide for all food related stuff!
Nathan Hazard is a fellow food podcaster, cocktail man, and part of the extremely popular Coconut Club pop up restaurant series. Chris and I chat with him about cocktails, pop ups, pupu platters, ice, eggs, Hawaii, and so much more!
Jason & Chris sit down this week to chat about Thanksgiving and Christmas foods, Pappy Van Winkle Whiskey, The Searzall, open kitchens, Korean short ribs, mayonnaise, and 5-10 bad jokes.
This week Chris and I chat with Nate Day, an old friend and cold pressed juice man. We cover juicing myths and benefits, how to change your diet and eating habits, MSG and food addiction, how exactly cold pressed juicing works, and how the process of opening his own location here in LA has been going.
The boys chat about wings, food habits, blue apron unboxing review, social media power, roadkill eating, korean war foods, halloween recipes, snickers bars, our favorite bite of food, the future of junk food, cheetos, road trips, and so much more!
This episode Chris and I chat about fondant potatoes, oily fish, Evan Kleiman, Grand Central Market, Jewish Delis, Acai Bowls, smoothies, cheese, ice cream, wetting the bed, beef and pickle tacos, New York favs, and so much more!
Kate Green is the assistant to Nancy Silverton, famed LA chef responsible for LA Brea Bakery, Mozza, Chi Spacca, etc. Chris Stewart is Jason's twin brother who also works in the restaurant world, currently the general manager for Good Girl Dinette in Los Angeles. Chris Chang is out of town this week so Jason talks to them about food name misconceptions, Cafe Gratitude, morning rituals, hospitality, the art of tipping, our childhood with food, and so much more!
Adrianna Adarme is a well known food writer responsible for the blog "A Cozy Kitchen," she's currently writing her first book, owns a corgi, and is an old friend of mine! Chris and I chat with her about her Peruvian roots, cheez-its, eating Guinea pigs, her cook book, navigating a new food podcast, lame yelpers, the word "ethnic," the prim and proper world of food media, The Mind of A Chef, Nigella Lawson, Jennifer Lawrence's Feet, and Anthony Bourdain!
Zach Brooks hosts the popular podcast "Food is the New Rock," he was nice enough to stop by and chat with Chang and I about the origins of his food journey with Midtown Lunch and his podcast, food critics, gravy, the struggles of being fat and loving food, LA thai food debates, best burger in LA, 7 minutes on butter lettuce, bay cities deli, banh mi, tapenade, peanut butter, spilling on your clothes, and more!
On our first episode of The Stew, Jason Stewart and Chris Chang chat with electronic producer and coffee connoisseur Daedelus about food celebrities, artisanal jello shots, what Korean Grandmas eat, smuggling drugs in airport foods, craft services, learning a proper pour over coffee, whats on his rider, Cafe Gratitude, and so much more! I promise it will get better.