Brett, Lida, and Amie are self-proclaimed, marginally qualified, and totally passionate Southern California food experts. In each episode they take a stab (with their proverbial forks) at dissecting the restaurant, cooking, and cultural trends of Orange County and beyond. The OC Eatly Podcast celebrates the diverse and interwoven relationship of food and people from communities North of Anaheim, towns nestled on the Pacific, and cities as master-planned as Irvine.
It’s all about the good eats!Lalida is out this week doing the wedding thing so we recruited Katherina, a co-host of our sister podcast “Meet Us in Paris”. Brett is still…
Laida’s getting married THREE times next week. Calm down, it’s to the same guy. There’s three ceremonies, because they wanted to celebrate her family’s and her husband’s culture of Chinese,…
We’re back from the holiday break. This week we branch out from Orange County and bring you our food adventures from So-Cal. Our food travels bring us to Glendale for…
Every time we go to a potluck, we get this voice in our head. The voice has an uncanny resemblance to Jerry Seinfeld. The voice says as you can guess…
Previously recorded in October. It’s Halloween and trick-or-treat has come and gone. It got us thinking about, “where the stuff came from”. Lucky we have a Brett and he’s done…
Hey all, the holidays wiped us out and we weren’t able to record during the break. Never fear though, we have an episode that we recorded previously in October that…
Food truck culture questionably was started here in Southern California. Its where high cuisine meets blue collar food. This week Brett gives us the “dirty” on food trucks history in…
Buffets, the meal for when you don’t know where to go and you’re hungry. In this weeks podcast, find out our favorite places to go in Orange County, Ca, our…
We mix things up a little this week. First of all, our producer Zen steps in for Amie to discuss America’s sweetheart protein, “Chicken”. Brett then tells us how a beer…
The old Chevy commercial may say that “Hot Dogs” are the perennial American food, but we disagree. We know it’s the hamburger. And to mix things up further, while most…
Prerecorded in September of this year, we discuss “LA’s Best Vegan Tacos Party”, the interesting way you order at Café Gratitude, the awesomeness of designer Boba at “OMOMO Tea” and…
What do you do on Thanksgiving? Show up? Host? Go to Vegas? We’re just a few days away from turkey apocalypse and we compare our very different family traditions. Afterwards…
How early is too early to celebrate a season? This week we discuss fall pumpkin-spiced food (and toiletries?!?!) that seem to be launched earlier and earlier in the year. Afterwards we…
Today we discuss: what is healthy food? What we once considered a healthy diet a few years ago would get you laughed out of a health food store today. Will…
Today we discuss our Orange County California food adventures of the week, which include: Columbiana in San Clemente, the Long Beach BBQ Fest, Ammatoli in Long Beach, Olives Branch in…