Cooking Issues

On todays episode of Cooking Issues, Dave and Nastassia talk lobster butter, the mechanics of making sorbet, and how to go about cooking your own amputated leg.

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It’s Take Your Child to Work Life again this week, with Booker Arnold joining Dave and Nastassia in the studio. They’re’ talking industrial chicken farming, the specs for the gone-but-not-forgotten Thundernut cocktail from Booker & Dax, corny kegs, and more!

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This week, Dave and Nastassia are joined by habitual line stepper Peter Kim. Tune in to hear about Nastassia’s distaste for social interactions, the MOFAD annual gala, carbonating cocktails inside a bottle, Jim Lahey’s bizarre method of scrambling eggs, the proper kind of turkey for club sandwiches, and more!

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This week, evil cocktail overlord of the universe Don Lee joins Dave and Nastassia to talk music licensing in NYC establishments, the rules of the road, chicken adhesion, rock and roll movies, cabbage, and more!

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This week, the BDX crew is in the house (plus Nastassia "The Hammer" Lopez, and Dave in the booth)!!! They're talking cocktail specs, Dave's soon-to-open new bar Existing Conditions, and more!

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Nastassia is absent this week, but we're joined by masterbaker Jim Lahey of Sullivan Street Bakery, and first-time father Peter Kim! We're talking bread, bicycles, jerk chicken, being called a jerk by your kids, and more!

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This week, we’re joined by James Briscione, author of The Flavor Matrix, to talk fear of flying, Watson, zucchini, flavor pairings, and all things taste!

James's new restaurant, Angelena’s, will be opening in Pensacola, Florida this fall.

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This week, we’re talking about Dave’s first trip to Charleston, his new sous vide book, the ethics of not paying your last month’s rent, cooking at high temperatures without setting off the smoke alarm, using fermented orange juice in cocktails, clam broth, restricted diets for diagnosing food allergies, pressure-cooking sauces, and more!

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Sother Teague of the venerable Manhattan bitters bar Amor Y Amargo joins us in the studio today to talk all things bitters, cocktails, the changing of the Zucca recipe, and more!

Meanwhile, Booker is working his first shift at Pasta Flyer without Nastassia. Tune in next week for updates.

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This week we're talking NYC subway nightmares, Booker's second training session at Pasta Flyer, making cheese out of ashwagandha, pizza, whether or not you can make a fruit katsuobushi for use in cocktails, building your own outdoor rotisserie, why mayonnaise is so delicious, and more!

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