This week on Cooking Issues, Nastassia is on the road again, but Dave is joined in the studio by "everybody's favorite punching bag" Peter Kim! Tune in to hear about the finest in American cuisine (Applebee's, Golden Corral, etc.), Dave's recent trip to China, blue cheese on meat, the uselessness of egg white omelettes, Dave's hatred of the beach, waterbeds, BPA, Twinkies, and more!

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On an all new Cooking Issues, Dave and Nastassia are joined in the studio by Chef Richard Blais, a restaurateur, cookbook author, television personality, and winner of Bravo's Top Chef All-Stars. Chef Blais has also written a new cookbook, So Good: 100 Recipes from My Kitchen to Yours, which is out today! Tune in to hear them discuss ukuleles, bagpipes, Braveheart, the Ninja Turtles, how one procures frog legs in New York's Chinatown, miso, when to salt your eggs, anchovies, beets, searing duck breast, and more!

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This week on Cooking Issues, Dave and Nastassia are joined in the studio by Olympia Provisions Chef/Owner/Salumist Elias Cairo, a first generation Greek-American who grew up learning the craft of charcuterie from his father, who cured the family's meat at home.

After five years in Switzerland under master chef Annegret Schlumpf, Cairo completed a chef apprenticeship in Greece. Using the finest ingredients, he developed his skills and passion for making charcuterie, and the experience affirmed his beliefs – handmade is better. Upon returning to the United States, Elias headed to Portland, Oregon, where he has recreated a nearly extinct old world technique that’s seldom seen in America.

At Olympia Provisions, Elias set out to approach the craft of charcuterie with purity and patience. The result is Oregon’s first USDA-approved salumeria, established in 2009, but deeply rooted in the past. The Olympia Provisions team butchers antibiotic-free Pacific Northwest pork, holding its cured meats in natural casings.

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On an all-new episode of Cooking Issues, we tackle Nastassia’s unconventional way of eating Milano cookies, airline brawls, the untimely demise of Simon the giant bunny, the lost art of de-boning shad, salsa, ice, slushy machines, home carbonation, what happens to eggs when they age, and more!

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This week on Cooking Issues, sitting in for Nastassia is evil cocktail overlord Don Lee. He and Dave talk revisionism in the Star Wars universe and The Bible, owning a combi oven but not an immersion circulator, the status of Cooking Issues as a “family show,” installing your own water filter, Jacques Pépin and crispy clam strips, plastic safety, cultural appropriation, peeling walnuts, and more!

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This week on Cooking Issues, Dave and Nastassia are joined by Arielle Johnson of the MIT Media Lab, and food media impresario Peter Meehan to talk Lucky Peach's impending lethal injection, Dave’s forays into bagpipery, Pink Floyd’s The Wall, foam, sous vide bag juices, garlic knots, Arnold Schwarzenegger and the film Commando, SodaStreams, and more!

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It's a banner day here on Cooking Issues, with Dave and Nastassia joined in the studio by the famous Peter Kim, and koji experts Rich Shih and J.W. Rogers III. Plus, toast, daiquiris, Glengarry Glen Ross, alkaline noodles, and more!

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Full house this week on Cooking Issues, as Dave and Nastassia are joined by "the person everyone loves to hate" Peter Kim of MOFAD, Nick Wong, Chef de Cuisine at Momofuku Ssäm Bar, and Chris Young of ChefSteps. Tune in to hear them discuss Lebanese food, Amazon Alexa, immersion circulators, how self-loathing makes good cooks, and more!

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This week on Cooking Issues, Dave and Nastassia answer several call-in questions about aluminum cookware, storing chicken pot pies, cocktails, baking soda, ice cream, and more!

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This week on Cooking Issues, Dave and Nastassia answer questions about homemade ramen noodles, pre-searing meat, fish sauce, slushy machines, immersion circulators, pizza ovens, and more!

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