Easy Cook Bear

Gary Jaffe is a Brooklyn-based writer, filmmaker, and persimmon lover. He recently participated as a fellow in the 2020 Outfest Screenwriting Lab, a screenwriting contest and mentoring program to advance the visibility of LGBTQIA+ storytelling. He earned his BA in Theater Studies from Yale University.

Easy Cook Bear is a food and culture show about how we cook, connect, and create. Host Lee-Sean Huang and guests share stories, swap recipes, and explore the creative processes of people who make art, culture, food, music, and more.

Links to people/things referenced in the episode:

Japanese Dried Persimmon https://amzn.to/2KH1SiK 

Shishito Pepper https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shishito 

Sectumsempra curse from Harry Potter https://harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/Sectumsempra#:~:text=Sectumsempra%20was%20a%20curse%20invented,became%20one%20of%20his%20specialities 

Persimmon Video by Li Ziqi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKIXHn3kDL0 

Richard Linklater https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Linklater 

Kairos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kairos 

Ichi-go ichi-e https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ichi-go_ichi-e 

Eminem, Lose Yourself https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Yhyp-_hX2s 

Yugen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_aesthetics#Y%C5%ABgen 

Nesby Phips https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nesby_Phips

Torimono http://eos.kokugakuin.ac.jp/modules/xwords/entry.php?entryID=1024 

Yasujiro Ozu https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasujir%C5%8D_Ozu

Kakiage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakiage 

Jiro Dreams of Sushi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiro_Dreams_of_Sushi 

The Long Christmas Ride Home https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Long_Christmas_Ride_Home 

Joe Hisaishi https://open.spotify.com/artist/7nzSoJISlVJsn7O0yTeMOB 

Uchiko https://uchikoaustin.com/ 

Omakase https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omakase 

Betsubara https://jpninfo.com/50578

Ursula K. Le Guin https://amzn.to/2KRghJ9

Gary on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/garysjaffe/

Gary's IMDB profile and list of films: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm8464073/

Artist and activist Jen Shoemaker started Krewe de Fromage, a cheese and charcuterie board and box delivery service in New York City, after she lost her union bartending job at a hotel due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Jen shares her story of growing up in New Orleans with Midwestern and Jamaican parents, leaving New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, and trying to find her way in New York. In her journey, she made it to the top 10 in one of Chrissy Teigen's food art contests and also appeared on CNN to advocate for hospitality workers who have lost their jobs in the pandemic.  

Easy Cook Bear is a food and culture show about how we cook, connect, and create. Host Lee-Sean Huang and guests share stories, swap recipes, and explore the creative processes of people who make art, culture, food, music, and more.

Links to people and things mentioned in the episode:

Krewe de Fromage: https://www.instagram.com/krewedefromage/

Theodore Roosevelt quote: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/theodore_roosevelt_100965

The Roosevelt Hotel in New York Closes: https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/roosevelt-hotel-new-york-closing-trnd/index.html

Transcript of Jen’s interview with Poppy Harlow on CNN: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2003/20/cnr.02.html

Tony Chachere’s Red Beans and Rice: https://www.tonychachere.com/Red-Beans-and-Rice-P197.aspx

Basin Street Records: https://www.basinstreetrecords.com/

What Happened by Hillary Rodham Clinton: https://amzn.to/3mGueXj

Kate Ray (@kraykray) is a plant-based cook and former computer programmer based in Brooklyn. In this episode of Easy Cook Bear, Kate shares her story of how she got into the New York tech scene after college, and why she left to go to culinary school. She also shares her tips for making oatmeal and granola, and gives a gift suggestion for spicing up the holidays. 

Easy Cook Bear is a food and culture show about how we cook, connect, and create. Host Lee-Sean Huang and guests share stories, swap recipes, and explore the creative processes of people who make art, culture, food, music, and more.

Links to people and things referenced in the episode:

Kate Ray on Twitter: https://twitter.com/kraykray

Kate Ray on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kraykray/

Exposé on Cloud Kitchens: https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/28/a-rare-glimpse-into-the-sweeping-and-potentially-troubling-cloud-kitchens-trend/

Archestratus Books + Foods: https://archestrat.us/

More about Lee-Sean futurecasting practice: https://foossa.com/future

Kate’s Holiday Gift Guide: https://tinyletter.com/kateray/letters/excellent-holiday-gift-guide

Fly By Jing: https://flybyjing.com/

Sze Daddy Chili Sauce: https://www.eighteightsix.com/shop/szedaddy-chili-sauce

Lao Gan Ma: https://amzn.to/3mqwtO5

Kate’s Lao Gan Ma Zine: http://lgm.kateray.net/

Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking: https://amzn.to/38akoHQ

Dylan Uscher is a UX designer based in Boston, who previously ran a fashion business. He's also a baker, stand-up comedian, and cancer survivor. Dylan opened up about how he turned his passions into a decade-long career, which he ultimately left to pursue a new career in UX design. Besides cooking, baking, and career transition stuff, Dylan also shared his trick for chocolate chip cookies and opened up about his love for Maangchi, Margaret Cho, and Helena Bonham Carter.

Easy Cook Bear is a food and culture show about how we cook, connect, and create. Host Lee-Sean Huang and guests share stories, swap recipes, and explore the creative processes of people who make art, culture, food, music, and more. 

Links to people and things referenced in the episode:

Cooking Korean Food with Maangchi: https://www.maangchi.com/

Croquembouche: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croquembouche

The Great American Baking Show: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_American_Baking_Show

Meet Carmen Keels, Music Teacher and Home Baker Extraordinaire in West Harlem: https://www.thekitchn.com/the-way-we-eat-music-teacher-carmen-keels-22987497

Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies: https://www.foodandwine.com/recipes/brown-butter-chocolate-chip-cookies

The Crown: https://www.netflix.com/title/80025678

Dylan's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dylanjuscher/

Jaime Sunwoo wrote a play about SPAM. Yes, the canned meat product that brings out all kinds of conflicted, polarizing reactions in people. Specially Processed American Me, Jaime's play, helped open up conversations about her own family's escape from North Korea during the Korea War. Jaime also talks to Lee-Sean abut her new audio piece about Q-Anon, shares her simple family recipe for spicy soy chicken, and more.  

Easy Cook Bear is a food and culture show about how we cook, connect, and create. Host Lee-Sean Huang and guests share stories, swap recipes, and explore the creative processes of people who make art, culture, food, music, and more.

Jaime Sunwoo is a Korean American multidisciplinary artist from Brooklyn, New York. She creates multimedia performances in galleries, theaters, and public spaces. Her works connect personal narratives to global histories through surreal storytelling. She studied art at Yale University, and is an alumni of The Laundromat Project for socially engaged art. She is currently a Ping Chong & Company Creative Fellow.

Links to people and things referenced in the episode:

Jaime Sunwoo: https://jaimesunwoo.com/

You Are The News Now by Jaime Sunwoo and Matt Chilton: http://www.pingchong.org/nocturnein2020/infamy-artists-js.html

Specially Processed American Me: http://speciallyprocessed.com/

Richard Morgan chats with host Lee-Sean Huang about growing up in a British Palestinian immigrant family in Washington DC, the opportunities and challenges of our current cosmopolitan food moment, recovering from COVID-19, how he approaches food writing, and more. 

Richard Morgan is the author of the memoir Born in Bedlam and a freelance writer whose work has been published by The New Yorker, The New York Times, New York magazine, AFAR, The Awl, BBC, Bloomberg Businessweek, Bon Appétit, CNN, Condé Nast Traveler, The Economist, ESPN The Magazine, Esquire, Fortune, GQ, Los Angeles magazine, National Geographic, NBC, NPR, Playboy, Rolling Stone, Smithsonian, Slate, Travel + Leisure, Vice, Vogue, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Wired, and others. His assignments have sent him to a research station in the Arctic, wool farms in Australia, gay bars in Cuba, pizza contests in Italy, the refugee camps of Palestine, a rainforest treehouse in Peru, the foodie capital of South Korea, the oldest magic shop in Spain, foraging forests in Sweden, olive oil wrestling matches in Turkey, the Royal Family’s hatters, and Brooklyn. As much as he can, he lives in New York.

Easy Cook Bear is a food and culture show about how we cook, connect, and create. We share stories, swap recipes, and explore the creative processes of people who make art, culture, food, music, and more.

Links to things referenced in this episode:

Gather Journal: https://gatherjournal.com/

Why are we so bad at imagining the food of the future? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-are-we-so-bad-at-imagining-the-food-of-the-future/2015/04/17/deb2d296-e3ef-11e4-b510-962fcfabc310_story.html

Tomato Ramen Is the Noodle Innovation We Need Now: https://www.grubstreet.com/2019/08/where-to-find-tomato-ramen-in-nyc.html

David Chang's Domino's Pizza Order: https://www.foodandwine.com/news/david-chang-stephen-colbert-favorite-dominos-pizza

Inside New York City’s Chinese restaurant crisis: https://fortune.com/longform/lunar-new-year-nyc-chinese-restaurants/

In This Dinner Series, Chinese Food Is at Home Worldwide: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/18/dining/chinese-food-lucas-sin-junzi-kitchen.html  

New York City’s First Cheesecake Factory Is the Slice of Suburban Bliss We’ve Been Missing: https://www.grubstreet.com/2016/10/new-york-citys-first-cheesecake-factory-is-open-in-queens.html 

Lee-Sean interviews Antonius Wiriadjaja, an artist and educator who cooks meals and turns them into face masks for his Instagram project @foodmasku. Antonius was born in Jakarta, raised in Boston, and is currently based in New York City. 

Easy Cook Bear is a food and culture show about how we cook, connect, and create. We share stories, swap recipes, and explore the creative processes of people who make art, culture, food, music, and more. 

Links to people and things referenced in the episode:

FoodMasku: https://www.instagram.com/foodmasku/

NY Times "5 Art Accounts to Follow on Instagram Now": https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/16/arts/design/instagram-art-accounts.html 

Antonius's personal website: https://resume.antoni.us/

ITP (Interactive Telecommunications Program) at NYU: https://tisch.nyu.edu/itp

How I Survived a Gunshot to the Gut: https://gunsurvivor.antoni.us/

Merche Blasco: https://www.newmusicusa.org/profile/mercheblasco/

Gabriel Barcia-Colombo: https://www.gabebc.com/ 

Krewe de Fromage: https://www.instagram.com/krewedefromage/

Julie & Julia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie_%26_Julia 

Baldor Food: https://www.baldorfood.com/

Seamore's: https://www.seamores.com/