Spoon Mob

Ray's on vacation this week so there's no new Parts Now Known episode. Instead Ray recorded a podcast highlighting some bad restaurant experience's he's had over the past couple years at places like Benu, The Inn at Little Washington, Milk Bar, and Blue Duck Tavern to name a few. Sometime's you gotta have bad dinners so you can appreciate the good ones that much more. For all things Spoon Mob, visit spoonmob.com and make sure to follow us on Instagram (@spoonmob), Twitter (@spoonmob1), and Facebook (@spoonmob1).

On this week's restaurant review, Ray talks about the best new restaurant in Columbus, Chapman's Eat Market. Ray talks about chef owner BJ Lieberman's culinary career, how the name of the restaurant came about, it's predecessors at the German Village space, his first dine in experience, and breaks down some of the dishes from the first menu. For more on chef BJ Lieberman and Chapman's Eat Market, visit spoonmob.com/bjlieberman. For all things Spoon Mob, visit spoonmob.com and make sure to follow us on Instagram (@spoonmob), Twitter (@spoonmob1), and Facebook (@spoonmob1).

This week on Parts Now Known's most explicit and only NC-17 rated episode thus far, Ray and Ben spend the first 10 minutes talking about the Presidential Election and give their predictions before getting into the Tokyo episode. They talk about the Techno Light Rave Burlesque scene, Tentacle Porn, Sushi, Dominatrix, and the life of the Salary Man before going over the episode categories and updating the episode rankings. For all things Spoon Mob, visit spoonmob.com and make sure to follow us on Instagram (@spoonmob), Twitter (@spoonmob1), and Facebook (@spoonmob1).

On this week's restaurant review, Ray talks about possibly his favorite restaurant of all time, Pidgin in Vancouver Canada. Ray talks about the trip to Canada after Hawaii, the difficulty of researching restaurants in Vancouver prior to the trip, the disastrous meal at Burdock & Co, defines what a Bang Bang is, and breaks down the couple dishes he had along with the rollercoaster opening for the restaurant some years ago, previous executive chef's Makoto Ono and Shin Suzuki, current executive chef Wesley Young, and owner Brandon Grossutti. For more on chef Wesley Young and Pidgin, visit spoonmob.com/wesleyyoung. For all things Spoon Mob, visit spoonmob.com and make sure to follow us on Instagram (@spoonmob), Twitter (@spoonmob1), and Facebook (@spoonmob1).

On this week's episode of the Parts Now Known podcast, Ray and Ben talk history class in the U.S. skipping over Africa, military tactics, Band of Brothers, movie theaters, where Turkey ranks among the edible birds, Apartheid, if race relations in 2014 Johannesburg are better than in a 2020 U.S., hunting Eland, if the U.S. only had 1 sport to care about like the rest of the world has soccer, food cutaways, open air markets, hit the categories and update their best episode rankings. For all things Spoon Mob, visit spoonmob.com and make sure to follow us on Instagram (@spoonmob), Twitter (@spoonmob1), and Facebook (@spoonmob1).

On this week's restaurant review, Ray talks about Sullivan Street Bakery and it's owner/chef Jim Lahey. Ray runs through Lahey's career, highlighting his devious business acumen, no knead bread recipe, and business expansion. For more on chef Jim Lahey and Sullivan Street Bakery, visit spoonmob.com/jimlahey. For all things Spoon Mob, visit spoonmob.com and make sure to follow us on Instagram (@spoonmob), Twitter (@spoonmob1), and Facebook (@spoonmob1).

This week, Ben drives the boat to the island of Sicily where the guys talk about The Godfather movies, diving for frozen octopus, Bourdain getting blackout drunk on his birthday, authentic Sicilian cuisine, extortion, eating horse, big cats, killing pigs, "blood sausage", tripe, coronavirus in the moment, The Vow, and Italy versus Sicily before going through the categories and updating the episode rankings. For all things Spoon Mob, visit spoonmob.com and make sure to follow us on Instagram (@spoonmob), Twitter (@spoonmob1), and Facebook (@spoonmob1).

On a special edition of the podcast, Ray rants about the James Beard Foundation Awards scandal that recently came to light. For all things Spoon Mob, visit spoonmob.com and make sure to follow us on Instagram (@spoonmob), Twitter (@spoonmob1), and Facebook (@spoonmob1).

On this week's restaurant review, Ray talks about the Scandinavian/Swedish restaurant Aquavit in New York City, touching on chef Emma Bengtsson's career thus far, the founding of Aquavit back in the mid 1980's, and the importance of woman fine dining chefs within the culinary industry at large. For more on chef Emma Bengtsson and Aquavit, visit spoonmob.com/emmabengtsson. For all things Spoon Mob, visit spoonmob.com and make sure to follow us on Instagram (@spoonmob), Twitter (@spoonmob1), and Facebook (@spoonmob1).

We were planning on recapping the first half of season 2 but then got sidetracked on a whole host of topics that include Ben's disastrous experience at Rye River Social, Ray's experience at Cleaver, the Condado/Barrio Taco dilemma, the presidential debate, Trump having covid, extreme left vs extreme right, and the new HBO docuseries "The Vow". For all things Spoon Mob, visit spoonmob.com and make sure to follow us on Instagram (@spoonmob), Twitter (@spoonmob1), and Facebook (@spoonmob1).