This Episode is a cross-over episode of our soon-to-be-released Youtube series "Between Two Chitarras" and The Northwest Method Express. In this episode, Eric, Tarek, and Jonathan discuss the challenges that cooks face every day. It's a bit of a chicken and egg thing. Do you need great technique BEFORE you try to be creative? Or do you need creativity to motivate you to learn something new? (Hint: it's a little of both). 

Apologies: Because this was our first time filming AND our first time crossing over episodes, there are some rough patches in spots. As well, the Intro and Outro do not necessarily match what you might see on Youtube. Live and learn!

In this episode Tony and Jonathan talk about how working on a reboot of the online Fundamentals 101 has really stoked Tony's teaching in the classroom. 

In this episode, Eric and Jonathan talk about how using social media can help you track your progress in the kitchen, and showcase your experiences to the world. We talk about a couple of things in the podcast, so we've included some links below. 

The NWCAV Instagram: @nwcav_chefs

The NWCAV Youtube channel

**Warning - this is a long one!!**

In this episode Tony and Jonathan talk about how it's not necessarily recipes that are the bain of a home cook's existence, it's how they are read and understood. As well, they reflect on the cookbooks and food magazines of the past, and how they have, often inconsistently, been replaced by the Internet. 

After two incredible weeks with the AM and PM Bootcampers, Eric and Jonathan sum up the great experiences and the lessons learned. 

In this episode, Tony and Jonathan reflect on the first week of TWO two-week bootcamps that are going on at the school right now. It has been such a wonderful experience to have more than 40 people from all over the world enter our kitchen. They are such voracious learners. 

In this episode, Jonathan and Eric talk about the coffee course that Eric is developing for The Northwest Method, and use it as a springboard to chat about a number of topics, including: keeping cooking as a hobby even when its a career, using failure as a motivation to try new things, and how using basic understandings of technique and science to do deep dives into specialty topics in food. 

This episode is a little unique. Tony, Jonathan, and another "Method Actor", Alana talk about alliums (onions and garlic). This episode is excerpted from a series of podcasts we'll be doing for each practice in version 2.0 of Fundamentals 101. 

In this episode, Jonathan and Eric pick four questions from the /Cooking Subreddit to answer:

After listening to Episode #32, Eric couldn't wait to chime in with his thoughts on the gumption trap.