The Stew

The Stew episodes:

• 08.15.2018

  Chef Miles Thompson

  This week on The Stew we came back! It's been too long, I know, but we hope to bring you some more new pods soon. This week we welcome chef Miles Thompson, hes still a young man, but he's been...

  
• 06.24.2018

  Andre's Mom Part 2

  This week on The Stew we welcome back Andre's mom Jill! She is a wonderful person full of weird knowledge and ideas about food, the last time she was on, it was a fan fav. We talk about our drinking...

  
• 06.18.2018

  Jonah from Freedman's

  This week on the stew we welcome Jonah from the very popular LA restaurant Freedman’s. He came from Toronto to open up late last year, has been reviewed by the god J Gold. We hear about the entire process of...

  
• 06.14.2018

  Remembering Bourdain with Royce Burke

  This week on The Stew we welcome back our friend and LA chef Royce Burke. We chat about a few food things we've been working on, but unfortunately recorded this episode the day we all heard the news about Anthony,...

  
• 05.26.2018

  The Sweetgreen Pod with Nate Ru

  This week on The Stew we welcome Nate Ru, one of Sweetgreen's founders and bossmans. Sweetgreen is a giant restaurant chain with 88 locations all over America that sells salads to hot people. Jason and Andre chat with him about...

  
• 05.19.2018

  Jon & Vinny's with Courtney Storer

  This week on The Stew we welcome Courtney Storer, Chef at one of LA’s most popular restaurants Jon & Vinny’s. Known as a celeb hotspot serving irresistible home style Italian pizzas and pastas, Jason & Andre are lucky to have...

  
• 05.12.2018

  80 Years of Lawry's with Ryan Wilson

  This week on The Stew we welcome Ryan Wilson, the damn executive chef of Lawry’s! He’s the third generation of the Lawry’s fam, they’re celebrating their 80th anniversary this year and he came on to tell us all the prime...

  
• 05.05.2018

  Food Poisoning, J Gold, Sloppy Joes

  This week on The Stew we're back after taking a week off (sorry) we get into the J Gold review of Majordomo, we're both kind of sick and not feeling very well, we answer a lot of listener questions and...

  
• 04.21.2018

  Le Bernardin's Thomas Raquel

  Thomas Raquel is the pastry chef at Le Bernardin, Eric Ripert’s 3 Michelin star restaurant in New York. Jason and Andre get some stories about growing up and getting into cooking, what it’s like working in a restaurant of that...

  
• 04.14.2018

  Sweetgreen, SGV, Listener Questions

  This week on The Stew! we discuss a recent deep fry party, Jason shares an intimate moment at Sweetgreen, and a trip to the San Gabriel Valley for interesting finds at the Asian Market, plus we take a crack at...

  
• 04.09.2018

  Wine Talk with Jon Bonné

  This week on The Stew is all about wine! well mostly. Jon Bonné joins us to talk about his new book “The New Wine Rules,” a short and sweet guide that tells you everything you need to know about getting...

  
• 03.31.2018

  The New Yorker's Hannah Goldfield

  This week on The Stew we welcome Hannah Goldfield, food writer and critic for The New Yorker! Jason and Andre are proud to have guests who are accomplished and impressive now. We chat about how one acquires a job writing...

  
• 03.24.2018

  What's Gaby Cooking?

  This week on the stew we welcome a very big food blogger and cookbook author Gaby Dalkin! She is homies with Alton Brown, sponsored by Cape Cod Chips, and runs her food blog operation like a well oiled machine. Jason...

  
• 03.17.2018

  Angela Dimayuga

  This week we have Angela Dimayuga, one of my favorite chefs in America right now, known for her work with Danny Bowien at Mission Chinese, now on her own journey. We learn all about how she got into her life...

  
• 03.10.2018

  Netflix, Disneyland, Kismet with Snacky Tunes

  This week on The Stew we welcome back Darin Bresnitz, one half of the Snacky Tunes podcast, a food podcast that has been going on for 10 years??? thats crazy. Darin is obviously good at talking about food and is...

  
• 03.03.2018

  Hot Chicken Cyberbullying with Farley Elliott

  This week on The Stew we welcome back Farley Elliot, senior editor at Eater LA. The boys chat about an angry hot chicken shack owner threatening people on Yelp, what it means to be a regular at a restaurant, an...

  
• 02.24.2018

  Bagel Talk with Ari Skye

  This week on The Stew we welcome Ari Skye, from Courage Bagels. Over the last year she’s been making bagels and selling them and blowing up! Jason and Andre chat with her about the whole thing, take fun questions from...

  
• 02.17.2018

  Healthyish with Lindsay Maitland Hunt

  This week on the pod we welcome Lindsay Maitland Hunt, author of the new and very popular cookbook “Healthyish.” Jason & Andre chat with her about what we can all do to make what we eat healthier, tips on recipes,...

  
• 02.10.2018

  Food Writer Garret Snyder

  Garret Snyder is a writer here in Los Angeles, Food Editor of Los Angeles Magazine, and co-author of the Night + Market Song cookbook. Jason & Andre chat with him about his process of writing, eating at Majordomo, his past...

  
• 02.03.2018

  Tinned Fish & Tapas Talk with Karl Hess

  This weeks Episode of The Stew features Karl Hess,  a stand up comedian who actually knows a lot about food, and cohosts the other food pod “Yelling About Pate.” Jason and Andre chat with him about wine tastings, LA’s lack...

  
• 01.27.2018

  Majordōmo & J Gold debates with Jordan Okun

  This week on The Stew we welcome Jordan Okun, a food writer based here in Los Angeles who is not only a talented eater, but a Stew fan, so he’s able to slide right in with Jason and Andre’s pod...

  
• 01.20.2018

  Emily & Heather from Botanica

  This week on The Stew Jason & Andre welcome Emily & Heather from the new and wildly popular LA restaurant “Botanica.” Known for fresh, healthy, thoughtful, and very attractive food on the eastside of town. We chat about their process...

  
• 01.13.2018

  Chef Hunter Pritchett

  This week on The Stew we welcome Chef Hunter Pritchett, from the newly opened “Melody” restaurant in Los Angeles, specializing in self proclaimed lazy french cooking. Theres nothing lazy about what goes into his dishes though, Jason and Andre break...

  
• 01.06.2018

  Jered from Standing's Butcher

  This week on The Stew is all about meat! LA butcher god and A+ meat cutter Jered Standing is our guest this week. Jason and Andre chat with him all about off cuts, sustainable whole animal butchery, take tons of...

  
• 12.30.2017

  NYE & Eurotrip

  This week on The Stew you thought we were done in 2017 but hell no we’ve got one more on deck. Jason, Andre, and Stewie chat about our New Years Eve plans for a bit up front and then get...

  
• 12.23.2017

  The Last Episode Of 2017!

  This week on The Stew: Jason and Andre squeeze in one last poddy of 2017 despite being sick! That’s how much we love you guys for making this year huge for us. We take a bunch of your questions like...

  
• 12.16.2017

  Ramen & THC with Luke Reyes

  This week on The Stew: special guest Luke Reyes, a chef here in LA who’s actually doing something cool and smart with food and marijuana, and he’s opening a ramen restaurant on the side. Jason and Andre chat with him...

  
• 12.09.2017

  2017 Holiday Gift Guide

  This week on The Stew our annual holiday gift guide! We basically list a bunch of gifts for your foodie friends, some curve balls, some odd and practical, some lavish and ridiculous, Jason Andre AND Stewie are all on board.

  
• 12.02.2017

  Eataly, Halloumi, Lady Bird

  This week on The Stew Jason, Andre, AND Stewie are in the house to talk about Lady Bird, a sneak peek of our holiday gift giving guide, feast of the seven fishes, Jason’s cleaning habits, Eataly is open in LA...

  
• 11.25.2017

  Thanksgiving Recap

  This week on The Stew our annual Thanksgiving recap, what we cooked, what we fucked up, what we’re gonna do with our leftovers, and we answer all your twitter and instagram question about coffee preparation, galettes, legs of lamb, new...

  
• 11.18.2017

  Marissa A. Ross

  Marissa A. Ross is the wine editor for bon appetit, writer of the book “Wine All The Time,” and a bunch of other stuff. She’s a great person and funny and was nice enough to come chat with Jason and...

  
• 11.11.2017

  Now Serving's Ken Concepcion

  This week on The Stew: Jason & Andre welcome Ken Concepcion, longtime chef under the Wolfgang Puck team, and most recently owner of “Now Serving” your new favorite store in LA for all things food, except food, with his wife...

  
• 11.04.2017

  Our Annual Jonathan Gold 101 Recap

  This week on The Stew our annual Jonathan Gold 101 list recap where we literally discuss every single restaurant on the list starting at 101 and going to 1. It’s long, arduous, unnecessarily unfair and ignorant. We voice somehow very...

  
• 10.28.2017

  Lasagna Talk w/ Royce Burke

  This week on The Stew we welcome Royce Burke from "Secret Lasagna” a late night lasagna delivery service here in LA, soon to be a brick and mortar with counter service. Jason and Andre chat with him about mainly lasagna,...

  
• 10.21.2017

  Halloween, Dogs Eating Chocolate, Tiny Crockpots

  Jason and Andre open up about insulting someones latte art, etiquette for making DJ requests, healthy veggie loaves, scarpetta tomato basil sauce, al pastoral meatloaf developments, awful halloween foods and maybe better halloween foods, debunking the issue of dogs eating...

  
• 10.14.2017

  Cookbook Creation with Richard Parks

  This week on The Stew we've got all three lads in today with a rare Stewie appearance! Our special guest is Richard Parks, known for many things like his food podcast that only had one episode but was arguably the...

  
• 10.07.2017

  Wine & Twitter Questions w/ Anthony Cailan

  This week on The Stew we welcome Anthony Cailan! He’s a known wine mans around LA, has worked at Bestia, now at Hayden in Culver City, and also the younger brother of Alvin Cailan, the man behind Eggslut, and beyond....

  
• 09.30.2017

  Zach Brooks Returns!

  This week on The Stew we welcome back a classic guest Zach Brooks, known for his infamous Midtown Lunch blog, Food is The New Rock podcast, and most recently curator of LA’s weekly food super bowl “Smorgasburg.” Tempers fly as...

  
• 09.23.2017

  Huang's World, Cooking with pot, Alternative Milk

  This week on The Stew, Jason & Andre one on one podcast, we talk about: Huang’s World, store openings, a new alternative milk enters the ring, bbq bone broth, cooking with marijuana, matcha, and a few more things.

  
• 09.16.2017

  Barbecue chat with Trudy's Underground BBQ

  This week’s episode is all about barbecue, with our special guest Burt Bakman, the man behind Trudy’s Underground Barbecue, a donation based Texas style barbecue run out of his backyard here in LA. Burt has an amazing story of how...

  
• 09.09.2017

  Farley Elliott from Eater.com

  This week we welcome Farley Elliott, senior of Eater.com’s LA chapter. Jason and Andre chat with him about us making fun of his name on a previous podcast, breakfast burrito cross sections, a Vespertine review, some odd listener questions, possibly...

  
• 09.02.2017

  Munchies Editor in Chief Helen Hollyman

  This week we’re super excited to welcome Helen Hollyman, editor in chief of Munchies!  Jason and Andre chat with her about nachos, hiking, and her new Munchies cookbook full of late night foods inspired by Chef’s Night Out, tons of...

  
• 08.19.2017

  Bub & Grandma's Andy Kadin

  This week on The Stew we welcome our friend Andy Kadin from Bub & Grandma’s Bread, one of the most sought after bread bakers in town, servicing restaurants like Osteria Mozza, Kismet, Wax Paper, etc.  Jason and Andre chat with...

  
• 08.12.2017

  Ari Taymor of Alma

  This week on The Stew our special guest is Ari Taymor from the restaurant Alma. Jason and Andre chat with him about sourcing fish, weightlifting diets, aging chicken, smoking meats, cooking proteins gently to mimic sousvide, trying to succeed as...

  
• 08.05.2017

  Dieting Vs. Wellness / Twitter Questions

  This week on The Stew: Jason and Andre dive even further into Whole Foods salad bar hacks, it’s getting dark. A recent New York Times article on dieting being replaced by wellness, a new restaurant opening sparks a chat about...

  
• 07.29.2017

  Jon Yao from Kato

  This week Jason and Andre welcome chef Jon Yao from the LA restaurant “Kato” we chat about the evolution of his small shop to a very popular tasting menu. He was recently reviewed by Jonathan Gold, does weird stuff with...

  
• 07.22.2017

  Chicken Skin, Hemp Milk, NYC eats

  This week on The Stew Jason and Andre talk about a recent NY trip and what Jason ate, some chicken skin breakfast sandwich ideas, our favorite food scenes from a movie, is froyo over? and so much more!

  
• 07.15.2017

  NYC with Food Book Fair

  This week on The Stew: Jason is in New York so Andre is absent, I’m joined by Amanda and Kim from the Food Book Fair, a food book fair that happens annually in New York, they also have a food...

  
• 07.08.2017

  Equinox, Chicken RIce, Roccbox Pizza Oven

  This week Jason & Andre sit down for a hot LA summer day to chat about potato chips, aqua fresca, chicken rice, the Roccbox pizza oven, Mexican coke, Equinox Gym, and so much more!

  
• 07.01.2017

  Mozzarella Sticks, Korean Potato Salad, Persian Lasagna

  This week Jason, Andre, and Stewie are all on board for a spirited chat about how to make a better mozzarella stick, disappointing fruit modifications, secret ingredients for Korean potato salad, prime rib cooking methods, Persian Lasagna, and the best...