The Stew

We sit down with Marcus Christiana-Beniger from famed Los Angeles based market and deli “The Little Jewel of New Orleans.”  Since they’ve recently opened, Little Jewel has become one of our favorite spots for amazing po boy sandwiches, house-made sausages, and hundreds of regional market specialties, and kombucha!  Marcus tells us what exactly makes a po boy, where and how he sources his ingredients, how the Chinatown neighborhood accepted them, and how we think he’s doing the lords work bringing all of this amazing food to LA for us.

Daddy Kev is an LA music veteran, founding member of the legendary event “Low End Theory” which has played home for the LA beat scene, and runs his own studio here called “Cosmic Zoo.”  More importantly he’s a bit of a sushi fanatic, and we invited him on to chat about just that.  We get into sushi do’s and don’ts for beginners, the journey of a proper omakase meal, hidden gems of Los Angeles Sushi, and a blow by blow of his full meal at Jiro Sushi in Japan.  Great podcast for sushi beginners and experts alike!

Yeekai Lim is the man behind Cognoscenti Coffee here in Los Angeles.  His shops can be found at Proof Bakery in Atwater Village, Culver City, Chinatown, and various other projects.  We speak with him about how he started with coffee pop ups and moved on to full retail locations, and new ventures into bean roasting and beyond.  We chat a bit about service and hospitality, yelp, tea, and how you can have the best cup of coffee in the world, but probably not other things.

Adrianna Adarme is known for the blog “A Cozy Kitchen” she’s written two cookbooks, has a corgi, and more importantly knows a good deal about pie.  We’re one day late on the piecast but we still pack in tons of pie tips and tricks, get into the details of writing a cookbook, being confident in your palate, and learning more about wine.

Zach Brooks is the host of the podcast “Food is the New Rock” and our friend.  We bring him on to talk about actual food podcasts!  We also get into New Orleans food, Dumplings, Lucky Peach, his favorite episodes of his podcast, and so much more!

David Cho is a a really cool Korean guy who works at Grantland, does lots of cool things on the internet, has cool friends and loves food as much as we do.  We chat with him about all things Korean food, specializing in Los Angeles’ own Koreatown.

Dave Martinez is the head chef of the beloved Los Angles restaurant Elf Cafe, focusing on Mediterranean and Middle Eastern cooking, usually vegetarian.  We spoke with him about his journey to where he is today, his life changes, soylent, french techniques, paellas, wine, and so much more.

This week on The Stew, Jason, Chris, and Andre talk Valentines Day.  Food ideas, tips, tricks, things to cook and more.  We also get into some food news, and realize we need to learn more about sous-vide.

After a small hiatus, The Stew is back with some new co-hosts.  Filling in for Chris will now be my longtime friend and cooking pal Andre Canaparo, and my twin brother and longtime professional restaurant man Chris Stewart.  Our guest this week is Michael David from the band “Classixx.” The theme for this weeks episode is approaching cooking as an amateur, what equipment you need and don’t need, habits to get into, and so much more.  Thanks for listening and look forward to new episodes every Saturday morning.

This week Chris and I chat about Foie Gras being legalized again in California, Jonathan Gold’s top 10 dishes of 2014, Flat Whites, Japanese Nabe Soup, and the usual horrible stuff!