The Stew

Nicole Rucker is a great baker! She’s very well known for her pie making, has worked with Gjelina before taking over at Cofax, and is opening a spot of her own this summer. Jason and Andre chat about her cookbook deal, her disdain for chowder, her defense of sprinkles, being mistaken for an uber driver, pie contests, dog vomit, a dusting of st patricks day chatter, the California missions, food trends she hopes to change, soup, and the best thing we ate all week.

This week’s guest is Gillian Ferguson! She produced the KCRW show / podcast “Good Food” for 5 years and now she’s doing all kinds of things like being published in Lucky Peach, New York Times, etc! Jason and Andre chat with her about her childhood food habits, dining and ditching, taking LSD on a greyhound bus, stumbling into a career of baking, Mexico City, and the best thing we ate all week.

This week Jason Stewart and Andre Canaparo talk about Subway's chicken DNA, divorced fathers buying twinkies, intermediate fasting, and why we may have already been doing it this whole time, figuring out if coffee enemas are horrible or not, sousvide chicken breasts,  analyzing the way menus are written as a means of appealing to foodies convincing themselves their palates are advanced, and the best thing we ate all week!

This week Jason & Andre sit down with a nice glass of water and discuss microwaves being good for you or not, lunch bowls, the Alton Brown diet, Vegemite experiments, and so much more!

This week Jason and Andre do a Valentine’s Day meal re-cap, blow by blow of our super romantic meals, plus we take to twitter and answer your listener questions!

We have a bunch of new listeners to the podcast thanks to iTunes for featuring us so thanks to everyone tuning in for the first time. This week we welcome Aniz Ansari, brother of Aziz, neighbor of mine, and fellow food lover. Jason and Andre chat with him about growing up in the south, Indian food, BBQ, cold Korean soup, Cereal, and we close out with our favorite stoner snack instead of the best thing we at all week.

This week Jason and Andre chat about some recipe experiments they’ve been working on, and then break into SuperBowl food ideas, lots of dip talk, and some oddly satisfying food trends bubbling lately.

This week Jason & Andre welcome San Francisco based cheesemonger Samantha Klein on the show.  We basically ask her a bunch of random questions about cheese for an hour and it gets a little weird.  Hopefully you’ll learn something about cheese like we did!

This week Jason, Andre, and Chris go through a box full of food that a pod pal send us from a far away land, some good, some bad, some new food discoveries were made.  We chat about the Locol review from Pete Wells, some other stuff, and the best thing we ate all week.

This week Jason and Andre welcome our special guest, and Andre’s mom, Jill!  She’s a great woman who knows a lot about a lot of things, especially green teas, and Chinese philosophies of eating the right foods for a better, more enjoyable life.  We chat with her for the first half, and get into some highlights of our eating over the holiday weekend, plus the best thing we ate all week!