The Ambulance: “A comic-book artist meets a woman on the NY streets, but after a quick flirtation, she suddenly collapses, and is picked-up by an old ambulance. He checks all the hospitals in the area, but the woman seems to have disappeared.” –IMDB

UPDATED 7/28/20 - This was one of our early episodes, before we added movie clips and other enhancements, so we did a quick "redux" of the episode, and added a special surprise (right around the 1:03 mark).

This week's guest:

Leila Del Duca draws Sleepless, Shutter and writes Afar for Image Comics. In 2015 she was nominated for the Russ Manning Promising Newcomer award for her work on Shutter. Her client list includes Vertigo, Oni Press, IDW, Image Comics, and National Geographic. Leila likes to be creative during her free time, making music, cooking food, knitting, sewing, and can be found staring off into space a lot, drinking coffee and contemplating life. (Helioscope)Please be sure to click the links to find the impressive art being created by these people as well as head over to the vh.us Instagram for the accompanying visuals.

Leila’s links:
Image Comics
Mike Mignola
Sean Gordon Murphy
Helioscope
Steve Lieber
Terry Dodson
Cat Farris
Dylan Meconis

Currently reading:
Sarah Mirk
Naoki Urasawa’s 20th Century Boys
A Bride’s Story
Juli Berwald

“Mystery abounds when it is discovered that, one by one, the greatest Chefs in Europe are being killed. The intriguing part of the murders is that each chef is killed in the same manner that their own special dish is prepared in. Food critics and the (many) self-proclaimed greatest Chefs in Europe demand the mystery be solved.” – IMDB

This week's guest:

After graduating from the California School of Culinary Arts’ Cordon Bleu, Aaron did an externship in his native Canada at Lumiere in Vancouver, BC and was immediately taken with the flavors and produce available in the Pacific Northwest. He moved down the West coast back to California to work under Gary Danko in San Francisco, shortly thereafter taking a sous chef position at Myth under Sean O’Brien. Reminiscing of the Pacific flavors that caught his palate in his externship, Aaron headed back up North to Oregon. After working in Portland kitchens for a couple of years, he opened St. Jack in 2010. St. Jack has won multiple awards in Portland, including the Oregonian’s Rising Star, in addition Aaron was given the Portland Rising Star award in 2011 as well as, received a nod from James Beard in 2012.
– ChefsTable

“A delicious, mysterious goo that oozes from the earth is marketed as the newest dessert sensation, but the tasty treat rots more than teeth when zombie-like snackers who only want to consume more of the strange substance at any cost begin infesting the world.“

This week's guest:

Heather Arndt Anderson is an award-winning author, food writer, and botanist. Heather is the author of four books on culinary history and wrote the Pacific Northwest chapter in the 4-volume Food Cultures of the World Encyclopedia (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2011). Her work has been quoted in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and The Atlantic. Her recipes have been published in the cookbooks One Big Table: 600 Recipes from the Nation’s Best Home Cooks, Farmers, Fishermen, Pit-Masters, and Chefs, and Boozy Brunch: The Quintessential Guide to Daytime Drinking. Heather is a contributing writer to the magazines Roads & Kingdoms,Taste, Portland Monthly, Render Feminist Food & Culture Quarterly, Narratively,Remedy Quarterly,and Fish & Game Quarterly. She has appeared on “The Splendid Table” and is a regular panelist on the James Beard- and IACP award-winning podcast, “The Four Top.”Heather runs a test kitchen from her home in Portland, Oregon, where she develops recipes and content for food brands, teaches cooking and pickling classes, and tests recipes for cookbooks by other authors.