On the season premiere of Cooking Issues, Dave and Nastassia are joined in the studio by Paul Adams from Cooks Illustrated magazine, and Chef Lauren Resler of Empellón to talk baby DJs, smash cakes, fondant, butter cream, sheet cakes, raisins, crepes, cumin, grape jelly, and more! Cooking Issues is powered by Simplecast
This week on Cooking Issues , Nastassia puts out a call for demographic info from Spinzall customers/ Cooking Issues listeners. Plus, Booker's visceral hatred of the happy birthday song, Saratoga Spring Water, false generalizations, clarifying beer, cauliflower, extrusion cooking, vitamin E, whether you should shake or stir gin martinis, Nastassia missing a Billy Joel concert, leaf viruses, xanthan gum, Béarnaise sauce, and more! Cooking Issues is powered by Simplecast...
On a brand new episode of Cooking Issues , we dive int0 Booker's newfound vegetarianism, all you can eat crab legs, steamed cheeseburgers, cooking with MSG, dinosaurs, humidity, suckling pigs, sardines packed in oil, cooling sous vide proteins, mocktails, the Spinzall, searing meats, and more! Cooking Issues is powered by Simplecast
Cooking Issues turns 300! Tune in to hear Dave, Nastassia, and everyone's favorite punching bag Peter Kim discuss The Mooch, powdered tahini, green eggs, dehydrators, ultrasounds, and more! Plus, a special guest appearance by Jackie Molecules! Cooking Issues is powered by Simplecast .
This week on Cooking Issues , Dave and Nastassia are joined in the studio by Dave's son Booker, Nick Wong, auction winner Tim to talk about The Little Mermaid , Peter Kim's embarrassing head-to-head with an emcee at a charity event, plumbing, patenting your inventions, Obi-Wan Kenobi jokes, cooking in Celsius versus Fahrenheit, Mandarin orange soda, meat glue, and more!
Dave and Nastassia are back! This week on Cooking Issues they discuss the merits (or demerits) of having old-school arcade games in bars, "alternative" ketchups, xanthan gum, adding habanero peppers to butter cream frosting, the dress code at Roberta's, welding, seltzer, vacuum-sealing garlic, Fahrenheit versus Celsius measurements in cooking, and a Spinzall update!
Coconut oil used to be good for you now it is bad. Can you copy recipes from chain restaurants? How is tonkotsu broth made? On this week's episode of Cooking Issues , Dave and Nastassia are joined in studio by Momofuku's former Chef de Cuisine Nick Wong, and Dave's son, Booker to talk about all of the above plus velveting techniques, Japanese fish sauces ayu and ishiri, mushroom dough recipes, thermometers, and much more!
Dave and Nastassia are back in the studio, along with Alex Talbot of Ideas in Food , to talk pasta extruders, bag juice, mayonnaise, powdered egg whites, mint, and more!
On another preee-recorded episode of Cooking Issues , Dave is still on the road with The Bartender Advocacy Convention. This week, he's in Pittsburgh with Don Lee, evil (or benevolent, perhaps) cocktail overlord of the universe, Kevin Denton, national mixologist for Pernod Ricard, and Brian Bartels, author of The Bloody Mary: The Lore and Legend of a Cocktail Classic, with Recipes for Brunch and Beyond .
This week, Cooking Issues is coming to you...PRE-RECORDED from the Manchester Grand Hyatt (or possibly Hilton, either way) in San Diego, where Dave is attending The Bartender Advocacy Convention (BACON), hosted by Pernod Ricard. It’s a day of spirits & hospitality education with some of the industry’s most respected personalities. And Dave.
This week on Cooking Issues , Nastassia is on the road again, but Dave is joined in the studio by "everybody's favorite punching bag" Peter Kim! Tune in to hear about the finest in American cuisine (Applebee's, Golden Corral, etc.), Dave's recent trip to China, blue cheese on meat, the uselessness of egg white omelettes, Dave's hatred of the beach, waterbeds, BPA, Twinkies, and more!
On an all new Cooking Issues , Dave and Nastassia are joined in the studio by Chef Richard Blais, a restaurateur, cookbook author, television personality, and winner of Bravo's Top Chef All-Stars. Chef Blais has also written a new cookbook, So Good: 100 Recipes from My Kitchen to Yours , which is out today! Tune in to hear them discuss ukuleles, bagpipes, Braveheart , the Ninja Turtles, how one procures frog legs in New York's Chinatown, miso, when to salt your eggs, anchovies, beets, searing du...
This week on Cooking Issues , Dave and Nastassia are joined in the studio by Olympia Provisions Chef/Owner/Salumist Elias Cairo, a first generation Greek-American who grew up learning the craft of charcuterie from his father, who cured the family's meat at home. After five years in Switzerland under master chef Annegret Schlumpf, Cairo completed a chef apprenticeship in Greece. Using the finest ingredients, he developed his skills and passion for making charcuterie, and the experience affirmed h...
On an all-new episode of Cooking Issues , we tackle Nastassia’s unconventional way of eating Milano cookies, airline brawls, the untimely demise of Simon the giant bunny, the lost art of de-boning shad, salsa, ice, slushy machines, home carbonation, what happens to eggs when they age, and more!
This week on Cooking Issues , sitting in for Nastassia is evil cocktail overlord Don Lee. He and Dave talk revisionism in the Star Wars universe and The Bible, owning a combi oven but not an immersion circulator, the status of Cooking Issues as a “family show,” installing your own water filter, Jacques Pépin and crispy clam strips, plastic safety, cultural appropriation, peeling walnuts, and more!
This week on Cooking Issues , Dave and Nastassia are joined by Arielle Johnson of the MIT Media Lab, and food media impresario Peter Meehan to talk Lucky Peach's impending lethal injection, Dave’s forays into bagpipery, Pink Floyd’s The Wall , foam, sous vide bag juices, garlic knots, Arnold Schwarzenegger and the film Commando , SodaStreams, and more!
It's a banner day here on Cooking Issues , with Dave and Nastassia joined in the studio by the famous Peter Kim, and koji experts Rich Shih and J.W. Rogers III. Plus, toast, daiquiris, Glengarry Glen Ross, alkaline noodles, and more!
Full house this week on Cooking Issues , as Dave and Nastassia are joined by "the person everyone loves to hate" Peter Kim of MOFAD, Nick Wong, Chef de Cuisine at Momofuku Ssäm Bar, and Chris Young of ChefSteps. Tune in to hear them discuss Lebanese food, Amazon Alexa, immersion circulators, how self-loathing makes good cooks, and more!
This week on Cooking Issues , Dave and Nastassia answer several call-in questions about aluminum cookware, storing chicken pot pies, cocktails, baking soda, ice cream, and more!
This week on Cooking Issues , Dave and Nastassia answer questions about homemade ramen noodles, pre-searing meat, fish sauce, slushy machines, immersion circulators, pizza ovens, and more!
This week on Cooking Issues, Dave pays tribute to his recently deceased grandfather, and shares some food-related memories of him. Plus, he and Nastassia discuss his forthcoming book on low temperature cooking, why he always ends up in the middle seat on airplanes, and answer questions about Japanese fish sauce, collagen and meat texture, eliminating off flavors in grass-fed beef, goat cheese, and more.
On this Valentine's Day edition of Cooking Issues , Dave and Nastassia talk crab legs, iSi whippers, ice cubes, the definition of paleo, how one acquires the nickname "The Hammer," lying to picky eaters, home-canned tuna, and more!
This week on Cooking Issues , Dave and Nastassia sift through the detritus of the Roberta’s staff party, and talk homemade disco balls, how New York City community boards try to make opening a new bar or restaurant impossible, thermodynamics in soufflés recipes, a new technique for opening up a pomegranate, Dave's top secret brioche project, and more!
Tune in to hear Dave and Nastassia discuss vacuum packing meat, myoglobin, and the perfect temperature for cooking steaks. Dave also explains the process of corn nixtamalization, the chemistry that distinguishes the taste of a tortilla from that of cornmeal, and how to make perfect tortilla chips.
This week on Cooking Issues , bartender Don Lee is sitting in for Nastassia, and he and Dave discuss the squalor of New York airports, the Star Wars prequels, truffles, the ChefSteps recipe for deep-fried glassy nuts, the status of the Spinzall, cocktails, miracle celery dreams, stripping cast iron pans, cool ranch, and more!
This week on a short edition of Cooking Issues , Dave and Nastassia discuss the Houseguest Olympics, jam band radio airplay, the closing of Barnum & Bailey circus, steel drums, and answer questions about salting meats, coffee-infused booze, pressure cooking vegetables, reducing redness in meat without overcooking it, and more!
On the season premiere of Cooking Issues , Dave and Nastassia are joined by Dr. Charles Lefevre, a noted mycologist and truffle expert, as well as president and founder of New World Truffieres, Inc., a company specializing in truffle cultivation and the controlled inoculation of oak and hazelnut seedlings with a range of culinary truffle species.
On the season finale/holiday edition of Cooking Issues , Dave and Nastassia talk railfans, vegetarianism ruining holiday parties, salt cod and why cheese and fish belong together, carbonated cocktails, braising meat, pine nuts, guanciale and other fatty meats, safety concerns when fermenting cider, using the Spinzall in home brewing, hangovers, and more!
This week on Cooking Issues , Dave and Nastassia are joined in the studio by Paul Adams and the one and only Harold McGee to discuss why Pyrex is the devil, people who don't like crema (Anti-Cremists), taking the wind out of sunchokes, French fries and ice cream, "pine nut syndrome," cooking wild abalone, coconut fat, and more!
This week on Cooking Issues , Dave, Nastassia and Peter Kim debate the merits of responding to emails and talk about the Spinzall centrifuge (not to be confused with the Spinn coffee maker), sous vide sauces, Christmas trees, cocktails that are easy on the stomach, food mills, apple sauce, grinding spices, the Martini Madness competition, and more!
