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ever. It is time for this food cart, food cart, pasign Ya talkos food cart, the food cart, Hamburgers and breakfast food card, food cart, let us and giche carton the food cart Other things that you like to eat food cart, food cart, fast food with about one minute of notice, Danny went in the other room and recorded that during the break, thank you, it's return to food court. The one thing that absolutely everyone in this building, everyone listening, can relate to. This is a relatable
topic. This is about food. It's about food in the Metroplex, food facts, new foods, foods that are going away. We have it all here in the food court. First thing is fresh from the kitchen, today's food news. Do you guys know the difference between James Beard Awards and the Micheline Awards? Which do you If you own a restaurant, which of those two would you prefer to win? I think if I was a chef, I'd want a Beard Award. If I was a restaurant tour I would want
the Micheline Award. I'm not from the service industry at all, but only one of them has a star attached to it. You don't win the James Beard Star Awards. You win the Michelin Star. You would choose Michelin. Yes, I think I would choose Michelin as well, because I think, Okay, Michelin, I didn't know this, It sounds like you kind of did, Danny. Michelin is for the restaurant as a whole. The restaurant gets awarded a Michelin Star and that is you know, everyone wants to go
there. We've got a few of them. I don't know if we have it. I actually don't think we have one right now in Dallas. I don't know. I shouldn't know that. But anyway, these James Beard Awards are for the chefs for sort of other parts of the elements of the service industry. Yeah, so the semi finalists for the James Beard Award best the best twenty twenty four of come out and Dallas is strongly represented with a handful
of nods all over DFW. The actual awards will be given out June tenth, but semi finalists include Outstanding Chef David Uger u y g u R. David Uger of Luccia, which is in the Bishop Arts District, a mere stone's throw from where I live. Luccia incredible famously, you have to get on first of the month and make a reservation, that sort of thing, cheat code, go in there, sit at the bar, especially if there's only like two of you, or if you're solo, you can go down
and you can sneak into Luccio without too big of a problem. But incredible meats, charcouterie board, oysters do they have delicious oysters? Have oysters? I've not had them. Outstanding bakery semi finalists La Casita Bakeshaw. Oh yes, you know what it is of ten minute walk from my house? Is that right? And it is a common probably once a month a Saturday morning, go get breakfast there. What do you get? Well, they have
all kinds of stuff. It's it's pastries and bakery type goods obviously bake shop between scones, cinnamon rolls, croissant, croissants, something terribly terribly unhealthy, yes, always, but you get something small, you know. It's all kinds of unique builds and it changes each month. So good. Okay. Websites has brunches a big player there. The website has delicious pancakes, unlike Danny's weird pancakes. One time they made them one time, Malcolm, Yeah,
forever. It's worth a shot going up there. Sometimes there's a line that's damn near out the door, but it's worth the sneaking over there. Right, it's right off a wrappa ho there in Richardson, James Beard Warts on my finalists here in the Metroplex. Outstanding hospitality for Gemma guys. There
have been a Gemma cat have once. You know what it is. It's right on kind of Knox Henderson. It's on Henderson, very good, right next to where what's that big bar, the Henderson Henderson, the old Henderson. It's gone. I don't know what it's turning into. And Sushi Axiom used to be on the corner there, Yeah, right along that neighborhood, the east side of that building. Been there once, took Vita excellent, Yeah food and a good friend that that U was a server there for a
long time. Yeah, good spot there. A handful of Best Chef in Texas nominees, Misty Norris of Petra in the Beast that is the Buzzy, one of the buzzy restaurants in Dallas. I heard nothing but excellent reviews about that place. Went to a Oatmeal Pizza show in Denton and met one of the chefs there and he's like huge fans of the show in the station come any time. And I lost all his contact info because that's a good hookup to have. I think it's a fairly hard place to get into. I
think, but you're right top of the list. Buzzy Berg is Petra and the Beast. It's called Petra and the Petra and the Beast. Also Charcuterie Board I think is one of the best in the state. That kind of
thing. And apparently just jaw dropper meals so. Misty Norris nominated mic Real Quick house Cleaning Now is the Henderson Tap House is going to be named something called Lonnie's now Lonnie's and l A W N I E. Lonnie's Texas Ice House are Sarah Blaskovic talking about this on the Speakeasy couple of days ago.
They're not taking over that spot, it not no, I believe that's across the street and it's an old house that has been there forever and they're kind of renovating it to make it a an ice house, which is basically like an Austin style yard, you know bar where you lee Harvey's Okay has a lot of those types of places too. Yeah. Sorry. Any other best chef in Texas Reginio Rojas of Perapeca Peripeta, some authentic Mexican style dinners there,
Anastac Pittman of Jose. I've never heard of it. No, Jose write k these down, man, I know, dude, I love this stuff. Arnolfo Sanchez, the third of Vako's Texas Barbecue, never heard of it. Rich Vana of the Heritage Table. Those are your James Beard Awards semi finalists, just named yesterday evening twenty twenty four from the Great state of oh What the karos is over there by the Grapevine Brewery Hoppenstein. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, good, good good. Next segment here in the
food court. New on the menu. We got a new bagel shop that just opened up called Abbey's on Greenville Avenue, and I think we're having a bit of a bagel renaissance, the bagel sance, the bagel sans, although renaissance means it was here before, right, Yes, okay, so bagels so good, so popular. But we haven't had much of a stamp in the world of bagels in DFW, I know recently and not too recently. Shugs is my go to there by Smu Schugs is delicious. You're gonna deal
with a line and it is, they're proud of it. You're gonna pay for it. It's expense, especially if you're like Locks or salmon on a bagel and you want it the whole way. You're looking at twenty bucks basic, yeah for a bagel. Seriously, after tax and tip, You're we're going to spend eighteen to twenty but on a loaded ass bagel. It's one of those foods that I get a craving for and I will go make sure I it'ch that scratch. The under the radar long running business right next to
or right down the strip from gold Rush Cafe and Skillman Benny's. Benny's is great, man. Have you ever been to bagels over by by Dose? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, like Coia Dosa. Yeah yeah, yeah. The place is very good. It's old school and it's been around forever. But there is nothing better than walking in the front door of Benny's and inhaling. Yeah, the smells are so good. I don't know of any bagel shops where I've had a bad bagel, you know, I mean you
have bad bagels grocery stores, if you know. Sometimes. But I've made this. I started a trend at my house called weird Bay. Oh really, yeah, trying down with them forever? Yeah, pretty much. Anyway, I knew a new contestant Abbey's Bagels right on Greenville Avenue. Apparently the first day he opened a few days ago, line outside the door in twenty seven degree weather, like the people of Greenville Avenue were ready to rock some
bagels. And apparently they're delicious. So if you're craving that sort of thing and get down on it. Another thing new on the men. I know, I think you tease this, but we never got to it. Craft Singles launching three brand new flavors. Craft Singles like the most traditional basic food,
they're getting weird with it. You guys can probably guess. So instead of cheddar, they're gonna go with, well, it's just cheddar, it's just American American cheese, a processed cheese food product doesn't believe is what it's listed as. And I I will, I used to eat a lot of the just that you remember, just ripping open the American cheese slice and pounding it. And I now find that kind of gross sounding. But I used
to love when I was a kid, grilled cheese sandwich. It's perfect on big fat burger, it's perfect on But I find very little other use for the American cheese slice. Well, before you get to the flavors. I don't know what it is, but there or maybe it's just the algorithms know me. But I see a lot of Anthony Bourdain videos pop up, and there's these little little shorts that they've been putting out lately, and one of them is how his version of the perfect hamburger. And it's exactly the way
I want it. You know, it's not over a flame. It's it's on a cooked and a flat iron skill or an iron skillet eighty twenty or eighty five fifteen fat. And he said that it's the proper best way to do it is on a soft potato bun and always American cheese. Yeah, don't try to trick it up with weird gray air and cheddars and all of this stuff. It's like, if you're not making the basic element, the basic components of a hamburger better by doing all this stuff, then you shouldn't
do it. And I fall for that a lot on the okay, career sounds good or gudda, oh that sounds nice. It's just always better with straight up America American cheese, lettuce, pickles, tomatoes, and then whatever your condiment of choice is, are you going onions on it. Great, but mustard mustard, damn. That's why Maple and motor is so damn good, because it's the burger that you would make at home for yourself. Airplanes and Hamburgers, that's what we do. Ninety seven won the freaking Yes,
it's Craft singles flavors. Yeah sure, yeah, I mean pepper Jack. I'm gonna give it to you because it's jalapenno. Okay, Well you know we'll meet the middle there. Yeah, I'll do this all day. Uh cheddar no, and started pretty good and got work. Yeah, you used to be good at this game. Eight seconds ago. Let's go with some kind of ranch weirdness. Ranch, I'm gonna just stop the game because they're not that easy. Garlic and herb okay, which sounds all right, and
then ranchy craft singles and producing caramelized onion, get out of here. No, I was gonna say, onion sounds terrible. I don't feel like onion. But if it's caramelize, you find half point for that. Well done, Danny, you take the lead. Next section here in the food court. Eighty six, we got a significant restaurant closing just one well, yeah, you know after forty years. Lowry's the Prime Rib to close after forty years, and really, yep, dang, I thought Lowries would be here
forever. One critic called Lowry's a multi generational classic. The famous restaurant that started in Beverly Hills in nineteen thirty eight and has been here for forty years right on Dallas North Tollway between Beltline and Spring Valley, will remain open until March of twenty twenty four, and then they are closing, apparently the building being sold. I'll be damned. You want a hot one rest in peace? Lowry's Prime Rib overrated one per Okay, that's great to hear. I
thought we were gonna get hot. No. No. If I'm ever at a wedding or some kind of dumb corporate event and they've got the Prime Rib guy slicing, I pass right by that, dude every Really. I also think steaks no snakes are overrated. Steak steaks plus our new sponsor would disagree with you. Uh yeah, I have, And I made Prime Rib at Christmas when I was there, and it's it's fine, it's good, but it's not like when you bite into either a ribby or fill a or whatever
your favorite steak is where it's just the knee buckling deliciousness. I've never really had that with prime rib and you kind of need horseradish on it. Oh yeah, let's and I'll take a file a rare. I don't want my prime rib that rare. It's kind of chewy, and I just don't with you now that exterior one wing, you know on the prime rib. Yeah, part it's like a different meat that can be a magical bite, but generally speaking prime rib it's just glorified to me, dude, I was about
to say this, it's like the ham of beef. Yeah. Oh anyway, Lowry's Prime Rib, the Prime Rib closing after forty years here in Dallas. You're listening to the food court on ninety seven one, the Freak. We're talking about food all right. Time for the main course before we get into a fast food, a fast paced trivia quiz for you two here in the food court. But before that the main course. And we only have
like four or five minutes for this, but the main court. Last time, the main course was Boba t and I brought Boba Ti in for you guys. I didn't bring anything this time because the main course is something that's new to me. It's the air fryer. Yep, okay, welcome. I received a box on Christmas from my brother Cash and my sister in law Mary, my two favorite people other Christina Simon in the world, and it's a giant air frar. And now we are here on January twenty fifth,
and it's unboxed. It is sitting in my kitchen. I've yet to plug it in. It still has stickers that you need to remove before first use, because I don't even know where to start. Kevin, very simple. First of all, remove the stickers, okay, because you don't really start a fire there. And make sure there's no card right there. Give me a past picture. There's no cardboard or anything inside the air fryer as well, because sometimes they'll have a they'll have some cardboarder there that if you're not
paying attention, you could start a fire. But get rid of that and you're good. What you're gonna want to do is you're gonna want to plug it in, but you're also gonna want to go and grab that booklet. And that booklet you don't need to read any instructions outside of the menu on the back, or maybe it's on the front. It's gonna have the temperature, it's gonna have a bunch of foods listed, and it's gonna tell you how long you need to put things in there for. And once you start
doing this, you're going to get addicted to it. I would start out if I were you, I think the most basic thing would be some sort of chicken breast or chicken tenderloin, or maybe like a pork loin or something like that. Okay, start me. There are you saying I can throw a raw chicken breast into an air fryer and then it will be It'll be cooked. You put anything in there, mic I'm not keep hear, but that doesn't help me. Amation. Okay, let's start at the base level.
So your frozen foods, like your chicken nuggets, French fries, any type of frozen food that would you would normally microwave or bake or whatever. The air fryer is the way to go for those. So if you want some nugs and some fries or some onion rings or tots, I don't do
anything that makes sense. Those will cook up wonderfully crispy, better than you would any other method other than deep frying them at home, but incredibly healthier than deep frying, right because I believe so yeah, you're not adding that extra element of oil to it. It says little or very or no oil. Now what I will do is, okay, so like chicken breast is a great one. But what I'll do is I'll get the split breasts and then have them long ways. So basically you've got a thinly cut chicken breast,
did they they cook a little quicker that way? Get you a bowl a good amount maybe a table spoon or two of olive oil, and then it's the key to these is to use like a dry rub. You want to do a dry rub on your chicken, so you can create one or just go to the store, like get a fajeta seasoning, you know, okay, pretty liberally put it on there and make sure it's all mixed together and coated on all sides of your chicken in the olive oil with that kind
of fajeta rub or whatever. But I put olivoil on the bottom of it. No, no, no, no, You're in a chicken in a bowl. Cut them long way, so you kind of get the like you other breasts can be really really fat sometimes right, cut them a long way so you kind of have them so they're still the same size. They're just thinner, all right. Put the olive oil and the chicken in a bowl, and then liberally add some of whatever you know. You could be a
blackening season that's great. Fajeta seasoning. There's a number of different ones you can use. Make sure they're all coated. Put them in your air fire and then cook it forever long mine at four hundred degrees usually about seven or eight minutes, and they come out. They're juicy, they're delicious, a little crispy because of the just a tiny bit on the outside. You get a little bit of char on the outside. But it's so good I need twice a week. He's jumping a three oh three, isn't he? Don't
let Carmie over here. Okay, everybodee is supposed to be simple. Break it down to you like cousin would. Thank you, all right, thank you shoe, Get you a can of pam. Spray it in there. Then you're gonna get your chicken. You're gonna season it. You're gonna throw it on the thing, and it's gonna tell you in the book, how long it'll tell you. It'll tell me. I'll tell you. Yeah,
break out that book today. You'll see four hundred degrees to ten minutes, fifteen minutes, whatever it is, it'll tell It gives you the specific instructions. What you're gonna want to do is about halfway through. Just flip it over. Elevate your experience. So make sure your chicken breasts are coated in olive oil. It's so much more delicious and it helps the rubs adhere to the meat. He said, don't listen to Carmie over here. Car me
Kati westbeaking a little bit closer to my language. But I do. I did follow what you're saying. What if I have just some beef, can I make like a burger patty burgers? Put it in just in the thing and I just turn it on and there it goes. I prefer the skillet burger. Yeah, skillet burgers away. But but you could do a steak in the air fryer. You could do it. It's great. And ever took vegetables too, some vegetables in the air fire wreasted vegetables. Potatoes.
I'll keep post. Yeah, maybe Today's the day I plug it in and remove the sticker I'm gonna make I'm gonna write down some recipes for you that are very simple that will elevate your air fire experience. It's just rare that we have an appliance that takes the world by storm the way the air fire has. In the last few years. Since twenty nineteen, sales of air
friers increased by eighty five percent. I believe from twenty nineteen until now, Basically, if they say every other American household now has it has an air fryer, for something like five years ago, basically no one had didn't exist. Maybe I don't know. It is a damn toaster oven with a fan in it. That's all it is. Is it air forces the heat into your food faster than it would if you were just baking it. You're gonna
love it. The air it is sign for fast food. Where our two contestants, Kevin Turner and Dingu Bayalis, play a fast paced game, winner gets surprised. Yeah, I don't know, yell out answers. However, however you want to do it. Which country consumes the most tea per person? Is it China? Turkey, or England, England, China. It's turkeys. No points awarded. Seven pounds of tea per year, the Turks even more than their coffee. True or false. American cheese was invented in
America. False. Wait, I'll change it just to be different. That is false. It's Switzerland. Damn you know it's what I meant. Uh. Fast food. What's the difference between jam and jelly? Jelly? Sweeter? No jam has actual elements of the fruit still in it. Good enough. Jam is made with fruit, which is why so chunky jelly is made with fruit juice. That's a point for Dany Bayali's True or false. Americans eat the most meat per person of any country in the world. False.
That is false. For a bonus point, what country does gosh? I would say India, Australia two hundred pounds of meat per person down on these Louise America is second. That's a lot of meat. Crikey, that's almost a that's like over a half a pounds of meat a day. Fast food. How much does the most expensive pizza in the world cost? Nine hundred dollars I'm making a pizza the size of the sun by Jack Probletski. It's
a nine ninety nine dollars and ninety nine cents. No one's close. Louis the thirteenth is the name of the pizza Salerno, Italy, twelve thousand dollars. It takes seventy two hours to make. It can only be made in your home by three Italian chefs. They come to your home and make this thing. Three types of caviare bufferlo, mozzarella, lobster from Norway, Cilento
and pink Australian Sea salt now Cheatico. They also sell it with some bottle of champagne Crew Clo, do mensil whatever you know so they always get you on that final question. This is for everything. This is determined who wins the food court today? True or false? Honey is be vomit? False? False? True true, Damn, you can't change lock it in bye vomit. No, I don't think it is. That's just true. He's a black nectar. They drink it in keep it in their stomach while once
they're back at the hive, they regurgitate the nectar into the hive. Both of you lose JJ. Congratulations, you have won the food court today. You win two small pieces of milky Way Midnight minis I have acquired. Thrilled congratulations, and everyone that heard this wins because now you have knowledge for your eating day. This has been the food court, the food court, so much fat. Yes, Diego's morning news is up next, And which former
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