Category Archive for Food
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That Sounds Delicious
Our interview this week with ?uestlove got me thinking about the marriage of my two favorite things - food and music. While not all food-related songs are actual odes to the edible ("Cherry Pie", anyone?), there is no shortage of tasty metaphors in the world of music. Read more...
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Nozawa dreams of Jiro
David Gelb, maker of a new documentary about the greatest sushi chef on Earth, names his favorite NYC sushi spots and talks about L.A. sushi legend Nozawa's retirement plans. Read more...
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The Lobster/Bee Connection
While listening to last week's show, something rattled in my brain when Rico and mead-maker guest William Bostwick compared boiling honey bees... to boiling lobsters. From the depths of my vast catalog of interesting-but-typically-useless food knowledge, I remembered a lobster/bee connection. Read more...
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3 Fruit Outcasts
High school, popularity and... citrus? A story of fruit rejection and redemption that John Hughes would have given his seal of approval. Read more...
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Penn & Teller Predicted Our Small Talk
A listener tells us the portentous comedy duo was doing "water menus" before the things even existed. Read more...
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Stuff from being on TV
What Rico and Brendan learned from appearing on food shows. Read more...
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Underground Market Needs Above-Ground Help
A few episodes back, Rico reported on San Francisco's monthly "Underground Market." Alas, such stories seem to have brought the event some *less*-desirable attention... from the likes of the SF health department. Details, and how you can help, after the jump... Read more...
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Your Sandwich, Judged By Actual DPD Host
Sound like a fabulous dream? It could be a reality, if you register to compete in this Saturday's Grilled Cheese Invitational in L.A. Deadline's midnite tonite. Read more...
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Rico's Best Of The Year
A random bunch of things I found to be Best in 2010, whether they originated in 2010 or not... Read more...
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Parasites, Symbiotes, and Loosies
So on this week's show, I used the term "parasite-aurant" - to describe the relationship between Pal's upscale sandwich shop and the humble corner store in which it lives. Many listeners wrote in explaining that a better term would be "symbiot-aurant." Read more...
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Fish Drinks: Listeners take the bait
In our last episode, Brendan lamented the relative dearth of cocktails with a fish component. So we asked listeners to hep us to fishy tipples... and were alternately intrigued and appalled by their responses. Read more...
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Talking Points: In defense of Weetabix
Why the ugliest cereal in the world is Rico's favorite. Read more...
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Cafe Perfect
I have an imaginary blog about Los Angeles called “Getting Warmer.” It’s made up of imaginary postings about new businesses in LA that sound great, but don’t quite succeed in terms of being any place I would like to go.... Read more...
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James Bond As Chocoholic Santa Claus
Many thanks to Marketplace Whiteboard superstar Paddy Hirsch, who hepped us to this, the greatest TV ad series ever produced:... Read more...
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Best of 2009 -- you tell us
The air is crisp, the Times Square Ball has been adorned with spankin’ new waterford crystal, and it has become temporarily impossible for journos like ourselves to get sources to return phone calls. Must be New Year’s week. And so... Read more...
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Google to Swallow Yelp?
Google has been eyeing the web’s most democratic (and often most obnoxious) review site. Some deets from Bloomberg: Google Inc., owner of the world’s most popular Internet search engine, is in talks to acquire the do-it-yourself review site Yelp Inc.... Read more...
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National Cupcake Day
Today is National Cupcake Day. It may also be August 18th, or October 18th. Perhaps it’s a sign of how widespread cupcake-phenia has spread that we have multiple people creating fake holidays around it. While we’ll be eating pie today,... Read more...
