A recent article in Saveur magazine struck a chord with me and I wanted to share a bit of it with you today. Erez Komarovsky, a well known baker from Isreal, hit the nail on the head when he talked about recipes. They serve a purpose – to guide you to the creation of a…
It’s been over two years since I turned my back on the craft brew scene. In doing research for the show, I found that the landscape had changed drastically. The numbers are staggeringly high. What made the biggest impression on me, however, was the growth of home brewing. As of last November, there were an…
This stuff is marketed as the spiciest ramen available. It’s pretty hot, and very delicious. There’s a huge challenge all over the internet with people doing speed challenges to see who will finish first – or finish at all. It’s one of the spiciest bowls of noodles you can find. If you get a chance…
Amazon buys Whole Foods, cooking lobster the original way – over the grill, and introducing a new segment ‘Cooking With the Devil’. If you’re playing along with Joshua in his My Life as a Foodie Drinking Game, you’d better go get more beer.
This week we’re discussing the book “Eat Bacon, Don’t Jog” by Grant Petersen. In it, he destroys 30 years of conventional health wisdom and offers a common sense approach to weight loss and fitness. The main point of “Eat Bacon, Don’t Jog” is the real reason we need to drop carbs from our diet and…
Life is full of changes, and all we can do is roll with them and ride the trail that life carves out for us. In this episode I talk about the changes happening all around us and the meat company I dreamed of starting, but never did. It was a novel idea that never caught…
Well, that sucks. Your browser cannot play this audio. Please upgrade to Firefox, Safari, or Chrome. Download the episode here. Music in this episode by Chromatics and Volbeat. Buy the gear you need to make your own kombucha at home: 1 gallon glass jar cheesecloth SCOBY culture
Chef Judy Joo isn’t your ordinary chef. In fact, there’s not much that’s ordinary about her. After getting her degree and finding her way to the Wall Street trading floor, she settled into a career in finance. After a few years, her passion for food proved to be too much and she gave up Wall…
In the Santa Ana wind blown months of Fall, our Summer garden begins to enter its true decline. The tomato plants begin to bear less fruit, the peppers, cucumbers, melons, and grapes have given all they have to give. Outside of herbs and potatoes, there’s not much else that will happen in our garden as…
Kombucha, put simply, is fermented sweet tea that is touted to have many health benefits. Claims of health benefits are unsubstantiated however, and that’s not why I decided to make it at home. I made it because I like how it tastes. Any health benefits are a bonus. Kombucha is produced by brewing a batch…