Podcast Companion: TK, Nate, and Jesse Have a Quickie

 

FINALLY, SUPER KING HAS COME BACK TO HOT DOGS AND CAVIAR!!!

*applause*

Okay, that was a wrestling reference, you rubes.  This week's episode is just a short little discussion.  We answer some listener questions, TK drops some HR knowledge on us (really), and Jesse tells us the funniest thing a waiter has ever told him.  (Not counting the time the Mighty Logan made a server at New Heights tell him he was fat, that was f'in priceless.)

Time Stamps

2:11 Reader Question: Best Ways to Cook Octopus

3:00 Fun Expo Calls

4:52 The Ethical Issues of Eating ‘Pus

8:10 On Baby Octopi

10:22 Why Octopus Gets So Tough

12:31 What’s Up With Appalachian Cuisine

17:07 Brunswick Stew Vs. Burgoo

21:36 Books on Appalachian Cooking (and other Southern Cooking)

26:04 Revisiting the Issue of Hostesses

28:44 The Dreaded Ascended-Hostess Manager

32:44 Tarver’s Brilliant, Next-Level Solution to the Ascended Hostess Problem

34:38 The Moto Story

Links:

TK talked about Moonlight B-B-Q, Kentucky's mutton barbecue mecca.

Jesse rambled a bit about some business principle he couldn't think of the name of (thank you University of New Orleans College of Business Administration, let's geaux Privateers!), where people within an organization are never in the job that's optimal for them, because they get promoted into mediocrity.  Well, after the episode, he actually did (get this...) RESEARCH.  A Hot Dogs and Caviar first!  Anyway, it's called the Peter principle, and you can read more about it here.

When asked about Appalachian cuisine, Jesse and Tarver both had book recommendations. 

Jesse talked about the work of (and about) Bill Neal, specifically Bill Neal's Southern Cooking, Biscuits, Spoonbread, and Sweet Potato Pie, and Remembering Bill Neal.

TK had a bunch of books at the tip of his tongue, and promised to come through with his list.  Here it is, all linked to the Evil Empire:

The Civil War Cookbook, Smokehouse Ham, Spoon Bread, and Scuppernong Wine, Victuals, The Foxfire Book of Appalachian Cookery, and two books that aren't cookbooks: the historical Mountain People in a Flat Land, and the novel The Tall Woman.

So get cracking, there, nerds, homework has been assigned.

See y'all next week.