Podcast Companion: To Send Back, or Not to Send Back (and other long-winded digressions)

 

(Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's Amazing Summer Pudding, Discussed Herein)

Hi everyone!  TK couldn't be there today, so Jesse and Nate started off with a listener question, and just spiraled from there.  We discussed sending things back at a restaurant, backyard brick ovens, cranky diner impresarios, and pictures of dogs taking a dump.  There's something for everyone on this episode!

Time Stamps

2:34 Nate’s Christmas Calendars
5:09 Nate’s Science Experiment (Mesophillic Cheese Culture)
7:03 People Like Grilled Cheese
9:42 Kenny Shopsin
14:37 Uncle Bucks
15:10 Huff’s Question on Sending Stuff Back
36:19. The Guys’ Actual Advice for Dissatisfied Diners, Sort Of
41:26 On Food Poisoning Fears
44:35 Nate’s Pop-Up Pizza Oven, Which Devolves Into a Discussion of Jesse’s Mom’s Xmas Gift Buying Habits
50:16 The Absurdity of Fondue Sets
51:50 Whittingstall’s Oeuvre
58:00 Signature Dishes that Matter
1:09:28 The Ultimate Nomenclature Controversy Question: Sorbet v. Sherbet

Links

We discussed the bizarre performance art (maybe) the Dollar Grilled Cheese Truck.  It's unclear whether if actually exists, but you can find pics on the internet.  Not that that really proves anything.  To learn more, check this out.

We also discussed Kenny Shopsin, a funny, insane, irascible diner owner we idolize.  You can find the documentary about him, I Like Killing Flies, on Youtube right now.  I won't link it, because I'm not sure the copyright is legit, but there you go.  For a copy of his (brilliant, hilarious) book, check out the evil empire.

Speaking of the evil empire, you can also get some of the cheese culture Nate was talking about here.

For more on Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's brilliant Meat book, check out this link.  For his handbooks, eBay is a better bet.  For Jesse's review of the Bread handbook (where the summer pudding above was from), click here.

To learn more about Phaidon's brilliant Signature Dishes that Matter, click here.

Finally, Jesse and Nate clumsily discussed several dishes, but were fuzzy on details, in particular whether a Cronut was fried, and how long Ma Po Tofu had been around.  Well, just to show we do research after all (and, of course, after the fact), here are the relevant articles from Wikipedia that we could have EASILY consulted, if we ever, EVER thought more than 30 seconds into the future.

That's all, guys, enjoy!