Episodes
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DC makes Kirby Mekler's brown butter sugar cookies with Cadbury Mini Eggs then welcomes Nicole Byer (NAILED IT, WIPEOUT) to talk Impossible Whoppers, Steve Aoki's ghost kitchen pizza, Rogue One spoilers, people-watching at Mastro's, Howlin' Ray's, whether our deceased parents would be in to conspiracy theories, injuries of all kinds, and a whole lot more!
RECIPE:
https://leisurefanclub.com/the-best-brown-butter-sugar-cookies-with-cadbury-mini-eggs/
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DC makes Nigella Lawson's salt and vinegar roasted potatoes and then welcomes Rick Perlstein (author of "Nixonland," "The Invisible Bridge," "Reaganland") to talk airport food rituals, post-yoga-class Reubens, Reagan on the mashed-potato circuit, how a guy named Earl Butz destroyed the family farm, bachelor food shopping at CVS, Chicago grocery store culture, book club with the Watergate Babies, Reggie Bars, and a whole lot more!
RECIPE: https://www.nigella.com/recipes/salt-and-vinegar-potatoes
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DC makes Emily Nunn's easy orange salad and then welcomes Dhruv Uday Singh (Good Trouble, Prodigal Son) to talk about Korean fried chicken, eggs Kejriwal, being a part of air-fryer nation, the aching vulnerability of Zoom auditions, post-breakup weed intake, soufflé aspirations, and a whole lot more!
RECIPE:
https://eatsomesalad.substack.com/p/welcome-to-the-department-of-salad-d18
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DC roasts a sweet potato for a really long time then adds butter, tahini, lemon and sea salt (do it!) then chats with Alex Scordelis (Difficult People, Billy On The Street) about depraved In-N-Out orders, the lineage of cakes with hidden good luck charms inside, Flaming Dr. Peppers, secret fantasy football tribunals, his Neil Young cover band the Cinnamon Boys, and a whole lot more!
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DC rings in the New Year by making Mashama Bailey's stewed black eyed peas then talks to Shaan Baig (The Get Brown, Bollywood Boys) about his epic journey from high school forensics to pre-med to being a comedian slash dentist, Ramadan social scheduling, Lisa Simpson moments, white coat ceremonies, his mom's lamb biryani and a whole lot more.
RECIPE
https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1019833-stewed-black-eyed-peas?ds_c=71700000052595478&gclid=Cj0KCQiAlsv_BRDtARIsAHMGVSa-T6aQP_lizmJ74kjZGwR8rKLEPCF9uvn40njgdRHIQCY975sk_VoaAuToEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds
SHAAN'S YOUTUBE
https://www.youtube.com/user/notoriousBAIG BOLLYWOOD BOYS POD https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bollywood-boys-podcast/id1244580176 THE GET BROWN https://www.instagram.com/thegetbrown/ -
A short note to say exactly that. Thanks for listening, see you next week!
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DC makes Brinda Ayer's sugee biscuits AKA semolina butter cookies (or does he?) and then welcomes Ben and Kirby Mekler (Mortal Podkast and Leisure Fan Club, respectively) for the podcast debut of their new daughter Sunday, custom latke brainstorming live on the air, Kirby's food photography do's and don'ts, Mortal Kombat fighters' favorite foods, and a whole lot more!
RECIPE
https://food52.com/recipes/82214-sugee-biscuits-recipe
KIRBY'S SITE
leisure fan club
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DC celebrates the culmination of a weeks-long ramen project by welcoming the authors of the comic-book cookbook LET'S MAKE RAMEN, Sarah Becan and Hugh Amano, to discuss how much a "bushel" is, what to do with 25 lbs of sweet potatoes, why banks have blue logos and restaurants have red logos, where ramen comes from and where it's going, snow monkeys boiling eggs, America's next top dumplings, and more!
LET'S MAKE RAMEN:
https://littleshopofcomics.com/products/lets-make-ramen-comic-book-cookbook-itm848409
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DC preserves some lemons then welcomes Nikki Palumbo (The New Yorker) to talk about her connection to Italian food, her 93 year old nana's cavatelli / roast beef / deepest darkest secrets, adapting the family stuffed artichoke recipe to be vegan, adult slumber parties and vision boarding, whether physical therapists are more depressed than dentists, Pez dispenser injuries, her bloodiest kitchen mishaps, and more!
RECIPE
https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1016212-preserved-lemons
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DC makes shio tare as the ramen project nears completion then chats with Carey O'Donnell (Heathers, Sexy Unique Podcast) about LA deli culture, NJ diner culture, candy rituals, home economics, condescending study abroad teachers, why God placed him at one very specific Coldstone Creamery on one very special day, and more!
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DC makes chashu (the braised pork belly that goes on top of ramen) then chats with Andrew Farmer (Scary Stories To Tell On The Pod) about the legacy of Uncle Roy's restaurants, how signed headshots get on the walls of old restaurants, childhood dogs both phantom and otherwise, knishes, Smoking Bishop, warm vanilla cake, how New Hampshire in the 90s was actually the 80s, childhood dog sitting, why you should always order the kosher meal on a plane, and a whole lot more!
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DC begins a ramen-making journey with tonkatsu broth from Hugh Amano & Sarah Becan's LET'S MAKE RAMEN and then talks to Matt Pais about his book ZACH MORRIS LIED 329 TIMES, specifically DC's complete lack of "Saved By The Bell" knowledge, whether or not Zach Morris laid the groundwork for Trump, food in the SBTB-iverse & more!
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DC makes Ivan Orkin's shimeji mushroom rice then chats with Whitney Pastorek post-election day to talk getting food trucks to the polls with José Andrés' World Central Kitchen, doing TOO good a job getting out the early vote in Tennessee, difficult student government memories, being radicalized under Rudy Giuliani, overnight chicken and more!
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DC makes possibly his favorite recipe of all time — Ruth Reichl's spicy Chinese noodles, then talks to director Michael Hoffman (ONE FINE DAY, A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM) about Helen Mirren's Christmas goose, learning to cook in Tuscany, slow food, the ins and outs of olive oil, the REAL tuna melt, Georgian cuisine, the best thing(s) he's ever eaten, and a whole lot more!
RECIPE:
https://food52.com/blog/25325-ruth-reichl-save-me-the-plums-memoir-excerpt
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DC makes Deborah Madison's potato and green chile stew then chats with Susan Song live and direct from a South Korean quarantine hotel about her hilarious Koreantine Instagram stories, sweet corn, BBQ duck, raw marinated crab, becoming a one-person content factory, and more!
RECIPE:
https://food52.com/recipes/30727-deborah-madison-s-potato-and-green-chile-stew
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DC makes Martha Rose Shulman's pappa al pomodoro then chats with Rob Kutner (Conan, The Daily Show With Jon Stewart) about homemade hummus and pickled watermelon rinds, making ramen with the whole family, our Mad Men parody past, how TikTok has given his kids good taste in music, making cordials out of fruit scraps, weaponizing brunch to see your otherwise-busy friends, his new show GANDER, and a whole lot more.
GANDER:
https://tubitv.com/tv-shows/542680/s01_e01_food_delivery_services
RECIPE:
https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1016451-tuscan-bread-and-tomato-soup-pappa-al-pomodoro
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DC makes his butter-garlic-and-herb basted grilled cheese then talks to Joe Berkowitz about his new book AMERICAN CHEESE, his picks for the ultimate cheese board, cheese-turning robots named after Bernie Sanders, underground cheese parties and cheese-cutting competitions, how the phrase "cheese cutting" loses all comedic value in the cheese world, which Drag Race queen is which cheese, and much, much more. Cheese!
AMERICAN CHEESE: https://bookshop.org/books/american-cheese-an-indulgent-odyssey-through-the-artisan-cheese-world/9780062934895
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The 2nd part of DC's chat with Josh Gondelman! Bon Appetit's salted peanut butter and jelly ice cream pie, pandemic neighborhood baked-good drops, identifying with Speckle from TUCA & BERTIE, how his mom's lasagna is like a Jay Electronica album, Prince Paul's Ketel One rider hack, and a whole lot more!
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DC doesn't cook this week but DOES talk with Josh Gondelman (Make My Day, Desus & Mero) about back when whole wheat was a vegetable, how his dad got busted by his rabbi uncle, baseball and hip hop on the radio, AOC's adobo mix, how sometimes the joy of cooking is NOT cooking, Dunkin Donuts culture, and a whole lot more!
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DC makes fusilli with broccoli and anchovies then is joined by Mary Sasson to talk about when your mom's house doesn't have physical garlic, the best place to stash contraband soda, snack bar nachos, cooking as an art project you get to eat, how amazing stoves are wasted on the rich, strudel, being part of an endless cavalcade of siblings, Real Housewives, Vanderpump and more!
RECIPE:
https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1017909-fusilli-with-broccoli-and-anchovies
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