Even the Coleslaw: Nothing's Too Basic for a Great a Restaurant Menu
🎙️ EP187 — If done right, it's one of the best salads there is. Sweetheart cabbage. Sharp vinegar. Dressed à la minute. Everything we've learned and haven't learned about coleslaw.🎧 In This Episode:...
24 Touko 30min
The Garlic Episode: A Professional Cook's Approach to the Clove
🎙️ EP186 — Smash your cloves. Wait 10. Then cook it. Everything we've learned and haven't learned about garlic.🎧 In This Episode:🧄 Can there be too much garlic?👨🍳 Ben Morgan's nixtamalized garli...
17 Touko 29min
Culinary Elegance: Why Simple Food Is So Hard for Cooks
🎙️ EP185 — Great dishes have no unnecessary BS. Just good craft stripped down to the essentials. This episode gets into restraint, confidence, quiet technique, and the kind of cooking that has nowher...
10 Touko 34min
Harsh Truths About Kitchen Management: The Stuff That Actually Makes You A Better Cook
🎙️ EP184 — An IBM data scientist wrote harsh truths about performance. We went through the list one by one.🎧 In This Episode:🔥 Fear Signals Importance🍽️ Cooking Other People's Food🧠 The First Dra...
3 Touko 29min
A Cook's Process, Pt. 3 – Opening a Restaurant: Great Cooking Won't Save a Bad Concept
🎙️ EP183 — Very few chefs can open a restaurant and keep it alive. This episode is about knowing the difference between good food and good concept.🎧 Topics Covered in This Episode:🍽️ When Your CV I...
26 Huhti 32min
Leadership: What the Korean Army Can Teach Chefs
🎙️ EP182 — Pressure exposes everything: ego, clarity, restraint, empathy, and whether the person leading the pass is actually leading at all.🎧 Topics Covered in This Episode:🪖 The Korean War Leader...
19 Huhti 50min
A Cook’s Process, Pt. 2 – Building a Menu From Scratch
🎙️ EP181 — Turning ideas into dishes is one thing. Turning them into a menu that makes sense is where cooking gets real.🎧 Topics Covered in This Episode:🍽️ Building a Menu From Scratch 🔪 Small Tea...
12 Huhti 34min
A Cook’s Process, Pt. 1 – Where the Hell Does a Dish Begin?
🎙️ EP180 — Before there’s a dish, there’s a way of seeing. This one gets into how cooks find ideas, work inside constraints, and turn produce, technique, and instinct into something worth putting on ...
5 Huhti 43min
