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 Apr 43min
This Restaurant Has Thai Flavors Without Thai Ingredients? Ft. The Social Distortion
🎙️ EP179 — What can cooks learn when they stop chasing ingredients and start understanding flavor, balance, and instinct? Mark Hill of The Social Distortion gets into Prik Laap, experimental Thai sea...
29 Mars 43min
We’re Not Done With Eggs: Probably the Kitchen’s Most Versatile Ingredient
🎙️ EP178 — Eggs are the ingredient that exposes whether a cook understands texture, heat, structure, and restraint... or just follows recipes.🎧 Topics Covered in This Episode:🥚 Why Eggs Matter ⚪ Wh...
22 Mars 34min
What Cooks Learn in Other People’s Kitchens
🎙️ EP177 — What cooks learn in other people’s kitchens: pop-ups, borders, Mexican food abroad, and the small decisions that separate real adaptation from watered-down cooking.🎧 Topics Covered in Thi...
15 Mars 31min
What Changed in Bread Baking in the Last 20 Years? Ft. Claudio Perrando
🎙️ EP176 – Master baker Claudio Perrando joins Eric to talk fermentation, flour, open crumb, Tartine’s influence, and why bread is still one of the clearest signatures of a serious restaurant.🎧 Topi...
8 Mars 41min
Motivation: The Stories That Drive and Break Us
🎙️ EP175 — The lie we call motivation. We worship the grind and romanticize the 16-hour shift, calling it passion, discipline, excellence. But what if motivation is just a story we tell ourselves to ...
1 Mars 21min
Noma Under Fire: When Kitchen Culture Crosses the Line
🎙️ EP174 — We talk about the abuse allegations surrounding Noma, what we’ve heard from chefs who worked there, why this story is more complicated than headlines suggest and why the industry needs rea...
22 Feb 54min
Impostor Syndrome in the Kitchen: Feeling Like a Fraud Behind the Pass
📌 Before we start, we address the recent Noma abuse stories surfacing online 🎙️ EP173 — Impostor syndrome in the kitchen: the quiet fear that you’re one service away from being exposed.🎧 Topics Cov...
15 Feb 26min
