Food/Wine Archive

Listeners and Producers of the No Agenda Show know that John Dvorak is keen on interesting chili peppers, that’s why today’s tip is this fantastic online resource from the Chili Pepper Institute at New Mexico State University. John C. Dvorak: This is a site, it’s called the “Chile Pepper Institute”, it is run out of

John C. Dvorak is always on the hunt for a new tasty hot sauce and his latest find is Tabasco Scorpion Sauce from the famous Louisana Tabasco hot sauce company, McIhenny Co. Their Tabasco Scorpion Sauce’s heat is fueled by super-hot scorpion peppers. John: It’s just a different tip… The reason is because it comes

John Dvorak has another winning wine tip, this time it’s the outstanding WineSearcher.com wine portal. It’s an easy-to-use database on wines, wineries, reviews and places to find that specific wine you always wanted to get. John: Wine-searcher.com. This is a huge, monstrous database of wines—with all the reviews and all the stores that sell the

No Agenda Producer Robert Majors sent John Dvorak a bag of Hawkins Cheezys. Think of it as Canadian Cheetos. It’s a terrific product and you can get them from Amazon. John says he hasn’t found them in a store. John Dvorak: I want to thank Robert Majors for sending me a big, giant triple bag

John dropped a quick tip while discussing exotic emu and ostrich eggs–get the Heirloom Blue eggs from Costco. We saw these a couple of months ago in our local (West Coast) Costco. Pretty awesome for the money. BTW, Tina Curry reports and, we have confirmed, that Costco now has 24 eggs for only $8.35. We

John’s latest Tip of the Day is Jumbo Eggs. So when you go shopping and you see Jumbo eggs – get them! You get twice as much egg for the money and, sometimes you get a double-yolk! On a sad note, John explained that this usually means the laying hen is done for.

Want to elevate your next dish? Malaka, we have a hot tip for you: Zeus Greek Seasoning! John Dvorak can’t say enough about this outstanding product. Adam was surprised he took the shortcut of using a premixed seasoning since John used to own a spice shop. Dvorak explained that’s quite acceptable if it’s an outstanding

At the beginning of No Agenda #1735, Adam played a clip about Groundhog Day. John Dvorak then started discussing eating groundhogs and mentioned the book, Unmentionable Cuisine by Calvin W. Schwabe. This book has horrible recipes featuring rats and other vermin. Turns out, this book was also mentioned on No Agenda way back in 2010!

On a recent trip to his local Costco, Adam was disappointed with the current version of the $1.50 hot dog. Adam: But you know, the one thing they still have is the $1.50 hot dog in a drink, which people revolted over them trying to raise the price on that. Yeah. Well, it’s a scam. Why?

Correction Update! During No Agenda #1744, John Dvorak reported that this story was incorrect and it should be about the Bacon Melt from Burger King! Adam: You got a burger update. John: Yes. The Bacon Melt on sale at Jack in the Box Burger King is quite edible. Adam: Now, does that come with bread?