Food/Wine Archive

Dvorak recommends Goya Sazonador Total! It’s a general purpose seasoning that’s used religiously in the Dvorak household. John adds, “it’s so good, get the big giant one – just mix with sour cream, best buttermilk style ranch dressing you’ll ever have! The reasons the seasoning was mentioned was that they played a clip of CEO

Oh no! Looks like Palmetto cheese got the Noodle Gun and has been cancelled! Costco has removed the from their shelves to support the boycott and to prevent themselves from being boycotted.

Adam and Tina-the-Keeper visited Chicago this week and and were stymied in their attempts to get into a JCD recommended restaurant. They ended up at Beatrix where Adam sampled some Wagu beef. [1063 :07]

At the beginning of show 1018, Dvorak reported it’s pouring rain and he’s pouring tea! More precisely he’s drinking hard to find, single source autumn flush darjeeling. Read more about this outstanding product here:https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/10/04/496451715/autumn-flush-the-best-darjeeling-tea-you-ll-likely-never-taste Of course we sourced some from Amazon: https://amzn.to/2pPpwea https://amzn.to/2GSc0Ph   [1018 :01]  

Dvorak is trying to remember the name of a chain of chicken restaurants in Saudi Arabia. Supposedly, even critics of the Kingdom rave about this chicken. Jokingly, Adam asked if it was called Hermanos Pollos in reference to the infamous chicken joint in Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul. We looked around and discovered Al Baik is

John Dvorak recommends checking out the crazy Korean energy drink available at Hankook market in Menlo Park (or Redwood City) in the San Francisco Bay Peninsula. FACT CHECK!  We discovered Hankook is really 20 miles down the road in Sunnyvale. According to Dvorak, these Korean energy drinks are not like the ones we have domestically, loaded with taurine,

While Adam was discussing a story on how the retail bubble has imploded leading to malls closing,  Dvorak was offered the explanation that Millenials like to buy offbeat, small batch products that cost twice as much ordinary products and not at a mall. Adam offered up that he and Tina eat Breakstone’s Cottage Cheese which “is fantastic!” Adam added that many

Adam is trying to dissect the #pizzagate controversy. For the most part it’s bullcrap. Adam’s analysis is that there are no real victims per se, but it’s purpose is to license journalists, bloggers and podcasters. Funnyman, John C. Dvorak thought many pizza places have interesting names that have suggestive codewords like Oakland’s own, Lanesplitter Pizza. This place

  Adam reports that there’s a big crisis at the big UK grocer, Tesco, where you can get everything from groceries to car insurance. Unilever, the manufacturer of Marmite, wants to raise the price due to the de-evaluation of the Pound due to Brexit.  According to Adam half the Brits either like or hate the product,

While discussing brash conservative and Adam’s ‘favorite gay’, Milo Yiannopoulos, Dvorak remembered that Milo is a name of a sorghum based beverage from Nestle. [828 2:53]