Food/Wine Archive

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]  

“Now they’ve combined Star Wars with more Slave material” announced Adam Curry. How can be people be still jacked up over a 30 year old movie? Introducing Kraft Macaroni & Cheese Dinner – Star Wars Shapes. Advertised as a collectors item you don’t actually eat, just like the Star Wars toys you still keep in

John Dvorak has got a new way to make yams this Thanksgiving! Adam asked John for his recipe for turkey, but John said he makes it differently each year, so he offered up this dynamite yam recipe which he got from Emeril Lagasse. About 4 yams (poke some holes in the top with a fork) Bake for an 1.5 hours

Adam played a clip of CNBC’s Joe Kernen interviewing the CEO of SodaStream. In the interview the CEO was told that CO2 which SodaStream uses to carbonate beverages, is classified as a pollutant! Before he could defend his product, Kernen told him he was on his side. Dvorak added that he’s discussed these concerns before.