Food/Wine Archive

MSG

Dvorak doesn't like MSG very much! MSG has been added to food to food for years to enhance "mouth feel" or Umami to the Japanese.

Horse Meat Steaks

While Dvorak played a clip on wild horses being slaughtered by a Navaho tribe, he described the different horse meat dishes he has eaten. One was a specialty horse meat steakhouse. He thought it makes for better tacos. Adam added that it's been found to be added into many commercial meat products.

Coca Tea

Dvorak extolled the virtues of Coca tea in NA 540 while discussing drug laws. He further explained that you can get this tea in the airport lounges in Peru and other Southern American countries, order some and put the extra tea bags in your pocket! [NA540 1:15]

39 Cent Mac’n Cheese Dinner

Dvorak was shopping the aisles of local Grocery Outlet (or Gross Out) when he came upon the cheapest mac’n cheese dinner yet! Only 39 cents for a package of “dinner”. Includes macaroni and cheese flavored powder. A recent visit to our local Grocery Outlet proved disappointing as they ran out of the Macaroni & Cheese

Lynch-Bages

  Ever the romantic, when John Dvorak got married to his beloved Mimi, he put a way a case of  fine, 1988  Lynch-Bages Bordeaux. This way they can open a bottle every year to celebrate their anniversary. Lynch-Bages is one of the famed Bordeaux estates. Get some of your own here!

Hemp Fudgesicles

While discussing how hemp/cannabis products and culture are becoming hip, John Dvorak reported that he bought these delicious Hemp Fudgesicles which are absolutely fantastic!

Healthysurprise.com

John and Adam have been receiving natural snack assortments from Healthysurprise.com. John isn't so crazy about the kale snacks but they agreed the macaroons were delicious.

Dublin Cheddar

John Dvorak just received a donation of Dublin Cheddar cheese but isn't sharing any of it with Adam! A show producer sent John a couple blocks of the tasty cheddar...

Annie’s Macaroni and Cheese

This weeks Executive Producer, Sir Joshua claim's he's just getting by while eating Annie's Shells & White Cheddar. Annie's makes a popular line of organic mac'n cheese products and are headquartered in John Dvorak's backyard of Berkeley, California.

Beef Bourguignon

Adam was hosting a dinner party and needed some help from foodie John Dvorak. In a rare off show phone call, John recommended beef bourguignon - a classic french country dish. Adam renamed it Double Dipper Recession Slave Stew.

Chocolate Covered Bacon

Adam’s munching on a truly delicious outstanding product – chocolate covered bacon! Micky just whipped some up by coating strips of bacon in delicious chocolate. Adam is thinking it might be even better if milk chocolate is used. [NA 507:1:47]

Poutine

Poutine was described by Producer Sam as Canada's version of Mac 'n Cheese. Neither Adam nor John knew exactly what it was, which is french fries topped with brown gravy and cheese curds.

Survival Seed Garden

What do you need more than guns and gold in case of a crisis? Why you need storable food and seeds! Adam said he's down with the stuff advertised on the Alex Jones show...

Matjes Herring

While discussing the Norwegian brown cheese or gjetost, Dvorak brought up Danish matjes, an oily type of herring.

United States of Bacon

During NA 490 John Dvorak was raving about The United States of Bacon on the Destination America network.

Marjoram

While John Dvorak was thinking of ways to improve his Cat Food Mac'n Cheese recipe, he's sure the herb marjoram will come in handy! Dvorak loves marjoram and buys it in 2 pound batches and often uses it as a salad herb.

Cat Food Mac’n Cheese

During NA 492 it was starting to turn into the Mac'n Cheese Life with so many Mac'n Cheese stories. Adam then wondered what's next on the ladder when you can't afford Mac'n Cheese? He then answered cat food!

Geitost (Brown Cheese)

Hans-Peter Feld from Gitmo Nation Brown Cheese actually sent Adam a block of this brown, caramelized sweet goat cheese. Called brunost or gjetost in Norway...

Illegal Fruit

Dvorak talks about California’s fruit inspection stations. Adam is talking about TSA getting ready to have interstate IED inspection stations. NA492

Aspartame Milk

In NA491 john Dvorak mentioned Huffpo story on how the dairy industry is seeking no labels for artificially sweetened milk! Can you imagine awful aspartame in your milk? [NA491:1:07]