Food/Wine Archive
27 Mar 2013
Matjes Herring
While discussing the Norwegian brown cheese or gjetost, Dvorak brought up Danish matjes, an oily type of herring.
26 Mar 2013
United States of Bacon
During NA 490 John Dvorak was raving about The United States of Bacon on the Destination America network.
25 Mar 2013
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.
25 Mar 2013
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!
14 Mar 2013
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...
05 Mar 2013
Illegal Fruit
Dvorak talks about California’s fruit inspection stations. Adam is talking about TSA getting ready to have interstate IED inspection stations. NA492
28 Feb 2013
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]
28 Feb 2013
Mac ‘n Cheese
During NA 491, Adam and John brainstormed that they'd get rich with a Mac'n Cheese food truck. It was brought up again the next episode when they played a clip that explained how Mac'n Cheese is cheaper than fruit. Adam reminded everyone that cat food is even cheaper!
27 Feb 2013
Tilapia “Food Scam”
[NA 490]“The biggest Gitmo fish in the world!” exclaimed Adam during a discussion of food scams. Dvorak described tilapia as “fish they feed to make fish” and the Canola oil of the fish world.”
22 Feb 2013
Châteauneuf-du-Pape
Châteauneuf-du-Pape was mentioned very briefly while John Dvorak was discussing the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI. He pointed out there used to be a feud between Rome and the French city that makes Châteauneuf-du-Pape wine.
03 Jan 2013
Everclear
During NA 474 a show Producer sent John some small batch No Agenda Moonshine. John compared it to Everclear, a 180 proof distilled spirit.
08 Dec 2012
Maker’s Mark
A producer asked John C. Dvorak for a recommendation of a quality American Bourbon. John first recommended Maker's Mark as a "very good product" for something that is easily available. Then up-rec'd to Van Winkle bourbon. John further scoffed at Adam's suggestion of Jack Daniels.
26 Nov 2012
Thanksgiving Wine Tips
During the donation announcements, a producer asked John for thanksgiving dinner wine tips. John recommended a Beaujolais Villages from Jadot - a 2010-11 vintage is currently being sold at Costco or at wine.com. "Beaujolais goes perfect with turkey!" California Chardonnay also works great too.
17 Nov 2012
Saffron Rice
Afghani farmers began growing saffron to replace opium as a cash crop, but now the spice is suffering falling prices. The scam John Dvorak uncovered is that many spice merchants claim the saffron is from Iran, but it's really grown in Afghanistan and resold.
01 Nov 2012
Jack Daniels Unaged Tennessee Rye
Adam's Red Book prediction is that introduction of this product heralds moonshine as the next Big Thing.
27 Oct 2012
Frugal Gourmet
While discussing accused British pedophile and TV personality Jimmy Savile, John Dvorak mused about former PBS TV chef, pastor and cookbook author Jeff Smith, better known as the Frugal Gourmet in the 1990's.
17 Oct 2012
Moonshine
During NA 447 Adam and John were debating whether NASCAR originated from bootleggers in the American South. Adam predicted that moonshine (homemade liquor) will be the new tequila (one for the Red Book!).
02 Oct 2012
Highball
During a discussion which Adam requested that one of the show's Producers should send him some Hardol to experiment with, the concept of drinking some highball's during the show taping was proposed.
04 Sep 2012
Lagunitas IPA
At the end of NA 440, John Dvorak declared Lagunitas IPA the best beer on Pacific coast! Well, it's good if you like very hoppy beer.
29 Aug 2012
Merguez Sausage
Adam finally got around to cooking up some Merguez sausage after John Dvorak recommended it. Adam procured them at his favorite Austin Farmer's Market and proceeded to blow them up while cooking them.