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Andrew Talks to ChefsEXCLUSIVE! RETURN OF THE LA CHEF CONFERENCE: A Special Announcement by Conference Founder Brad Metzger & Host Chef Neal FraserFor nearly a decade, the LA Chef Conference has been the gathering of Los Angeles chefs and industry professionals. After a one-year hiatus, the conference returns this October 6 in its new home at Redbird and Vibiana in Downtown LA. On this episode, conference founder Brad Metzger and host chef Neal Fraser join Andrew to discuss some featured topics, speakers, and chefs who will be cooking for the conference's always-impressive lunch, including (in alphabetical order) Gilberto Cetina, David Gelb, Rashida Holmes, Jordan Kahn, Evan Kleiman, Michael Mina, Charles Namba, Laurie Ochoa, Nancy Silverton, Michael Voltaggio, Alice Waters, and others. (Andrew...2025-05-1545 min
The LA Food PodcastFrom border town to Beard semifinalist, with Barra Santos’ Melissa Lopez. Plus, Jenn Harris on tariffs, Khushbu Shah on influencers vs. experts, and a hot LA restaurant survey making the rounds.Melissa Lopez is the James Beard semifinalist chef behind Barra Santos, one of the buzziest restaurants in recent memory to grace Los Angeles. Barra Santos is a tiny, sardine-tin of a restaurant in Cypress Park serving up thoughtful, super high-quality Portuguese fare. But as small as the restaurant’s footprint is, the noise it’s made since opening has been nothing short of deafening. After visiting the restaurant myself, I knew I wanted to get to know the mastermind behind the operation, and Chef Melissa did not disappoint. Would I go so far as to say we’ve got one of...2025-04-1846 minThe LA Food PodcastBon Appetit honors an LA hotspot, Josiah Citrin reflects on 25 years of Melisse, and Laurie Ochoa has had it with guest chef dinners. Plus, an olive oil masterclass with Corto's Lisa Pollack.Today on the LA Food Podcast, which LA restaurant was named one of Bon Appetit’s Best New Restaurants of 2024? What’s the secret to Chef Josiah Citrin’s longevity? And which famous Los Angeles fruit did Tejal Rao dedicate an entire New York Times column to?
Father Sal’s with us to discuss all of it, in addition to the pros and cons of guest chef dinners, the magical world of restaurant music playlists, and a round of bad idea/horrible idea featuring vegan food festivals, insane customized drinks, and a new LA Times se...2024-09-201h 56
You Are What You ReadLet's go to Paris with Ruth ReichlOn this week's episode of You Are What You Read, we are joined by chef, food writer and bestselling author, Ruth Reichl with her latest novel, The Paris Novel. Ruth is the former editor in chief of Gourmet magazine, and previously served as restaurant critic for The New York Times, as well as food editor and restaurant critic for the Los Angeles Times. Her popular weekly food newsletter, La Briffe, is hosted on Substack, as is the podcast “Three Ingredients” she produces with Nancy Silverton and Laurie Ochoa. Ms. Reichl has also recently finished producing and starring in a document...2024-05-2842 min
Three IngredientsHospital Food: Why is it so Bad?Why are the sickest people in our country being served the worst food?Not content to limit our complaints to hospital food, we move on to school food. Shouldn’t it be better? Can we fix it? Let’s talk about it in this bonus episode of “Three Ingredients.”And should you care to read the article Ruth wrote about school food in 1978 for New West magazine, there’s a copy in this Dec. 2021 edition of Ruth’s Substack newsletter La Briffe. Also, find the story Laurie mentions by Jenn Harris on Los Angeles schools trying to in...2024-05-0607 min
Three IngredientsEpisode 10 BonusIn which we discuss our favorite scripted food shows. A few old favorites, and a couple you might never have heard of. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit threeingredients.substack.com/subscribe2024-04-2503 min
Three IngredientsSriracha: Has it become an old lady condiment?In Episode 9 of “Three Ingredients,” Ruth, Nancy and Laurie have a heated discussion about chiles. First we talk about how they hurt so good that sriracha has possibly become an old lady condiment. Then we talk about how they hurt so bad that Nancy once ended up with her hands in buckets of ice water after a memorable encounter with a lot of chiles. And speaking of hands, Nancy would like you to please throw out your salad tongs and start massaging your dear little lettuce leaves with your hands. And that’s only the beginning of a discussion that r...2024-03-221h 00
Three IngredientsWould you eat an armadillo?What will you eat? What won't you? In this bonus episode of "Three Ingredients" we discuss eating some things that many people consider very strange. Tarantula anyone? How about guinea pig? Then we consider the lobster — and discuss other unmentionable aspects of cuisine. And have you contemplated the human toll of eating vegetables? Are you ready for some food for thought? We've got it.---To receive new episodes of "Three Ingredients" as they drop, sign up to become a free subscriber at threeingredients.substack.com/subscribe. If you want to receive bonus posts, recipes, res...2024-02-2611 min
Three IngredientsIs This the World's Strangest Breakfast?What do you eat for breakfast? In Episode 8 of “Three Ingredients” we introduce you to what might be the strangest way to start the day. It’s also the most delicious. Then we talk about our favorite condiments with odes to great balsamic vinegar, truffles and vanilla in its many forms. And then, because we just can’t help ourselves, we rag on one that none of us can stand. Laurie shares a funny memory of her first foie gras, Ruth speaks wistfully of a great bourbon she can no longer afford and Nancy goes hunting. This conversation is definite...2024-02-1240 min
Three IngredientsHow To Feed a NewbornA friend shares what Italian babies are fed as their first solid food. It is, frankly, hard to believe. But then we fed our kids some pretty strange foods too. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit threeingredients.substack.com/subscribe2024-01-3105 min
Three IngredientsDid Nancy Silverton just revolutionize carrot cake?In Episode 7 of “Three Ingredients,” we talk about what separates restaurant chefs from home cooks. Is it training? Obsession? A drive for perfection? Or something less tangible? One secret: Nancy says she's never thought of herself as a chef. We ask why. We also have a discussion about open kitchens in restaurants, including Nancy’s experiences cooking before an audience of diners at Spago and her own mozzarella bar at Mozza, as well as the time Laurie first realized the kitchen watches back. Plus, do you plate your takeout food or eat it right out of the...2024-01-2242 min
Three IngredientsThe right way and the wrong way to cook in someone else's kitchenHow do you feel about people who come in and just take over your kitchen? That’s the burning question that starts off our conversation and reveals Ruth’s territorial tendencies. From there, we morph into the etiquette of pot luck dinners. And then we get into the whole subject of dinner parties. What is it, exactly that makes a good one? The truth is, we are deeply divided on that subject. We can’t even agree on the timing of the cooking or how to set the table. But one thing is for sure, by the time this conver...2024-01-1138 min
Three IngredientsEpisode 5: How Nancy cornered the celery heart market. Thoughts on great dinner parties.You’ll hear no iceberg lettuce shaming in this episode.The great little food shops we talk about in this episode* Talbott and Arding, where Ruth does a lot of shopping. 202 Allen Street, Hudson New York* We Got Nuts, Nancy’s online source for Antep Turkish pistachios. She buys them by the five-pound bag.* Breadfolks, the Hudson bakery Nancy asks Ruth about, was opened by celebrity portrait photographer Norman Jean Roy and his artist wife Joanna Jean Roy. Ruth says they did “the greatest” laminated pastries. When they closed the bakery in 2022...2024-01-0545 min
Three IngredientsBonus 'Ingredients': A health inspector story plus Ruth's food cart chicken recipeWhat happens when the health department shows up during the busiest time at a restaurant? It's not pretty. Plus, the recipe Ruth invented for those times when she's out of town and craving her favorite food cart treat. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit threeingredients.substack.com/subscribe2023-12-2802 min
Three IngredientsRuffled feathers at the first James Beard AwardsHow to shock a badass woman chef In our fourth episode, Nancy talks about winning the James Beard Award for Best Pastry Chef in 1991, and how aghast the presenter, French chef and cookbook author Madeleine Kamman, was that an upstart from California had beat out two famous men with French and Swiss training. The predicted winner was the legendary Albert Kumin, the original pastry chef of The Four Seasons who went on to work in Jimmy Carter’s White House kitchen and founded the now-closed International Pastry Arts Center in in Elmsford, N.Y.“He is o...2023-12-2143 min
Three IngredientsA salty conversation: The mini episode on saltThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit threeingredients.substack.comDiamond versus Morton kosher saltWalk into almost any restaurant kitchen and you’ll find the familiar deep red-and-white boxes of Diamond Crystal kosher salt. As Nancy tells us, she even takes a box to Italy when she heads there for the summer because it’s the salt she knows best.Kosher salt (with the exception of Jacobsen’s, which we discuss below), is…2023-12-1800 min
Three IngredientsHawaiian punch and the violence of pestoWe’re in Hawaii this week — at least Nancy is — and we talk about everything from native fruits to Spam, one of the few foods in the world that Ruth has never eaten. Ruth talks about the Zen of pie making, Nancy gives a shout out to two of her favorite kitchen utensils and Laurie waxes poetic about why Jonathan Gold fell in love with the island. Leaving Hawaii we discuss why failure in the kitchen is a good thing. Then it’s on to the politics of pesto — along with a handy little trick to make it better — even if you’...2023-12-1327 min
Three IngredientsEpisode 2: Critic bait, vanity cooking and the queen of pistachiosWhy do we call Nancy the queen of pistachios? What secrets can Ruth tell us about critic bait? And is Laurie really the only one of the three of us who loves tripe? Also, can food be too flavorful? These are just some of the things we’re talking about in today’s episode, including the vanity of cooking. We dish on show-off chefs and why Nancy says Thomas Keller and Massimo Bottura don’t fit in that category. We talk about why we love Sarah Cicolini’s Rome restaurant Santo Palato and the Pie Room at London’s Holborn Di...2023-12-0639 min
Three IngredientsEpisode OneThe debut episode of “Three Ingredients." Artichokes Alice Waters would hate, fish lessons, trashcan stuffing, a panna cotta cook-off...plus Ruth and Nancy throw lemons at each other. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit threeingredients.substack.com/subscribe2023-11-2933 min
ADHD Support Talk RadioResources: Managing ADHD StormsJames Ochoa, LPC, joins co-host Lynne Edris in a meaningful conversation about Resources for managing ADHD. They discuss the emotional stress and mental storms it can create, healing from the all-too-common micro-traumas that come from living with the condition, and the importance of owning the strategies that work for you, unapologetically. James Ochoa, LPC, has combined counseling, coaching, mentoring and intuition to help adults with ADHD live meaningful lives for over 30 years. James’ key concepts involve working with clients’ imagination, life history and inner resources. His insight-and-action-based style of counseling has helped clients from all walks of life. James is also...2023-07-1831 min
Blogging the Boys: for Dallas Cowboys fansThe Ocho: Thoughts ahead of legal tamperingWhaddup World!Legal tampering in the NFL begins early next week, so how are we feeling about all things as they relate to the Dallas Cowboys? Check out the latest episode of The Ocho as RJ Ochoa discusses with ESPN Australia's Laurie Horesh!Make sure to head to RighteousFelon.com and use discount code BTB15 for 15% off your orders of delicious beef jerky!Huzzah! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices2023-03-091h 02
Transmusic AirwavesTransmusic Airwaves Episode #472 - June 24, 2022 Paul Ciminero (host) PodcastIt’s time once again for another weekly edition of TRANSMUSIC AIRWAVES and today it’s Episode #472 with the usual, unusual suspects all assembled into six sets, each with their own unique attributes of diverse musical styles. It’s an adventure for your ears where at every turn I hope to surprise you, bring a smile to your face, and have readily receptive to what might be forthcoming as the program progresses. Here’s a smattering of what to expect this week. I’ll start off with DEERHOOF from ‘Apple O’ followed by a new cut from KING GIZZA...2022-06-243h 03
Gaze into the Blue LightSummer 2021 Essential ReadsIn this episode, Steve and Nikki review their essential books of Summer 2021. Steve reviews the Eat Like Luchador: The Offical Cookbook and novella The Salt Fields by Stacy D. Flood. Nikki reviews her books of summer Crying in H Mart: A Memoir and World Travel: An Irreverant Guide by Anthony Bourdain and Laurie Woolever.Buy Eat Like a Luchador by Legends of Lucha Libra and Monica OchoaBuy The Salt Fields by Stacy D. FloodBuy Crying in H Mart: A Memoir by Michelle ZaunerBuy World Travel: An Irreverant Guide...2021-05-291h 17
ADHD Support Talk Radio PodcastEmotional Stress and ADHDIn this episode Tara McGillicuddy talks to James Ochoa about debilitating emotional and mental distress of ADHD and how it can develop into a low grade PTSD or"Emotional Distress Syndrome". James provides strategies to learn how to navigate life in an empowered way by resetting and creating ways to develop insulation from the EDS of ADHD. James Ochoa, LPC, author of Focused Forward: Navigating the Storms of Adult ADHD, is founder and director of The Life Empowerment Center in Austin, TX. James offers action-focused counseling and executive coaching to help his clients discover ways to empower...2019-05-2317 minADHD Support Talk RadioEmotional Stress and ADHDIn this episode Tara McGillicuddy talks to James Ochoa about debilitating emotional and mental distress of ADHD and how it can develop into a low grade PTSD or"Emotional Distress Syndrome". James provides strategies to learn how to navigate life in an empowered way by resetting and creating ways to develop insulation from the EDS of ADHD. James Ochoa, LPC, author of Focused Forward: Navigating the Storms of Adult ADHD, is founder and director of The Life Empowerment Center in Austin, TX. James offers action-focused counseling and executive coaching to help his clients discover ways to empower themselves in all...2019-05-2317 min
Hole in My Heart PodcastEpisode 68: The Need for Nurture with Anna Carter and Shannon Ochoa{Week 1 Core Need is the need to be nurtured: Cared for; held.}
It's time to dive deeply into Core Needs. What are they? They are good needs God put into us for things like belonging, purpose, affirmation, and to be seen and desired. The Fall threw a wrench in our once-natural ability to get them perfectly met by God and supported by people, however, and now we have natural inclinations to get these good needs met in ways that don't satisfy us and don't glorify God. (That natural inclination is known as our sin nature.) Our default...2019-02-0249 min
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Notebook on Cities and CultureTo come to terms in L.A.: Slake founding editors Laurie Ochoa and Joe DonnellyColin Marshall talks to Laurie Ochoa and Joe Donnelly, founding editors of the new Los Angeles literary journal Slake. The magazine, which has just released its third issue, combines fiction, poetry, essays, reportage, photography, and several different kinds of visual art into a regular exploration of Los Angeles from every angle — and an exploration of the rest of the world from a Los Angeles angle.2011-11-1300 min
Zócalo Public SquareA Celebration of Gourmet MagazineAfter 70 years of setting the standard for epicurean living, Gourmet magazine ceased publication in October at the order of its parent, Conde Nast. The magazine cultivated its exalted reputation by a devotion to lush photography, lengthy writing by famed authors, and finely crafted and often complex recipes. The commitment to such quality, and the name of the magazine itself, made it an aspirational and indulgent read for generations of gourmands who understood that food—eating it, cooking it, reading about it—was an art. Despite the subsequent rise of many other food magazines and blogs—often more focused on quick, simple...2010-01-181h 14Zócalo Public SquareWhat Makes an L.A. Writer?It’s easy enough to characterize a Southern writer, whether by origin or style, by a character’s audible twang or a novel’s focus on regional history. There is even, perhaps, a certain voice that is distinctly New York or Midwestern. But what makes a Los Angeles writer — birthplace, genre, theme? As part of the Guadalajara International Book Fair, Zócalo invited a panel of writers — Laurie Ochoa, Yxta Maya Murray, DJ Waldie, Gary Phillips, and Jonathan Gold — to explore the city, its writers, and its stories. This event was made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts and the City...2009-12-0345 min