Today on Wiping Issues, Dave shares terrible memories of dentistry and cheesecake and positive memories of Phoenix, Arizona. Nastassia introduces the 'stass clock - the next incredible technology from Booker & Dax. Plus: mold inhibition in batched fruit cocktails, smokeless fire pits for cooking, and whether you should or should...

This week, we jump right into listener questions, including: how to scale up latke production at home, what to teach to a group of culinary students in Israel and more. Dave waxes poetic about the value of traditional techniques, vents about Amazon.com's vendor services, and gets confused about the prospect...

Eggs, bacon, hangovers, sweat, and rage. The bittersweet combonation of French Toast and vomit. It's that meal that can't quite be explained, or contained....it's BRUNCH! It's delicious, it's painful and there are always too many beverages on the table for human consumption. one thing is for sure, there will be...

Ever since the sizzling news about Chinese tariffs on pork dropped, we knew we'd have to do a Meat + Three episode about pork. This week's show features a deep dive into the tangled relationship between American soybeans and Chinese pork with help from Bettina Ring, Virginia's Secretary of Agriculture...

Kat & Caity bring you a preview of Meat + Three, HRN's new 15-minute update on the food stories that deserve your attention, modeled after the Southern meat-and-three-sides concept. Listen to episode one: "Hitting a Snag," and get a sneak peek at episode two: "Pork." HRN Happy Hour is powered...

This week, on Meat + Three, HRN’s weekly food roundup, we’re talking pork. We’ll learn the best way to make a BLT, how pitmasters and restaurateurs are helping put small-scale pig farmers back to work in Alabama, what pork has to do with economics, and with government. So tune in...

Chef Edgar Pendley of Nashville's Urban Grill joins host Eli Sussman for a chat around the Springer Mountain Farm campfire at Charleston Wine + Food. Urban Grub is a casual fine dining spot located in a renovated carwash in Nashville’s booming 12 South district. The indoor-outdoor restaurant-bar opened as a...

On another preee-recorded episode of Cooking Issues, Dave is still on the road with The Bartender Advocacy Convention. This week, he's in Pittsburgh with Don Lee, evil (or benevolent, perhaps) cocktail overlord of the universe, Kevin Denton, national mixologist for Pernod Ricard, and Brian Bartels, author of The Bloody Mary...

This week, Cooking Issues is coming to you...PRE-RECORDED from the Manchester Grand Hyatt (or possibly Hilton, either way) in San Diego, where Dave is attending The Bartender Advocacy Convention (BACON), hosted by Pernod Ricard. It’s a day of spirits & hospitality education with some of the industry’s most respected personalities...

@KarlMeltzer just broke the world record for the being fastest ever finisher of the entire Appalachian Trail, you know the Appalachian train, right? It’s a 2,190 mile hiking trail that runs along the East coast of the US, from Georgia to Maine. Now, I hike, and I’ve done little bitty...