To Taste
To Taste
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From Cody Reiss (comedian, writer, and former cook at Chez Panisse), To Taste explores the intuitive side of food and cooking. Each episode, Cody and an expert dive deep into a new food, exploring every question, variable, and challenge you might face when trying to make it at home. The goal is to help you learn to cook intuitively, to your own taste, without a recipe.
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The podcast focuses on intuitive cooking techniques, food exploration, and practical advice for home cooks, with episodes like the debut featuring grilled cheese delving into the art of creating that dish and encouraging listeners to adapt flavors to their personal tastes while addressing common cooking challenges.
From Cody Reiss (comedian, writer, and former cook at Chez Panisse), To Taste explores the intuitive side of food and cooking. Each episode, Cody and an expert dive deep into a new food, exploring every question, variable, and challenge you might face when trying to make it at home. The goal is to help you learn to cook intuitively, to your own taste, without a recipe.
On this episode of To Taste, host Cody Reiss interviews his oldest friend, Ben Bechelli about HOT SAUCE — just in time for pepper season! Ben is chef, gardener, and owner of the hot sauce company Fantasma, churning out seasonal, ingredient-forward hot sauces using Ben's homemade peppers, out of Oceanside, California. Cody and Ben talk about growing peppers, fermenting the essential ingredients, blending, balancing, and coming up with unique flavors. After you listen, head to the market, grab some peppers, and make yourself a batch of hot sauce. And let us know in the comments who we should interview next :)
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Ben Bechelli is a chef, currently running the food program at Steady State coffee shop in Carlsbad California. He's also the owner of Fantasma hot sauce, for which he grows all the peppers in his backyard. You can follow him at instagram.com/sustainably_braised.
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To Taste is made by Cody Reiss (@codyreiss), with art by Ben Bechelli (@sustainably_braised), and Music by Justin Kohlberg (@m.o.o.n.r.u.n). If you liked this episode, give us a follow, set alarms for future episodes, and leave us a review :) Also make sure to check out Cody's food and travel writing Substack at www.codyreiss.substack.com. Thanks for listening and let us know who else we should interview and what other topics we should cover in the comments!
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