Baking looks simple until you actually try it. This week, Tanner and Jerry dig into why good cooks can be surprisingly bad bakers, and why baking rewards a completely different set of instincts.…
This week on Flavorphiles, Tanner and Jerry are back with a completely new Thanksgiving episode built for everything that happens after the basic advice runs out. First, we head to the Thanksgiving…
What is it really like to be a chef? This week, Tanner and Jerry get into the reality of chef life, from the long hours and low pay to culinary school, repetition, passion, and why working in…
For Talk Like a Pirate Day, Tanner and Jerry dig into the surprisingly strange food and drink history of life at sea. We start with what pirates actually ate, why their diet could sometimes give them…
Fall is farmers market season, but what does that actually mean when you live somewhere like Dallas? This week on Flavorphiles, Tanner and Jerry head into fall with a Harvest Highball made with…
Judging food is fun. Whether you’re ranking the best chefs on TV, challenging your friends to a ridiculous eating competition, or silently keeping score of everything a restaurant gets wrong, we all…
Bitter gets a bad rap. We’re basically born suspicious of it, kids hate it, and yet somehow adults end up obsessed with coffee, dark chocolate, bitter greens, amaro, and aggressively hoppy beer. This…
This week on Flavorphiles, we are committing crimes against food. Allegedly. Tanner and Jerry dig into the strange, sticky, and surprisingly sophisticated world of food true crime. First, Tanner…
This week, we’re taking a bite out of New Zealand. Tanner used to live in NZ, so he’s guiding Jerry through the foods, flavors, and extremely specific Kiwi words that make the country’s cuisine so…
Whiskey can feel like it comes with homework. Scotch, bourbon, rye, Irish whiskey, Japanese whisky, Canadian whisky, age statements, ice rules, spelling arguments; it is a lot of brown liquid with a…
