America, Your Food Is So Gay, Bro-Chef Culture, LA's Poke Explosion

Hosted by Evan Kleiman May. 23, 2015 Food & Drink

This week restaurateur Jen Agg talks about the prevailing "bro" culture in the restaurant industry and journalist John Birdsall explores the decidedly un-bro origins of America's modern food culture. Plus, Zach Brooks uncovers eight new Hawaiian inspired poke restaurants in Los Angeles.

Photo: Zach Brooks

From this Episode:

Bro-chef Kitchen Culture

Restaurateur Jen Agg is the restaurateur behind the Black Hoof , Rhum Corner and Cocktail Bar in Toronto. She addresses the rampant spread of "bro-y" culture in restaurant...

9 min

America, Your Food Is So Gay

John Birdsall won a James Beard Award for his Lucky Peach article, " America, Your Food Is So Gay . " He chronicles how three gay men -- James Beard, Richard Olney, and...

10 min

What Exactly Is Big Gay Ice Cream?

Big Gay Ice Cream is the brainchild of Doug Quint and Bryan Petroff who decided in the summer of 2009 that it would be fun to have an ice cream truck. After two successful...

10 min

Jonathan Gold Reviews Odys & Penelope

Jonathan Gold is the Pulitzer Prize-winning food writer for the LA Times. This week he reviews Odys + Penelope , a modern American churrasco and grill from Karen and Quinn...

7 min

Market Report

Laura Avery is the market manager at the Santa Monica Farmers' Market. This week she talks with Bren Madina of Kincaid Farms about his handpicked youngberries and...

6 min

LA's Poke Explosion

Zach Brooks is the founder of Midtown Lunch LA and host of Food Is the New Rock . He wrote an article for Eater LA mapping out eight new places to find poke, the Hawaiian...

6 min

California's Past and Future with the Colorado River

The Colorado River supplies almost forty million people and six million acres of agriculture, and like other water resources in the west - demand outstrips supply. David...

9 min