507: The Top 3 Cooking Mistakes Home Cooks Make and How to Fix Them With LA's Top Restauranteur | Jerry Greenberg
The Genius Life
Max Lugavere
4.7 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 8 September 2025
⏱️ 98 minutes
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Jerry Greenberg is the visionary restaurateur behind LA favorites like Sugarfish, HiHo, Uovo, and Matu, known for blending passion, precision, and accessibility to redefine how people experience high-quality food.
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| 0:23.5 | What up, family, it's episode 507 of the genius life. Let's go. |
| 0:29.7 | Then say genius of boomer. |
| 0:34.4 | Max, look at me here. |
| 0:36.1 | Max. |
| 0:37.0 | What is the year? |
| 0:37.3 | What is the genius life? |
| 0:40.3 | The genius life. |
| 0:42.3 | What up everybody? |
| 0:47.3 | I'm your host, Max Lugavir, and welcome back to the genius life. |
| 0:51.3 | The show where we dig into the habits, strategies, and mindsets that help you |
| 0:54.8 | live healthier, longer, and smarter. And sometimes we get to nerd out about food. And to that end, |
| 1:01.2 | today's guest is Jerry Greenberg, the visionary behind L.A. institutions like Sugarfish, Hi-Ho, |
| 1:07.4 | Wovo, and Matu. This was such a fun episode for me because not only did we geek out on what |
| 1:12.3 | makes food truly delicious, but Jerry also pulled back the curtain on what it takes to build |
| 1:16.8 | iconic restaurants from scratch and keep them thriving in one of the toughest industries on |
| 1:22.0 | earth. On this episode, you're going to discover the three things every home cook should do |
| 1:26.9 | to instantly make their food taste better. We're also going to discover the three things every home cook should do to instantly make their food taste better. |
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