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Podcast One presents Starving for Attention with Richard Blaze, an entertaining behind-the-scenes look at the world of food, where you'll hear from anyone and everyone from the culinary industry, including restaurateurs, TV hosts, celebrity chefs, producers of your favorite

cooking shows, and many more.

Now here's your host, Richard Blaze.

Hey, everyone, what's going on?

Richard Blaze here from my hotel room.

It's actually the Holiday Inn Express here in the central west end of St. Louis

in the state of Missouri, where I have a restaurant called Yellowbelly that just launched

brunch yesterday. I'm about to jump on a plane to head home to say hi to Jasmine and then back on a

plane to go film with our friend Rachel Ray in New York City. But I wanted to do the open for our show.

This week's episodes, a lot of fun.

But before I even reveal who's going to be on it,

while I'm here in St. Louis, over the last couple of days,

this crazy, this raging dispute has broken out over what is the St. Louis-style bread-slice bagel. This is a thing that they

do in St. Louis where they slice the bagel vertically, and then you can sort of dip those

slices into your cream cheese. Someone in New York picked this up and then this thing just set the food

internet on fire this past week. And I just wanted the way in. So if you head on over to my

Instagram page at Richard Blaze, you will see that I did a version of the bagel with all of my

favorite condiments and there's a tuna confi on there

and raw tuna and pokey and some locks and cream cheese and capers and caviar and mustard

seed caviar and all sorts of delicious herbs and pickled onions. All the best stuff. We

arranged on this St. Louis style sliced bagel. And my hot take on it, guys, is that it's just the slicing of a bagel.

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