Dave’s Favorite Seasonal Ingredients, the Grocery Store Price Conundrum, and the Future of Restaurant Service

The Dave Chang Show

The Ringer

Society & Culture, Arts, Food

4.8 • 8.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2023

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Dave kicks off the episode by talking about his favorite seasonal ingredients—from matsutake mushrooms to chinook to ramps, and his reasons for each. This episode’s Ask Dave segment gets into the high prices Americans are facing in grocery stores, and whether Dave, as a former chef, is any more or less susceptible to them. Finally, Dave gets into a Davestradamus where he talks about the future of restaurant service, and whether automation is capable of eliminating the need for servers (and if the self-checkout at the grocery store is ever going to reach critical mass to replace checkout clerks). Host: Dave Chang and Chris Ying Guest: Euno Lee Producers: Victoria Valencia and Euno Lee Additional Production Supervision: Cory McConnell Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Dave Changjo, part of the Ring of Podcast Network, because I'm a
0:06.8	metric domain media.
0:07.8	Thank you, you're a lot tango as always.
0:11.2	Join with you now, who's a pinching for Chris today.
0:15.8	I got a three things, we need three things, I think about a endorsement, we haven't
0:23.5	done an endorsement in a while, a NASDAVE, and then we're going to do a Dave Stradamus.
0:29.9	All right, three things I think about that are, quote, in season that excite me the most.
0:41.1	I think the harder part to this question is, how to source good versions of them, which
0:46.5	I don't know exactly how, but I'll go with my three.
0:51.2	The number one, and there's two seasons for this, or California King Sam and or Laskin
0:56.8	King Sam.
0:58.2	I take this pretty seriously, I work with Patagonia a few years back about their documentary
1:02.6	called Damn Nation.
1:04.6	I'm a big angler, and you know, not too long ago, 20 plus years ago, used to be able
1:11.6	to fish for Atlantic Sam and in the Connecticut rivers.
1:15.0	You can't do that anymore, it doesn't exist.
1:18.6	Damns and overfishing and pollution and all of these other reasons are why we're just
1:23.7	screwing up the natural migration of many fish, steelhead trout, there's plenty others.
1:31.2	But Sam is arguably the number one or a number two protein behind chicken, or maybe it is
1:35.9	number one.
1:38.3	And I feel like a hypocrite sometimes because my kids love Sam and so much that sometimes
1:42.6	I do buy farm rains because I'm like, it is what it is, and it's always hard to source.
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