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The Dave Chang Show

House Spice, How to Cook Crawfish, and Forging a New Cuisine With Kwame Onwuachi and Joshua David Stein

The Dave Chang Show

The Ringer

Food, Society & Culture, Arts

4.88.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Chris and Dave call up the pair behind the best-selling 'Notes from a Young Black Chef' to discuss their brand new cookbook 'My America,' and what it reveals about how we’ll all be eating in the years to come. Also: Playing to your strengths, giving birth to a word baby, cross-country recipe testing, re-upping on jambalaya at the dog park, Kwame’s Harry Potter House, a yin-yang of dolphins, Maggi seasoning, Miami oxtail prices, high-resolution recipes, the guy who created curry goat, what Kwame wants to eat on a book tour, North Korean noodles, and surfing the seafood stock danger zone. Hosts: Dave Chang and Chris Ying Guests: Kwame Onwuachi and Joshua David Stein Producer: Sasha Ashall Additional Production: Jordan Bass Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

The goal explained the 1990s in exactly 60 songs.

0:04.8

The result we did it.

0:06.1

I'm Rob Harvilla.

0:07.3

I host 60 songs that explain the 90s which has, indeed,

0:10.4

covered 60 fantastic songs thus far from 2-pock to radio-head to TLC.

0:15.7

So let's do 30 more.

0:17.1

Let's do 90 songs.

0:18.6

No, we're not changing the name.

0:20.0

More red songs, more special guests, more astute critical analysis,

0:24.4

more loopy nostalgic exuberance.

0:26.5

That's 60 songs that explain the 90s every Wednesday only on Spotify.

0:56.5

Chef Kwame Unuachi and his co-author Joshua David Stein of a book coming out called My

1:03.4

America is very, very good.

1:06.3

We talk in depth about how I think it's going to be different than many of the cookbooks

1:12.1

that you may have out there or have on your coffee table.

1:15.9

Extremely informative.

1:17.4

Not only does it tell the life and story of Kwame and how he thinks about food, but it's

1:22.8

a new perspective on building your pantry and building flavors.

1:27.6

And JDS, Joshua David Stein, I'm known for years is one of the best food writers out there

1:32.4

and it's also extremely funny.

1:34.8

And you'll probably hear not a surprise, a lot of Harry Potter stuff in this podcast.

1:39.7

That being said, I've been getting a lot of in-bounds for people because people are traveling

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