Matty Matheson: Catfish Noodling and Making “The Bear”
Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio
Milk Street Radio
4.2 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2024
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
This week, we get inside the mind of Matty Matheson, actor and producer on the hit TV comedy “The Bear.” Matheson reveals his thoughts on internet stardom, what it takes to open five restaurants in two years and why “The Bear” stands alone in the food TV genre. Plus, we peer into the illicit history of rum-running on Long Island with Amy Kasuga Folk; Adam Gopnik considers the act of fasting; and we make Cinnamon Sugar Yogurt Doughnuts from Romania. (Originally aired January 26th, 2023.)
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Mil Street listeners, we're taking our show on the road. Please join us for a special live taping of Melk Street Radio at the Art of Cheese Festival in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 0:09.6 | We'll be at the landmark Orphium Theater on Saturday, September 27th. I'll be hosting cheese trivia, taking your cooking questions with chef Tori Miller, handing out samples of some of the best cheese in the state, |
| 0:21.3 | and my favorite part, even get my fortune read with a block of cheese. |
| 0:25.5 | You will not want to miss that. |
| 0:27.3 | Tickets are on sale now at artofcheasefestival.com one more time, |
| 0:31.6 | art of cheesefestival.com, and we'll see you there. |
| 0:39.7 | This is Milestri Radio from PRX. |
| 0:41.9 | I'm your host, Christopher Kimball. |
| 0:44.9 | Chef and Internet star Maddie Matheson has been around restaurants long enough to see the industry change for the better. |
| 0:52.2 | When I opened my first restaurant when I was 26, it was just like, we serve food, shut up, |
| 0:57.7 | we're going to serve booze, shut up, this is how you make a cocktail, this is how you open |
| 1:01.3 | wine, our way or the highway. |
| 1:03.8 | And I'm just like, it just can't be that anymore. |
| 1:06.1 | Can't just be a two people have like the ultimate power over like 20 people. Maddie shares his own approach to |
| 1:14.3 | running a restaurant later on in the show. But first is time to talk about a different kind of running. |
| 1:19.2 | That would be rum running. During Prohibition, Long Island became a hot spot for rum runners. |
| 1:24.7 | Today we're chatting with historian Amy Kosuga Folk, who collected stories |
| 1:29.0 | from this era in her book, Rum Running in Suffolk County. Amy, welcome to Milk Street. |
| 1:35.4 | Thank you for inviting me. So the liquor business during Prohibition, I didn't realize how lucrative |
| 1:43.3 | it was. I think you wrote that one of these |
| 1:46.8 | gangs paid $200 a week to 100 employees, and this is when $25 a week was the typical salary, |
| 1:55.4 | they paid $100,000 a week to the police and graft, federal agents, etc. |
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