Mischa, Death Metal, and the Relentless Drive to Innovate With Alex Stupak

The Dave Chang Show

The Ringer

Food, Arts, Society & Culture

4.8 • 8.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2023

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Dave’s Three Things segment starts off with three things he loves about the show’s guest: a world-class chef and the owner of the Empellón restaurant group, Alex Stupak. Stupak catches up with Dave (whom he hasn’t seen since before the pandemic) and reflects on his culinary journey, including his admiration of Albert Adrià, his time at Grant Achatz’s Alinea, and his experience helming the pastry program at Wylie Dufresne’s WD-50. The two ponder the dampening effects of restaurant criticism on creativity—and Dave suggests that Stupak is a culinary Prometheus for his constant innovation of new culinary techniques. The two continue talking through Alex’s journey of making Mexican food, culminating with a discussion of Alex’s new critically acclaimed restaurant, Mischa, in New York. Host: Dave Chang and Chris Ying Guest: Alex Stupak Producer: Victoria Valencia, Cory McConnell, Gabi Marler, Euno Lee Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:04.4	been working on and they're delicious. Yeah, let's get on to the show. We got Alex Tupac on.
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1:20.5	you for letting us know as always. Crisying is not here today if you will be joining us on the next
1:26.6	podcast, but we have a guest and his name is Alex Tupac. You may be familiar with him. If you are
1:35.2	a pastry chef, you should 100,000% know what he's done. If you've been in food for a long time
1:43.5	in terms of cooking and just sort of caring about what's innovative, you definitely know who he is.
1:50.9	And you may know him. Simply because he makes great delicious food in New York. He's got five
1:58.4	takarillas called empayon. And he also has another one in Midtown that's not just tacos. It does all
2:04.0	kinds of other things. And he'll also recently open up a restaurant called Misha, which is his
2:10.9	take on American food. And Alex is a close friend of mine. I've known him. Oh my god, 20 years.
2:20.8	Yeah, about 20 years. I don't say this lightly. I think that Alex Tupac is easily one of the greatest
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