Succotash Meets Spätzle, Doing Media as a Chef, and Dave's Favorite Chili

The Dave Chang Show

The Ringer

Food, Society & Culture, Arts

4.8 • 8.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2026

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Dave talks about his first experiences with TV and media as a chef and how that indirectly led to Lucky Peach. Dave then MacGyver's off-the-cuff, making a dish of succotash and spätzle, and inadvertently finding a cultural link between them and Brunswick stew. He finishes by answering an Ask Dave about his favorite chili pepper. Learn more about Fallow UK: https://fallowrestaurant.com/ Watch our episode with Chef Jeremy Fox: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5hiONAYCjxCjAhK20CtWdd?si=hsiDb0NvQ4q_p0nzeqU05A Learn more about Benu: https://www.benusf.com/ Learn more about Ana Sortun's Oleana: https://www.oleanarestaurant.com/ Learn more about Via Carota: https://www.viacarota.com/ Learn more about Fat Duck: https://thefatduck.co.uk/ Learn more about Super Peach: https://www.momofuku.com/restaurants/super-peach Learn more about Kato: https://www.katorestaurant.com/ Watch The Mind of a Chef: https://www.pbs.org/show/mind-chef/ Watch In Search of Perfection: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1134897/ Learn more about Benton's: https://shop.bentonscountryham.com Try ZipRecruiter FOR FREE at https://ziprecruiter.com/CHANG Host: Dave Chang Majordomo Media Producer: David Meyer Spotify Producer: Felipe Guilhermino Additional Crew: Michael Berger, Abby Zidonis, Marcus Yasui, Michael Delgado, Elizabeth Styles Editor: Jake Loskutoff Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today, we decided to make a little lemonade out of nothing.
0:10.0	We have the duo behind from First Principles on in a little bit, but there was enough time for me to sort of cook a whole other dish before they even showed up.
0:25.7	And we're going to turn that into a podcast because what I want to make right now is succor-tash.
0:31.7	Or not really succotash, but you'll find out what the hell I did.
0:32.8	So stay tuned for that.
0:34.5	And it was a lot of fun.
0:37.8	Welcome to the Dave Chang Show, part of the Ringer Podcast Network,
0:39.2	presented by Major Domo Media.
0:40.9	We are on Spotify and also Netflix.
0:44.4	I was reading something on social media,
0:46.0	and I am very much not on social media like I used to,
0:48.6	and sort of torn on that.
0:51.0	I think that a lot of chefs are less on,
0:53.2	and some are more on social media, but I did read something.
0:56.0	Mark Knorr posted something.
0:59.0	Forgive me, I can't remember the name, but you know, there was, it got me thinking in general.
1:06.0	You know, the conversation about relevancy versus being good versus being in the know.
1:17.4	What I mean by that is food media, media in general, the churn is what's new.
1:24.8	And listen, they have to sell newspapers and ads.
1:27.8	So that's what's going to get the reader's attention.
1:31.0	So selling the old standby stuff, the old classics,
1:35.4	the things that are neighborhood,
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