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The Dave Chang Show

What It Takes to Make Great Pasta With Evan Funke

The Dave Chang Show

The Ringer

Food, Arts, Society & Culture

4.88.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2022

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Six months in, Evan Funke’s Mother Wolf is one of the hottest tables in Hollywood—but getting there took 15 years of obsession with the practice of pasta, where lessons are learned one tortelloni at a time. Evan and Dave discuss the long climb to the mountaintop, plus: George Carlin, Thomas Bernhard, staying true to your vision, Hosteria Giusti, L.A. glamour, eating pasta for analytical purposes, what a Caprese salad tastes like on Capri, a priori deliciousness, Jimi Hendrix, tagliatelle mouthfeel, using failure as your North Star, the Associazione Verace Pizza Napoletana, and where Evan wants Dave to eat in Rome. Host: Dave Chang Guest: Evan Funke Producer: Sasha Ashall Additional Production: Chris Ying, Jordan Bass, and Lala Rasor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello, hello, Dave Chang here. If you haven't signed up for our Discord channel, the major

0:04.4

Domino Discord channel, Discord channel, sign up for it in a variety of ways. I think

0:10.9

the easiest way is if you're following our Instagram page, click on the link in the

0:13.8

bio and I'll send you to our community. I love our community very much, the engagement,

0:19.8

the ideas, it's hilarious, lots of great content there, extremely bullish on Discord.

0:26.1

So, if you want to shop on Momofuku, if you want to supply yourself with a lot of the

0:30.4

Momofuku food products, pantry items between the noodles, the savory salts, the chili

0:36.6

crunch, the soy and the tamari, it's an ever growing assortment, that's a lot of work

0:41.0

that goes into it. We've developed these things over the years in our lab for our restaurants

0:46.0

and now you can have them at home. I bought some last night at Whole Foods, they're available

0:50.7

nationwide in targets and a few other stores, but shopped out Momofuku. And again, I want

0:56.8

to give a real shout out to the ringer. I've been following the NBA not by watching it

1:02.0

because I'm just too tired. I don't have the time and a lot of these games are happening

1:08.2

too early and I have to take care of the kids. So I've been catching up by listening to

1:13.7

Bill Simmons and Ryan Rusillo on the Bill Simmons podcast, the podfather himself doing their

1:18.8

recaps and their reactions to the games Sunday night that's available in Monday morning

1:22.8

and Kevin O'Connor and the whole NBA crew. They're so good at their job and I mean that.

1:29.7

And while I would love to watch the games, getting to read their stuff and getting to hear

1:35.2

their commentary on what's been happening, it's so sharp, it's so funny, it's so insightful

1:40.8

that I can't recommend it enough. I think you'd even enjoy it if you don't like sports.

1:45.2

Nobody told me to do this. I'm just saying this because I mean it. I listen to it religiously.

1:52.2

So all things NBA and all things culture as well. So shout out to our entire family at the

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