What Makes the Best Food the Best? With Lolis Elie | The Dave Chang Show (Ep. 41)

The Dave Chang Show

The Ringer

Society & Culture, Arts, Food

4.8 • 8.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2019

⏱️ 77 minutes

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People have subjective definitions when it comes to quality, and food is no exception. To compare one genre of food to another often requires nuance and context, making the whole endeavor that much more difficult. Dave speaks to writer and food critic Lolis Elie about how to evaluate food with care and respect. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Dave Changchou, part of the Ringer podcast network presented by Major
0:15.6	Domo Media.
0:17.0	Today's guest is LoLis Eli.
0:19.3	He is a man of many talents.
0:22.2	A journalist, a food historian, most recently and currently a screenwriter for the great
0:30.4	Amazon show, Man in the High Castle, really enjoyed season three.
0:35.6	And LoLis is one of my favorite people in the world to talk to a great dining companion
0:41.0	and someone that constantly educates me about how the world works, basically.
0:47.5	He's got an amazing background, history, education, you name it, easily one of the most fascinating
0:55.0	people I've ever met.
0:57.1	He was very helpful for us in the first season of Ugly Delicious and he's helping us out
1:01.6	this season as well.
1:04.1	And been meaning to get him in the podcast for quite some time.
1:08.8	So I was really happy that we could finally lock down a date and just basically have a
1:14.6	rambling conversation about food, about judgment, about awards, about the meaning of
1:22.2	being recognized and so on and so forth.
1:24.5	Some talk about the beard awards.
1:26.8	Hopefully enjoy it is just how we would have talked over some food and there's again some
1:31.6	more spoon by age conversation.
1:33.6	We had a podcast with Isaac Lee, the producer, professing our love about spoon by age and
1:39.1	it's something that LoLis has been dining frequently at himself.
1:44.0	Check out his work on Man in High Castle and he's got a lot of articles and just sort of
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