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Eat | Drink | Cheap Episode 14 – How To Cook Like an Amateur

October 2, 2022October 2, 2022 Shawn Leave a comment

Class is in session! Shawn and Simon go back to explain some of the basics of kitchen technique and share some recipes, plus lots of love for Jamie Oliver, Neil Gaiman and the new Prey movie.

Questions, comments or corrections? Hit us up at email@eatdrinkcheap.ca

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Music by John Palmer

Show notes and Shout Outs:

Runge’s Deli in Courtenay: https://www.facebook.com/RungesDeli/

Burrfection: https://burrfectionstore.com/

Michael Ruhlman’s book Soul of A Chef: https://www.amazon.ca/Soul-Chef-Journey-Toward-Perfection/dp/0141001895

Jamie Oliver’s book Jamie’s Dinners: https://www.amazon.ca/Jamies-Dinners-Jamie-Oliver-2004-10-07/dp/B000YFEDJU

Neil Gaiman’s Sandman on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/ca/title/81150303

Prey on Disney Plus: https://www.disneyplus.com/movies/prey/5Y0VIrKjUDWm

Empty Kitchens and Uncertain Futures in a Post Covid-19 World

March 30, 2020March 30, 2020 Shawn 7 Comments

I always joked that our kind danced on the razor’s edge of insolvency, what with our low pay, long hours, high burn out rate, poor life expectancy for chef-owned businesses and semi-transient mercenary workforce. Chef’s and their kitchens have always been at the mercy of a lot of financial factors, any of which could sink any restaurant pretty handily no matter how well-managed.

Now that precautionary measures relating to the fast-moving and deadly covid-19 virus has effectively shut down all restaurant traffic in North America we as a society are witnessing just how fragile our hospitality industry is. In a single week hundreds of thousands of my brothers and sisters have been put out of work as states and provinces outlaw sit-down service in favour of take-out just to keep people indoors and away from one another. It’s some serious end of the world stuff and as you can probably imagine I don’t make those razor’s edge jokes like I used to.

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2019 Post Holiday Gift Guide – Audiobooks About Food

December 31, 2019December 31, 2019 Shawn Leave a comment

I know what you’re thinking; “Post-Holiday Gift Guide” sounds like an article that took a little too long in the oven, maybe a deadline or two got missed and now it’s past time to be of any practical Christmas shopping use. Well, I assure you dear reader that I’ve got a good reason why you’re reading this now instead of a week or two prior to the holidays, just stay with me.

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Kami In The Kitchen

April 7, 2019April 7, 2019 Shawn 1 Comment

“Friends, let us join together here in the pits of sweltering madness where we cast our bodies and unheard voices into the void of fire and toil. Look upon the wasted works of our brother and pray that his clearly overcooked roast has a slightly pinkish interior so that bits of this beautiful and costly beast haven’t completely gone to waste. Oh Kitchen Gods! Please bless our ovens so they may produce another piece in a most timely manner… Because if that doesn’t work, I don’t know what the f@%$k we’re going to do.”

– Prayers To The Kitchen Gods 3:32

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2017 Holiday Gift Guide: What To Get A Young Prep Cook?

December 24, 2017January 12, 2018 Shawn 1 Comment

Continuing our recent trend of posts about mentoring all the fresh new faces joining our industry, I whipped up a Holiday gift guide for this year focused on all the stuff that a brand new cook would need to get started in a kitchen. We’re talking about someone green, first day of culinary school green. Finally made it out of the dishpit and is about to chop their first onion green. (more…)