Chef and drinking enthusiast Karl Prohaska sits down for weekly interview featuring chefs, brewers, trouble makers and heart breakers over a shot and a beer. The same way it happens after a shift night after night... One take; not really edited for content... just like it would be if we were at the bar with you. Crack a beer; grab a shot; and come along for the ride...
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Sometimes being creative is not as easy as you think...
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Are you working to impress your peers or to impress the general public? If it matters, are you okay with the side you come down on? Chef explores this today...
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Back from a quick vacation, the boys sit down with lawyer and food journalist Michael Gardiner for a talk about Grandma food, the great Pan-Asian movement going on in San Diego, and how Pho can get easily misinterpreted...
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Today the boys sit down and drink with Dave, a bartender at the Mad House. Dave doesn't like martini drinkers, the weather in Michigan, and most everything else.
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Taking a look a few steps you can use to make the taste panel a helpful experience for you and your candidate....
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Sometimes an episode is so powerful it needs to be played again. If you've ever been through some dark days, listen to this tale of redemption. Tommy Gomes and Annette Prohaska are the stars of the show.
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Today we take a quick look at auditions and remind you how to NOT be intimidated by them.
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This week we do a little drinking with Ashley and Rob and talk about events, chocolate, and buying into the "lie".
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Today, the intoxicated one muses about reality TV and wonders whose reality it really is.
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This episode we prove that comedians are people too... well kind of. Allison Gill and Rob Bronson are two comedians who have a lot of experience in the Food and Beverage industry. They offer another unique front of the house look at the life. #SaaBNation
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How can a guy who knows nothing about women raise daughters? You make some guidelines and get to work...
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We're drinking with two guys at the top of their respective games: Paul Segura, brewmaster at Karl Strauss; and Chef Davin Waite from Wrench and Rodent. We talk food, beer, economics, and we bring back Five Questions. Boom goes the dynamite!
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Today our intoxicated champion runs down his F&B Top Ten in 11 minutes...
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Drinking our way back to the culinary world with Chef Katherine Humphus and we talk about her spectacular internship choices (no joke!), how the industry eats their young, and making the leap to control your own destiny.
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Our heavily inebriated hero takes on policy and how it hurts customer service.
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Today our intrepid heroes day drink with Val Guagliardo from Toronado San Diego and they talk about craft beer and it's relationship with the male anatomy (it'll makes sense later). We also debut a new segment called "5 Questions" and explore 1 minute of silence right at the beginning. Ah the joys of not editing...…
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Drinking today with my good friend Gaby Lee Lutz and we talk about corporate restaurants, the rise of "hay metal", and why she closed down 5th Avenue
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In honor of the opening of Carnitas Snack Shack #3, we are going to revisit our very first episode with Chef Hanis Cavin and Chef Rich Sweeney.
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More day drinking with the ladies! Chef and Matty have libations with RoseAna Peyron, Chef at the High Dive, and Rebecca Knowles, server at the Comedy Palace and wife of a comedian buddy Erik Knowles. Today we talk Purple Rain, bad customers, and how politebehavior has apparently died.
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Today our embalmed hero talks about building a solid kitchen crew.
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This episode we're drinking with Lorah Smith from Societe Brewing (one of chef's favorites) and Chef Lety McKenzie from Uptown Tavern. We talk relationships, Societe's meteoric rise, and all kinds of odd stuff.
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This week, our drunken hero contemplates his headstone...
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Today's drinking is all about BBQ and beer, as Chef and Matty sit down with Mercy Baron from Baron's BBQ Beat, and MVCBF and SD Baconfest founder Gus Thompson.
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Since he's a disagreeable sort, Chef is against a whole bunch of stuff...
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The definition of a "power hour" and a fantastic story of redemption, this week we sit down with Tommy Gomes, fishmonger supreme, and Chef's wife Annette. If you ever wanted to hear about overcoming your demons, THIS is the episode for you.
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The toque is a time honored symbol in the culinary world... Chef is NOT a fan.
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This week Chef and Matt drink with Chocolatier Lora Lu Davis and they talk chocolate, beer, and why old hymns are the best hymns. Yes, it's as weird as you expect...
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This week, Chef wonders why we can't leave well enough alone.
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Chef does some day drinking with Marie Tahan Daniels and Karen Barnett while talking about not editing, when to use the term "easy" and how awful Yelp is.
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This week Chef talks about baseball, bad roasts, and how to NOT get hired... Just listen, it'll all make sense.
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You're a loyal listener, but who the hell are you listening to? Today Matt and Chef talk about food and comedy and how in the hell it all came to this...
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Another quick pop before you head home, this week Chef warns you about the evils of casual...
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This week we're drinking with author, bar tender, and bar innovator Chad Berkey and photographer/podcaster Brian Beagle from San Diego BeerTalk Radio. Today the boys discuss the business of bars, big beer buyouts, and the wrath over "indie beer"
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Sometimes, you can hang and drink with the boys... sometimes you just stop for a quick shot. But you're still thinking about work. In this quick shot, Chef teaches you all about the various positions in the kitchen...
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This week we go from the kitchen to the front of house as we drink with Chip Nicholson and Kymberli Campbell. We talk about how your personality can get you jobs and get you fired from them; the parallels between giving up things for lent and The Grapes Of Wrath; and why we can't all just get along...…
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This week we're drinking with Photog Rob Forsythe from Chefs Roll and Mike Mellow, Sales Director at Fall Brewing. We talk about brew pubs, beer festivals, sweaty pretzels and other assorted nonsense...
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This week we drink with Chef Ryan Studebaker from MiHo Catering and Pastry Chef Rachel King, former pastry chef at Nine Ten and talk about why pastry chefs are nuts, and whether or not San Diego is a first class food city.
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This week Karl talks with Chef Rich Sweeney, Executive Chef Waypoint Public House and Chef/Owner of Carnitas' Snack Shack Hanis Cavin
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