Easy Cook Bear
7 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsEasy Cook Bear is a food and culture show about how we cook, connect, and create. Host Lee-Sean Huang and guests share stories, swap recipes, and explore the creative processes of people who make art, culture, food, music, and more. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/easycookbear/support
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Gary Jaffe makes movies and muses on pleasure, pain, and persimmons
December 30, 2020 22:08 - 1 hour - 85.6 MBGary Jaffe is a Brooklyn-based writer, filmmaker, and persimmon lover. He recently participated as a fellow in the 2020 Outfest Screenwriting Lab, a screenwriting contest and mentoring program to advance the visibility of LGBTQIA+ storytelling. He earned his BA in Theater Studies from Yale University. Easy Cook Bear is a food and culture show about how we cook, connect, and create. Host Lee-Sean Huang and guests share stories, swap recipes, and explore the creative processes of people who m...
Jen Shoemaker turned a passion for cheese into a business to help her survive the pandemic
December 23, 2020 18:33 - 46 minutes - 64.1 MBArtist and activist Jen Shoemaker started Krewe de Fromage, a cheese and charcuterie board and box delivery service in New York City, after she lost her union bartending job at a hotel due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Jen shares her story of growing up in New Orleans with Midwestern and Jamaican parents, leaving New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, and trying to find her way in New York. In her journey, she made it to the top 10 in one of Chrissy Teigen's food art contests and also appeared on ...
Kate Ray quit a career in tech to become a plant-based chef
December 18, 2020 21:25 - 42 minutes - 58.4 MBKate Ray (@kraykray) is a plant-based cook and former computer programmer based in Brooklyn. In this episode of Easy Cook Bear, Kate shares her story of how she got into the New York tech scene after college, and why she left to go to culinary school. She also shares her tips for making oatmeal and granola, and gives a gift suggestion for spicing up the holidays. Easy Cook Bear is a food and culture show about how we cook, connect, and create. Host Lee-Sean Huang and guests share stories, ...
Dylan Uscher bakes, knits, tells jokes, does UX design, and got called fat by Whitney Houston when he had cancer as a child
December 16, 2020 05:54 - 44 minutes - 60.7 MBDylan Uscher is a UX designer based in Boston, who previously ran a fashion business. He's also a baker, stand-up comedian, and cancer survivor. Dylan opened up about how he turned his passions into a decade-long career, which he ultimately left to pursue a new career in UX design. Besides cooking, baking, and career transition stuff, Dylan also shared his trick for chocolate chip cookies and opened up about his love for Maangchi, Margaret Cho, and Helena Bonham Carter. Easy Cook Bear is a ...
Jaime Sunwoo's play about SPAM uncovered family stories from North Korea
December 11, 2020 02:56 - 49 minutes - 68.6 MBJaime Sunwoo wrote a play about SPAM. Yes, the canned meat product that brings out all kinds of conflicted, polarizing reactions in people. Specially Processed American Me, Jaime's play, helped open up conversations about her own family's escape from North Korea during the Korea War. Jaime also talks to Lee-Sean abut her new audio piece about Q-Anon, shares her simple family recipe for spicy soy chicken, and more. Easy Cook Bear is a food and culture show about how we cook, connect, and c...
Richard Morgan shares how he writes stories about food
December 07, 2020 00:53 - 1 hour - 97.1 MBRichard Morgan chats with host Lee-Sean Huang about growing up in a British Palestinian immigrant family in Washington DC, the opportunities and challenges of our current cosmopolitan food moment, recovering from COVID-19, how he approaches food writing, and more. Richard Morgan is the author of the memoir Born in Bedlam and a freelance writer whose work has been published by The New Yorker, The New York Times, New York magazine, AFAR, The Awl, BBC, Bloomberg Businessweek, Bon Appétit, CNN...
Antonius Wiriadjaja makes meals into face masks
November 30, 2020 02:40 - 49 minutes - 67.6 MBLee-Sean interviews Antonius Wiriadjaja, an artist and educator who cooks meals and turns them into face masks for his Instagram project @foodmasku. Antonius was born in Jakarta, raised in Boston, and is currently based in New York City. Easy Cook Bear is a food and culture show about how we cook, connect, and create. We share stories, swap recipes, and explore the creative processes of people who make art, culture, food, music, and more. Links to people and things referenced in the epis...