
Let's Talk About Chef
Let's Talk About Chef is a podcast that brings you the stories of the history, chefs and food from around the world. Hosted by Brian Clarke.
Episodes
77 episodes
FREEZE!!!!!!
This week on LTAC we are diving into the history of frozen food. Freezers are frankly magical things, and today we talk about the story of how locals freezing food in northern Canada and Northern China resulted in us being able to pull anything...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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25:42

The Mafia Pizza Connection
This week we are diving into the story of how the mafia used pizza to control New York City. The pizza connection between Sicily and New York was one of the largest drug busts in American history. We also tell the story of how the ...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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19:04

Recognize The King, and also a brief history of cheese
This week on LTAC we are telling the story of cheese, and also crowning the king of all sandwiches. Yes grilled cheese is the best sandwich. If you don't agree with me start your own podcast and argue against it. If you want to sup...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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21:29

For The Home team
This week on LTAC we are diving into the stories and history of food in stadiums. Its lighthearted, its fun, its absolutely not confrontational and maybe that's what we all need on a random Saturday in February when everything seems stressful.&...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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20:09

The Man, The Can, The Legend
This week we are talking about Chef Boyardee, yeah that's right, chef freaking Boyardee. Because his life was pretty cool and frankly Tim has wanted this episode since the podcast began. DISCLAIMER: There is historical audio used o...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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18:34

Let's Review Airplane Food & St. John Bread And Wine
We are back for season 2 and we couldn't be happier to kick things off reviewing why airplane food is terrible and also the humble perfection of St John Bread And Wine in London. This episode was written by Brian Clarke
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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23:28

From French Kings To Wu-Tang (The Story Of Dijon)
This episode of Lets Talk About Chef is all about the history and story of how a single condiment went from being invented for a French king to being rapped out constantly in hip hop. The story of Grey Poupon is fascinating so strap in
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Season 1
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Episode 72
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19:08

The Almost Forgotten And Slightly Horrible History Of Mac And Cheese
This episode of Lets Talk About Chef is all about the slightly horrible history of Mac and cheese, and also how Canada has made Kraft dinner its national food. We are very aware of the fact the we have talked about Mac and cheese b...
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Season 1
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Episode 71
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22:27

The Gin Craze
This episode of Lets Talk About Chef is a little different in that it is not really about food or restaurants or chefs or reviewing aspects of Brians culinary life in any way shape or form. It is about the gin craze that almost destroyed London...
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Season 1
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Episode 70
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19:32

It's Your Funeral
This episode of Lets Talk About Chef is all about the food we eat and the food we bring to funerals. Its a story of humanity and of celebration and well.........cannibalism, corpse cakes and all the strange yet oddly familiar traditions from ar...
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Season 1
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Episode 69
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17:39

Stories Of Fire
This episode of Lets Talk About Chef is the story of fire, more specifically why cooking over fire made us human. Its a story of why a chance occurrence two million years ago meant that we became who we are today, and the role that food had in ...
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Season 1
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Episode 68
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17:44

Brain Food
This week on Lets Talk About chef its all about the foods that make our brains smarter and we can all be geniuses, except for the little problem that every actual genius ever didn't do any of this stuff and pretty lived off of alcohol, cigarett...
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Season 1
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Episode 67
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21:47

The Surprising Story Of Cookbooks
We know, we get it, the idea of spending time listening to how cookbooks came to be may seem boring, but its not, its really cool. This week on lets tap about chef host Brian Clarke dives into the surprising story of cookbooks, admits ...
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Season 1
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Episode 66
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19:20

Burn The Witch, African Glaciers, And Also Why We Eat Potatoes
This week we start by checking in with Tim to see how the pandemic is treating him and then its full steam ahead into the little ice age that lasted five hundred years from 1300-1800 and is the reason we all eat potatoes. I know, its sounds lik...
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Season 1
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Episode 65
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21:21

Origins
We are back!!!!! This week on Lets Talk About Chef host Brian Clarke is taking you through the crazy origin stories of two of the most successful food companies in the world. With covid somehow resulting in millions of new businesses getting st...
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Season 1
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Episode 64
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23:26

The Big Sleep
Hibernation is something that has been on Brians mind a lot lately, wether it be because winter is coming and in Canada you have to hide indoors, or the fact that the coronavirus has caused all of to hibernate while we wait for a vaccine to all...
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Season 1
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Episode 63
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20:12

40 Years Of Jeopardy
This week on Lets Talk About Chef we are talking about the forty year tradition of watching Alex Trebek host Jeopardy in dive bars, and how after his passing that tradition is ending. Its a weird topic, but one that deserved to be talked about....
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Season 1
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Episode 62
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20:28

Nazi's, Morphine And Santa Claus : The Story Of Coca Cola
Coca Cola is one the worlds most recognizable brands. They are also one of the worlds largest food companies that has ever existed in all of history. Like most things there is usually a dark and slightly disturbing past that exists if ...
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Season 1
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Episode 61
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27:42

Let's Review : The Architecture Of Pizza Huts & Also Making Let's Talk About Chef
This episode of Lets Talk About Chef is another instalment of our Lets Review series where host Brian Clarke reviews basically whatever he wants to and rates them on a 5 star scale. In the past we have reviewed such things as Salt, Momofuku, Th...
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Season 1
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Episode 60
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23:05

The True Crime Of Hawaiian Pizza
This week on Let's Talk About Chef host Brian Clarke got another annoying email suggesting that he switch it up and make a true crime podcast. And so seeing as he had no desire to do so instead we made an entire episode about the true crime of ...
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Season 1
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Episode 59
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21:49

The Windows On The World
Windows on the world was the highest grossing restaurant in the world and was located on the 106th and 107th floors of the World Trade Center This episode contains explicit depictions of events that happened on September 11th 2001 to e...
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Season 1
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Episode 58
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24:08

Does Jamie Oliver Suck? an investigation nobody asked for
This week on Lets Talk About Chef we are trying to get to the bottom of the mystery that nobody asked Brian to solve, does Jaime Oliver, the worlds most recognizable celebrity chef, suck?We dive into the history, the story, the luck, th...
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Season 1
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Episode 57
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37:04

Obsessed With All Things Sushi
Today on Lets Talk About Chef we are talking about the history, legend and obsession of sushi. Why? Because its the one food that Brian has been obsessing about since lockdown started and quite frankly he can do whatever he wants and he wants t...
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Season 1
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Episode 56
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20:14

The Relentless Hunger Of............Locusts
This week on Lets Talk About Chef host Brian Clarke delves into the slightly terrifying world of Locusts, natures hunger machines, tells the story of the devastating loss of food because of the largest swarm in recorded history and also what ha...
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Season 1
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Episode 55
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24:27

The Hungriest Man In History
Terrare was a frenchman who lived in the late 1700's. He was a spy, a solider, a street performer, a son, a patient, oh and also the hungriest man who ever lived who could distend his jaw and swallow whole things like live cats, bushels of appl...
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Season 1
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Episode 54
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21:55
