Ask Adam #4: Does sugar belong in tomato sauce?

should I add sugar to my pasta sauce if you want to assume you're talking about tomato sauce and yeah I mean every tomato is different every kind of can of tomatoes is different and some it's an agricultural product like some might be more sweet some might be less sweet some might be less sweet because you simply haven't cooked them for very long to concentrate the sugars right so like you should get for like the sweetness our balance that you want and for some reason there's this attitude that like cooking with sugar cooking savory food with sugar is somehow invalid which is just bizarre because if a food is not acidic enough you put vinegar in it or lime juice or basically just it's you know just pure acids what you're putting in there if something isn't it's naturally salty enough you put salt in it if something isn't naturally sweet enough you put sugar in it and that's just as fine what's wrong with that you said hit me with a quick question that was here we go and cold-open hi welcome to ask Adam episode four we will take a few of your questions which we accepted on Instagram again this time the Instagram just seems to be a positive place and I appreciate that so my lovely wife warrant I haven't even had a drink of this yet my lovely wife Lauren is off camera and we'll be putting some selecting some of your questions and putting them to me this is my first drop of alcohol in a week because I got back some bad blood work and so I've had to significantly curtail my drinking okay don't freak everyone out some bad blood if you want to be a healthier human yeah like you shouldn't have super high Hydra triglycerides right like that's a sort of an early warning sign that your your diet is really hurting and could potentially really hurt you so anyways it's just sucks because like this happened right when I remembered how much I liked fine scotch whiskey because this is like so you know we took our honeymoon in Scott and I think a lot of honey people's honeymoons are nice but ours was awesome like so we spent most of time in Glasgow and you know anyway so like you know having having a wee drop of the creature like you know brings me back there in a ways that are really fun I mean like so we we met this this banker what was his name Derek Derek know Derek was the Derek was the banker with the BMW know that was a different guy okay sure what's his name Roger let's go with Roger so Roger was this just you know well-to-do older fellow that we happened to fall in with and he took us to his was a golf club yeah a golf club where he and some of his other sort of retired distinguished scotchman friends were going to have a whisky tasting and a young man a Salesman from a whiskey company had come to you know talk about the wares and and let the gentleman sample you it was like nineteen been his first night on the job and these are okay there was a retired banker a retired doctor a retired undertaker and a retired whiskey maker I bet this kid would have been happy for the Undertaker to come back into his line of work for that evening anyway like heckled him away and then got all the bottles this kid he like had like like I mean this is 2007 right so like this was kind of at the tail end of this but he had kind of like frosted tips [ __ ] and real spiky yanked up here lots of crispy gel all the all the all the stylish young men in Glasgow at the time we're wearing these really really wide ties with like a double double Windsor knot and any man he really he just had very bright colors to his class was very gray and yeah like he boy he yeah he didn't know what he was into coming into that was a fun night anyway so the guys like I think they thought that the whiskey was shite so they they sent us home with like all the bottles we yeah we in our suitcases yeah and we were able to get that through customs somehow I don't know we we didn't know if we were they were like opened half-drunk whiskey anyway I mean like scotch whiskey is is just intrinsically wonderful stuff right and drinking it also brings me back a lot of really pleasant memories of that great time and then we didn't have enough money for a very long time for me to enjoy very much fine scotch whiskey and then like two months ago I remembered oh I can have whatever risk you know what now well now you like it more if you have it like you'll savor it more it's just once every I'm savoring the hell out of that let me tell you alright well on to the questions okay what's your go-to meal when you don't feel like spending time in the kitchen that's most of the time and I would say I mean like look for Lauren it's definitely pasta my love of pasta has decreased markedly over you know the last few years well I mean to reservist and I think that's just my body responding and being like you know no more carbs no stop no more down the hatch we have enough you know yours is a steak yeah price so generally like a you know a piece of animal protein plus a vegetable right which you know can be such a convenient and just great bang for a buck kind of meal and I think one of the things that I have learned and I don't you know I don't want to universalize my experience but I think you know for a white kid growing up in America when I did a meal I was led to believe through how my parents you know fed us was a meat a starch and a veg like they were supposed to be kind of those three components on the plate was that was it like that for you yeah yeah Amy to start tuna veg right and I just kind of to kind of do that in a lot of my early years of cooking for myself and then I kind of at some point I realized you know it's amazing how much easier the whole thing gets when you just eliminate one of those right if you're not trying to produce three separate dishes for dinner if you just do - it's not I think I think it's more than just 33 and a third point you know 333 point 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 % easier I think it's like more than that easier it's just so much better and I don't need any more starches in my life so I generally make like a meat and a veg and it's fantastic so yeah it's taken broccoli something like that what are your favorite things about makin and the surrounding area any must-see tips for people visiting interesting question and I will try to answer it a little bit more directly in a moment but one thing that I want to emphasize is I get like a lot of you know comments and people being like oh wow this guy really like Macon Georgia and I do I like it here a lot but here's why I'm always being like makin makin makin and Georgia Georgia Georgia and all of that I I want I want to be an advocate for all of the places that aren't in New York and Tokyo and Los Angeles right like I the winner take all the economy of cities is something that I think is terrible and has really made the planet worse there's so many wonderful places to live in the world and you know back even when I was a local news reporter like I had the same goal you know I wanted to I wanted localism in media I wanted local flavor to media all the time because I wanted to just you know I just wanted more representation for the places that aren't the big media capitals so that's why I do that it's not because like Macon Georgia is the is the capitol of the culinary universe it's just one of many awesome places to live and to know about and to visit and also because it's you know I think for a long time you know New York really was the only good place to eat in the United States right or I mean that's an overstatement but you know what I'm getting at right like and now you know gastronomy has advanced so much that like in you know any city of more than you know 50,000 people or something like that there's at least one really really great restaurant and we have several so you know yay-yay to that that's a good thing in terms of making Georgia specifically like things to come and see well I suppose I have to kind of think of a different answer in the age of social distancing I mean we have been enjoying so much of the kind of outdoor you know stuff just Mead I would just I just take the kids on kind of day trips of things natural beauty around here so one that's fantastic that has just reopened is the ocmulgee national no it's a call now multi national park and the MOA national historical park that's what it's called now sorry Congress just changed the name okay so this is like you know by some archeologists reckoning possibly the longest continuously inhabited place in the Americas it's like so it's like it's place of what they call Indian mounds right so various waves of native peoples built earthworks here like amazing Titanic huge earthworks and it's super beautiful and it's the archaeology of it is cool and it's cool to kind of climb you can climb up the great temple mound and that's awesome but there's also just like really really extensive nature walks and grounds and and things you know I just it's so because it's like when we lived in Boston it's like they're there if there was a beautiful place that would mean that you couldn't go there because it would be packed right and if people saw you there they'd be like oh god another one right whereas like here there's all of these beautiful places and I'll show up and no one I'll be like wow how is there no one here like so we found this place in the Piedmont national wildlife preserve I think is what it's called which is just you know like 15 minutes from here and it's a place that like the local Rangers called the rocks and it's just like this just flat table of rock over which a river flows or a stream flows and it's just like it's the most beautiful pristine place and it's it's massive and if there's all kinds of little interesting things to explore and if that was in the orbit of any major city it would just be swamped with people all the time and there'd be like guide rails because someone died and like every you know it would just the the fun would be ruined but like if you just it's you know if you safety safety done safety well the other example of that is like we have in Macon there's a concrete slide so there's a foundation called the the knight Foundation which is it's an old newspaper fortune and they support making a lot for historical reasons and they had this thing called the knight neighborhood challenge for this one area of downtown we're basically you know they were just like hey come up with your crazy idea to make this neighborhood better and we'll fund it and somebody's crazy idea was there's this big hill called Coleman Hill in downtown Macon and it'd be perfect for like a slide let's build a polished concrete slide that goes down Coleman lose lose it's almost like a lose for sure yeah and any other city the lawyers would be like no but here they're like you know cuz it's just it's an under populated place so bring a piece of a cardboard box and go to Coleman Hill and go yeah I mean you're just close it's fine but if you really want to go suicidally fast go on a piece of cardboard that the Coleman Hill slide in downtown Macon Georgia and there's parking like right there you know if it was in a real city like none of those spaces would ever be available but like here you can park there anytime and it's right next to the slide and our friend Tim's house you know so like I'm not to to close the narrative loop like I'm not just like Schilling from Macon Georgia I'm chilling for he doesn't get out of whatever major Metro a bubble you may be in because life really can be so much better in lots of ways outside what's been a food craze that you either really loved or really hated okay the answer to both of those is the same thing which is the tabletop convection oven which has a hip name that I refuse to say the airfryer I refuse to say it's the airfryer I repeat the table the tabletop convection oven for a phase enough raise craze there it is three sips in I've also been in a diet so this is gonna hit me like whoa all right it's the tabletop convection oven so I hated the name right because it feels like a marketing term from like 20 years ago when people were still laboring under the misconception that dietary fat was the biggest problem with their diet as opposed to the carbohydrates in target area fat can be bad for your diet but like probably in my diet and the diet of most people watching this the carbohydrates are probably the bigger problem right so it's like oh it's a way to fry without oil right is how it that what that name implies and how some of the market explicit marketing actually like says that right and that's just dumb right the oil isn't the problem okay and also by the way like a deep frying versus coating something in oil and then cooking it in an oven I'm not sure there's much of a like dietary fat savings there it's coated in oil either way right I mean it would tent it depends on the specifics but that's you know I'm not the first person to observe that right so I'm really annoyed by the marketing and all of that on the other hand when our kitchen was being redone and we had no oven Lauren went rogue and ordered a tabletop convection oven which is right over there and it's the best thing like I you know right now we mostly just use it for super pretzels which are like the you know the frozen like soft pretzels which like they are amazeballs when they come out of that thing or for Dino nuggets also super good out of that thing frozen French okay look yeah everyone's like well what's your what are your air fryer recipes there were several people who asked that but the fact of the matter is we use our air fryer mostly to reheat fried junk food yeah french fries from a French fries from a restaurant like takeout french fries that have gotten like soggy and cold inside the box you can put them in this thing and they taste like they're fresh out of the [ __ ] fryer it's insane you've also never had like a Totino's pizza roll or bagel bite as good yeah they come alive in the airfryer and it's this kind of thing where it's like you know you look at it and you're like oh this is how ovens would have evolved had the technology for fans existed and had the family structure been what it is now household sizes are way smaller now than they were back in when the enclosed Rumford oven you know came to prominence in the market right the households used to be multi General plate multi-generational places we're like mom dad and grandpa and eight kids are like living and so naturally you have a bigger oven to kind of cook for those people right family size household sizes rather are much smaller nowadays and so it doesn't really make sense to heat up something so enormous to cook a dinner for two or three people or one person if you're living alone right so I kind of think that the tabletop convection oven is like the future and it hurt it pains me to say that given everything I lead with but I think I mean I'm planning a lot more experiments with it and I imagine quite a few tabletop convection oven recipes are coming and that is how I will refer to them it's an air fryer tabletop convection oven I just want you all to know that he calls that an air fryer when he's not on camera I care about the influence that I have on my mass audience I take that seriously cuz you're an influencer because I [Laughter] other than salt what's one spice you couldn't live without this is hard I was thinking about it and I don't know I mean I kind of feel like it's gonna be garlic powder right I just think it's such an underappreciated unfairly maligned product that is so convenient and is so good at so many things and the only reason people don't like it is a maybe they're just expecting it to be fresh garlic which it's not that's like expecting a dried mushroom to be a fresh mushroom they're just two totally different things both incredible you know or I mean what I suspect maybe it is kind of like it's garlic powders association with kind of very de classe food of the 20th century like upper Midwestern ladies and their casseroles and their dips right certainly like I have that association with onion powder like onion powder to me tastes like what's that dip artichoke the artichoke dip a spinach artichoke dip like which is in bounden sour cream or cream cheese or something like that I usually has like a lot of you know garlic and onion powder in it and like I associate onion powder with that stuff and that's just a purely cultural association that like maybe will die with my generation but both of those things are really good products are you ever going to travel to other countries for food no question yeah so you should know that here I'm just making sure that ah this thing just making sure my thing was still recording I my plan my business plan really had been to at this point be traveling for like every other video you know I'm not I'm not super interested in my own recipes and I'm sure that your interest in my recipes is limited right but then global plague happened right and it's kind of irresponsible to travel places and irresponsible to be in small enclosed places with people and pinning lavalier microphones on them and so yeah so you know that's what I mean everyone again another thing like I always like you know I do I've done lots of videos lately that are about like I did a video about the history of Georgia peaches and people are like wow this guy really loves Georgia it's like well it's more than like I can't go anywhere and I'm trying to think creatively about what I can do with what I have where I am all right how long do you typically take to research your videos so I assume you're talking about the Monday videos that are videos that are not recipes but they are about food it depends but those are those are very labor-intensive those those have gotten to be very hard and so those are generally many many weeks in advance I start working on them I mean a month at least usually planting the seeds thinking about what I'm gonna do and putting out some feelers about people I could talk to you know coming through scientific literature when necessary so I I couldn't I couldn't put like a an hour figure on it but but yeah those are generally at least a month in the making these days related do you see yourself as more of a chef or a journalist I am NOT a chef in any way I'm a person who cooks a lot but I am absolutely not a chef never been a chef a chef a chef is a job title right it's it means the leader of a kitchen or someone within the leadership structure of a kitchen right and that is not something that I have ever been or ever really want to be so no I I am a person who cooks I'm a journalist two cooks that's what I am if you were given a million dollars right now what would you spend it on so my first instinct is to say give it to various charities we've been doing a whole lot of giving lately because I think when the world is going a little bit nuts money is usually more valuable than speech from people like me so I probably would but like an honest answer would be we just found out that true to my suspicions I cannot get a mortgage despite making a really excellent living thanks to you at the moment but basically like you have to make that excellent living for multiple years multiple tax years before a bank will take you seriously nowadays which I suppose I appreciate the caution but yeah like I like despite like having like a thereabout of money at the moment like yeah I could not get a home loan right now and you know I we're in no rush to move I mean we love it here in this house and this kitchen obviously fantastic but you know our children are rapidly expanding and this is a very small house you know so we'll have to make that leap at some point so yes probably would just pay cash for a house or with a million dollars I think I would buy land and build my dream house really you do like new construction I mean really we just to get I mean if I had if money was no object I guess I mean million dollars I feel like if money was no object I'd be more inclined to like restore some I guess the faded glory property true that's true hmm either way we found like [ __ ] [Laughter] couple of a-holes okay oh I'm asking this question because I'm curious how you'll answer how did you and Lauren meet didn't we already do this not really we met on the Internet we met on LiveJournal sit down by the fire children and let me tell you the tales of live journal yeah there was a Bloomington Indiana lie of Journal mm-hm and you know this is when I was riding my bicycle a lot and I weighed 60 pounds less than I weigh right now when we first met you wore women's jeans in a size 6 they were bootcut women's jeans in a size 6 and I looked Vint sure you look great now but what's funny about that is I mean at the time I think I was like a 2 or something stupid and now I would commit crimes to fix me the pants you were wearing bows all children rearranged my skeleton yeah and I have no excuse whatsoever but no that was the result of many many many miles biked on a bicycle which was it was you know Bloomington Indiana for people who don't know is a major cycling capital there's a fantastic movie called Breaking Away that's all about this that you should like run not walk go see if you're remotely interested in cycling or Indiana and or sports or like feelings well it's a good great sports movie so anyways I think we the extensible reason for our meeting was that we were gonna go on a ride mm-hmm not a euphemism because we were gonna go out on a bike together cuz all my like I had just graduated all my friends had moved away and so I didn't know anybody stolen well I didn't know that many people still in town so I was trying to like meet some people who still live there and but I wasn't gonna like ride off on my bike into the woods with a strange guy yeah so we were meeting first yes in public yes where people were and we our first date was at a Tibetan restaurant for not one but two Tibetan restaurants in Macon Georgia Bloomington Indiana in Bloomington Indiana and it was not little Tibetan what was the second date that first day was the snow the snow was not as good as long our second date was at the other yeah so we yeah we went from one Tibetan restaurant to the second and we had better luck at little Tibet yeah you didn't like me better luck in more ways than one way better restaurant little too bad Bloomington Indiana gotta go over there their salad dressing is crazy good it's good somebody asked favorite restaurant in Bloomington so there's so many I mean certainly little too bad you got a bit there what's the the farm farm is great the is it Thai that's across from little Tibet what's the one across the street in the white would you say and Thai was that it notes I am Siam II sont I was the one was the one that was over you know further down Kirkwood okay Bloomington Indiana for those that don't know has like a stupid concentration of Wall Street Oh amazing we had our rehearsal dinner at an Afghani restaurant huh that was so good yes Samira yes that it for people who don't know in the United States and I imagine this tradition dates from Europe in some way to sense from Europe there's a tradition to have a big dinner with a whole bunch of people the night before the wedding and this is called the rehearsal dinner and it's traditionally paid for by the groom's family whereas the wedding is paid for by the bride's family and so anyway so my dad like you know paid for this dinner at Samira this fantastic Afghani place and on the Courthouse Square in Bloomington Indiana and he said like well you know what do you want and I was like I don't know and he said like you know what's here what's your like fantasy like what would you know what would just if you just had anything I said I want like a whole roast beast like a whole goat or something like that and that's exactly what they did and it was awesome yeah that was really fun that was good trying to think if there are any other places in Bloomington yeah Bloomington bagel company yeah it's this lady who came from New York and so she knows from good bagels and the best bagels ever dark there's so good and then so we mentioned a little Tibet I mean laughing planet I've already hit them in a video before but laughing planet is this burrito place San Francisco style burrito place just-just-just wonderful and then there's this really funny it's a place called yonkos little Zagreb janko's little Zagreb do they pronounce the J no whenever everyone just called it little Sakura little Zagreb juncos little Zagreb it's just a steak house Zagreb being accepted little of Croatia someplace in the Balkans sorry it looks like a hole in the wall and when you walk in it's like picnic tables covered in red and white checks tablecloths but then you order a very expensive a $60 steak yeah steak you've ever had yeah and they did all the meat like the smell of meat just pumped out of that restaurant and you we lived across the wave from this place in a build another mercury it just smells oh my god I would be walking back from class in the dead of winter and there would just be beef smoke billowing out of this place that I could not afford but yeah it's this terrific steakhouse they've dry-aged everything in the basement I do I will say I remember having like a funny revelation when I was there one time where I was like God like this beef it's like so it's so milky like is it the dry aging that gives it this kind of milky flavor and then I went over to the grill and I see this dude labeling on clarified butter I go that'd do it wouldn't it there's no there's anything wrong with that okay just you know butter and beef or a match made in heaven it's a great place and it's like the place that like you know when Indiana University is like trying to recruit you know football and basketball players they take them there to try to knock their socks off and everything and it's but it's that's a that's a terrific place I mean for just go to for fourth Street oh I don't know it's still there because we haven't make employment in Indiana we haven't been to Bloomington since 2014 restaurant talent no I don't really remember that that was a really good I mean there's there's like a James Beard Award nominated at least maybe they've won in the year since I have left like fine dining place called restaurant talent there that's super good I was gonna say la petit cafe Oh la Petite if oh I don't know if it's still there but I last I checked it was Sol mi t-- Cafe is like these two this is this French couple who I don't know how they settled in Bloomington anything where one of them was a French professor oh really anyway the guy come they would just like write the food up on the chalkboard menu and then when you sit down the guy the owner he comes and sits down at your table and he like tells you what we have tonight and then he like there's three things on the menu yeah if you order there's always cheese pastry and you can get a glass a car a carafe or a half graph of red or white those are your choices and the food is like it does there's kind of tables in the place ocular but it tastes amazing - and it's like it's this little it's right on this rail spur that is now a big R rails-to-trails trail so it's a walking trail called the be lion trail but it's his old railroad building so you know buildings that were met that were built to service real rail lines often have really weird geometry right because they're sort of built right up against the rail and then so is this really weird little trapezoidal kind of building but it's their house you know the front of it is like eight tables in their restaurant and the back of it is their house and they have been doing that for like 30 40 years and it's how can you imagine a better a bigger win on life than what those people have lived you just went on a major trip down memory lane somebody asked at some point about would we move back to Bloomington like absolutely if it didn't cost 11 a bajillion dollars to live downtown you know if you keep clicking I can afford it it's just it's just really far away from our family which is like the main thing yeah and also Eliezer yeah I winter like I'm it's I don't know how I could handle I don't know how I would handle winter having been so free of it for Joel all right back to the cooking question sure yeah let's get a little more of the Glenmorangie would you I'm sure I that I mispronounced I just doesn't it Glenmorangie either way Colin my agent is : is going to be very mad for not one but two reasons one because I mispronounced the whiskey two because I just gave an endorsement uncompensated would you ever make a cookbook yes if I could find the right way to do it and I've been approached by lots of people about doing cookbooks which is great it's great to be in that position in it and none of those has felt like the right thing to do you know it's also really hard public publishing is our business as my novelist wife Lauren Morel knows my next book it's a piece of book it's about pizza well you'll hear more about that later but anyways I I am of the feeling that if you're gonna do a cookbook it needs to not just be a collection of like good recipes in pretty pictures right because you know who needs a book for that right there's the internet it has to be a physical object that is has intrinsic value as an object you know so it's got to be something that like has you know laminated pages that won't you can splatter sauce on them and it won't hurt them it has to lay flat right or stand up right and like I know a genius idea that Lauren has had is like you know make like a box of recipe cards like your grandma had like I could like make that with all of my recipes and you know I some some kind of idea like that and the reason that none of those ideas has panned out is that it's like that would be tremendously expensive to manufacture right so you know I've had a conversation recently with a with a small publisher who might be game for such an idea and I need to get back to that person but you know I feel like the more likely scenario for that I mean I think a project like that will happen eventually but it'll probably be done in a unconventional business model right we're like you you know may become more like a GoFundMe kind of you know kind of startup model right we're like starter Kickstarter so I Kickstarter rather I Kickstarter kind of model we're like you tell me that you're interested in paying you know a lot for a book you know maybe you know seventy bucks or something like that for a book is that a lot well I mean it's gonna be a lot right to like give you something that's not just a cookbook but is this kind of Awesome made object that is special million dollars 1 million dollars I also think that you should do like a food science book for kids I know I mean that's something that I would be very comfortable doing with traditional publishing because that could just be a book or a board book all children's books should be board books why aren't they because they're expensive that's why probably and you can't have that many pages I wish that like all books like even grown-up books for board books because like I have a lot of trouble turning pay like thin paper pages like it my hand cramps I just don't like okay this board books they just it's so easy a couple people asked if you had any book recommendations and somebody asked specifically what your favorite of my books is it wasn't gonna ask but if we're gonna talk about your delicate fingers with turning pages Adam saw a pic reader well I am a big reader I'm not a big reader of books and there are two reasons for that yes there is legitimate okay so first of all I am list x'q okay diagnosed when I was a kid I did not read until I was stupid old you know and like if you ever wonder why I like there's lots of misspellings and either the captions or like the the descriptions where I write out the recipes like spelling is a major struggle for me to this day and reading oh my god what there's a raccoon it just climbed up on the roof I just did you see it I don't know no no I'm asking them did they say no it's a little tail just what if I was like is that a cat nope raccoon there's resin eating let's it with taters trash panda anyway sorry sorry to derail the conversation I just looked over your dollar and I was like there is an animal climbing up to the roof so there's there's a fan who has been doing time codes for the ask Adams and I look forward to seeing how you timecode that and thank you for your service we're talking in fact you don't read it ever yet say like I read but like reading is much more effort from me than I think it is for you and certainly for you right it's it requires a level of concentration and kind you know just mental effort and and so like reading is not something I do for recreation because it's hard and it gives me headaches and I have to you know whereas like you just it just blows right off the page it sucks because there's all kinds of literature that I would love to get to but like it hurts my brain and also yes I don't I really like that I have a profound negative tactile response to book paper or paper right I just it feel like when I touch it I feel like it's like sucking all of the moisture out of my thumb and I just you know it freaks me out the testament to my love for you that it doesn't bother me when you say things like because they're so heavy holding them up is hard it does bother you no I mean at this point just given up on having no I mean you are who you are and it's there's there's all this rhetoric about like oh you know there's that John Waters quote about like if somebody doesn't have books don't [ __ ] them and John wanted something Floyd ya know the wait know what's his name the guy from oh the the filmmaker yeah yeah yes sorry and add your water is this the one from yes I think ok I don't know any digging the hole deeper at this point anyway yes but mustache guy yeah and then like you know you know my my writing communities people always talk about like oh my partner and they're reading of my books and it's so important to me what they think and I'm just like you know what that there's more like there's not one way to be and it is not a fatal flaw if you're not into reading fiction for what it's worth I would be much more comfortable if you never watched a single one of my videos my videos I don't watch him all I know a lot of them yes and I wish you didn't oh really like there's the other side of that coin why I this is my my my work is over here my life is over here oh but see I watch them cuz they're entertaining I know but then you talk about them and I'm like my huh yeah your bring it into my home into my bedroom where my wife sleeps where my children come and play with their toys this ask Adam is gone dreary off the rails my it's it's the it's the it's the whiskey guy so good for the record i watch your videos because they're entertained oh thanks baby like a lot of times they make me laugh yeah anyway okay would you ever consider competing on Hell's Kitchen and I will add or any other reality show absolutely not correct answer there's several reasons I mean one it would just be a terrible life choice to like I'm I'm philosophically opposed to that crap like I I think the idea of cooking as a competition is is toxic but you like bake-off the Great British Bake Off yeah well yeah because that's an anteye capita competition show right or at least it was in the original version I mean there's still a winner and people get kicked off but it's all very pleasant yeah exactly no I mean the whole I mean I can I have like you know sometimes you know people on like the Twitter's or whatever will you know challenged me to a cook-off or something like that and I'm like dude no stop it's not about it's not a dick measuring contest it's your dinner like just you should make something that makes you happy in the time that you have to a lot to it and then move the [ __ ] on with your life okay that's what cooking is supposed to be about it's supposed to serve you you're not supposed to serve it okay and just the whole idea of like cooking is being an expression of one's prowess is everything I am against at everything that I work to combat and so no I mean I'm opposed to those programs on a philosophical level and I will not engage except for you and I used to watch Top Chef way back in the beginning yeah before we had TiVo and during the commercial breaks who would try to run down from the apartment into the convenience store to get snacks and then back before this show started kids let me tell you about the days of television you couldn't pause it gather around the fire old man Russia has a story for you okay what's one thing you cannot stand eating but wish you could Oh beats easily really I always say sweet potatoes sweet potatoes that's a good one too so you try really hard to like yeah I did I mean sweet potatoes are so they're so good and they're so nutritious like there's so much better for you than potatoes on sweet potato is actually not a potato right so botanically it's a totally different thing and and there's I mean they're just in terms of their position on the glycemic index and everything like they're just they're so good for you and I you know at I think it was when I was doing more kind of it wasn't when I was cycling was when I was more kind of bodybuilding that I was trying to eat a lot of sweet potatoes and the way that I was I wasn't able to make them reasonably palatable to myself was putting chipotle peppers in them with a lot of the adobo sauce from the can and that's that's good I mean that's like do that mashed sweet potatoes with chipotle peppers in them and that's that's hella good okay but I still hated it I just I don't know what it is I just I just don't like them and which sucks because I would love to like them because they're so good for you and I looked good while I was eating them not anymore but please stop making fun of like denigrating yourself yes I know you're a handsome fella thank you thank you I and then beats yeah beats herb they're beautiful and sweet and they have a great crunch to them and they come in so many colors and there's so many things you can do with them and they just they the very smell of them turns my stomach and it's yeah it's probably like a an acquired thing from childhood my parents who had a huge wonderful garden growing up that I never appreciated except for the sweet corn and by the way that's like an another thing that like another way in which we're a thousand is like you know I what I was a child the only way to get sweet corn that was really sweet was to grow it or to go down to a farm stand where they had picked it a few hours before because I think about sweet corn at least naturally is that as soon as you pick it the sugars in it start to convert to starch starch are sugars that are so big that your your tongue doesn't perceive them this is sweet right but your belly perceives them so but like you know court sweet corn breeders have fixed that problem like there's now all kinds of sweet corn on the market that like you can pick a days probably weeks before you cook it and it's still very very sweet but that's like an innovation that occurred during my mostly my adult lifetime right my parents had this wonderful garden and I didn't appreciate anything in other than the sweet corn and they also grew beets and they they pickled them and just just you know putting pickled beets in front of a kid and saying you have to eat this and if you don't eat it you're gonna go straight to bed that just you know my parents were wonderful people and they did all kinds of things right but I think that that was that was a mistake and I've tried to learn from that and how we there were lots of questions probably overcompensating yeah there were lots of questions about how do you handle picky eaters or what would you do if you had a picky eater at well friends yeah we have a picky eater and the answer is I don't know and no one can really tell us yeah and it's like I I'm so I have so we had one of our children is a very picky eater like Pat it's a pathology it's so severe right and I have you know and I'm I've tried to seek treatment right but like I can't find anyone who I think has like an evidence-based approach to this it's all folk wisdom most I'm not paying $200 an hour for folk wisdom okay and like you know as pediatrician is like blood work is fine and he's all healthy he's growing and he'll grow out of it and fingers crossed I mean I was this marginally picky eater growing up I grew out of it my brother was a super picky eater growing up he grew out of it he didn't grab until his like his 30s you know later late twice you know yeah I mean he worked in restaurants so that helped but yeah I don't know I think we're just doing the best we can and keeping them fed and making sure they're healthy and growing and you know offering always offering and trying not to make it a punishment if anyone in the audience has like an if this is an area of research specialty for you please get in touch with me I would love to do a video about picky okay great but I have like I've been scouring scientific literature I haven't found anything like you know it's so yeah so if you have a picky eater you are one of the people that was asking that question solidarity a friend solidary it's hard it's really hard cuz you tell yourself before you have kids like oh yeah I'm just we're gonna sit down to dinner every night and I'm only gonna make one thing Cael and like it there is nobody more confident than a person who does not yet have a child exactly the thing is when they come out there they're our own people and there's nothing you can do about who they are yeah so yeah solidarity it's really frustrating but we'll get there someday all right let's try to blast through let me know - more fun questions okay tomorrow 5:00 there's some not fun question two more questions and they're fun I think what's your favorite holiday song mmm so many I love Hall and Oates I will mention two one is possession obsession which is a freaking great song one of the few later hollow note songs on which Oates sang lead and it's just he just crushes it he sounds like Prince and he was so he was so underutilized and why he was underutilized because you know daryl hall has like like a once-in-a-generation instrument you know but john oh it's his pretty special guy too and boy he just crushes that song and and then but the other one is like an early like an early jam and one that people don't know about a lot it's called it's a laugh and it's a daryl hall song and such a good group God Star Wars or Star Trek so I'm certainly like a trek man all day long people who put Star Wars all night Star Trek in front Star Wars in the back no I I mean I you know I I love Star Trek The Next Generation it's my favorite television series television series I love the intellectualism I love the optimism everything that people love about classic train also likes that it's very slow yeah exactly something happens exactly like the thing about and it's really about next generation particularly like this is not true of any of their the Star Trek series I love the aspect of like a bunch of people sit economy a bunch of people sitting in a conference table and having a rational intelligent long conversation about how to fix a relatively low stakes problem and respecting each other and loving each other in the process instead of having a whole bunch of conflict because people who went to screenwriter school were Tod you need conflict you do you don't freaking love that and I love Captain Picard is a totally almost uncomplicated you know male and leadership role model you know almost perfect Adam wanted us to name our first challenge on Luke yeah totally were than that total veto I got him a onesie that looked like Captain Picard's uniform and that was enough sit in it for like a month [Music] so yes Trek all day long and in particular TNG and people who know my you have done their deep dive on me like I have an association with a a property of various Star Trek podcasts known as the greatest generation greatest discovery and for whom I've composed music over the years those podcasts that are shockingly popular podcasts that said I like Star Wars I think that I think that the original trilogy is is fantastic for all of the reasons that people love it mostly the clothes like seriously I'm sorry the costumes are freaking killer in the first in Star Wars a new hope like I mean in the same way that you don't really care for books I'm just not a sci-fi person okay I respect and recognize that in you and I love it I'm sure that you can respect and recognize Harrison Ford in those chaps that he was wearing and sure Harrison Ford's costume yes Harrison Ford he can get fashion-wise is who I want to be like there's this there's a picture maybe if I have time I will put it on the screen right now but otherwise go I don't look for it is there's picture of Harrison Ford at can con in like 1979 or something like that and he has just stopped stepped off a boat and he's got like those fantastic late seventies early eighties short shorts like men used to wear short shorts and they frickin owned it and it looked awesome short shorts on this guy and he's got like his shades and he's got like a hey uh what'd he call it a sweatshirt on like shorts with a sweatshirt cuz he's been on a boat you know and it's that combination of hot and cold that you only get on a boat and I just how he looks in that picture is how I want to look and feel and live my whole life and never will right just please don't pierce your ear I'm not gonna pierce my ear and I'm not gonna date Calista Flockhart they're married oh really yeah damn kid I'm sorry and I'm not gonna I'm also does not jump rope with celebrity gossip I'm not gonna make freakin jingoistic propagandistic you know America get off my plane films oh that's a good movie that is not a good that is not okay be problematic but it's also good but like how Harrison Ford looks in that picture is how I want to look and feel and live all the time and also in his costume in original Star Wars just freakin killer I would love to look and dress like that all the time there's so many bugs in this kitchen now and it's causing a huge problem shooting food well it's because the back door gets left open now hey let's go in the backyard we got to work on that yeah question Oh Star Wars Star Trek so anyway here's the reason huge thing I have not watched the original trilogy in a long time and I have not shown it to my children why because George Lucas destroyed them and I refuse to show my children the George Lucas destroyed editions of Star Wars and you know if and when the like legacy editions are released which will probably be after George Lucas dies or when he runs out of money and needs to find another way of getting it right then I will show my children Star Wars and I will watch Star Wars again but until then no cannot countenance what George Lucas did to his films and for what it's worth like I have tried to kind of in my own extraordinarily minor Fame I have tried to learn from George Lucas's example about what not to do and like to recognize that like when you put things out into the world if people like them they become those creations of yours become much bigger than you and you do not own them anymore right and so I might not like the videos of mine that have been the most successful but who cares it's not mine anymore it's yours and there's nothing I can do about that and I just need to shut up and let the world be as it is last question that was the last question unless you want to talk about your workout routine I don't okay you don't to tell everybody how much you love the peloton now Collins gonna get mad no uncompensated endorsements for very well-to-do companies we already got a peloton we paid for it to be perfectly clear so thank you for watching one little program note I'd like to offer is that so whenever I talk about dietary changes that I need to make from my own welfare a lot of people ask like well why you keep like putting out like you know cookie recipes and stuff like aren't you trying to out you trying to fix your body you know fundamentally I mean I try to make things on the channel that I like because you know I know I have no other way of gauging whether or not a recipe is good but also be aware that I'm making it for you right so like I'm working on a brownie recipe for example that like you know I'll probably do soon and you know it's it's for you not for me I'm for me and for Laura yeah I need to cut back and just because corentin´s been rough and but just be aware that that's the thing that's going on and fundamentally the videos are there for you more so than for me and this one's for you too thank you thank you

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Published: Mon Jun 29 2020