Food POV w/ Jason Parker

Jason sits down with LA musician and creativity coach Cortney Matz as she talks moving to LA and the search for craft chocolate

Guest Krystal wows the audience with stories of New Jersey & dtla. Share childhood memories of Chi-Chi’s Mexican restaurant & Ponderosa Steakhouse. LA restaurants like Trois Mec & Bar Ama get plenty of love also.

Jesse talks about growing up in Granada Hills and plenty of wild stories from his days serving at Mr. Chow’s in Beverly Hills.

Jason sits down with friend and former coworker Tim Lim to talk leftover’s for breakfast and La Morra pizza

Host Jason is joined by Nolan McBride, cohost of the epic horror movie podcast “Dead Ringers”

Jason talks about his love of cheeseburgers and his experiences with them

From Bangkok we have a special interview with Madeline, former pastry chef at Manuela where we worked.

Renaissance man Sterling Macer Jr (Double Down on Amazon Prime) stops by the podcast and discusses growing up in Missouri, hunting game for Thanksgiving and a lot of great food along the way.

Host Jason interviews a friend and former coworker Ernie Chavarria. Chef Ernie talks about life in LA.

Chef at Manuela Luis tells some great stories about growing up in LA and eating

Jason interviews Michigan born picky eater Jeff Locher about working at a Ponderosa living in Vegas, moving to LA and of course pizza

Host Jason interviews himself as he talks about his experiences with pizza and what made him choose to get certified as a Neapolitan Pizzola throughout organization VPN Americas

We stop by dtla hot spot natural wine shop/restaurant Good Clean Fun(owner Ian Asbury episode 15) and interview Head Chef and friend Jesus “Chuy” Ramirez. We talk growing up in LA, working the hottest station in Los Angeles & how underrated Arby’s roast beef really is

Former grilled cheese pop up king Ian (Cheezus) Asbury brings us is new wine bar in downtown LA, Good Clean Fun. Ian and Jason discuss pizza, life in the great northwest and tell wild stories

Christopher talks about growing up in Alaska, life now in Boston & the endless hunt for the legendary Godfathers Pizza chain

Due to technical issues the first 15 minutes of this podcast was lost. We start with Chef Brent Thomas talking about his family’s Christmas food traditions

This week Food POV is back with another member of the Unity Sourcing & Roasting team, this time it’s Meagan McCall partnership and marketing manager for the company

The guys behind Coffee Commissary’s in house roaster Unity, Adam & Tyler answer all of host Jason’s questions

Episode 10 takes us from Echo Park to ramen in Japan with an old Verve co worker of mine Deyssi Zavaleta

Local Eagle Rock painter Skuartist shares tales from his life in Northeast LA. Trigger warning for discussions on race.

Matt talks about growing up in Maine & his move to Valdez, Alaska in the mid 90’s. Pizza and bbq are discussed as usual

An old barista friend of mine Gary tells stories about growing up Armenian in Glendale California. Expect the usual pizza, bbq & tales from the service industry

One of my faves Niki K sits down and talks about her love of Cleveland, drinking, eating & wild times in the service industry.

An old friend of mine John Imig from La Colombe, Intelligentsia & Swork coffee joins me to discuss the food he had growing up in Boulder and the things he misses about LA since he’s moved back home. We get some name dropping in this one Swork Coffee, Trois Mec, Beau Jo’s Pizza in Colorado Springs and numerous street taco vendors around Highland Park

This week I interview Oren Peleg writer for Infatuation & Eater LA. Explore his OC/Israeli roots