Let It Rip: The Bear 'Cast

We spoke about all things The Bear, digressed into a little mustard chat and some listener feedback. We still don’t know about the Shapiro-verse, but we’re pretty sure it’s not Mamburger Helpfler. Articles we discussed… https://slate.com/culture/2025/07/the-bear-season-4-episode-4-worms-sydney-ayo-edebiri.html https://chicago.eater.com/2023/7/7/23787110/the-bear-season-2-one-off-hospitality-donnie...

We made a chicken, we named some chefs and talked about the Smashing Pumpkins. Articles we discussed… https://www.cbr.com/the-bear-jon-bernthal-best-guest-star/ https://english.elpais.com/culture/2024-08-21/liza-colon-zayas-from-the-bear-the-backbone-of-the-united-states-has-always-been-black-and-brown-people.html https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-features/the-bear-gillian-jacobs-interview-s...

Back home at last we are talking about intergenerational trauma, scurvy, our lack of knowledge about childbirth and the majesty of Jamie Lee Curtis. Lucy mentioned this recipe for Quick Shredded Chicken Ramen, and the book An Everlasting Meal by Tamar Adler. We spoke about this article by Erin Qualey at Den of Geek And this article on Medium by Heidi Priebe All the music from The Bear can be found...

We are in Poland, full of pierogi and joy at a Tina-centric episode and the return of Bernthal. Eateries mentioned include Fach (Bratislava), Mr Vincent (Kraków) and Hamsa (Kraków) All the music from The Bear can be found at this Radio Times article Music is Jump to the Top and Grizzly by Leva. Podcast artwork by the amazing Randy Stevenson. Next up: The Bear S3E07 “Legacy” and E08 “Ice Chips”! Le...

We are back south of the border to discuss blackberries, what an expo is and Josh Hartnett. We followed the blackberry cake recipe from Matty Matheson ‘A Cookbook’. You can read the full recipe here. Lucy learned all about beans in Tamar Adler’s wonderful book ‘An Everlasting Meal’ The amazing Glasgow vegetarian restaurant is Sylvan in Woodlands The AV Club article about Josh Hartnett can be found...

We’re taking a break from our regularly scheduled programming to talk about all things Scottish with our friends from afar. Next week we’ll be back with a double episode for The Bear Season Three Episodes Three and Four: ‘Doors’ and ‘Violet’. Peter made this deconstructed moussaka for us You can make your own Scottish tablet following this recipe from Baking With Granny. Music is Jump to the Top a...

With an f.p.m (f*cks per minute) rate of 3ish, we are back to discuss a return to the Bear we know and love in episode 2, as well as mulling the joy of chicken piccata with a whole lot of lemon. We followed the piccata recipe from Matty and Coco on this video We also spoke about Ali Slagle’s recipe from ‘I Dream Of Dinner (So You Don’t Have To)’ Music is Jump to the Top and Grizzly by Leva. Podcas...

This week, we let it rip with a heck of a montage, and some differing opinions about how much omelette is too much omelette. We followed the omelette recipe from BuzzFeed’s Ross Yoder here We referred to Samin Nosrat’s excellent cookbook ‘Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat’ and accompanying Netflix show Stanley Tucci’s ‘c-u-linary’ memoir ‘Taste’ is also worth checking out (we loved the audiobook) We encourage...

Welcome to Let It Rip: The Bear ‘Cast. In this opening episode we’ll be talking all things Bear, and all things food, as we muddle our way through Mikey’s family spaghetti and ask ourselves, what is it that makes this show so damn good? RECIPES You can find our recipe at https://tinyurl.com/tbcep1: let us know if you give it a try! We’re taking recipe inspiration from Chris Godfrey’s 2023 article...