Sharon's out this week and Lee joins Winter to interview chef Justice Stewart, author of Mastering the Art of Sous Vide and the blog Gourmet Deconstructed. He talks about how he started out as a construction worker then transitioned to becoming a chef. We get into how he got into the sous vide method of cooking (wild game) and his new cookbook, Mastering the Art of Sous Vide.
Let's taco 'bout it!
Run Time: 46 minutes
Let's taco 'bout it!
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Let's taco 'bout it!
- Lee and Winter are board members of the International Sous Vide Association (ISVA) and are helping with put together the 1st Annual Sous Vide Summit in July 2019. We met Justice, another board member of the ISVA, through this connection.
- Chef Justice Stewart's first book came out in December, Mastering the Art of Sous Vide: Unlock the Versatility of Precision Temperature Cooking. Find it here.
- Justice is from New York and had been working construction and cooking on the side as a hobby. Then, after helping a friend in his catering company, he was inspired to change his career to cooking.
- You can find his blog Gourmet Deconstructed here.
- Sous vide cooking was discovered by a physicist Benjamin Thompson by accident with a mutton shoulder.
- The sous vide technique works really well for a lot of food, but don't use it to cook everything! Justice was mentioning he saw someone who cooked bacon sous vide. To each his own!
- Wild game is how Justice was introduced to sous vide cooking when he won $500 worth of wild game from Exotic Meat Market from Perris, California. Andrew, the owner, suggested cooking the lean wild game using the sous vide method.
- The weirdest thing he's eaten was the camel shortribs. The recipe is on his blog.
- Justice met Jason Logsdon (listen to his podcast episodes here and here) through Amazing Food Made Easy and Exploring Sous Vide, and Justice later became a board member of the ISVA.
- At last: He's a Yankees, Knicks, Giants fan.
- Find him on Twitter @justicegourmet, Instagram, on Facebook, and on his blog, Gourmet Deconstructed.
- How to enter the contest: Follow him on his blog Gourmet Deconstructed (find the follow button on the bottom right hand corner of the page) and add the comment "#masteringtheartofsousvide" on his blog post here. Last day to enter is February 27, 2019 at 11:59 PM PST. Winner announced on February 28, 2019.
Run Time: 46 minutes
Sponsors: The International Sous Vide Association (ISVA) and the 1st Annual Sous Vide Summit are the sponsors of this episode. Join us for the 1st Annual Sous Vide Summit in July 19-21, 2019 in Wilmington, DE (30 minutes from Philadelphia, PA) with other sous vide enthusiasts!
