Hi

Walk with me as I show you my new Substack...

I am on the left, obviously.

Hi, I’m Jason. You might know me from How Long Gone, a podcast I do with my friend Chris, or maybe for my efforts as a DJ.

Spicy Fusilli shirt 😩

I live in Los Angeles and am interested in everything related to food except cooking it professionally for hundreds of people daily. Watching competition cooking shows, I dream about being a judge more than a contestant. I spend most of my days buying, cooking, and thinking about food in my own little world. Growing up, I was vegetarian and vegan, and that influenced my cooking today despite my alarming consumption of whole milk.

I even did a Grubstreet diet. New Yorkers love it when someone from LA does one.

I started this Substack a few years ago during the quarantine after visiting the infamous turquoise-blue McDonald’s in Sedona, Arizona, likely their most transcendental location. I spite-ordered the Travis Scott meal as a prank on nobody for science. Later that night, after my wife and then-girlfriend fell asleep binge-watching the 90s sitcom “Girlfriends” at our haunted Airbnb, I took some mushrooms and wrote about Travis’ meal. Some of you got a kick out of it, and I got a decent amount of subscribers.

Since then, I’ve written about everything bagel ice cream and how smoking while eating feels. It fizzled; I got busier podcasting but recently began writing about food again, reviewing restaurants for TASTE. So now I’m back here with more to say about my life with food. Expect weekly emails with the following:

• Essays - Opinion: “Health Food” should taste worse.

• Recipes - A Filet-o-fish dupe that won’t cost you $17.

• Where I eat - It’s not Houston’s.

• Interviews - Nancy Silverton was on our pod recently and talked about cocaine.

• Experiments - How to make the best orange juice.

• Recommendations - unlock my spots with a paid subscription.

• Playlists - Morning meditations, jazz for prepping while high, or driving at night.

• Shower thoughts - “Is it bad that I’m saving Oppenheimer for the plane?”

• Q&As - Do you want to know what my Sweetgreen order is? I’ll tell you.

A special thanks to Zak LLC for the graphic design. Once we're up and running, I plan on switching to a paid model where some bits will be free, and some will be teased out in such a way. I also look forward to having a reason and a deadline to write more.

Thanks, Jason.

I also know Alison Roman.