Fire and Water Cooking and Travel - The Fusion of Food, Cooking, and Travel

Join me for a conversation with Diane Horan of AmaWaterways River Cruise Line to discuss her company and river cruises overall. We discuss the history of Ama, how river cruising is different than ocean cruising, what has changed over the years, how Ama is different, and much more! Make sure you check out the link below to see AmaWaterways website for more information on their ships, itineraries, and much more!

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Join us for a conversation with West Coast of Florida Business Manager Angela Garner as we discuss all that Virgin Voyages cruise line offers on their All Adult Lady Ships!
It is NOT What you may think!

To find out more about Virgin Voyages, check them out HERE -  https://bit.ly/3MCAxuu

For the BEST Food centric vacations and travel adventures, check out Fire and Water Travel Services! We specialize on findin...

Cruising has changed a lot over the last 20 years, with bigger and more impressive ships, more variety, more cruise lines, and just more of everything! In this episode I touch on some of biggest changes and where you can go now on a cruise ship. Of course I discuss how food has become one of the biggest draws to cruising over the years and how some companies keep upping their games! 

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Mike and I discuss the past, present, and future of the International Sous Vide Association. The ISVA is a group of sous vide lovers who help teach and spread the good news about this amazing cooking method. 

They have a few cool events coming up this year and next that involve trips to Paris, Washington DC, and on a Virgin Voyages Cruise! Plus the annual Virtual Sous Vide Summit will take place in September! 

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Welcome Back! I really did miss doing these podcasts, but I am so glad I will now have time to focus 100% on doing these things that I love! As you can see I will be adding travel as another focus to the show as I believe "Food and Travel go together like peas and carrots!" LOL! 

I look forward to having on some old friends and some new ones to discuss all things food, cooking, and travel! Make sure you subscribe...

In this episode my guests Lloydd Capuccia and Kevin Liddell discuss seasonings and sauces, and how they interact with food and our taste buds. Over thousands of years we have developed the human palette but our tongues have tastebuds for a more basic purpose.. Survival! 

Check out the Fire & Water Cooking Seasonings on Amazon, Walmart.com, or my website HERE - https://www.fireandwatercooking.com/online-store/Fire-and-W...

I stumbled onto Gubba a few months ago when I was looking for Freeze Dryer content on YouTube, and I got hooked on her Style! Gubba is a Gaming Streamer that has branched out into other things such as music, books, and even prepping and homesteading! She is very different from most content creators her age as she is very "modest" and honest. wether she is playing a heated game of Fortnite or learning how to milk her dairy...

In this episode I talk with Chef Andy Husbands who has had a very interesting career. From being on "Hells Kitchen" to owning and running an award winning fine dining restaurant in Boston, authoring 6 cookbooks, to winning the Jack Daniels World championship of BBQ and much more! Check out all Andy has going on at his website www.andyhusbands.com or you can check out his restaurants here  https://thesmokeshopbbq.com/

In this episode I invite my friends Lloyd Cuppucia and Scott Smith on to discuss the MasterBuilt 1050 Gravity Smoker/Grill and their experience with the grill quality and the modifications they do to them. Although this grill does put out some great food, the build quality is not the greatest for sure. Below are a couple of the websites we discuss that carry a lot of products for these grills to make them much better. There is a wh...

If you have not heard of Black Garlic, you will be please with this podcast episode! Dr Elizabeth Latham is the owner of "The Black Garlic Company" based in Texas. We discuss how she left her career as a collage professor to chase her Black Garlic dreams! She explains what black garlic is, the health benefits, and pretty much all you need to know about this "Super Food" and awesome Seasoning! You can find her &q...

Technology and cooking mix well together! Chef Owen Wyatt started out as a busboy and worked his way up to Chef Thomas Keller's staff,  but then changed gears and went to work helping to develop the "Hestan Cue" Smart Induction Cooking system. He is now with an exciting start up company "Typhur" that promises to bring more innovative and useful products to the home cook.

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Join me in a discussion with Nina Skaggs, Co-owner of Avid Armor Vacuum sealers to discuss their rapid growth, their new products, and how the pandemic has affected their business! Lots of good information about their high quality products and new releases!

You can check out their products on their Website HERE - https://bit.ly/36jwEc6

Check out their YouTube Channel HERE - https://www.youtube.com/c/Avidarmor

We are Back! After a long hiatus, this is the 1st episode of many more to come! We will be doing at least 2 per month going forward. Here is my discussion with Mr. Jason Perlow, Long time Food blogger and tech reviewer for places like ZDnet and CNN, and a founding member of the "Modernist Food" incubator from the early 2000's "eGullet".  eGullet was a bulletin board message group where people of all cooking...

I invite my friends Kevin Liddell and Lloyd Cupuccia to discuss food preservation and retort canning. JVR Industries has introduced a new sealer bar for their popular Vac100 chamber sealer that will work for Retort and Mylar bags. This seal bar does a more concentrated and deeper seal so it will work with the 7 mil speciality bags for much longer food preservation.

Check out the JVR Vac100 Chamber sealer HERE and you can ...

One of the most favorite smokers that AmazingRibs owner Meathead Goldwyn has ever owned is the Karubecue C-60. I have also discussed this smoker with people like John Setzler of Man Cave Meals,  Chris Young of Modernist Cuisine & ChefSteps, and Douglas Baldwin. They all rave about this very unique smoker! Join me in my discussion with the owner and inventor Bill Karau as find out the hows and why he created this amazing wood fi...

Check out my discussion with Chef Candace Conley and Natalia Banjac of the cooking school "The Girl Can Cook" and the podcast "Not a single fork" as we discuss how they got started and where they are going! Chef Candace has a PHD in Psychology and has an interesting path on how she got into cooking and teaching!

Check out their website HERE- https://www.thegirlcancookschool.com/

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Join me in a discussion with Nina Skaggs, co-owner of Avid Armor vacuum sealers! Avid Armor has grown very fast over the last 5 years and offers some of the best high quality vacuum sealers and supplies on the market aimed at the home user. They offer excellent products and customer service and are always expanding their offerings to help their customers and fill needs.

Check out the Avid Armor Store on Amazon - https://a...

I am so excited to have Dr. Douglas Baldwin on the Show! He is the author of "Sous Vide for the Home Cook" and his pasteurization and heating tables are the industry standard! He spent the better part of a year researching and developing the information millions of people use to cook safely with sous vide. He has worked with such companies as Modernist Cuisine, ChefSteps, and now Breville/PolyScience. 

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Check out our conversation about cooking thermometers with Lloyd and Kevin. Instant read thermometers from full blown temperature controllers! We then tackle the Delta-T cooking and what it is and what it can do for you.

if you love Fresh Organic spices, you MUST try FreshJax Organic Seasonings and spices! All of their products are superior quality, organic, non-gmo, no added colors, anti caking, or other additives! They ...