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November 13, 2024 14 mins
Our old friend Lee Schrager stops in to talk The Food & Wine Festival in Nassau, Bahamas!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Morning Show.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
Well, thank you again to Christina Tosi. The name of
the book is book. It's called Bake Club. Bake Club.
Everyone's texting about it, and we're gonna make this a
number one seller. My voice is almost gone, but you
have just a little left, so I can scream and
yell at Lee Schrager.

Speaker 3 (00:18):
So, Lee, every time you come visit us.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
A lot of people don't even know who you are,
but a lot of people don't in the in the
real world, because.

Speaker 1 (00:25):
His face, like you just insulted him beyond belief, did I.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
No, No, we are opening you up to a whole
new audience here. You know that I do. But when
you do visit, you do come in and you do
slice and dice us, and you do you do abuse
us to a certain degree.

Speaker 3 (00:41):
And people love it. That's right.

Speaker 2 (00:43):
I can get closer to that microphone. If you're going
to be awful, be awful where people can hear you.

Speaker 4 (00:48):
You were so nice to Christina and said how people
love her and everyone has such nice things to say
when you mentioned her name. We have a lot of
mutual friends, or did they say when you mentioned my name?

Speaker 2 (00:58):
Everyone loves you, Lee? Okay, But anyway, now, I don't
know if you know about Lee Lee. Of course, if
you've been to South Beach Wine Food Festival, if you've
been to New York City Wine Food Festival, that is Lee.
He does a lot more than that, believe me. But
those are the things that we all.

Speaker 1 (01:14):
You may not know it, but he does good things
for people.

Speaker 3 (01:17):
He does a lot of great things. And you live.
You live in Miami area. You've lived there? How long?
Longer than Gandhi's alive.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
Hey, I looked around the road.

Speaker 2 (01:29):
You're from that area, yes, and.

Speaker 3 (01:31):
So is Gandhi. I just found out this morning. I
didn't know that.

Speaker 5 (01:34):
To high school in pember Pie.

Speaker 2 (01:36):
And you are really really super connected to the restaurant
industry and all the great chefs and all the owners
and whatever. What's your favorite Miami restaurant right now? Go
something new that you're loving. There are so many new
restaurants in Miami. I mean, you go away and there
are three new restaurants. Uh, that's what did I love?

(01:57):
Where did I just go?

Speaker 3 (01:58):
Uh? Oh? Can I tell you?

Speaker 4 (02:02):
Cot to Letto was delicious and it was easy because
I can never decide what to eat because I want everything.
They have one choice. They have one entree. Tell them
it's like a big veal. It's like a veal milonnaise.
So for two people, you get like Aaron chiny to
begin with, you get the cot letta, You get a
salad and two side dishes, which could be French fries,

(02:23):
fried zucchini pasta. For eighty dollars for two people, you
could be in and out on the boat it is.
We took half of it home, or cardon I took
half of it home. It was so delicious. I mean,
there are a million great restaurants in Miami. It used
to be you couldn't decide where to eat because it
was nothing. Now you can't decide where to eat because

(02:43):
there are so many and so many new things opening.
I mean, we have Thomas Keller, we have Jean George,
we have Danielle Blu, We have just amazing talent. You're
the Carbone people. You're stealing our people now, your people.
That's right, they're all heading well, they're all running away
from you. No doubt.

Speaker 3 (03:02):
Here he goes.

Speaker 5 (03:04):
Every time we read stories about, you know, foody capitals
and lists Miami and South Florida, they're always on the
list now.

Speaker 4 (03:10):
Without a doubt, It's a great because it's all New
york Ers. All you people came down there at the
COVID people. Yeah, people on nice red state. Hello listeners,
here we go. So I have a question. Yes, what
is your question? So every morning I listened to you
talk about Wendy's and the way to work. Yes, a

(03:32):
great advertiser. I love Wendy's. Do not worry. I'm not sorrying, Okay,
thank you. If I was Wendy's when you had VIP
guests like myself, I would have Wendy's. Why don't they
cater breakfast? And I'll tell you why you're saying that
he loves that breakfast burrito. I do it because of you.
I was driving by a Wendy's one morning, just a
few weeks ago. I texted you and you were talking
about it, and I was at a red light and

(03:52):
there's like a Wendy's on the other side. I parked
my car, walked across the highway and went and had
a breakfast burrito. And what'd you think? It was surprisingly good?
So do you want to come back? I know I
know you loved it, though, right, I did love it.
I really I love Wendy's. I think they're the best burger.

Speaker 6 (04:09):
You should have them at the Wine and Food Festival.
Wendy's Burrito I would I think I am going to
do that. I think they should be at our taco event. Yes,
I think that's a great idea. I love Wendy's. I
have the best. If you could take Wendy's burger and
five guys French fries.

Speaker 1 (04:24):
Oh my gosh, there's nothing like that, and then.

Speaker 4 (04:26):
And a shake from a shake shack, I mean really,
that is my ideal meal. And in Miami they're all
on one road, so you could do you could do
like a roving dinner par It's like a buffet.

Speaker 1 (04:38):
We like shake shacks, not shake shacks.

Speaker 6 (04:40):
Five guys fries so much because they're so generous and
they just keep pouring them in the back.

Speaker 3 (04:44):
No, they're fresh. They cut their French fries right there,
right in front of him. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (04:49):
I mean it's like, what's the place in California we
all love in and out Burn where they cut their
French fries. I mean, Wendy, Wendy's great burger, five guys fries,
and a shake shack shake.

Speaker 3 (04:59):
I mean, that's my ideal meal.

Speaker 5 (05:00):
Lee, Do you like hot sauce.

Speaker 3 (05:01):
Are you a fe okay?

Speaker 5 (05:03):
Wendy's has the best chili sauce ever. People don't know
about it. Go ask them for their chili sauce. Put
it on your fries and your ber.

Speaker 4 (05:10):
They sell it on eBay. It it's hard to get.
So last night we went to raising canes, believe it
or not. I mean we've been eating at like the
corner store, we bidding you at LeVaux door and last night,
I mean last night, I had these free gift cards
that were given to me, and you know me, I
can't get rid of anything. So I'm running around the
apartment looking for my free gift cards and Marcrlos says,

(05:30):
what are you looking for? I said, my gift cards.
He said, well, how much are they? I said they're
ten dollars. He said, well, just we're buy it. I said,
they're here in the house. And we looked for like
a half hour. If you find them, we did.

Speaker 3 (05:42):
We did. I was so happy.

Speaker 4 (05:43):
So we went to like four hundred dollars theater seats
and had a ten dollars raising cane dinner.

Speaker 3 (05:47):
There you go, it's so good. That's the beauty of
sar all right. So here we go.

Speaker 2 (05:52):
We are still kind of waiting for a phone call
an invitation to this year's Nippy wif at Atlantis.

Speaker 3 (05:58):
Yes, oh yeah, we want to go. You can.

Speaker 2 (06:03):
I tell everyone what Nippy With please do.

Speaker 4 (06:06):
Nippy With is the NASA Pacific NASA Paradise Island Wine
and Food festival that I helped them start a few
years ago. A friend of mine, shy Zell Ring, is
with the management company ownership company of the Atlantis and
he asked me to help curate the talent and the
all the events. We're going into our third year this
year in March March thirteenth through seventeenth, and I am

(06:29):
going to make sure they have you down with your
own bungalow. So Maria Torres, if you're listening to Audrey Oswell,
I am going to follow up to make sure that
you guys are invited. I'm putting yes, we went last year. Now, Yes,
we had the best time. Everyone here loves Atlanta's Love Love.
Aren't we going to Atlantis?

Speaker 3 (06:48):
Pretty soon? Is it not? A? Is it really? So?
When do you when is jingle Balls in Miami?

Speaker 2 (06:55):
It's coming up soon.

Speaker 3 (06:55):
I know it's coming up.

Speaker 2 (06:56):
We're gonna be we'll be there for that.

Speaker 4 (06:58):
Do not come to town without coming to my house
for dinner. I'm gonna have the mayonnaise party.

Speaker 5 (07:03):
Hey, so that.

Speaker 3 (07:07):
Cup?

Speaker 1 (07:08):
I don't need fish. I'm okay done. Leah's so done
with me today. It's insane, Joseph.

Speaker 3 (07:17):
I don't want to go.

Speaker 2 (07:19):
I don't want to go into detail. But Lee is
kind of famous in South Florida for his mayonnaise parties,
the p Diddy of mayonnaise parties.

Speaker 3 (07:31):
Come on, Froggy Froggy, join us at the p Didty
Maynase Party. Oh my god, I would love to be there,
only if I can be a recipient. Cameras always there. Absolutely. Oh,
I didn't know we're being filmed. Everybody, this is yourung live.

Speaker 2 (07:46):
I mean, you know, we've been on with you for
ten minutes and you've been very kind.

Speaker 1 (07:50):
You really have.

Speaker 2 (07:50):
You've been very nice.

Speaker 3 (07:51):
Are you okay? Well? I was limited.

Speaker 4 (07:54):
I was told I can't talk about politics, not to
say anything bad about Elvis, don't talk to you about uh.
They do not talk to Gandhi about hair product and
he wants left.

Speaker 1 (08:04):
Whatever you want.

Speaker 2 (08:06):
You're that's your safe spot date.

Speaker 4 (08:10):
I can't talk about Erie Pennsylvania, Which what could you
possibly say?

Speaker 2 (08:14):
They're listening to us there right now?

Speaker 3 (08:15):
Yeah? Yeah, So you're coming to Miami.

Speaker 4 (08:18):
I mean, I'm not here to plug your You don't
need me to plug your show coming up chickle Ball,
but I will be there.

Speaker 2 (08:22):
You're going to be there. Why one, we have three?
We have New York in Madison Square Guarden. We have
Philly right, that's how sold out Jingleble and we have
we end the entire year with Miami jinglele.

Speaker 3 (08:33):
Why we have to do something special on that last night?

Speaker 1 (08:36):
Blow it out?

Speaker 4 (08:36):
Yes, Saturday night, I'm going to think of something very
very special. Yes, I think I'm going to make like
a chicken salad and give it to everybody in that audience,
lots of homemade fresh Man.

Speaker 2 (08:52):
I don't want you speaking of South Florida. Uh, there's
a new place here in town called Krema here in
New York. They have been in South Florida and Miami
for a long time, and we now get to taste.
Usually it's the New York restaurants that roll down to Miami.
Now Crema is moving up to New York.

Speaker 4 (09:11):
When I'm not stopping by Wendy's for a breakfast burrito.
I go to Crema and they just opened up in
this city, I think on East fortieth and they're great
friends of mine. And they have delicious food and breakfast
sandwiches and great croissants and delicious orange juice. And they
catered our breakfast this morning. It's beautiful. Gandhi, I want
to thank you. She texted me early and said, what
should I save you? She was very sweet because the

(09:32):
last times I've been here, no one saved me any
food that I sent.

Speaker 1 (09:36):
That's why you were grownedy last night.

Speaker 3 (09:37):
Well I think it was why I was grouchy.

Speaker 4 (09:39):
But you know, I said, the heat had made me
cruel last time.

Speaker 3 (09:42):
This time you're doing okay. Yeah, we're doing okay.

Speaker 4 (09:47):
But I don't want to follow Christina Tassi, like the
best baker in the world. You know, have me on,
I said, Nate, you know she's going to bring food.
What am I going to bring? She goes, well, don't
count on her bringing food. Not everyone brings food, And
she did. She brought all this great food walk great food.

Speaker 2 (10:01):
Mine was first, right, Yes, actually I brought in apple
pies from a farm standom I saw that out there.
They're really good, really I love apple pie. And did
you see, for those who followed me on Instagram that
we just planted an apple orchard wear out in the
Hampton's at our house in Long Island. We just went
out last week and we saw the apple trees for

(10:22):
the first time. I introduced myself and we named every
one of the trees. And so next fall we'll have
dunking parties and we'll have apple pie and apple strudle
and apple I can't apple pancakes.

Speaker 3 (10:34):
I can't wait.

Speaker 2 (10:35):
I can't wait to have a big barrel of Granny apples.

Speaker 3 (10:39):
Yes, I.

Speaker 2 (10:41):
That's your name, Lee Apples. Is your dragon?

Speaker 3 (10:44):
My dragon? If I knew that was coming?

Speaker 6 (10:47):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, have you taken yet?

Speaker 3 (10:51):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (10:52):
It's the best Italian You got to go. It's out
about by the farm. You gotta come out to Alma.
How about I.

Speaker 3 (10:57):
I've never been invited to the bar in.

Speaker 1 (10:59):
Your grandmother's rest kitchen in Naples.

Speaker 4 (11:02):
Yeah, my grandmother wasn't quite from Naples, more like Russia.
But I'm sure it's the same thing.

Speaker 2 (11:07):
Yeah, they don't have blocked But no, no Ak who
owns Ama He's from Naples. He came here when he
was a teenager. And this food is it's the food
his mother made.

Speaker 3 (11:17):
Him when he was going. Oh how far from here?

Speaker 2 (11:19):
About an hour we're going, We're going. I look forward
to it. Look, you know we've been talking on and
on and on. Let's let's give our listeners something a gift.
What gift can you What advice do you have for
listeners as far as restaurants or looking for something new
and interesting, as far as food in the food world,
or any upcoming gigs you got going on?

Speaker 4 (11:43):
Well, I guess the best. I never follow a review.
A review would not make me go to a restaurant
as in a restaurant review. Yeah, in the restaurant review,
I would. A good review would never make me want
to go there, and a bad review would not stop
me from going there. I think that you're entitled to
your own opinion. A good review may get me there quicker,
I must say. But a bad review, you know, I

(12:05):
want to see if it's as bad as they say,
or why it was or was it an off night?
And everyone has an off night, which is why I
hate social media in the sense of people's reviews, because
they don't know what happened. I mean, maybe maybe the
product didn't show up. Maybe it wasn't delivered correctly. I
don't know. I just don't love. You know, social media
has made everybody a critic and it's listen, it's great

(12:27):
social media. I love social media and I love when
I need it, and it helps me promote whatever I'm promoting.
But I don't like when it's used to hurt people
in the sense of a bad review for a restaurant.

Speaker 3 (12:37):
Wheah, the hardest business in the world.

Speaker 2 (12:38):
Well, scary, we can't go there. It's a three point eight.

Speaker 3 (12:42):
No, it doesn't stop me like a Google rating of
a three point seven won't turn your way. No, I
don't look.

Speaker 5 (12:47):
Really, does a ghost kitchen freak you out? Which one
a ghost kitchen?

Speaker 3 (12:51):
Yeah, you know, freak me out.

Speaker 4 (12:54):
I wouldn't rush to it. Okay, yeah, I wouldn't rush
to what was it? Was it called maven Uh? It
was a company when ghost kitchens?

Speaker 3 (13:01):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (13:01):
Yeah, you know, like I'm at home, I'm not going
to order Bobby Flaze food from a ghost kitchen when
you know that they're not making his you know whatever
it is chicken.

Speaker 2 (13:11):
No ghost kitchen, But we gotta go. But I gotta say,
you've been very nice to us, and it's yeah, it
actually very it's very unsettling.

Speaker 3 (13:19):
It's a sugar.

Speaker 4 (13:20):
It's a sugar from Christine, Yes it is. I mean
the sugar made you nice about that jacket and your shirt.

Speaker 3 (13:26):
I love my shirt. You know, what's your fat jacket?

Speaker 2 (13:32):
It took him a while, but he got there, you
little bitch.

Speaker 3 (13:37):
All right, we got I know what I maybe, but
he's wearing that jacket. He has a few.

Speaker 2 (13:41):
It's not a jacket, it's a shirt. It's sure, yes,
it's a jacket. I hate you. Wow, thank thanks for
coming by.

Speaker 3 (13:54):
It's always nice.

Speaker 2 (13:56):
It's it's always a pleasure.

Speaker 1 (13:58):
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