The Flaky Biscuit Podcast

Host Bryan Ford is joined by Adam Shapiro, actor and Pretzelmaker. He currently stars in Netflx’s Never Have I Ever, and the upcoming Peacock John Wick prequel series, The Continental. Adam founded Shappy Pretzel company in 2020 during the pandemic, and this year served 4,000 Shappy pretzels at the Oscars. Now selling nationwide over Goldbelly! Bryan and Adam talk about what makes a perfect Philly soft pretzel over another Pennsylvania classic— and a personal favorite of Adam’s— pizza fries.

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Host Bryan Ford is joined by actor and musician Tristan Mack Wilds. The multi-faceted entertainer became widely popular from his breakout role as Micheal Lee on HBO’s The Wire and starring as Dixon Wilson on the hit remake 90210. In 2014, Wilds released his critically acclaimed debut album, New York: A Love Story, executively produced by iconic producer Salaam Remi. The album went on to receive a GRAMMY nomination for Best Urban Contemporary Album. He currently stars as "Alonzo Powers" on AppleTV+'s Swagger.

Tristan joins Bryan for the “dish that raised him,” his mom’s Poor Man’s chili.

This episode was recorded prior to the SAG-AFTRA strike.

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Bryan Ford is joined by professor of culinary history, Maite Gomez-Rejón. Maite is the founder of ArtBites and she has dedicated her career to exploring the nexus of art and culinary history through lectures, cooking classes, and tastings in museums and universities across the country, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the J. Paul Getty Museum. She co-curated the exhibits Maize: Past, Present, and Future and The Legacy of Cacao at LA Plaza Cocina in Los Angeles and is co-host of the podcast Hungry for History. Bryan brings Maite back to childhood birthday celebrations with a very special crust-cut-off sandwich, Lonches de Piñata.

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Check out Flavors From Afar at flavorsfromafar.co, and No Us Without You LA at nouswithoutyou.la.

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Host Bryan Ford is joined by singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Cecilia Peña-Govea, AKA La Doña. Born in San Francisco, California, La Doña combines her deep roots in Latin folk traditions, like corridos and rumba, with the propulsive modern sounds of reggaeton, cumbia, and hip hop. La Doña coined the term “Femmeton” to describe her auto-referential songs about love, sex, gentrification, and the radical joys of being a queer brown woman in the Bay Area. Her song, “Quién Me La Paga'' was the first of the New York Times Magazine’s “19 Songs that Matter Now,” for 2020, and her EP, Algo Nuevo, was selected by the San Francisco Chronicle as one of the 6 best albums of 2020. She recently embarked on her own headline run in November 2022, and she has performed at ACL, Lollapalooza, and Format Fest.

In addition to her many altruistic, academic, and musical accolades, Cecilia is also a cook. Bryan swaps notes with her on the best way to prepare Albóndigas en Chipotle, a type of Mexican meatball.

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Check out Cuicacali Escuela Cultural at cuicacallisf.com and Mission Meals at missionmealscoalition.org.

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Host Bryan Ford is joined by comedian Gianmarco Soresi. Gianmarco Soresi is a NY based stand-up comedian, actor and occasional Jeff Goldblum impressionist (you’ll hear in this episode). His stand-up has been featured on Comedy Central, Netflix’s Bonding, PBS’s Stories from the Stage, and Real Housewives of New York (really). His first comedy special “Shelf Life” was nominated for 3 New York Emmy Awards and was cited by NPR as a “historical document”.

Gianmarco tells Bryan stories of growing up with a wannabe Italian father, and gives a demonstration of how many Buitoni Raviolis he can swallow whole at one time— just like when he was a kid!

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Host Bryan Ford is joined by home chef Frankie Gaw. Frankie Gaw is a food writer, photographer, and designer. He is the food blogger behind Little Fat Boy, which has won Saveur Blog of the Year and the IACP Individual Food Blog Award, which explores his Taiwanese American roots through creative takes on classic dumplings, noodles, and more. His debut cookbook, First Generation: Recipes from My Taiwanese American Home.

Frankie lets us know what he thinks of Bryan’s attempt to dehydrate cheddar cheese, and they compare notes on their experience growing up as the children of immigrants.

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Host Bryan Ford is joined by street artist and muralist Brandan ‘BMike’ Odums. Brandan became known for his murals after painting a series of Black revolutionaries in the Florida Housing Development in New Orleans’ Ninth Ward. Other artists began to flock to the location and this underground, guerilla art hub became #ProjectBe. In 2016, Odums established Studio Be, a 36,000- square foot gallery that includes over a dozen original murals, room-sized installations, and reconstructed murals salvaged from #ProjectBe before the Florida Housing Development’s demolition. Brandon and Bryan share a favorite meal from BMike’s time in Japan, Taco Rice.

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Host Bryan Ford is joined by award winning author and pastry chef Zoë François. Zoë is the author of Zoë Bakes Cakes, co-author of the best-selling Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day series and is working on her 10th cookbook, Zoë Bakes Cookies. She is the host of Zoë Bakes on the Magnolia Network, and her work has been featured in many publications, including the New York Times, Washington Post, Better Homes & Gardens and more. Less known about Zoë is that she grew up in communes and cults, which is where today’s recipe comes from— Aunt Melissa’s granola.

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It’s a double-date for this episode of Flaky Biscuit! Bryan and his fiance Bridget sit down with Sarah Hyland and her husband Wells Adams at their dining table in Los Angeles. Sarah Hyland made her first appearance in film in 1997 at the age of six. Since then she’s had an array of roles in television and film, but is best known for her role as Haley Dunphy in Modern Family. Wells Adams is the longtime bartender on Bachelor in Paradise and a chef in his own right. He hosted Hulu’s Best in Dough, has appeared in multiple cooking competitions, and is a co-host of the podcast Two Dudes in a Kitchen. The two lovebirds sip some wine with Bryan and Bridget as they recall a couple of their favorite meals from early in their relationship: truffle risotto and steak & shrimp tacos. 

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Don’t forget to check out The George Lopez Foundation at georgelopezfoundation.org, No Kid Hungry at nokidhungry.org, the ASPCA at aspca.org, and the Nashville Human Society at nashvillehumane.org.

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Host Bryan Ford is joined by rapper Jared Pellerin AKA Pell. Pell’s first mixtape, Floating While Dreaming, captured the attention of rap critics and fans, and helped make Pell’s name synonymous with ambition. Since its release in 2014, he’s come out with two follow up albums and gone on tour with artists like Kehlani, JID, Big Freedia, Doja Cat, and more, with millions of listeners tuning into his songs on Spotify. More recently, this New Orleans native brought together artists from his hometown to start the glbl wrmng rap collective, best known for their hit song dedicated to The Big Easy, 504. Bryan cooks up a southern classic for Pell: catfish and mac. 

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