Stephanie Meyer and the boys have been shuffling schedules for some time hoping to connect on an episode of your favorite podcast, and it happened exactly as it was meant to. This wonderful human, coach, personal chef, instructor, author, caterer and actual beam of light (scientifically confirmed), brought Ben and Charles SNACKS!!!-- including the titular tunabutter-- to share alongside a whole lotta beverages, and a truly wide ranging talk about life, in the library at Semple Mansion. LFE is still learning some new tricks, as one of the topics of the week comes courtesy of Friend of the Podcast™ Stephanie March (the shorter Steph in this tall/short crime fighting duo). Without further ado:🩰 What intoxicating scent makes you go **ballerina toes** toward the source of it?🍗 If you could insert any new or unorthodox dish into a family holiday, what would it be, and on what holiday? 📚 What's a book that changed your life, or has moved you lately?👯♂️ How do you feel about making new friends in this day and age, and how has it changed over the years? 🧊 Why are anisettes (ya know, "licorice" flavored booze) so polarizing with Americans, and what do you love about them so much? 🕵️♀️ Who would you be happy to be mistaken for in public, and what dastardly deeds would you utilize these dark powers for? Treat yourself to this snack for your ears. You deserve it! Beverages of ChoiceThe hosts and their guest drank (courtesy of Beam Suntory):Tres Generaciones Reposado TequilaAnd alsoPernod PastisFIND USInstagram | Facebook
PIIIIIIIP! LFE's second set of hundreds kicks off at our new recording location in a literal mansion. Pip Hanson is perhaps the Twin Cities' best know bar person. He's been thrice nominated by James Beard, launched the legendary Marvel Bar (RIP 🙏🏽), led the team at London's Artesian (four time Best Bar in the World), spent time honing his skills in Japan, and now leads the beverage program at O'Shaughnessy Distilling-- bending Keeper's Heart Whiskey to his will in ways that delight and astound. This episode is perfectly timed for your holiday commute /slash/ engineered for ignoring your family with your buds in. If they ask why you're chuckling, tell 'em "you wouldn't get it", Your topics o' the week: 🍸 What's a shunned beverage that you wish you didn't have to justify to people? 🧥 What's your fav clothing shift for the cooler seasons? 🏙️ After traveling the world-- are you a Twin Citizen for life? 🎵 Do you feel your subversive music tastes apply to your tastes in other things? 🧪 What's your current favorite "je ne sai quoi" beverage ingredient? 🐕 Teaching old dogs new tricks: what's a new skill you're learning? MA!! Pass the mashed potatoes! Beverages of ChoiceThe hosts and their guest drank (courtesy of Beam Suntory):Old Grand Dad 101...and some Keeper's Heart Irish + American Whiskey, c/o Pip and O'Shaughnessy DistillingFIND USInstagram | Facebook
It's the LFE centennial! Get ready for the shiggles (TM 2023 LFE Enterprisez) in historic edition ONE HUNDO, with the immensely talented Jesse Valenciana of Nashville's Secret Bodega. Jesse has been styling on the US food and bev scene for over a decade, as a marketing G at Goose Island and Against the Grain, co-author of cookbooks like Eat Street and ManBQue, frequent TV and radio guest in the Chicagoland area, and current Nashvillian foodzilla. This man has even cooked in the James Beard house. Holy heck. After spending the weekend running amok on Nashville with the boys, Jesse sat down for this sprawling episode, including six shots and six topics:🥑 Name a favorite food texture, and a hated food texture. 🎫 Concerts, movies, events, festivals-- name a time you walked out of something you paid to be at. 🔪 What's a food preparation technique everyone seems to get wrong, but is somehow ubiquitous? 🗣️ Recount a piece of advice you were given long ago that still sticks with you today.📖 What cookbook or recipe author do you love and swear by? 💩 Tell us a "kind of gross" story. Thank you thank you thank you for 100 episodes of support! We love you all!! It's showtime. Beverages of ChoiceThe hosts and their guest drank (courtesy of Beam Suntory):El Tesoro Extra Añejo TequilaFIND USInstagram | Facebook
99 eps of LFE on the wall! The endlessly talented Kate Nelson joins Libations for Everyone this week. Editor in Chief of Artful Living, with features published in Esquire, ELLE, BBC, The Daily Beast, Condé Nast, W Magazine, Architectural Digest, and so many more, while advising for Calling All Horse Girls magazine. She is also a James Beard Foundation Media Award nominee and a Native American Journalists Association member. Kate is out here doing it all! And she still managed to find the time for this thought provoking and hilarious conversation with Quam and Charles. Hers is a voice worth listening to, as she discusses the cultural impact of Reservation Dogs, Chef Sean Sherman's broad influence, her journey through the world of journalism, and so much more, including these topics of the week:🍟 What food do you want to eat after a really great day, and what food do you want to eat after a really bad day? 🎭 What form of art elicits your strongest emotions, and is it your favorite form of art? 🙊 Name something you know you do the "wrong way", but you're perfectly okay with it. 🧇 What was your favorite meal as a kid, and would you love it the same today? 🧑🏫 Name the first or most memorable time that you disagreed with an authority figure in your life. 📝 How do you feel about the textification or memeification of language and the written word? Ready? Ready. Let's talk about it! Beverages of ChoiceBeam Suntory graciously provided the following for consumption on this week's episode:Roku Japanese GinFIND USInstagram | Facebook
A trip to NYC with LFE wouldn't be complete without a deep dive into Charles and Quam's incredible week in the big city. In this newest "just the boys" ep, the fellas expound on the chaotic fluidity of their adventures in Manhattan, tell you all about their video shoot and what's to come, announce some news about the future of the podcast's recording location, and a heck of a lot more. Here, have some topics: 🫱🏽🫲🏼 What was your favorite thing that you were shown in NYC that you hadn't seen or done before? 🚇 What was the most "New York" thing to happen on the trip? 👫 Where have you explored without your SO, that you would love to take them and show them all that you've discovered? 🧳 What's the next big, iconic food city trip on your travel list? 🌲 A lot of people fantasize about an alternate universe life in NYC, but what do you prefer about the place you actually call home? 😿 What are you sad we missed on our trip? Grab your earbuds, and let's fly away! Beverages of ChoiceThe hosts and their guest drank:Jim Beam Double OakFIND USInstagram | Facebook