Breakfast in Basque Country: Nerding Out on Food by the Sea

🎙️ EP126 - Phil and Eric are having breakfast on Zurriola beach—coffee in hand, cheesecake on their laps—and diving into philosophical food talks. ☕🧀 From their dinner at Muka to how a dish becomes “tradition” in just 20 years, they explore why the gesture matters more than the recipe, and what it really means to recognize magic in cooking.

🎧 Topics Covered in This Episode:

🧀 Blue Cheese Cheesecake?! – The secret ingredient at AMA and why you can’t taste it—but you’d miss it.

🍪 Cookie Crust Debate – Eric’s favorite Basque-style cheesecake isn’t from Spain—and it has a cookie crust.

🔥 Pil-Pil Sauce Explained – How Mugaritz hacked fish gelatin to make this iconic Basque s ...