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Hi there! We're Bruce Weinstein and Mark Scarbrough. We're the authors of countless magazine articles and almost three dozen cookbooks under our own names (not counting those ghosted for celebs).

We're got a packed podcast for you this time around. We're taking down some of the silliest eating advice we've heard so far in 2023 and offering you a little bit of what we consider "food media literacy." We've got a one-minute cooking tip and Bruce interview David Garci-Aguirre, an olive-oil producer who'll help you find the best on the market. Plus, as always, we'll tell you what's making us happy in food this week.

Here are the segments for this episode of COOKING WITH BRUCE & MARK:

[00:57] The outrageously false eating, food, and health advice we've seen (so far!) in 2023.

[18:37] Our one-minute cooking tip: Buy a pastry brush!

[19:23] Bruce's interview with olive-oil producer David Garci-Aguirre

[40:57] What’s making us happy in food this week? Chocolate-covered candied orange peel and having lunch out as a treat sometime during the workweek.

EPISODE TRANSCRIPTION

[00:00:00] Bruce: Hi, I am Bruce Weinstein and this is the Podcast Cooking with Bruce and Mark. 


[00:00:05] Mark: And I'm Mark Scarborough, and together with Bruce, my husband, uh, we have written, I don't know, 35 cookbooks, 36, including our latest, the Instant. Air Fryer Bible, which can get you using your air fryer in every way imaginable. In this episode of our Food and Cooking podcast, we wanna talk about tips for a healthier new year, or at least outrageous, insane tips for an, uh, new year, things that are just insane and silly. 


We wanna have our one minute cooking tip. As always, Bruce has an interview with David Garci Aguirre master. Olive Oil Miller, and we're gonna talk about what's making us happy in food this week. So let's get started. 


[00:00:56] Bruce: It's the new year and Mark and I have decided for a resolution not to make any resolutions because they, we just think I'm just too old. They're silly. They are. 


[00:01:04] Mark: I'm way too old. I, you don't really, you know what? The only renovation that's gonna happen to me is a coffin, so, 


[00:01:12] Bruce: oh well maybe a knee or a hip, I don't know. 


Oh, maybe. I don't know. But you know, we had this thing when we'd lived back in New York and we could walk to our gym. We never went the first two weeks in January. No, that was a resolution we made. Not to go the first two weeks cuz it was so crazy, crazy. I needed it. 


[00:01:26] Mark: We belonged to Chelsea Pierce in New York City and it was only a block and a half from our apartment in Chelsea before Chelsea was. 


When Chelsea still had, oh, prostitutes on the corners at night, and so I, I just made this whole thing that I wouldn't go to the gym from January 1st to the 15th because it was just a billion people. And by 15th they were all gone. All gone. Nice. Okay, go back. Now we can go back to the gym. 


[00:01:52] Bruce: So here's the thing. 


Every year I like to take a look at what the big media outlets say you should be doing to make your life better in the new year. I ran across some absolutely outrageous advice, tips, and we wanna share some of those with you. 


[00:02:06] Mark: Yeah. Here's what we wanna do. We wanna talk about three or four tips, maybe four, right? 


Yep. In which we found that are just absolutely bogus and crazy. We wanna talk about why they're bogus, and then we wanna talk a little bit about how you. How to adjudicate what you read in the media. So course a little bit about food media literacy. Mm-hmm. in this first segment. So let's start off with the mm-hmm. 


venerable New York Times that ran a feature about. Coffee. 


[00:02:37] Bruce: Yeah. This was part of their how to like be healthier in the new year, and one of the things they said is, you should feel...