This week on Cooking Issues, Dave Arnold and Nastassia Lopez talk about their experience acting as 'fluffers' at the South Beach Food & Wine Festival. Who was more popular at the festival - Dave or Tony the Tiger? Later, Dave tackles this week's listener questions! Hear why Dave and Nastassia hate the word 'espuma', and learn how to use pine flavor in your food and drink! Dave talks about the differences in cooking temperatures for egg whites and yolks, and offers some suggestions for sous vide eggs. Learn how to prevent evaporation with an immersion circulator. Listen in to hear Dave offer tips on how to win cooking contests! This program has been sponsored by The International Culinary Center.

"I'm against the word 'espuma' on an English menu. If the whole menu's in Spanish, then go ahead." [8:15]

"A lot times when working with pine and lavender... even when you do a really good job with it, you might have some bathroom cleaner memories." [10:50]

-- Dave Arnold on Cooking Issues

On the inaugural episode of In the Drink, host Joe Campanale, Beverage Director/Owner of dell'anima, L'Artusi, Anfora and L'Apicio restaurants, is joined by Jared Brandt of Donkey and Goat Winery in Berkeley California. Hear more about the family owned and operated winery that crafts their wines from Rhone varietals, Chardonnay and Pinot Noir grown in the Anderson Valley, Mendocino Ridge and El Dorado appellations. Listen in as they debunk sulfur myths and talk about wine additives, trends and the winemaking process. Later on in the show, Joe and Jared taste a few wines on-air and give listeners some useful tasting tips! This program was sponsored by the International Culinary Center.

"When you ship wine, there are inherent stability issues."

"Most people who think they're allergic to sulfur are not, they're usually allergic to something else in the wine."

"When we started, everybody told us we were doing things wrong, but there's been a huge fundamental shift in California where people are taking the time to learn what we're doing instead of just labeling it 'wrong' "

--Jared Brandt of Donkey and Goat Winery on In the Drink

This week on Cooking Issues, Dave attempts to sort through a full mailbox of caller and listener questions ranging from dry mouth issues with pecans, brining techniques, filet of cod and corn syrup. Tune in to learn more about vodka and distillation, "brown sauce" and "estrogenic" issues with plastics. This episode was sponsored by Modernist Pantry.