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Give Me Some Beads!
If you’ve got the post-holiday blues, The Table Set has a solution for you. Mardi Gras isn’t just one day in February, the party lasts for weeks. To get you up on all things Mardi Gras, the Gents bring...
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Stay Tuned
It’s Awards Season. The Super Bowl is coming. And you know you have to catch up with Don Draper at a Mad Men Marathon before the new season starts. So get off the couch and into the spirit. Turn on the...
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Pink Paper Hearts
The Table Set has a crush. So they invited her to record with them! Kristin “The Cuisinerd” is one glitter-obsessed guest not to be messed with. And she sure knows how to bring it for Valentine’s Day....
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Sunday Sizzler
It’s a happy day when a friend says “bring octopus” and it can only mean one thing. Potluck. This week the gents have decided to re-address the Potluck Party. Because it should be more about a communal...
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Green Beer
The Table Set is never one to skimp on a holiday. An excuse to party is reason enough to celebrate! While to many St. Patrick’s Day is a bar holiday, for Nathan it was always first and foremost his big...
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Dinner Party
Andy has an itch to throw an old school multi-course dinner party. So the gentlemen discuss dinner parties (but don’t they every week?!?) to help inspire the menu. Spoiler alert: the dinner was a big...
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Living in a Food World
This week the gentlemen discuss their “Culinary Muses.” Where do they look to for ideas?!? Well, they all love Martha Stewart. Duh. And Thomas Keller. Of course they all inspire each other too....
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Spring Rejuvenation
The gentlemen are back with tips to freshen up your life this spring! And yet they “hopped” right over the biggest holiday of the spring, Easter! They may not have talked about it on the ‘cast, but...
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Where’s the Party?
It’s spring everywhere you look here in Southern California and the gentlemen at The Table Set have all sorts of seasonal entertaining planned. It’s the perfect time of year for parties in Palm...
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Shumai On The Fly
I know you know the words to that famous song from South Pacific. It’s all about an unexpected meeting that changes a young man’s life forever. In the case of the Broadway musical the life changing...
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Single Mingle in the City
Wedding bells, parties of two, double dates; Andy’s had enough! Parties of one are fine, but how can a savvy single truly mingle in today’s jaded media-controlled environment? In this very special...
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fourthajuly
It’s fourthajuly! And lowbrow hot dogs, lawn games, and personal brands of patriotism are the rage. Greg’s going to the desert -as always- to celebrate with a red, white and blue boozy gelee martini...
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Party Like It’s 1899
This week the guys at The Table Set want to party like it’s 1899! And that includes strippers. Oh yes it does. Well pole dancers– actually. But it also includes ice cream. The very thing we all scream...
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The Hangover
The boys of the Table Set have been BUSY this summer. Soberingly so. Andy and Nathan were just in SF gorging on killer Lamb Poutine, craft beer and wine to the sounds of Die Antwoord at Outside Lands...
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How Old Are You Now?
Andy’s at it again with his crazy hippie talk of kombucha! What now? Not only did his kombucha turn out drinkably delicious, he’s cooking with it too! Mussels steamed in kombucha with fennel,...
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Eggs In Jail
The Table Set guys have been mighty busy! Greg was just in Alaska learning all about Alaska Seafood, and cooking it up too. His Wild Caught Sockeye Salmon Sliders were a hit – if only he had gotten the...
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Dark and Stormy Night
Where’s the Party, witches?? Andy was a guest on the Dining With Doug and Karen podcast and cooked them up some krazy things (hint: “Jackalope Tacos” were definitely involved). Check it out! Greg was a...
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Dilled Torsk
This week’s party is all wet as the guys talk seafood. Greg and Andy are longtime seafood lovers. Land-locked as a child of the Sonoran desert, it took a move to Portland, OR for Nathan to get on board...
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Not Talking Turkey
This week is Thanksgiving and the guys are not talking turkey. Or at least they’re trying not to. Because you have to admit, turkey-mania sets in this time of year and sometimes it’s hard to get on...
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Pee Cans Next Stop!
The Table Set guys are hitting the road! The bus headed north from LA on the 101, en route to the annual food-filled festival that brought the three together in the first place, Foodbuzz Blogger Fest...
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Poker Face
Andy’s got a party idea. An idea that was birthed from a weird place: from watching the movie Parents! Yes, a weird comedy-horror film from the 80s about cannibalism inspired Andy to throw a...
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New Pajamas
It’s time to celebrate Christmas. Or at least Christmas Eve Eve. Because in this time of hustle and bustle it can be hard to carve out time on the big day to celebrate with all of your friends and...
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Year of the Smoke
2012. What a year! This week the guys recount the high points from their joint epicurean adventures and look forward into a hopefully equally hedonistic 2013. Of course most recently on the holiday...
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Winter Warmer
Is winter coming or is it going? That depends on where you live. This week the guys try to sort it all out. From warm grogs to hot pots, “what’s hot and what’s not”? Even their parties this week are...
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It’s a Hot Mess
Love is in the air. But while the Table Set boys are all slightly curmudgeon-y about the commercial construction of Vday (listen to last year’s Pink Paper Hearts episode), who doesn’t like the idea of...
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Not Green Beer
It’s no secret. The Table Set loves beer. Often replacing wine paired with a meal, mixed in a cocktail (Campari & IPA, anyone?), or baked into a cake, beer always has a place at this table. With...
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Science Soy Bread
It isn’t often that someone tells you they have a craving for tofu, but this week, Greg had just such a craving. Specifically for the Korean specialty Soontofu. To satisfy this craving, the gentlemen...
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Happy Hipster Easter
This week the guys hip hop down the bunny trail on their way to a Happy Hipster Easter– with a few party stops along the way. The first stop comes from Greg who hosted a 60th wedding anniversary at his...
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Damn Good Coffee
The Table Set boys know how to party. But even pros have off days. Greg got a bee in his bonnet (literally), and Nathan’s blind tiki date went, well, sour when the bar never opened. Luckily Andy...
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My Blue Hawaii
Last time on the Table Set, the gents were getting excited for the season premier of Mad Men. After watching it, Andy has decided that there was plenty to get excited about. He was especially...
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Beyond The (Sea) Biscuit
There’s always a party in LA. This week the guys invite a guest to talk about parties they’ve been to (CicLAvia) and parties they’d like to attend (The Kentucky Derby). Their guest is Whitney who you...
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The Three M’s
Martini, martini, martini. James Thurber once said: “One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.” And wasn’t it W.C. Fields who said: “Buy me a drink and I’ll sing like a...
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Heat
It’s July, and it’s hot. But that doesn’t mean the party has to stop. The guys at The Table Set are handling the heat each in their own way. From beer floats at The Surly Goat, to ‘fourthajuly’ and the...
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Cin-Cin in Italian
Of course the guys at The Table Set attended a few parties since you heard from them last. Of course they did. The heat of summer means parties at pools, trips to cool cities and an escape to fresh...
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Pre-Game
Partying is something perhaps we all take for granted. On this very special ponderous episode of The Table Set the boys examine just how they ended up around Greg’s table, devoted to the art of party....
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Can You Feel It?
Can you feel it? There’s a change in the air. It’s the change in the seasons. The guys step out this episode to celebrate that change. Because even in Los Angeles you can feel the subtle shift, as...
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Men vs. Food
It’s that time of year. The start of the Holidays and the colossal eating marathon that makes The Table Set feel like it’s them against all that food. It’s hard not to overindulge. In order to train...
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Holiday Cocktail Shtik
The holidays call for for feasting. This time on The Table Set the guys sit down around an extended table full of friends to celebrate a mish-mash of holidays. But feasting isn’t the only way to party....
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Year of the Spice
Another year gone by! Hard to believe. Here on The Table Set, it’s time to look back on the year to assess where the party was. Highlights may not include Vegas all-you-can-eat Buffet in Hollywood or...
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To Russia with Love
This week the guys from The Table Set make the questionable transition from Cabbage Patch Kids to the Russian phrase Na Zdorovie? Which may not make much sense to you until you’ve watched the video and...
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Not Sorry
It’s no secret to Homefries listeners, but our skipper is leaving the Best Coast for the French Quarter! Before she packed up her kitchen and drugged her cat to road trip to beignet land, The Table Set...
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Taco Tuesday
It’s Tuesday. Well at least it was when the guys sat around the table to talk Taco. So listen in as Andy, Greg and Nathan try to decipher just what a Taco is and what it isn’t. Are Tacos highbrow or...
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Six Pack
Guessing by the title, you might think that this episode is about beer. Or maybe you are thinking this is an episode on how to get six-pack abs… that it most certainly is not! No, this episode is...
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That ’70s Episode
It’s officially Summer! And things are heating up in LA. No, really, like it’s HOT. But the boys of the Table Set are finding ways to keep cool. So Where’s the Party?? Nathan has been feverishly...
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Nightswimming
The guys at The Table Set spent an evening of nightswimming at a Ceviche Pool Party. The party (and the pool) were at Greg’s house, but the inspiration for this party was a world away. But before we...
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Will it Waffle?
This time on The Table Set the guys get together in Greg’s kitchen to answer the question, Will It Waffle? (Yes, it will!). The question is actually posed (and answered) by Daniel Shumski in his new...
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The Great Pumpkin Episode
It’s the bewitching season. Time for folks everywhere to get spooked. However, the only things that seem to scare the guys at The Table Set are pumpkin lattes, pumpkin muffins and in Greg’s case,...
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Three Lords-a-Leapin’
It’s that time again – The Table Set‘s annual holiday party! And while it may not have been cold enough in Los Angeles to light up Greg’s fireplace, the guys had plenty (of brandy!) to keep them warm....
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Year of the Pineapple
It’s a new year! Again! While Greg is exhausted from the holiday party circuit, Andy has taken to Hanukkah like a ladleful of schmalz to matzah ball soup. Nathan rang in the new year with pineapple...
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Spaetzle, Schnitzel, and Strudel
Andy arrives at The Table Set this week with broken shoes and sweaty feet. What’s the etiquette there? Do you have a rule about shoes in the house? Andy’s more comfortable in his socks, but Nathan...
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