Podcasts by The Mitchen with Andrew Levins and Mitch Orr
The Mitchen is a new weekly food podcast recorded at The Projects in Sydney. Hosted by food writer/DJ Andrew Levins and chef Mitch Orr (ACME), each week they invite their mates from the food world over to discuss and make jokes about any recent big announcements in food and dining.
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Episode 76: The Best Movies About Food with Alexei Toliopoulos from 2020-05-13T07:52:50
We recruited Alexei Toliopoulos, host of film podcasts Total Reboot, Mike Check and Finding Drago, to help us select the best movies about food, restaurants and chefs.
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Episode 75: Lockdown Reunion Special from 2020-04-10T06:09
We're back! Live from the comfort of their own homes, Levins and Mitch talk about ACME closing, Levins's book and a little situation that's affecting the restaurant industry called Covid-19.
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Episode 74: Beer, BBQ And Matty Matheson from 2018-07-17T20:03:45
A couple of weeks ago our old friend Duncan Welgemoed from Attica got in touch while he was in Sydney for the Beer and BBQ Festival and asked if we wanted to come interview Canadian food lover...
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Episode 73: Mitchen Confidential from 2018-06-18T20:17:35
Levins and Mitch make their triumphant return to Australia's third most popular food podcast for an episode about Anthony Bourdain, travelling and failure in the restaurant industry.
Episode 72: Popups (with Mike Eggert) from 2017-08-15T16:17:29
Pinbone's Mike Eggert returns yet again to discuss his exciting new venture with Merivale now that Good Luck Pinbone has closed. We also give tips for anyone thinking about starting their own ...
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Episode 71: Cambodia (with Sophia Thach) from 2017-08-14T20:27:29
Mitch visited Cambodia for a week and brought back our friend Sophia Thach who's been living there for the last year. Find out what to eat in Cambodia and the best places to get it!
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Episode 70: Love All (with Lauren Eldridge) from 2017-07-24T16:00:52
Josephine Pignolet award winning pastry chef Lauren Eldridge returns to The Mitchen to chat burgers, allergies and her article about the media portrayal of women in the food industry.
Episode 69: Master Of Buns (with Lee Tran Lam) from 2017-07-18T00:32:24
We recorded this episode with one of our favourite regular guests Lee Tran Lam yesterday after lunch. On our ways home we received the news about our friend Jeremy Strode, an incredibly kind a...
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Episode 68: Bollocking (with Mike Eggert) from 2017-07-11T16:25:29
Mike's back for a extra long ep about getting bollocked in the kitchen, Justin Bieber's favourite places to eat in Sydney and the latest run of finalists for the Josephine Pignolet Young Chef ...
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Episode 67: Sydney Chef Exodus (with Phil Wood) from 2017-07-04T15:06:52
Our pal Phil Wood worked at Rockpool for eight years, was head chef of Rockpool Est 1989 and Eleven Bridge for most of them, and is now moving to Victoria's Mornington Peninsula to start somet...
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Episode 66: Donkey Sauce (with Danielle Alvarez) from 2017-06-27T15:57:56
Danielle Alvarez returns to The Mitchen for the first time since becoming head chef of Fred's in Paddington. Together we discuss food criticism, Guy Fieri, farming and communication between re...
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Episode 65: Taste Da Ruckus (with Jake Smyth, Kenny Graham & Callan Boys) from 2017-06-21T15:42:27
We head to the newly reopened Lansdowne Hotel for a chat with the boys in charge, Jake Smyth and Kenny Graham, about their plans for the venue. Good Food's Callan Boys shows up with the new Wu...
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Episode 64: Seven Superfoods And A Crab (with Louis Tikaram) from 2017-06-08T19:16:23
Our good mate Louis Tikaram is back from L.A., taking a short break from cooking at his restaurant E.P. & L.P. and catching up with his favourite Sydney restaurants. Find out the challenge...
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Episode 63: Mitch In Mexico from 2017-05-31T20:38:59
Sad that there wasn't an episode last week? Blame Mitch! He went to Mexico! But he's back now with an extensive guide of what to eat in LA and Tulum PLUS a dish by dish recount of his amazing ...
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Episode 62: Cow Tipping (with Sean McManus) from 2017-05-15T17:31:45
This week we're joined by Mitch's golf buddy Sean McManus, who also owns Neighbourhood in Surry Hills and recently opened Bad Hombres with past Mitchen guest Toby Wilson. Today's topics includ...
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Episode 61: Pandas With Hand Grenades (with Jock Zonfrillo And Jake Smyth) from 2017-05-09T17:16:37
Mitch has returned from the Tasting Australia Festival and he's brought someone up from Adelaide with him: Jock Zonfrillo, the creative curator of Tasting Australia and the head chef/owner of ...
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Episode 60: I Can't Taste The Green (with Aaron Gocs And Callan Boys) from 2017-05-03T21:24:14
Mitch is away this week so instead Levins is joined by two of Australia's best food critics: Good Food Brisbane editor Callan Boys and comedian Aaron Gocs. In this episode we discuss Zinger pi...
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Episode 59: $47.50 (with Mark Di Stefano) from 2017-04-25T14:35:03
After ranting about them to no end last week, Levins and Mitch are joined by someone who actually knows a thing or two about the 457 visa changes: Buzzfeed Australia's Political Editor Mark Di...
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Episode 58: Cucumbers In Suits (with Kylie Javier And Mike Eggert) from 2017-04-18T17:08:36
Momofuku Seiobo general manager Kyler Javier Ashton returns to the Mitchen, along with Pinbone's Mike Eggert, for a HEATED discussion about 457 visas, unpaid penalty wages, Easter egg hunts an...
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Episode 57: The Head Shill Of ACME (with Dan Hong) from 2017-04-11T15:46:17
Extremely famous guest Dan Hong (Mr Wong, Ms G's) returns to the Mitchen to chat about his new TV show The Chef's Line, the recent Top 50 Restaurants announcement and staying fit while running...
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Episode 56: The World's Biggest Whingers from 2017-04-05T19:35:52
Longtime Mitchen royalty Mike Eggert (Pinbone) returns to the podcast for an episode about social media, starting a new restaurant, the great chef shortage and Hongy's new TV show on SBS.
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Episode 55: Steaks And Bladders (with Lee Tran Lam) from 2017-03-28T16:28:58
Lee Tran Lam, the host of Sydney's far more professional food podcast The Unbearable Lightness of Being Hungry, joins us to discuss 72 ye...
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Episode 54: Lucky Mango (with Monty Koludrovic) from 2017-03-21T15:22:54
Levins and Mitch are joined by a special guest cohost this week: Monty Koludrovic, head chef at Icebergs in Bondi and The Dolphin Hotel in Surry Hills. On today's episode we lick video games, ...
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Episode 53: Rotten Figs And Sticky Lamb Ribs from 2017-03-16T16:33:36
Levins and Mitch say goodbye to Lucky Peach & Eleven Bridge and laugh at dried oregano & Bondi popups. Plus good friend and scholar Ray Jones joins us for a discussion about cultural a...
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Episode 52: The All New Mitchen from 2017-03-08T11:38:43
We're back! With a new format and an all new look, with thanks to our new partners at The Projects!
This week Levins and Mitch discuss Pauline Hanson's new craft beer line, restaura...
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Episode 51: Bye C*nts from 2017-01-27T18:37:08
Levins and Mitch sit down to record the last ever episode of The Mitchen... maybe.
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Episode 50: Live From Rootstock 2016 from 2016-12-20T16:28:06
After the success of last year's drunken nightmare episode, we returned to Rootstock, an annual sustainable food and wine festival in Sydney to record another enormous podcast with too many gu...
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Episode 49: Reunited, And It Feels So Good from 2016-12-07T11:33:38
An action packed, guest filled episode features chefs Dan Hong (Mr Wong), Analiese Gregory (Bar Brose) and Paul Carmichael (Momofuku Seiobo), bartenders Mike Nicolian (Continental Deli) and Le...
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Episode 48: The Mitchen Vs Perth from 2016-12-01T18:58:24
After receiving an angry email about how The Mitchen makes too many jokes about Perth, Levins heads to Australia's most western city in the hopes of finding a reason to not make fun of it in t...
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Episode 47: This Is What West End Draught Will Do To You (with Africola) from 2016-11-28T12:17:06
While in Adelaide, Levins had a late night feed at the blazing hot African restaurant Africola and recorded an episode with head chef/owner Duncan Welgemoed and restaurant manager Nikki Friedl...
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Episode 46: FDT (with Bar Liberty) from 2016-11-17T20:16:54
Levins was in Melbourne the night Trump won the election so he got tanked at Bar Liberty and went back the next afternoon for a chat with owners Banjo Harris Plane and Michael Bascetta. The pa...
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Episode 45: Big Fans Of Chyna (with Pinbone) from 2016-11-09T14:42:01
Levins catches up with Mike Eggert, Berri Eggert and Jemma Whiteman, collectively known as Pinbone. After closing their Paddington restaurant last year, the Pinbone crew have been looking for ...
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Episode 44: Very Occasional Coarse Language (with Sue Dyson And Roger McShane) from 2016-11-03T02:13:47
While in Hobart, Levins visits two of the most beloved figures in the Australian food scene - Sue Dyson and Roger McShane. Best known for importing French natural wines through their business ...
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Episode 43: Proudly Pokies Free (with Tom Lawrence) from 2016-10-27T11:31:03
Levins sat down with Tom Lawrence from Proudly Pokies Free, a new youth focused campaign which raises awareness about the damage caused by the pokies in Australia. NSW has 50% of Australia's p...
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Episode 42: Scorching Hot Live Q&A from 2016-10-20T19:50:17
Levins and Mitch fired up Facebook live video and answered the back log of old emails and listeners questions! Hear us talk about hot topics like home delivery, lattes, craft beer, drunk episo...
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Episode 41: Keep Sydney Open, The Musical (with Tyson Koh And Gio Paradiso) from 2016-10-12T15:42:53
We caught up with Tyson Koh from Keep Sydney Open just after the successful second rally in Sydney last weekend. What does Tyson have planned next for the campaign? Also joining us is Fratelli...
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Episode 40: Pretty Much The Worst Word You Can Say (with Monty Koludrovic, Morgan McGlone, Matt Abergel And Elliot Faber) from 2016-10-05T00:44:52
On a late Monday night at The Dolphin Hotel, Levins strikes up a conversation with Monty Koludrovic (Icebergs) and Morgan McGlone (Belle's Hot Chicken, Harpoon Harry), plus visitors from Yardb...
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Episode 39: Mar-tinnies On My Mind (with Mike Bennie And Mikey Nicolian) from 2016-09-27T20:31:58
Levins records another booze episode alongside wine writer Mike Bennie, with special guest Mikey Nicolian from Continental. After answering a listener question about buying wine in Sydney, we ...
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Episode 38: The Mitchen Awards (kinda) from 2016-09-20T03:22:31
Levins and Mitch reflect on the Sydney food awards season, going through the Good Food Guide and Gourmet Traveller award lists and agreeing, disagreeing and making completely unwanted suggesti...
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Episode 37: No Scratching (with Myffy Rigby, Callan Boys, Anton Forte And Jason Scott) from 2016-09-12T20:04:47
We sat down with the owners of the Good Food Guide's best restaurant of the year - and the two editors who awarded it to them! Myffy Rigby is back for her second episode of The Mitchen, with h...
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Episode 36: Canned Rissoles (with Elvis Abrahanowicz And Jake Smyth) from 2016-09-06T12:52:35
A day before they won the award for best bar food (and gained a hat!) in this year's Good Food Guide, we went to Continental in Newtown and recorded an episode with Elvis Abrahanowicz (Porteno...
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Episode 35: A Tad Too Salty (featuring Pat Nourse, Kylie Javier Ashton And Paul Carmichael) from 2016-08-29T03:15:55
The 2016 edition of Gourmet Traveller's Australian Restaurant Guide has just been released, so we sat down with Pat Nourse, Gourmet Traveller's chief restaurant critic and deputy editor, plus ...
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Episode 34: Lines And Lines Of Hardcore Cooking from 2016-08-23T01:33:11
Levins and Mitch speak with Adelaide's Duncan Welgemoed, who was previously on the Live From Rootstock episode of The Mitchen, briefly chatting to us as he cooked an entire cow over coals. Thi...
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Episode 33: Are These Mikes On? (with Mike Bennie And Mike Eggert) from 2016-08-15T02:17:42
We're super excited to announce that Sydney's Lord Mayor of Wine, Mike Bennie, will be hosting an episode of The Mitchen about wine once a month! We're even more excited to announce that we FO...
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Episode 32: Sydney's Hot New Trend Is Closing Your Restaurant (with Moon Park's Ben Sears And Ned Brooks) from 2016-08-08T16:37:44
The Mitchen is back with new episodes going up every Tuesday! This week Levins and Mitch head to Redfern's Moon Park to speak with two thirds of the owners, chef Ben Sears and sommelier-manage...
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Episode 31: Special Tea Talk (with Arthur Tong And Toby Wilson) from 2016-07-17T14:22:44
After falling in love with his philosophies on tea, food and life in general, we invited ourselves over to Arthur Tong's warehouse, where he runs his tea business Teacraft. Arthur treats Levin...
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Episode 30: Sloppy Dip from 2016-06-07T18:15
Levins and Mitch catch up with Toby Wilson, who opened up Ghostboy Cantina, a not authentic Mexican taqueria inside a Chinatown food court earlier this year. We talk Mexican food in Sydney, th...
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Episode 29: The Deep Deep Woods (featuring Rodney Scott And Morgan McGlone) from 2016-05-19T20:53:35
We're back with another BBQ episode! The last one was about Alabama BBQ, this time we go whole hog with Rodney Scott from Scott's BBQ in South Carolina and Morgan McGlone (Belle's Hot Chicken,...
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Episode 28: Live From The MCA (with Pat Nourse, Dan Hong, Lee Tran Lam & Giovanni Paradiso) from 2016-05-08T21:19:28
We recorded a live episode in front of an audience at the MCA Artbar at the end of April, with special guests Pat Nourse (Gourmet Traveller), Lee Tran Lam (The Unbearable Lightness of Being Hu...
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Episode 27: Live With Ta-ku And Hongy from 2016-04-19T20:52:11
Last week Mitch, Levins and Dan Hong sat down with Perth producer Ta-ku at Golden Age and spoke about getting into cooking, the food they eat when they're heartbroken and how they all know eac...
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Episode 26: Goodbye Noma from 2016-04-06T16:04:19
We back! Mitch and Levins head to the Noma Australia site as the staff pack the restaurant away into boxes before heading back to Copenhagen. We catch up with Noma team leader Katherine Bont a...
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Episode 25: $25,000 from 2016-03-03T16:07:11
We made it to 25 episodes so we had to go BIG to celebrate - so we saved up all our money and got the biggest star we know: DAN HONG. Merivale's golden child himself, from the kitchens of Mr W...
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Episode 24: Night Mayor On Elm Street from 2016-02-17T18:38:46
Ahead of the Keep Sydney Open rally this weekend, we invited Keep Sydney Open's Tyson Koh to come onto the show to talk about how Sydney's lockout laws have affected Sydney's nightlife and sma...
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Episode 23: The Great Outdoors from 2016-02-11T16:07:33
Mike Baird locked us out of Mitch's kitchen this week so we recorded it in the sunny Harmony Park in Surry Hills and invited special guest Louis Tikaram (EP & LP, Los Angeles; ex-Longrain)...
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Episode 22: This Is Boring from 2016-02-04T14:00:43
We try to do a listener feedback episode without any actual listener feedback. Whoops. Mitch talks up his episode of 'Chef's Night Out' and Mike gives a little preview of the Pinbone takeover ...
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Episode 21: Slow And Low from 2016-01-28T17:09:18
A brand new episode all about BBQ! Ahead of The Sydney Barbecue Festival this weekend, we invited Alabama pitmaster Chris Lilly (Big Bob Gibson's Bar-B-Q) to come tell us everything he knows a...
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Episode 20: Coffee, Tea And Mike from 2016-01-21T00:18:13
We celebrate our 20th episode by letting Mike take over as host, leading a long conversation about tea and coffee with some of Sydney's experts: tea distributor Arthur Tong from Tea Craft, Dan...
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Episode 19: Hermit Crab Pie from 2016-01-15T03:34:21
We're back at The Mitchen table after a short break and have filled every seat with a diverse lineup of guests! Joining Levins, Mitch and Mike is American chef Ryan Harris from The Proper Sand...
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Episode 18: Magic Is Amazing Dude from 2015-12-18T16:10:21
We invited Sydney food power couple Naomi Hart and Gregory Llewellyn to The Mitchen table to look back at their massive 2015, in which they opened The Gretz Bar in Enmore, put out their first ...
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Episode 17: Coke And Milk from 2015-12-14T12:56:47
We head to Sydney's Automata for a chat with head chef Clayton Wells, who was last heard on our first episode! Also joining us is Jillionaire from Major Lazer, who is best known for DJing, yel...
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Episode 16: Live From Rootstock from 2015-12-05T20:28:34
Rootstock is an annual sustainable food and wine event in Sydney. Mike, Mitch and Levins were there and drank a few too many wines before hitting record but managed to stumble their way throug...
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Episode 15: Levins Eats Weeds from 2015-11-25T17:40:11
Just a quick little episode this week - Mike and Jemma from Pinbone take Levins to Centennial Park and force him to eat a bunch of possibly edible grass and weeds they forage from the ground. ...
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Episode 14: Freezin' In Tokyo! from 2015-11-20T17:59:26
Live from their holiday in Tokyo, Levins and his wife Bianca Levins (ex The Dip) discuss the fun of eating their way through Japan with a toddler and the best places to eat ramen, burgers and ...
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Episode 13: 700 Page Novel from 2015-11-12T00:20:12
Last week he was in Paris, this week Levins is in Tokyo. During the 4 days between those trips, Levins got Kerby Craig from Ume Restaurant in Surry Hills to come recommend his favourite places...
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Episode 12: Natural Wines, Natural Bodies from 2015-11-04T19:59:14
So it's come to this: another wine episode! Less than a month before Rootstock, we invited its founders Mike Bennie and Giorgio De Maria to come let us know more about the massive program, inc...
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Episode 11: Lots Of Freakin' Cheese from 2015-10-29T00:31:26
It's the most informative episode of The Mitchen yet - featuring Italian food legends Giovanni Pilu (Pilu at Freshwater) and Allesandro Pavoni (Ormeggio at The Spit, Via Alta). Mitch worked at...
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Episode 10: Activated Rocks from 2015-10-21T19:18:44
We made it to ten episodes and celebrate by somehow cramming SEVEN people onto The Mitchen table for a solid 90 minutes of hot conversation. Returning to the podcast are Annaliese Gregory (ACM...
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Episode 9: Breakdancers Love Eggs, Bro from 2015-10-15T12:35:40
This week Mitch, Levins and Mike sat down with Myffy Rigby (the current editor of the Sydney Morning Herald's Good Food Guide), Darren Robertson (TV presenter and head chef at Three Blue Ducks...
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Episode 8: Don't Take The Pith from 2015-10-08T00:09:40
Eight episodes in and we finally worked out a perfect intro - it's just a shame that Levins forgets to introduce himself at the start of this episode too. Oh well. Levins and Mitch are joined ...
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Episode 7 - Too Much Like Octopus from 2015-10-01T23:51:05
Things get HEATED this week at the Mitchen table! We invited the legendary Jeremy Strode (Bistrode, The Fish Shop) to bump the classiness of our podcast up a few notches. Adding to the class a...
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Episode 6: And Then I Sleep On The Couch from 2015-09-24T04:03:50
Levins and Mike are the odd ones out this week, as every other guest (and Mitch) are winners of the Josephine Pignolet Young Chef of the Year Award. We've got Daniel Puskas from Sixpenny, who ...
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Episode 5 - Just The Losers From Sydney from 2015-09-20T13:35:39
Out with the losers and in with the winners! This week we've Good Food Guide's chef of the year Pasi Petanen (Cafe Paci, ex-Marque) and the winner of the service excellence award Cam Fairbairn...
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Episode 4: Lol Mitch from 2015-09-13T13:48:43
Unlike cumin, variety is the spice of life, so we invited two Melbourne chefs to sit at the Mitchen table this week. Morgan McGlone from Belle's Hot Chicken and Josh Murphy from The Builders A...
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Episode 3: Pour That Funky Grigio, White Boy from 2015-09-06T02:35:24
Three episodes in and we're further away from Mitch's kitchen than ever before - we recorded this one at Levins's house in North Parramatta. Andrew Levins and Mitch Orr are joined by return gu...
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Episode 2: Awards, Thieves, Vegies And The Floor from 2015-08-29T19:12:23
Only one episode in and Mitch has been kicked out of his own kitchen - so we relocated to the downstars dining table at ACME and welcomed return guest Mike Eggert (Pinbone) plus new guests Dan...
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Episode 1: Welcome To The Mitchen Table from 2015-08-18T18:28:31
The Mitchen is a new weekly food podcast recorded at Mitch Orr's kitchen table in Sydney. Hosted by food writer/DJ Andrew Levins and chef Mitch Orr (ACME), each week they invite four mates fro...
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