Cybersocket Podcast: Bear with Us, Gurrrl Thanksgiving Episode

Bear with Us, Gurrrl: Thanksgiving Episode with Chef Jonathan Bardzik

Check out our Thanksgiving episode of Bear with Us, Gurrrl featuring Chef Jonathan Bardzik with hosts Teddy Bear and Alexander Rodriguez.

Jonathan Bardzik is a storyteller, cook, author, and television personality based in Washington, DC. Jonathan believes that life can and should be lived with joy, each day and shares that joy through food and stories with audiences from local farmers markets to television where he is the host of a new 8-episode series, Jonathan’s Kitchen: Seasons to Taste, airing on Revry. A popular keynote speaker, Jonathan has appeared on the TedX stage.

Jonathan's professional culinary career began in 2011 with weekly cooking demonstrations at DC's historic Eastern Market. Since then, Jonathan has made more than 900 live appearances at venues across the country, including the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the National Geographic Museum, as well as countless virtual events for both corporate clients and private parties alike. Jonathan is self-trained with more than 20 years of experience in the kitchen. His food is inspired by the seasonal, local ingredients he grew up with and finds today at local farmers' markets. Jonathan has written three cookbooks: Simple Summer: a recipe for joy and connection, Fresh and Magical Vinaigrettes, and Seasons to Taste: Farm-fresh joy for kitchen and table, the inspiration for his new television series.

On this episode, we chat about Jonathan's career and coming out, Turkey Day do's and don'ts, recipe fails, LGBTQ representation on the Food Network, the bear community, and keeping to family traditions. We also debate on this episodes Hot Topic: should you forgive and forget family members' actions in honor of the holidays?

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Jonathan will be doing a Thanksgiving Day live hotline, available for all of your Turkey Day questions on his Instagram and Facebook.

Bear with Us, Gurrrl is presented in media partnership with Bear World Magazine.