Mark is the most brilliant food mind I have met, here is the opening summary:<\/p>\n
Mark Miller is often called the founder of modern southwestern cuisine, but his unique anthropological approach to food has led him to explore cuisines in over 100 countries around the world. He joins Tyler for a conversation on all that he\u2019s learned along the way, including his pick for the most underrated chili pepper, palate coaching, the best food cities in Asia, Mexico, and Europe, the problems with sous-vide, why the Michelin guide is overrated, mezcal versus tequila, the decline of food brands, how to do fast food well, and why the next hipster food trend should be about corn.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Here is the text, audio, and video<\/a>. Mark is a blizzard of information density, and I don\u2019t know anyone else who has his experience with the food world, most of all with Asia, Mexico, and the American Southwest. (You may recall he was an interlocutor in my dialogue with Fuchsia Dunlop<\/a>, and so we recorded this session with Mark afterwards.)<\/p>\n
I thought the highlight was Mark\u2019s six-minute riff on tasting chiles, it really shows Mark in his glory \u2014 this is one of those cases where I definitely recommend the video over the text:<\/p>\n