Check Please!

Bella Castillo, Josh Turner
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Check Please!

Check Please! is a podcast by two avid cooks and voracious diners with perfect taste where we chat about food, life and whatever we want. Pull up a seat at our table, this one's on us. bellacastillo.substack.com

  1. 20 HRS AGO

    Check Please! #13 Fantasy, Tubby Custard and Haruki Murakami's Ear Fetish

    Welcome back to Check Please! In this fantasy-themed episode, we chat about some of our earliest food memories — the fictional dishes we read about and watched on TV. We name some of very real dishes that feel made up, and dish on the YA fiction we were obsessed with in adolescence. Josh shares some of his favorite video game soundtracks, Bella introduces you to an independent perfumer who makes fragrances fit for fairies and water nymphs, and we watch that one really horny Robert Pattinson for Dior homme commercial. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bellacastillo.substack.com/subscribe

    1h 4m

  2. NOV 12

    Check Please! #12 Autumn, Thanksgiving Hot Takes & Yo La Tengo Playing My Wedding (Nov. 12, 2024)

    We are so back. And the seasons have changed since we last chatted. In this episode, we discuss all things autumn. We debate which apples are the best apples and whether pumpkin is under, over or correctly rated. We share our Thanksgiving takes and traditions, fight about whether Yo La Tengo is girl music or not, and talk about the time Josh catered a party that had gold-leaf covered suckling pig on the menu and Fiona Apple playing live piano. We even discover that they make Gilmore Girls towns in real life, that there really is apple cider in apple cider donuts and why Nico sings like that. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bellacastillo.substack.com/subscribe

    51 min

  3. OCT 15

    Check Please! #11 Desire, Sexy Fruit & Suburban Perversion (Oct. 14, 2024)

    In this week’s episode of Check Please! we chat about which foods have a certain sexy quality and whether aphrodisiacs are real or fake. We meditate on desire in all it’s forms, from the kind of yielding love it takes to make long term relationships work to the depths of depravity it can lead us to, as depicted in movies like Happiness (1998), Little Children (2006), and American Beauty (1999). We interpreted desire as a theme more literally in the musical arena, calling out some of our favorite tracks and artists of the same name, and shared a poem by Eileen Myles about wanting what you already have. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bellacastillo.substack.com/subscribe

    55 min

  4. OCT 8

    Check Please! #10 Holiness, Mormon Casserole, & a Chat with Audrey (@foldyrhands) Robinovitz (Oct. 8, 2024)

    It’s a beautiful Tuesday to assess your relationship with god! The theme for this episode of Check Please! was the word “holy,” and it sparked memories of cocktail weenies in coulis, cornflake casserole and the time my dad broke a $50 in the offering basket. It led us to revisit Bible verses featuring culinary anomalies, and analyze movies like First Reformed (2017) and Mermaids (1990) with heavy evangelical overtones. We also sat down with Audrey Robinovitz, the artist, writer, fragrance expert and recent Catholic convert about her relationship with religion, navigating the murky waters of ironic Catholicism online, and her favorite perfumes featuring notes like lilies, church incense and beeswax. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bellacastillo.substack.com/subscribe

    1h 21m

  5. OCT 1

    Check Please! #9 Opulence, Caviar Tasting & Ranking The Real Housewives (Oct. 1, 2024)

    Welcome to another week of Check Please! In today’s episode on opulence, we speed rank (almost) every Real Housewife, and discuss examples of culinary luxuries throughout history, including everything from Pâté en Croûte to porpoise. We examined movies with monied overtones like Marie Antoinette (2006) and Eyes Wide Shut (1999), and had the opportunity to taste test and compare three caviars kindly provided by Petrossian — all of which were delicious, but one particularly sparkled. Thank you, as always, for listening. We’re excited to welcome a special guest next week — something to look forward to. Until then, Bella xx This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bellacastillo.substack.com/subscribe

    1h 2m

  6. SEPT 24

    Check Please! #8 Yearning, Brokeback Mountain & Queer Lit (Sept. 24, 2024)

    In this episode on yearning, I open up about the deep anguish in my heart caused by the distance between me and my favorite slutty fast-food Mexican restaurant, Josh gets an education in Mitski lyrics, and we muse about why the gays are simply doing yearning better. We discuss Brokeback Mountain (2005), Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019), and reflect on excerpts from Ocean Vuong’s On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous and Richard Siken’s Crush. Thanks for listening. Until next week, Bella xx This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bellacastillo.substack.com/subscribe

    1h 9m

  7. SEPT 10

    Check Please! #7 - Malaise, Raw Milk & a Chat with Tao Lin (Sept. 10, 2024)

    The topic for this episode of Check Please! is malaise. ma·laise /məˈlāz,məˈlez/ noun * a general feeling of discomfort, illness, or uneasiness whose exact cause is difficult to identify. We chat about the things we like to eat when we feel like sickly Victorian orphans, revisit my freaky alternative health childhood, analyze the plot of Safe (1995) starring Julianne Moore, and interview Taipei author Tao Lin about his low Vitamin A diet, the leeches he ordered in the mail, the eczema on his *******, and his forthcoming book “Self Heal.” Note: We are well aware Josh sounds like a robot in this episode, and we are not proud of it. The reverb issue will be fixed by the next episode. Listen, we’re just cooks after all! Thank you for listening. As always, Bella This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bellacastillo.substack.com/subscribe

    1h 42m

  8. SEPT 3

    Check Please! #6 - Nostalgia, Onion Ring Towers and Disney Adults (Derogatory) (Sept. 3, 2024)

    Welcome back to Check Please! The word of the day is: nostalgia. We went to the mall to get an Auntie Anne’s soft pretzel and inhale the enthralling scent of Abercrombie & Fitch Fierce in the name of research. We talked about when curling your hair and going to Sprinkles Cupcakes was the most en vogue thing to do in middle school on your birthday. We made playlists harkening back to our adolescent years (mine even includes an actual cover image I took to post on Tumblr featuring a leaf of my mother’s bougainvillea pressed against my tongue). We mused on the dangers of receding into nostalgia as a place of comfort and critiqued the way therapy language has enabled adults to take things too far. We revisited the concept of the flat lay, a photo style that was pervasive on Tumblr and the earliest iterations of Instagram intended to communicate something unique and interesting about the poster. You can say many things about me, but never that I’m above being a little cringy, a little embarrassing, a little vulnerable. Thanks for being here with me. Chat next week, Bella xx This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bellacastillo.substack.com/subscribe

    1h 7m
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Check Please! is a podcast by two avid cooks and voracious diners with perfect taste where we chat about food, life and whatever we want. Pull up a seat at our table, this one's on us. bellacastillo.substack.com

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  • Creator
    Bella Castillo, Josh Turner
  • Years Active
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  • Episodes
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    Explicit
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    © Bella Castillo
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