
Ep 18 - Winner MasterChef Season 4 - Luca Manfe - This Is Yu
05/06/20 • 43 min
Episode #18 - Winner - MasterChef Season 4 - Luca Manfe
Welcome to Episode 18 of This Is Yu Podcast.
This Is Carole Yu and Scott Stewart
Today, we catch up with Luca Manfe, winner of MasterChef season 4. After a devastating rejection from season 3, Luca fought his way back to victory and into the hearts of all MasterChef fans.
He was always one of the fan favorites because he rejected the conniving and pettiness of other contestants. He was always a gentleman, making us laugh, his blue eyes sparkling with passion for his food.
We learn about Luca’s family, not only his American family, but we go back to his roots in Aviano, Italy where he grew up. He tells us about his private catering business “Dinner with Luca”, and the tiny house where he, his wife Cate, and children Luca and Valentino now live.
Luca answers fan questions, and tells us about his journey from MasterChef to The Lucky Fig food truck, to his current daily life. If you are a Luca fan, you may get chills as I did when talking to him. It was an intimate conversation, and we were so lucky to connect with him.
After our conversation with Luca, you won’t want to miss our segment, “New Tech Cooking” where we talk about our annual Sous Vide feast.
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Have you entered our giveaway already? Through May 19th, 2020 enter our giveaway for a $25 Amazon gift card! It’s simple! All you have to do is go to Apple Podcasts, subscribe to and leave a review of This Is Yu Podcast. We will choose our favorite review, and announce the winner on May 19th on the podcast.
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New Segment - New Tech Cooking
Have you seen those “Sous Vide Egg Bites” at Starbucks and wondered, “What is Sous Vide?”
Our family was first introduced to Sous Vide when Dara was asked to the White House where she was an honored guest at Obama’s first “Maker’s Faire.” Where she ran into a person who made a sous vide machine.. Afterwards, she sent Dara one of their circulators.
What does Sous Vide mean? Listen to the podcast to find out how to make your food so moist!
Thank you so much to Luca for joining us in today’s conversation. We loved learning what your family means to you and how they are a shining beacon in your life.
His positive spirit inspires us. We appreciate you Luca for taking the time to share your journey from MasterChef to your life now full of love of family and food.
Thanks for listening to the show.
If you like the idea of more people hearing this series and this show in general please think about taking just a couple minutes to give us a rating and review on iTunes or your podcast app of choice. If we get enough of those, the apps show This Is Yu to more people to find out we exist.
As always, we really appreciate your thoughts and feedback about the show. You can reach out to us on Instagram or Facebook at [This Is Yu Official] or you can leave us an anonymous voicemail at [562-291-6037]. We listen to all the voicemails.
www.DinnerWithLuca.com
www.ThisIsYu.com
@ThisIsYuOfficialCiao!
Ciao Bella!
Episode #18 - Winner - MasterChef Season 4 - Luca Manfe
Welcome to Episode 18 of This Is Yu Podcast.
This Is Carole Yu and Scott Stewart
Today, we catch up with Luca Manfe, winner of MasterChef season 4. After a devastating rejection from season 3, Luca fought his way back to victory and into the hearts of all MasterChef fans.
He was always one of the fan favorites because he rejected the conniving and pettiness of other contestants. He was always a gentleman, making us laugh, his blue eyes sparkling with passion for his food.
We learn about Luca’s family, not only his American family, but we go back to his roots in Aviano, Italy where he grew up. He tells us about his private catering business “Dinner with Luca”, and the tiny house where he, his wife Cate, and children Luca and Valentino now live.
Luca answers fan questions, and tells us about his journey from MasterChef to The Lucky Fig food truck, to his current daily life. If you are a Luca fan, you may get chills as I did when talking to him. It was an intimate conversation, and we were so lucky to connect with him.
After our conversation with Luca, you won’t want to miss our segment, “New Tech Cooking” where we talk about our annual Sous Vide feast.
____________________________________________________
Have you entered our giveaway already? Through May 19th, 2020 enter our giveaway for a $25 Amazon gift card! It’s simple! All you have to do is go to Apple Podcasts, subscribe to and leave a review of This Is Yu Podcast. We will choose our favorite review, and announce the winner on May 19th on the podcast.
____________________________________________________
New Segment - New Tech Cooking
Have you seen those “Sous Vide Egg Bites” at Starbucks and wondered, “What is Sous Vide?”
Our family was first introduced to Sous Vide when Dara was asked to the White House where she was an honored guest at Obama’s first “Maker’s Faire.” Where she ran into a person who made a sous vide machine.. Afterwards, she sent Dara one of their circulators.
What does Sous Vide mean? Listen to the podcast to find out how to make your food so moist!
Thank you so much to Luca for joining us in today’s conversation. We loved learning what your family means to you and how they are a shining beacon in your life.
His positive spirit inspires us. We appreciate you Luca for taking the time to share your journey from MasterChef to your life now full of love of family and food.
Thanks for listening to the show.
If you like the idea of more people hearing this series and this show in general please think about taking just a couple minutes to give us a rating and review on iTunes or your podcast app of choice. If we get enough of those, the apps show This Is Yu to more people to find out we exist.
As always, we really appreciate your thoughts and feedback about the show. You can reach out to us on Instagram or Facebook at [This Is Yu Official] or you can leave us an anonymous voicemail at [562-291-6037]. We listen to all the voicemails.
www.DinnerWithLuca.com
www.ThisIsYu.com
@ThisIsYuOfficialCiao!
Ciao Bella!
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Ep 17 - This Is Yu - Feed Feed - Julie Resnick
Welcome to Episode 17 of This Is Yu Podcast.
This Is Scott Stewart and Carole Yu
Today, we speak with Julie Resnick, who has built the Feed Feed, with her cofounder and husband Dan, into a global crowd-sourced food and lifestyle media company. She is a trained chef, journalist, business woman, mom, wife, and deeply passionate about the world of food. Her community of home cooks, bloggers and chefs bring over 15 Million views to the Feed Feed’s social media platforms and website.
We talk to Julie about her different instagram feeds, and how she developed the Feedfeed’s online community. We explore the company event spaces, The Feedfeed’s future facing perspective, and how the company plans to get there.
If you are looking to up your instagram game, then this is the podcast for you!
After our conversation with Julie, we have a new segment, “Recipe Substitutions.” How do you bake a cake without eggs, milk, butter or sugar? What to do when you’re without any fresh herbs or have run out of spice blends? We also talk about healthy substitutes for sugar and butter, or eggs. And finally, we give you alternate ingredients for paleo and gluten free diets.
Have you already entered our $25 Amazon gift card giveaway? Listen up to hear how you can be the winner!
Thank you so much to Julie for joining us in today’s conversation. We really appreciate your unique social media and business expertise. We loved learning about your company’s exponential business growth. and now we’re so excited to explore all your social media outlets so we can find brand new inspiration for our meals. It’s reassuring to know that we’ll be able to choose any ingredient and peruse hundreds of recipes crowdsourced from your expansive and diverse community from across the globe.
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We are all stuck in our houses at this time of Corona, and try to stay out of public contact as much as possible. This means that many of us can’t run to the grocery store every few days to pick up all the ingredients we need. Subsequently our pantries are running low. Today, we have some great ideas for ingredient substitutions including paleo and gluten free diets! Make sure you check out our substitution list on our “Recipe Substitutions” blog post at ThisIsyu.com
So, you’ve gathered all the ingredients to bake something comforting, and realize you are missing just one ingredient. Here are some ideas. We will name the substitutions, but all the specific amounts could make for some tedious podcast listening. Get some ideas here, and then get the specific ingredient ratios in our blog post “ Recipe Substitutions” on the This Is Yu.com website.
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Give us your feedback. Leave a message for us on the This Is Yu Hotline at 562-291-6037, it’s anonymous, just leave a message with your thoughts. You can also direct message us on facebook or instagram, or email us at [email protected] or Scott @thisisyu.com
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Ep 19 - Celebrity Food Photographer - Matt Armendariz - This Is Yu
Welcome to Episode 19 of This Is Yu Podcast.
This Is Carole Yu and Scott Stewart
The jingle you just heard introduces our segment later in the show on every kid’s Breakfast love “Pop Tarts”.
But, first, we speak with self proclaimed dork Matt Armendariz, Celebrity Food Photographer, Gardener, Zumba Motivator, and one of the most upbeat and positive people you’ll ever meet.
Although it was a 20-year career as a graphic designer, art and creative director within the specialty foods world where he got his start, it was the photographic process that energized, thrilled, and motivated Matt enough to trade in my cubicle for a camera.
Now as a photographer, he loves capturing the moment and story of food for a variety of editorial and advertising clients as well as various cookbook publishers and publications. He’s based in Los Angeles, California.
He’s never met a pizza he didn't like.”
After various jobs in the grocery business, Matt worked his way up to marketing, eventually leading the advertising campaigns for Bristol Farms. After he started his own very successful food blog, Matt Bites, he transitioned into celebrity food photography full time.
He has a very clean vision, his photographs are modern, and exciting, catching the eye of large companies such as Target, Walmart, Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf, and Chipotle. We talk about his growing up in Texas, traveling, and he gives us tips on food photography trends.
Matt also gives us the scoop on working on cookbooks with celebrities Gaby Dalkin, Laila Ali, Chrissy Tiegen, and more.
It’s the last week for the $25 Amazon giftcard giveaway! Through May 19th, 2020 you can still enter. It’s simple! Just go to Apple Podcasts, subscribe to and leave a review of This Is Yu Podcast. We will choose our favorite review, and announce the winner on May 19th on the podcast.
Thank you so much to Matt Armendariz for joining us in today’s conversation. Carole has definitely caught the Zumba bug from you! We appreciated the peek into the world of cookbook photography, zumba and Matt’s inspirational positivity!
Please spread the word about This Is Yu Podcast! Please take a couple minutes to give us a rating and review on iTunes / Apple Podcasts. The more reviews, the more awareness will be brought to This Is Yu Podcast.
As always, we really appreciate your thoughts and feedback about the show. You can reach us on Instagram or Facebook at [This Is Yu Official] or you can leave us an anonymous voicemail at [562-291-6037]. We listen to all the voicemails.
www.MattArmendariz.com
@MattArmendariz
www.ThisIsYu.com
@ThisIsYuOfficial
Thanks for listening to the show.
Scott & Carole.
This Is Yu Podcast - Ep 18 - Winner MasterChef Season 4 - Luca Manfe - This Is Yu
Transcript
Scott: 0:00
Gordon Ramsay says "Luca." Fans cheer. Luca says " I came here from another country because America the best place in the world, This is where dreams come true, and now I am America's MasterChef."
Carole: 0:16
Welcome to Episode 18 of This Is Yu Podcast. This is Carole Yu...
Scott: 0:22
and Scott Stewart Way Catch up with Luca. Man Fi, winner of Master Chef Season four. After a devastating rejection from Season three
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