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Check Please!

Bella Castillo, Mason Adams

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Frequency: 1 episode/25d. Total Eps: 22

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.

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🇨🇦 Canada - food
04/01/2026
#86
🇨🇦 Canada - food
03/01/2026
#63
🇬🇧 Great Britain - food
12/12/2025
#59
🇨🇦 Canada - food
28/09/2025
#98

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

Tuesday, September 3, 2024 • Duration 01:07:27

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

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Check Please! #5 - Ritual, Weed Gummies & Tarkovsky (Aug. 27, 2024)

Tuesday, August 27, 2024 • Duration 18:27

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In this episode, we try Rose Delights, discuss if splitting a burger is the ultimate act of love, and evaluate the rituals in our lives, The Sacrifice (1986), Harriet the Spy (1996) & more.

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Check Please! #4 - Hotline (Aug. 13, 2024)

Tuesday, August 13, 2024 • Duration 13:28

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In this episode, we asked listeners to call our hotline with matters of the heart and stomach, and the phone was ringing off the hook! We resolved domestic squabbles over whose job it is to plunge the toilet, laid out the perfect recipe for a home-cooked dinner date, and settled on the only successful way for a man to attract a partner on Instagram.

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Check Please! #3 - Trends/Hot & Ready/3 Questions (Aug. 6, 2024)

Tuesday, August 6, 2024 • Duration 01:05:20

In this episode of Check Please! Josh and I are running our mouths about all the latest culinary trends and debuting a segment called Hot & Ready in which we rattle off a few of our hottest food takes. If you’ve been hoping and praying to hear my controversial thoughts on tiramisù, the light of god has shined upon you today. We also did a little Q&A to really shed some light on the inner workings of our gorgeous, twisted brains, though the questions may have been more telling than the answers. There’s even a bonus unboxing and fragrance review. Truly, we can do it all.

In even more exciting news, we’re debuting a special segment next week. Introducing the Check Please! hotline! We’ll be taking questions and offering advice on two of life’s greatest gifts: food & love.

How it works:

* Call this number and leave us a message with your culinary curiosities and/or relationship woes: ‪(512) 666-8927‬. This is as anonymous as you want it to be, no need to worry.

* Selected messages will be played in next week’s episode and responded to live on air.

Why you should call:

* Our credentials: Josh is a professionally trained cook. I am not, however, if you’re here with me, I will assume we’ve built up some trust in each other. We’re also both fairly well-adjusted, level-headed adults in healthy longterm relationships (married & engaged, even), ready and willing to (thoughtfully) meddle in your romantic affairs.

* It’s sooooo fun.

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Check Please! #2 - Double Feature (July 30, 2024)

Tuesday, July 30, 2024 • Duration 02:51

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Listen now | In this episode, we review Burnt (2015) and The Taste of Things (2023) and chat about whether the Michelin Guide is racist, times we've cried at the movies and Juliette Binoche's **** **** ***.

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Check Please! #1 - Restaurants (July 23, 2024)

Tuesday, July 23, 2024 • Duration 49:06

In this episode, we chat about everything we love and hate about restaurants (from the perspective of patrons — working in the industry is a whole different episode), mourn the loss of Sweet Tomatoes, discover the last-standing Lone Star Steakhouse in the world, and review the Joe’s Crab Shack happy hour menu.

And yes…there is the sound of the leaf blower at the end. Forgive us. We’re still working out the kinks.

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

Tuesday, September 10, 2024 • Duration 01:41:40

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

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

Tuesday, September 24, 2024 • Duration 01:09:14

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

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

Tuesday, October 1, 2024 • Duration 01:01:59

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

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

Tuesday, October 15, 2024 • Duration 55:29

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.

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Check Please! – Details, episodes & analysis

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