#68 - The CRAZIEST Food You've Ever Eaten - Skyler Bouchard-Oppenheim

Skyler Bouchard-Oppenheim is a creator and entrepreneur. Since 2012, Skyler has been the face of her own online culinary brand/blog, Dining with Skyler (@DiningWithSkyler on Instagram). Furthermore, she was one of the first creators who adopted Instagram as a central platform to build business and has leveraged her success there to create content for major brands including Amazon and Food Network.

Dining With Skyler IG Page: https://www.instagram.com/diningwithskyler/

***TIMESTAMPS***

0:00 - Intro; Body Image; “Dining With Skyler” & Behind The Scenes on Culinary Content Creation;

23:42 - Craziest foods Skyler’s ever eaten; An exotic bird dish from Asia; Attitudes towards different types of food; The changing narrative behind Lobsters; Seaspiracy (Netflix) talk; Microplastics in the oceans; The Foreign Dog Meat Trade

45:27 - Explaining wine and how it’s judged; The myth behind aged win; The Class Division in foods and drinks like wine; Culture Vulturing in food

1:07:12 - Skyler’s favorite country of origin food; Skyler’s time in Hong Kong; Chinese food and the regional differences; Julian ordered Sushi in a Chinese Restaurant

1:15:38 - Moving out of NYC during the Pandemic; The rebranding process Skyler went through over the past 2 years; Skyler’s work with Amazon and The Food Network

1:33:21 - The rise of the True Crime Genre in entertainment; True Crime go-to’s; The internet changed everything; Skyler’s previous work in Network Broadcasting during college; Skyler tells a story about a hater chef;

2:00:03 - The story behind “Ballsy Bites”; Skyler talks about leaving behind the media company business she also started several years ago; The struggle of CEO’s at the beginning of the Pandemic

2:21:00 - Does Culinary Network TV still have a market?; Cake Boss & Brazil; Building communities online; Skyler tells a story about the moment she realized she was onto something; The FOMO generation

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YouTube EPISODES & CLIPS: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0A-v_DL-h76F75xik8h03Q

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Julian's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/julianddorey

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Music Produced by White Hot

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