Episode
Bananas Foster
- Podcast
- Sauced
- Published
- Apr 30, 2026
- Duration seconds
- 4725
- Processing state
not_requested- Canonical source
- https://www.saucedpodcast.com/episodes/bananas-foster
Actions
POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/sauced-7639132/episodes/bananas-foster/transcription-requests
Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode.GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/sauced-7639132/bananas-foster.md
Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource.
Summary
Bananas Foster was invented in a single night in 1951 to honor a man fighting French Quarter police corruption, inspired by an Irish-American breakfast, and made with a banana that vanished from American supermarkets in the 1960s. Seventy-five years later, Brennan's still flambés 35,000 pounds of bananas a year for it. This week, we dig into the Big Mike-to-Cavendish swap that quietly rewrote what the dish tastes like, the Paul Blangé method of sauce building, and the science of why the vapor burns, not the liquid. Two cocktails: The Commissioner — a Godfather riff with Jamaican rum, crème de banane, and Sother's Driftwood Bitters. And The Big Mike — a hot caramel-cream-foam Irish-coffee-style closer. For the full recipes and more, become a premium subscriber at https://sauced.supercast.com/ Follow us on Instagram: @sauced.pod Thanks to all of this week’s partners: G4 Tequila : https://pkgdgroup.com/g4-tequila/ Underberg : https://underbergamerica.com/