Theme song by Kyle Forester

The JDS Variety Hour...Half Hour, is a freewheeling, haphazard hootenany about restaurants, reviewing restaurants, loving them, hating them, hating reviewing them as well as special segments like, “A Not-Yet-Famous Actor Reads Food Erotica" and "This is the Portion of the Show with A Musical Guest!," in which a musical guest will perform a song about food. Think of it as This American Life but without the budget and where every episode our theme is food.

Joshua David Stein Bio Joshua David Stein (joshuadavidstein.com) is a freelance writer, the restaurant critic for the New York Observer, and a regular contributor to The New York Times, New York, Munchies, and The Sunday Times. He was once the senior editor of Eater, an editor at Gawker. He lives in Harlem with his wife and two children.