“You don’t break bread with crooks. You break the story.”
Jack Lauber is the founder of SpokenFood.com and SpokenFood Radio and the SF Magazine weekend audio/radio program. In a nutshell, Lauber doesn’t mince words—he minces the guilty.
Part Anthony Bourdain, part J. Jonah Jameson, and part street preacher, Lauber launched SpokenFood as a response to the rising tide of food price gouging, corporate secrecy, and media cowardice. “Food is fuel,” he growls, “but this damn system’s running on theft, and people deserve answers and if that means giving out management cell phone numbers, so be it.”
Try this: Get him waxing poetic about food, any food. Talk of the virtues of fresh veggies and he’ll time-travel back to 1974 and tell of his family picking vegetables straight out of the garden, or later, his learning how to make a perfect, unbroken Bearnaise to top his steak and asparagus – do that and you’ll see a grown man transformed into a child again.
Fueled by French press coffee, good smoked salmon, American Spirits and a dogged need to know who’s pulling the strings and why, Lauber leads the SF editorial team like a kitchen brigade in a five-alarm fire. His guiding principle? “Tell the truth. There are no sacred cows. We’re tired of robber-baron executives having their vacation homes and lavish lifestyles paid for by greed and graft, funded by us. Capone died in ’47. Enough is enough.”