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Three levels of chicken
Joshua shared a short comparing three levels of chicken.
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Joshua Weissman
Joshua Weissman is a chef, cookbook author and food creator sharing cooking techniques, fast-food remakes and curious taste tests, with roots in Austin restaurant kitchens.
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An air fryer cheesecake test
Joshua put air fryer cheesecake to the test in a new short.
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A tasting of rare foods from around the world
Joshua released a food tasting video exploring unusual ingredients and dishes from different countries.
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Exotic fruit, with a very young taste tester
Joshua shared a short titled “My baby tries exotic fruit,” bringing a family moment into their food videos.
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Cooking in other YouTubers’ homes
Joshua took their cooking into fellow creators’ homes, asking whether their hosts would enjoy the food.
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Overview
- From
- Los Angeles, California
- Work
- Chef, food creator and cookbook author
- Kitchen roots
- Odd Duck and Uchiko in Austin
- Breakout
- But Better, remaking familiar fast food from scratch
Known for
- Joshua Weissman: Texture Over Taste2023 · Author
DK - Joshua Weissman: An Unapologetic Cookbook2021 · Author
DK - Making the Popeyes chicken sandwich at home, but better2019 · Host and cook
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Mini bio
How it started.
Joshua began cooking with their mother at four. Food styling, recipe writing and the Slim Palate blog came before their first cookbook, The Slim Palate Paleo Cookbook, published in 2014.
From the line to the camera.
Restaurant work at Odd Duck and Uchiko gave Joshua a grounding in professional cooking. They began posting YouTube videos in 2018 while still working at Uchiko, then moved into making videos full time after more than a year.
The food fans came for.
But Better became a defining series, rebuilding familiar fast-food favorites from scratch. Their 2019 Popeyes sandwich video celebrated 500,000 subscribers. Later, An Unapologetic Cookbook reached No. 1 on the New York Times bestseller list, and Texture Over Taste organized recipes around six kinds of texture.
Back to a restaurant.
In September 2026, Joshua opened Ben & Lynn’s in East Austin. Its Texas-style fried chicken menu carries the same attention to technique into a restaurant named for their parents.
Creditschronological, newest first
Cookbooks
- 2023Joshua Weissman: Texture Over TasteAuthor
- 2021Joshua Weissman: An Unapologetic CookbookAuthor
- 2014The Slim Palate Paleo CookbookAuthor
Restaurants
- 2026Ben & Lynn’sChef and founder
Awards
2025 Webby People’s Voice AwardFood & Drink, Individual Creator, in the Creators categories.
Quotes
If you don’t like blue cheese, then don’t use blue cheese.Joshua Weissman, via Penguin Random House
The publisher quotes Joshua while introducing An Unapologetic Cookbook and its invitation to adapt recipes to your own taste.
Trivia
- Their mother’s Sunday fried chicken tradition helped inspire Ben & Lynn’s.
- Asked by Axios to choose a desert-island dessert, Joshua picked mango sticky rice.
- Texture Over Taste includes chapters on crunchy, chewy, aerated, creamy, fluid and fatty textures.
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