“I’m not opposed to tofu,” Shawn Podgurski says. “I’m just not a big fan.” The DonerMen food truck chef—he identifies as “a real meat-and-potatoes guy”—was initially stumped when Jeff Wang of the Yum Dum Truck challenged him to create a dish with the pressed soybean curd. Soy-based products, he says, are often used as substitutes for his favorite ingredients to eat and to work with: meat, heavy cream, butter. “I don’t really like to substitute,” he says.
“Best Druid Pie I’ve ever had,” he says.