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Episode 712
White House Noshes: What Presidents Really Eat
May 19, 2023
This week, we go into the White House with Alex Prud’homme to hear culinary stories from presidential history.
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Ottolenghi's Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious Desserts (Rerun)
This week on Milk Street Radio, we talk to chef Yotam Ottolenghi about his new book, Sweet: Desserts from London's Ottolenghi. Also, former Eater.com Editor Helen Rosner on what's hot...
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Harvard and The Chef: How Joanne Chang used Applied Mathematics to Build a Baking Empire
This week on Milk Street Radio, Joanne Chang discusses building her baking empire, we interview Brad Leone, star of Bon Appétit's "Its Alive with Brad”; introduce our recipe for Salmon...
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149
The French Revolution: Paris Unveils New Bistros, New Menus, and New Chefs
This week, Lindsey Tramuta on the New Paris cuisine; we take a pilgrimage to India; offer a new recipe for Marmalade Bundt Cake; and wine expert Stephen Meuse has tips...
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139
The Sheepherder's Ball: Basque Cooking in America (Rerun)
The Kitchen Sisters report on the secret history and food of Basque sheepherders in America; our recipe for French apple cake; and the difference between mass-produced and artisanal wines.
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148
Kaukasis: The Secret Recipes of Georgia, Azerbaijan and Beyond
The amazing food of Georgia with Olia Hercules; Milk Street's top 10 cookbooks of the year; porchetta comes home; and dressing up the holiday table with Athena Calderone.
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147
The Three-Star Soup Kitchen
Italian chef Massimo Bottura feeds the world; Rebecca Douglas talks ARFID—an eating disorder that has nothing to do with body image; our recipe for ricotta cheesecake; and the New Yorker's...
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146
The Poison Squad: In 1902, Why do 12 Volunteers Eat Poison with Every Meal?
A man named Harvey Washington Wiley conducts an experiment in 1902 asking volunteers to eat meals spiked with poison, which leads to the founding of the FDA; Milk Street's recipe...
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126
BBQ Adventure: Heat and Meat in Gugulethu, Cape Town (Rerun)
This week, we travel to Cape Town, South Africa, for insane barbecue; Melissa Clark rethinks how to cook at home; poet Nikki Giovanni remembers her grandparents' rack of lamb recipe...
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145
Thanksgiving Special: From Calcutta to Make-Ahead Mashed
This week on Milk Street Radio's Thanksgiving Special, reporter Sandip Roy desperately seeks turkey in Calcutta, Dan Pashman of The Sporkful on Thanksgiving anxiety; holiday call-ins with Sara Moulton; the...
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144
Why Does Bread Rise? Nathan Myhrvold on Bread Science
This week on Milk Street Radio, Nathan Myrvold talks his new book Modernist Bread, Robyn Eckhardt delivers a quick weeknight meal from Istanbul, a new spin on mashed potatoes, and...
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143
Ottolenghi's Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious Desserts
This week on Milk Street Radio, we talk to chef Yotam Ottolenghi about his new book, Sweet: Desserts from London's Ottolenghi. Also, former Eater.com Editor Helen Rosner on what's hot...
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142
The Amazon/Whole Foods Revolution
Whole Foods CEO & Founder John Mackey on the future of supermarkets, we travel to Dawson City in Yukon, Canada, to try the sourtoe cocktail (a drink garnished with a...
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134
The New York Times’ Kim Severson on Paula Deen, Alton Brown and Thomas Keller (Rerun)
This week on Milk Street Radio, Kim Severson of The New York Times interviews famous foodies; author Crystal King explores the food of ancient Rome; Milk Street margaritas; Christopher Kimball's...
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141
The Quick Palestine Cook: Bold, Easy, Fresh
Reem Kassis brings us quick and easy weeknight cooking from Palestine; our tip for peeling ginger; we travel to India to try medicinal camel's milk; and J. Kenji López-Alt reveals...
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140
David Lebovitz: An American in Paris
David Lebovitz buys an apartment in Paris (and barely survives the experience); our recipe for light, bright Cape Malay curry; we discover momo, spicy Nepalese dumplings; and Dan Pashman of...
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130
NPR’s Ari Shapiro Eats the World (Rerun)
Ari Shapiro eats everything, podcasting chocolate with Simran Sethi of the Slow Melt, the New Yorker's Adam Gopnik on staging food, plus our tips for using the different types of...
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139
The Sheepherder's Ball: Basque Cooking in America
The Kitchen Sisters report on the secret history and food of Basque sheepherders in America; our recipe for French apple cake; and the difference between mass-produced and artisanal wines.
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138
Beyond Baklava: The Real Turkish Cooking
This week, we get a culinary tour of Turkey with food writer Robyn Eckhardt from her new book, Istanbul and Beyond; San Antonio food critic Mike Sutter eats a taco...
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137
What She Ate: From Eva Braun to Helen Gurley Brown
Laura Shapiro investigates the foodways of famous women, from Eleanor Roosevelt to Eva Braun; we travel to Okinawa, Japan, for Blue Seal Ice Cream; we visit Istanbul for the best...
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124
The World of Food According to David Leite (Rerun)
This week, David Leite analyzes himself, plus reporter Linni Kral of the Atlantic explains naturally lactose-free milk, Dr. Aaron Carroll explains why Meals on Wheels works, and our recipe for...
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136
Ramen Rock: Cult Band Shonen Knife Sings about Food, Not Love
This week, NPR's Maria Godoy reports on pop-punk band Shonen Knife; Milk Street travels to Taipei, to a cooking school that teaches street food; our recipe for shaved zucchini salad...
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135
Beyoncé, Saffron and the New Women Farmers of Afghanistan
This week on Milk Street Radio, Kimberly Jung of Rumi Spice talks saffron, the new Afghan crop; Meathead Goldwyn on barbecue ribs; J. Kenji López-Alt makes a case for the...
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134
The New York Times’ Kim Severson on Paula Deen, Alton Brown and Thomas Keller
This week on Milk Street Radio, Kim Severson of The New York Times interviews famous foodies; author Crystal King explores the food of ancient Rome; Milk Street margaritas; Christopher Kimball's...
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123
Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: The Elements of Good Cooking (Rerun)
This week on Milk Street Radio, the science of how to cook with Samin Nosrat, Dan Pashman of the Sporkful podcast weighs in on the burgers of the future, a...
