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Milk Street's My Family Recipe
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Christopher Kimball
Christopher Kimball is the founder of Milk Street, a food media company dedicated to traveling the world to learn bolder, easier ways to cook at home. Milk Street produces the bimonthly Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Magazine, as well as Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio, a weekly public radio show and podcast heard on over 230 stations nationwide. Kimball is also host of public television’s Emmy Award-winning Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television. Milk Street also offers online and in-person culinary education, including nonprofit work with Big Brothers Big Sisters and Boys & Girls Clubs, and publishes cookbooks including “Milk Street: Tuesday Nights,” a James Beard Award-winner for Best General Cookbook. Milk Street’s online store sources spices and ingredients from around the world as well as kitchen tools and cookware. Chris is also the author of “Fannie’s Last Supper,” “The Yellow Farmhouse Cookbook,” “The Cook’s Bible,” “The Dessert Bible,” “The Kitchen Detective” and “Dear Charlie.”
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Cheryl Day
Cheryl Day is a New York Times bestselling cookbook author, a James Beard Award semifinalist for Outstanding Pastry Chef, a self-taught scratch baker, and an entrepreneur. With her husband, Griffith Day, she is a cofounder of the Back in the Day Bakery in Savannah, Georgia, and coauthor of “The Back in the Day Bakery Cookbook.” Her first solo cookbook, ”Cheryl Day’s Treasury of Southern Baking,” was published in 2021. Cheryl is a cofounder of Southern Restaurants for Racial Justice and a founding member of the leadership committee for the James Beard Foundation Investment Fund for Black and Indigenous Americans. Cheryl lives with Griff, her baking soul mate; Story, their beloved dog; and a vast collection of vintage cookbooks in Savannah. Keep up with Cheryl at backinthedaybakery.com and on Instagram at @cherylday, where she lives out her mantra to “slow down and enjoy the sweet life.”
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Wes Martin
Wes Martin is an accomplished cook, writer, producer, stylist and food media professional. Currently, as Culinary Manager for Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street, he oversees the culinary staff, facility and content creation for books, magazines and video. He has worked with many of the biggest names in the television and food publishing world including Rachael Ray, Martha Stewart, Tyler Florence, Paula Deen, Jacques Torres, Jamie Oliver and Nigella Lawson. He is a consultant, recipe developer, tester for major publishing houses and the author of three cookbooks. Wes has produced, hosted and styled cooking segments for cable and network television lifestyle media shows and spent two years as Martha Stewart’s kitchen manager and TV chef on her daytime talk show, which premiered in 2004.
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Diane Unger
Diane Unger has been in the food industry for over 40 years and has worked for Christopher Kimball for over 20. She started working at Milk Street in 2016 as a Senior Recipe Developer and is currently the Director of Recipe Development. Diane develops recipes for the magazine, books and TV shows.
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Rose Hattabaugh
Rose Hattabaugh followed Christopher Kimball from his first publication. She volunteered at Milk Street's Cooking School for over six months before hearing the kitchen was looking for some help. Rose has since moved up to a Milk Street recipe developer! Her influences include the homegrown dinners of her childhood, Julia Child and The Cake Bible by Rose Levy Beranbaum.
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Fairlight de Michele - Home Cook
Fairlight de Michele is a photographer who lives in Oakland, CA with her husband and two teenagers. Fairlight came to Milk Street with the hopes of recreating her Grandma Erna’s noodle kugel. Grandma Erna is a Holocaust survivor born in Poland and her rich and creamy kugel blessed most holiday tables. Fairlight has tried to make this savory dish in the past with subpar results, so she’s turning to Milk Street for help.
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Karen Clay - Home Cook
Karen Clay lives in Johns Creek, GA with her husband and two of her three children. Her parents were originally from the south but made their way to the Los Angeles area where she grew up. She remembers her time living around the corner from her maternal grandmother, Margaret, spending the hours before and after school watching her in her kitchen while her parents were at work. One of her favorite food memories is of her grandmother’s coconut layer cake, which she hopes Milk Street will be able to recreate so she can pass it down to her daughter.
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Marie Griffin - Home Cook
Marie Griffin was born in Washington, D.C. but has moved around throughout her adult life. She currently lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two daughters close by. Growing up, Marie developed an interest in baking and as her children grew, she started taking baking classes, eventually opening bakeries in the various places where she lives. Heavily influenced by her French-Canadian heritage, Marie is hoping to top her homemade bread with a family favorite pork spread called Gorton that was served over the holidays, but she can’t figure it out. Can Milk Street?
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Linda White - Home Cook
Linda White lives with her husband in Fort Washington, PA, an area where members of her family have lived since 1698. Linda is a personal chef and has worked in and around food her entire life. She was raised by her grandmother who collected recipes in a book and would attribute them to whomever she received them from. Included is a handwritten recipe for her neighbor Adena’s hot milk sponge cake. Unfortunately, the ingredients were not all in their proper order and there were no instructions for how to make them. She turned to Milk Street for help.
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Royce Tanaka - Home Cook
Royce Tanaka is originally from Hawaii, but currently lives in Fresno, CA with his wife Terri. Royce is a Chaplain with the Kaiser Permanente Medical Center. His grandfather, Masao Teruya, was born in the Territory of Hawaii and served in the US Army as a Tech 4 in WW2. After the war, he enrolled in the first class to attend the baking program at the Honolulu Vocational School, leading him to open a handful of bakeries where Royce’s family all worked and where his grandfather made everything by heart. Royce is hoping Milk Street will be able to recreate his grandfather's famous butter rolls so he can share them with his family who are coming into town for a visit.
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Sapna Pandya - Home Cook
Sapna Pandya lives in Washington, D.C. with her wife and daughter. Her family has lived in the DC-Maryland area since the 1950s when her Great Aunt moved there from Gujarat in western India. Sapna has memories of coming home from school to see the kitchen table, counter and floor space all absolutely covered with rolled out, cumin-accented, flattened pieces of turmeric-colored dough. These little circles of dough had been laid out to dry, lovingly (and painstakingly) pierced all over with her grandmother's nails to prevent them from puffing up when they were fried. Sapna hopes Milk Street will be able to recreate this family favorite snack, crunchy poori, and bring back those fond memories of her grandmother.
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Teryluz Andreu - Home Cook
Teryluz Andreu and her siblings grew up in a small beach town called Humacao in southeastern Puerto Rico. Despite Tery’s mother’s busy schedule, she was committed to providing her family with home-cooked meals and was a generous hostess during family celebrations and holidays. Tery recently moved to Miami from Chicago to be closer to her mother and sisters and sadly, Tery’s mother passed away in 2019. She is hoping Milk Street will be able to help her bring back the holiday pork dish her mother often prepared, pérnil al caldero.
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Melissa Long - Home Cook
When Melissa Long moved from Cincinnati to Las Vegas in the early 2000s, she worked in a casino with Tatiana, a friend from outside of Prague. Occasionally, Tatiana prepared a rustic, comforting soup that included pork ribs, smoked Polish sausage, sauerkraut, mushrooms and potatoes. “She never used a recipe,” Melissa recalled. “It was from her memories growing up on her parents’ farm.” These kinds of simple, hearty foods were familiar to Melissa from her childhood. Melissa was raised by her grandparents, who cooked frugal, German-style dishes like sausages and sauerkraut. It’s been 10 years since she’s attempted to make the soup and is hoping Milk Street can help her re-create it.
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Tim Donovan - Home Cook
Tim Donovan is a retired lawyer currently living in Huntington, NY with his wife Marie and his youngest son. His eldest son and daughter and their young grandchildren live nearby. Tim has fond memories of his mother cooking for his family growing up and wants to share those memories with his children by recreating his family’s calzone inspired by their Italian heritage. He’s tried to make the calzone in the past, but the crust is always too doughy. His daughter has started a family cookbook and Tim would love to include this recipe in it.
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Jessica Costantini - Home Cook
Jessica Costantini of Toronto, Ohio, has fond memories of her maternal grandmother’s Christmas popovers. She still recalls the aroma of them baking in the blackened, well-worn muffin tins that her grandmother used. “They were crisp on the outside and soft on the inside, with air pockets of steamy, buttery dough.” Split open then filled with her grandmother’s tender beef in cream sauce, the popovers were part of a rich, comforting meal. When Jessica attempted to replicate those popovers, hers ended up burned on the outside, and the insides were either too doughy or dry. So she turned to Milk Street for assistance.
