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We chat with Ted Allen about the soaring success of Queer Eye and Chopped, his life behind the scenes and embarrassing encounters with Martha Stewart. Plus, we explore the new German cooking with Meike Peters; Adam Gopnik discusses the role of turkey in Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol”; and we whip up an apple cake. Get this week's recipe, German Apple Cake: https://www.177milkstreet.com/recipes/german-apple-cake-apfelkuchen Check out our 2019 Holiday roundup: https://www.177milkstreet.com/holidays This week's sponsors: Go to kingarthurflour.com/milkstreet to get 25% off several products. Use promo code MILKSTREET at checkout. Go to fergusonshowrooms.com to browse the Inspiration Gallery and request an appointment. Go to masterclass.com/MILK to buy one All-Access Pass, and get an additional one for free.

Many of us still miss Julia Child, but YouTube star Maangchi is an excellent substitute. Today, we discuss Korean home cooking, the best way to clean an octopus and her favorite food, the sea squirt. Plus, we discover what and how ancient Minoans cooked; Alex Aïnouz wonders if we should all have a 3D printer in our kitchens; and we share our recipe for Savory Bread Pudding. Get this week's recipe: Savory Bread Pudding with Mushrooms, Gruyère and Tarragon Check out our 2019 Holiday roundup. Listen to Sidedoor from the Smithsonian. We want to hear your culinary tips! Share your cooking hacks, secret ingredients or unexpected techniques with us for a chance to hear yourself on Milk Street Radio! Here's how. This week's sponsors: Go to kingarthurflour.com/milkstreet to get 25% off several products. Use promo code MILKSTREET at checkout. Go to fergusonshowrooms.com to browse the Inspiration Gallery and request an appointment. Go to masterclass.com/MILK to buy one All-Access Pass, and get an additional one

In Yotam Ottolenghi's latest book, “Simple,” he focuses on delivering minimal hassle for maximum joy—whole-roasted vegetables topped with crème fraîche, no-bake cheesecake and a new take on salads. This week, we discuss how he keeps things simple, yogurt on everything and the must-have spices for any kitchen. Plus, recipes for a homemade Christmas with Yvette Van Boven; the secret of Taiwan's beef noodle soup; and J. Kenji López-Alt on the science of vinaigrettes. (Originally aired December 21, 2018.) Get this week's recipe: Taiwanese Beef Noodle Soup Check out our 2019 Holiday roundup. We want to hear your culinary tips! Share your cooking hacks, secret ingredients or unexpected techniques with us for a chance to hear yourself on Milk Street Radio! Here's how. This week's sponsors: Go to kingarthurflour.com/milkstreet to get 25% off several products. Use promo code MILKSTREET at checkout. Go to fergusonshowrooms.com to browse the Inspiration Gallery and request an appointment. Visit equalparts.com and

Can your significant other’s food preferences become a nonstarter when searching for marital bliss? Reporter Emily Thomas of “The Food Chain” introduces us to three couples who are learning to make peace despite their domestic culinary wars. Plus, we explore kaiseki with Niki Nakayama and Carole Iida-Nakayama; Dan Pashman rails against avocado toast; and we share our recipe for Chewy Molasses Spice Cookies with Browned Butter Icing, which was inspired by a listener question. Get this week's recipe: Chewy Molasses Spice Cookies with Browned Butter Icing Get our recipe for French Spice Cake (Pain d’épices). Check out our 2019 Holiday roundup. Listen to How to Date a Vegan on The Food Chain. Listen to Sidedoor from the Smithsonian. We want to hear your culinary tips! Share your cooking hacks, secret ingredients or unexpected techniques with us for a chance to hear yourself on Milk Street Radio! Here's how. This week's sponsors: Go to kingarthurflour.com/milkstreet to get 25% off several products. Use pro

This week it’s Thanksgiving Rules: turkey, cranberry sauce and cake versus pie. We chat with Stella Parks about her pumpkin pie secret and a fresh twist on à la mode; Vivian Howard invites us to her kitchen for North Carolina turkey and sides; Alice Waters, Erin French, Joanne Chang, Gonzalo Guzmán and more chefs, authors and friends recount their Thanksgiving tales of disaster, culinary wisdom and family memories; Dr. Aaron Carroll talks food safety and stuffing; we make a quick Cranberry and Candied Ginger Buckle; and Adam Gopnik explores the magic of leftovers. Get this week's recipe: Cranberry and Candied Ginger Buckle. Check out our 2019 Thanksgiving roundup. We want to hear your culinary tips! Share your cooking hacks, secret ingredients or unexpected techniques with us for a chance to hear yourself on Milk Street Radio! Here's how. This week's sponsors: Go to kingarthurflour.com/milkstreet to get 25% off several products. Use promo code MILKSTREET at checkout. Go to masterclass.com/MILK for $30 o

Vicky Bennison takes us behind the scenes of Pasta Grannies, her YouTube channel that documents Italian grandmothers making pasta the old-fashioned way. Plus, Robin Russell Gaiser tells us about her years-long endeavor of asking perfect strangers to lunch; Alex Aïnouz attempts to make a 1-million layer puff pastry; and we serve up Portuguese-Style Sweet Potato Rolls. For this week's recipe, Portuguese-Style Sweet Potato Rolls, visit: https://www.177milkstreet.com/recipes/portuguese-style-sweet-potato-rolls Go to http://177milkstreet.com/thanksgiving for free access to our 2019 Thanksgiving roundup We want to hear your culinary tips! Share your cooking hacks, secret ingredients or unexpected techniques with us for a chance to hear yourself on Milk Street Radio! Here's how: https://www.177milkstreet.com/radiotips This week's sponsors: Go to kingarthurflour.com/milkstreet to get 25% off several products. Use promo code MILKSTREET at checkout. Go to https://www.fergusonshowrooms.com to browse the Inspiratio

Grant Barrett and Martha Barnette, hosts of the radio show “A Way With Words,” join us to explore the language of food. They discuss why some restaurant servers ask “Will you be wanting anything else?”—instead of simply “Do you want anything else?” And they explain phrases that seemingly don’t make a lot of sense, such as “in a pickle.” Plus, master spice blender Lior Lev Sercarz teaches us how to transform a meal using spices; we learn the step-by-step rules to perfect curry; and Adam Gopnik ponders climate change and the future of wine. For this week's recipe, Potato and Green Pea Curry, visit: https://www.177milkstreet.com/recipes/potato-green-pea-curry-aloo-matar Go to http://177milkstreet.com/thanksgiving for free access to our 2019 Thanksgiving roundup We want to hear your culinary tips! Share your cooking hacks, secret ingredients or unexpected techniques with us for a chance to hear yourself on Milk Street Radio! Here's how: https://www.177milkstreet.com/radiotips This week's sponsors: Go to king

The Chez Panisse founder discusses the early days of the historic Berkeley institution and the power of taste to change lives. Plus, our trip to Sicily for the real Pasta con Fagioli; Jerrelle Guy talks “Black Girl Baking”; and Dan Pashman of The Sporkful performs an on-air experiment about sound and taste. (Originally aired October 25, 2018.) For this week's recipe, Paste con Fagioli, visit: https://www.177milkstreet.com/recipes/pasta-con-fagioli We want to hear your culinary tips! Share your cooking hacks, secret ingredients or unexpected techniques with us for a chance to hear yourself on Milk Street Radio! Here's how: https://www.177milkstreet.com/radiotips This week's sponsors: Go to kingarthurflour.com/milkstreet to get 25% off several products. Use promo code MILKSTREET at checkout. Go to https://www.fergusonshowrooms.com to browse the Inspiration Gallery and request an appointment. Visit equalparts.com and get $50 off any cookware kit over $200 with code MILK. Visit ThreeDayPodcast.com for buy 1

Angie Mar, co-owner and chef at the Beatrice Inn, introduces us to her world, a restaurant that cooks more animals than vegetables. We discuss smuggling beef, bone-marrow crème brûlée and her most polarizing dish—a 160-day whiskey-aged tomahawk rib-eye steak, which sells for more than $700. Plus, we learn about a society of beer can collectors; we share our recipe for Tunisian Chickpeas with Swiss Chard; and Dan Pashman tells us how grown-ups can get more out of Halloween. Share your Thanksgiving memories with us for a chance to hear yourself on Milk Street Radio! Here's how: 177milkstreet.com/thanksgivingmemories For this week’s recipe, Tunisian Chickpeas with Swiss Chard, visit: https://www.177milkstreet.com/recipes/tunisian-chickpeas For Deborah Ager's full story on beer can collectors, visit: https://narratively.com/they-meet-up-in-motels-across-americato-trade-old-beer-cans/ This week's sponsors: Go to https://www.fergusonshowrooms.com to browse the Inspiration Gallery and request an appointment. G

Rachael Ray tells Milk Street how she almost killed Tony Bennett, set fire to Emeril’s kitchen, endured wardrobe malfunctions and why she still believes in the power and dignity of hard work. Plus, Brooke Jarvis takes us behind the $10 million launch of a new apple variety; we learn Sardinia’s secret to five-minute handmade pasta; and Dr. Aaron Carroll reveals the health effects of chocolate. For this week’s recipe, Fregola with Herbs and Pecorino, visit: 177milkstreet.com/recipes/herbs-pecorino-fregola Share your Thanksgiving memories with us for a chance to hear yourself on Milk Street Radio! Here's how: 177milkstreet.com/thanksgivingmemories This week's sponsors: Go to kingarthurflour.com/milkstreet to get 25% off several products. Use promo code MILKSTREET at checkout. Go to masterclass.com/MILK for $30 off your first year of the All-Access Pass. Visit ThreeDayPodcast.com for buy 1 get 1 50% off on select treatments and use promotion code MILK. Or, you can give 3 Day Blinds a call at [1-877-914-5439

This week, we visit the unglamorous world of catering, where Matt and Ted Lee immersed themselves for four years. Behind the canapés, flower displays and dessert trains, the two brothers reveal chaos, extreme conditions and crazy makeshift kitchens. Plus, food anthropologist Valerie Gordon resurrects long-lost desserts from legendary restaurants. And we make Nadine Redzepi’s Danish Dream Cake. For this week’s recipe, Danish Dream Cake, visit: https://www.177milkstreet.com/recipes/danish-dream-cake We want to hear your culinary tips! Share your cooking hacks, secret ingredients or unexpected techniques with us for a chance to hear yourself on Milk Street Radio! Here's how: https://www.177milkstreet.com/radiotips This week's sponsors:\ Go to https://www.fergusonshowrooms.com/to browse the Inspiration Gallery and request an appointment. \ Come in during the Fall Sale where a Queen Sleep Number 360 smart bed is now only $1,399. You’ll only find Sleep Number at one of their 600 Sleep Number stores nationwide.

Ronni Lundy, author of “Victuals,” eats her way through Appalachia. Also on this week's show: Mark Kurlansky reveals the shocking, often deadly history of milk; we travel to Genoa to uncover the authentic recipe for Pesto Genovese; and Dr. Aaron Carroll talks trans fats and health. (Originally published October 18, 2018.) For this week’s recipe, Pesto alla Genovese, visit: https://www.177milkstreet.com/recipes/pesto-alla-genovese We want to hear your culinary tips! Share your cooking hacks, secret ingredients or unexpected techniques with us for a chance to hear yourself on Milk Street Radio! Here's how: https://www.177milkstreet.com/radiotips

This week, writer Dave Stroup takes us inside the Academy Awards of water, tasting water that is infused with the “frequency of love” and the “pulsations of the universe.” Plus, filmmaker David Gelb talks “Jiro Dreams of Sushi” and Netflix’s “Chef’s Table”; we share our recipe for a coconut milk rice pudding; and Dan Pashman asks one of the most pressing questions of our time—should the pizza emoji have pepperoni on it? For this week's recipe, Coconut Rice Pudding, visit: https://www.177milkstreet.com/recipes/coconut-rice-pudding We want to hear your culinary tips! Share your cooking hacks, secret ingredients or unexpected techniques with us for a chance to hear yourself on Milk Street Radio! Here's how: https://www.177milkstreet.com/radiotips This week's sponsor: Visit https://www.kingarthurflour.com/milkstreet to get 25% off several products. Use promo code milkstreet.

Every day, zoo chef Stacy Kyles prepares breakfast, lunch and dinner for 600 animals at the Oakland Zoo. This week, we chat about how she feeds the pickiest eaters, how she celebrates birthdays at the zoo and what everyone eats—from watermelon-licking lions to smoothie-guzzling primates. Plus, we discover Tokyo’s Neapolitan pizza scene; we make a Greek-style risotto; and Dr. Aaron Carroll demystifies the latest study on eggs and health. For this week's recipe, Tomato Rice with Oregano and Feta, visit: https://www.177milkstreet.com/recipes/tomato-rice We want to hear your culinary tips! Share your cooking hacks, secret ingredients or unexpected techniques with us for a chance to hear yourself on Milk Street Radio! Here's how: https://www.177milkstreet.com/radiotips This week's sponsors: Learn about Red Boat and find recipes at https://redboatfishsauce.com. Enter code MILK during checkout for free shipping. Go to https://masterclass.com/MILK for $30 off your first year of the All-Access Pass.

Following a tumultuous year, Erin French returned to her hometown of Freedom, Maine to open what is now one of the most exclusive restaurants in America, where the ingredients can be found in the garden, the waitlist is in the tens of thousands and the menu is always a surprise. Plus, we explore the pumpkin spice lifestyle; we make dump and stir Spanish Almond Cake; and Dr. Aaron Carroll explains the truth about fish and mercury. (Originally aired September 14, 2018.) For this week's recipe, Spanish Almond Cake, visit: https://www.177milkstreet.com/recipes/spanish-almond-cake-tarta-de-santiago We want to hear your culinary tips! Share your cooking hacks, secret ingredients or unexpected techniques with us for a chance to hear yourself on Milk Street Radio! Here's how: https://www.177milkstreet.com/radiotips

Journalist Bianca Bosker takes us inside the high-end world of wine, from the big-money wine service at Michelin-starred restaurants to the grueling task of a blind tasting. Plus, we meet Bala Paiva, a Brazilian pro soccer player turned pro fish cutter; we discuss sous vide and the pursuit of culinary perfection with Alex Aïnouz; and we make Stir-Fried Black Pepper Chicken with Green Beans. For this week's recipe, Stir-Fried Black Pepper Chicken with Green Beans, visit: https://www.177milkstreet.com/recipes/stir-fried-black-pepper-chicken-green-beans-cambodia We want to hear your culinary tips! Share your cooking hacks, secret ingredients or unexpected techniques with us for a chance to hear yourself on Milk Street Radio! Here's how: https://www.177milkstreet.com/radiotips

Dan Pashman of The Sporkful brings us the story of Rocky Aoki, a Japanese immigrant who created hibachi restaurants in America when he opened his first Benihana in 1964. We hear from people who knew Rocky, see the skill it takes to be a great hibachi chef and look at what happens when the performance becomes problematic.

This week, Adam Conover, host of the truTV series “Adam Ruins Everything,” challenges the myth of killer Halloween candy, bogus detox diets and the ethics of buying avocados. Plus, David Burtka transforms parties into events; we throw together an amazing Andalusian Tomato and Bread Soup; and Adam Gopnik stumbles across the perfect meal on vacation in Greece. For this week's recipe, Andalusian Tomato and Bread Soup, visit: https://www.177milkstreet.com/recipes/rich-tomato-toasted-bread-soup-bacon-prosciutto-salmorejo We want to hear your culinary tips! Share your cooking hacks, secret ingredients or unexpected techniques with us for a chance to hear yourself on Milk Street Radio! Here's how: https://www.177milkstreet.com/radiotips This week's sponsors: Visit http://www.madeincookware.com/MILK and use promo code MILK for 15% off your first purchase. Scholarships at the New England Culinary Institute are still available for the Fall 2019 semester. Apply today or learn more at www.NECI.edu.

Travel Channel host Andrew Zimmern has visited more than 170 countries in search of bizarre foods and fascinating people. We chat with him about coconut grubs, barbecued lizards and the happiest man on earth. Plus, we travel to Nablus and discover what may be the world’s best tahini; Dan Pashman ponders the etiquette of salt; and we make our new favorite dessert, Vivian Howard’s Sweet Fresh Corn Pudding.\ For this week's recipe, Sweet Fresh Corn Pudding, visit: https://www.177milkstreet.com/recipes/sweet-fresh-corn-pudding-souffle\ Milk Street Radio Listener Survey: Visit http://177milkstreet.com/radiosurvey to fill out our listener survey and enter for a chance to win a $100 gift card at the Milk Street online store.\ This week's sponsors: Learn about Red Boat and find recipes at https://redboatfishsauce.com. Enter code MILK during checkout for free shipping.\ Go to https://masterclass.com/MILK for $30 off your first year of the All-Access Pass.