Hello everyone! Welcome to the Lazy Genius Podcast. I am Kendra Adachi and I'm

here to help you be a genius about things that matter and lazy about the

things that don't. This is episode 305 Dinner Permission with Ali Slagall.

Ali Slagall is a food writer for the New York Times. She is a cookbook author of

one of my favorite cookbooks in the whole entire world, I dream of dinner, and

she is a delight. We just finished our interview and I'm recording the

Central right now and I'm like on Cloud9 because she speaks such a beautiful

lazy genius language and she also makes delicious food and it's just a

delightful personal around. So I cannot wait for you to listen to this episode

Dinner Permission with Ali Slagall. Hi Ali! Hi good morning! This is so exciting!

I'm so excited to meet you! I'm such a fan! I'm so excited! My husband was on the

New York Times food Instagram account last night just like hanging out and one

of your real started and I was like I get to talk to her tomorrow! I'm doing

tomorrow! He's a middle school counselor, my job is way more fun than his it!

Oh wow bless him! I'm so excited that we get to have a car version! I feel

like they've played! Gosh you guys this is Ali Slagall. Ali is the author of

I Dream of Dinner which is listen. So I love recipes, I love cookbooks, I love

flipping through them. I rarely cook from them because I don't like following

really detailed instructions and when I got your book and I started reading and

I was like I have never read a cookbook that cooks the way I cook that's

telling me to make food the way that I love to make food it was like a

revelation it was a revelation. I'm like shaking inside just hearing that it

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