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Hello and welcome to Science Sort of. This is episode 346 and I'm your host Ryan and joining me to talk about things that are science, things that are sort of science and things that wish they were science is a special guest that I'll introduce in just a minute, but you'll probably be able to guess it when I tell you the theme, which is Kenji and the Indestructible Functional No Fool and Very Versatile Walk. Can you tell that I've

been reading a lot of kids books lately? Yeah, this episode we are super excited to be joined by

Jay Kenji Lopez Alt, who is a cookbook author and YouTuber and his most most recent book is The Walk recipes and techniques.

And he calls it an introduction to the most versatile pan in your kitchen.

So I'm going to go ahead and jump straight into that interview now.

We had a great discussion.

It was really fun to talk to him.

He's somebody I've been hoping to have on the show for a very long time. And as I

joke about in the interview, I've learned in the course of doing this show that the best way to

get someone on the show when you want to talk to them is wait until they have a book come out.

And that's what I did. I pounced. I'm glad I did. Enjoy part one of my discussion with Kenji, I'll pop in for a quick beverage in the middle, and then we'll head over to part two. So here's part one.

Jay Kenji Lopez-Alt is the James Beard Award-winning author of the Food Lab, Better Home

Cooking Through Science, based on his long run column on seriesheets.com, which is a site that I use

all the time, as well as the children's book, Every Night is Pizza Night, which I'm looking forward to reading to my son when he's old enough. And he currently writes for The New York Times and makes cooking videos on YouTube where he has over

1 million subscribers. His latest book, The Walk, recipes and techniques, invites you to get to know

the most versatile pan in your kitchen.

Kenji, thanks for coming on the show.

Yeah, thanks for having me.

Before I ask you any questions, I'm going to tell you a brief story and all my listeners just rolled their eyes, but it'll give you a sense of maybe not my bona fides as a walk user, but a very funny mistake that I made one time.

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