719: Back to Baking with Lisa Donovan and Anissa Helou
The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters
American Public Media
4.3 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 17 September 2021
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Here’s hoping that the heat of summer is behind us as we fire up our ovens with baking experts from the American South and the Middle East
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| 0:47.9 | Hey, it's Francis. |
| 0:49.4 | You know, since we're all in on fall cooking again, it's time to get back to baking, too. |
| 0:55.5 | Have a listen to this episode from last year featuring two amazing bakers. I'm Frances Lamb, and this is the Splendid |
| 1:10.6 | Table from APM. |
| 1:11.6 | So, you may have heard me make this confession before, but I'm really not much of a baker. |
| 1:25.6 | Cooking, you know, cooking I always got, because cooking seemed to be something that you can do in the fly. You know, you work on instinct, you add this, you taste it, you add more of that. And baking to me always seemed so technical or precise, or if I'm really honest, kind of boring, you know, you got to add two cups of this, |
| 1:44.9 | exactly two cups, you stir, you put it in the oven, you hope for the best. |
| 1:47.9 | But the more I learned about the two, the more I realized, you know, that isn't entirely right. |
| 1:54.4 | You know, the best cooking, of course, can be highly precise, and the best bakers are all |
| 1:59.4 | about intuition and feeling. And, you know, not to get too |
| 2:03.7 | woo-woo, but some of the most intuitive, like deep-feeling, emotionally astute people I know |
| 2:11.3 | are bakers, or pastry chefs or sweet makers, call them what you will. And today, we dig into the craft and art |
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