727: Cooking by Feel with Vivian Howard & Nik Sharma

The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters

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Arts, Food

4.2 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

When it comes to cooking, do you follow a recipe to a T, or do you do a little improv? This week, we learn a lot about cooking by feel with the star of the Peabody and Emmy-award-winning show A Chef’s Life, Vivian Howard. She talks to Francis about how she “deprogrammed’ herself from precision cooking and started thinking outside of a written recipe. Plus, she sticks around to help answer your cooking questions. Vivian’s latest book is This Will Make It Taste Good. Then, we take advice from the scientist-turned-cook Nik Sharma, author of The Flavor Equation, on how to be intuitive with our food.

Broadcast dates for this episode:

January 22, 2021 (originally aired)

January 28, 2022 (rebroadcast)

November 1, 2024 (rebroadcast)

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0:48.8	Hey, it's Francis.
0:50.3	You know how some people are like, well, I like to cook, but I don't like to bake? And if you ask them, why, you know, nine times out of ten, they'll tell you it's because they can kind of wing it with cooking, but they hate having to follow a recipe when baking. Well, we were thinking about the wing it thing, because lots of people don't really know how to do that. So we wanted to find out how a couple of
1:11.1	great cooks started to learn how to do that. So we got to Vivian Howard and Nick Sharma,
1:16.1	and I think you're going to want to learn to cook like them too. Check it out. I'm Frances Lamb,
1:22.8	and this is The Splendid Table from APM.
1:34.3	Hey, can I tell you something that will probably make you think less of me?
1:37.3	I hate the movie Ratatouille.
1:38.9	Absolutely hate it.
1:40.2	We'll never watch it again.
1:41.3	I don't want my kid to see it.
1:43.2	And it's because... Well, first of all, it's because I just
1:44.9	can't stand Cyrano de Bergerac type stories because I always feel so angry at the world that true
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