741: Pizza: Origin, Culture and Making It with Nathan Myhrvold
The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters
American Public Media
4.3 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 August 2024
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
This week, we take a deep dive into pizza with the co-author of the voluminous Modernist Pizza, Nathan Myhrvold. We get into the history, culture, and techniques behind great pizza. We hear stories from his worldwide travels and deep dives into pizza cultures and traditions. Plus, we hear about the culinary lab research devoted to making the best pizza ever, and he sticks around to answer your pizza-making questions. He is the founder of the Modernist Cuisine Lab. Then, we tune into our Family Kitchen series and hear from Journalist Liana Aghajanian about her childhood visits to Chuck E. Cheese and how she felt it was a magical food portal to America.
Broadcast dates for this episode:
- September 24, 2021 (originally aired)
- September 30, 2022 (rebroadcast)
- August 23, 2024 (rebroadcast)
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| 1:19.4 | Hey, it's Francis. |
| 1:21.1 | I love pizza. |
| 1:23.1 | You love pizza. |
| 1:24.2 | But I bet you don't know anyone who loves pizza enough to write a four-volume book on pizza on every style and technique of pizza making that can fit in 1,708 pages. |
| 1:33.6 | And that is just part of this episode from a few years back all about pizza. |
| 1:37.4 | Check it out. |
| 1:40.6 | I'm Francis Lamb. |
| 1:41.8 | You're listening to The Splendid Table from APM. |
| 1:46.5 | You know, I was going to try to do with this clever, interesting, discursive introduction to our show this week, but you know what? It's about pizza. |
| 1:55.3 | That's all I have to say. We're going to talk about pizza for the entire episode, and it's going to be awesome, |
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