768: Hands On Cooking and Hosting with Sohla & Ham El-Waylly and Restaurateur Will Guidara

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

American Public Media

Food, Arts

4.3 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

This week, we have the dynamic duo, Sohla and Ham El-Waylly, hosts of the New York Times Cooking show Mystery Menu joining us to talk about working together, overcoming differences in their cooking styles, and the key to their success as a team. They stick around to answer your cooking questions. Then, restaurateur Will Guidara joins us with advice on how to be a great host. From the importance of “unreasonable” hospitality in the restaurant industry to being intentional in the home and turning thoughtfulness into practice. His new book is Unreasonable Hospitality: The Remarkable Power of Giving People More Than They Expect

Broadcast dates for this episode:

November 4, 2022 (originally aired)
November 10. 2023 (rebroadcast)

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0:00.0	The Splendium Table was supported by Vitamix. You know, there are some essential cooking tools that have spanned generations, cross continents, and found their way into kitchens around the world. I'm thinking of the cast iron pam, the rolling pin, the mortar and pestle. But all of those were innovations at one point, and the high-powered Vitamix blender takes its place in that pantheon.
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1:18.1	Hey, it's Francis. And you know, our good friend, Sola and Whaley, just became a parent. Twice. First, she had a real human baby, and then like a month or so later, she had her book baby.
1:29.4	Her first cookbook, start here. And to help her celebrate, we're bringing back an episode where she and her husband Ham took on some cooking questions and told the absolutely bonker story of how they cooked for their own wedding.
1:42.0	And since it's time to start thinking about hosting for the holidays,
1:45.0	we have restrator Will Godera on how being a great host can be life-changing.
1:49.6	Check it out.
1:53.3	I'm Frances Lamb, and you're listening to The Splendid Table from APM.
2:05.0	So, what's the secret to a good relationship?
2:10.7	All right, you didn't come here for romantic advice, but I do think they're pretty universal answers. One is to really listen to each other, and the other is to make each other laugh.
2:17.2	Later in the show, we'll be talking with Will Godera, who was a co-owner and led the service of
2:22.1	Eleven Madison Park, which was once voted the best restaurant in the world.
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