775: Home Cooking with Gavin Kaysen
The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters
American Public Media
4.3 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2024
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
This week, we talk about home cooking with Minneapolis chef Gavin Kaysen. He tells us how he finds a balance between cooking at home and cooking at a restaurant and writing his latest cookbook, aptly titled, At Home. He shares tips for making the cooking process less stressful and how to think about it as an enjoyment versus a task. He leaves us with one of his family's favorite recipes: Spatchcock Chicken with North African Spices, Sweet Potato Hash, and Broccolini. Plus, he sticks around to answer your cooking questions.
Broadcast dates for this episode:
- February 17, 2023 (originally aired)
- February 2016, (rebroadcast)
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| 1:17.4 | Hey, it's Francis. |
| 1:19.2 | You know, if you're a bricklayer, you probably don't go home after work looking to put up a new wall. |
| 1:24.4 | So why do people think chefs go home and make breakfast, lunch, and dinner |
| 1:28.9 | every day? Because they really don't. Well, unless you're my friend Gavin Kaysen, he's kind of built |
| 1:36.1 | different. Check out this long, delicious conversation we had last year about home cooking. |
| 1:43.7 | I'm Frances Lamb, and this is the splendid table from APF. |
| 1:55.7 | So there's an old joke among restaurant cooks about cooking at home. |
| 1:59.6 | The first step of every recipe is to get your |
| 2:02.0 | shoes out of the oven. I guess that's a joke really about the kind of closet space that line cooks |
| 2:06.2 | usually have at home, but obviously it is a testament to how seldom they really make food at home. |
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