780: Spring Cookbook Roundup
The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters
American Public Media
4.3 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 26 April 2024
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
This week, we are celebrating the spring cookbooks of 2023! First, we talk with Chef Lara Lee about her approach to flavorful meals using iconic Asian ingredients from her pantry, including recipes for her stellar Tom Yum Bloody Mary and Sambal Patatas Bravas - crispy potatoes topped with a sambal spiced tomato mixture and a bit of mayo! Addictive! Her latest book is A Splash of Soy. Then, we get deep into flavor combinations with Niki Segnit, author of The Flavor Thesaurus. She talks us through surprising flavor combinations that will inspire and expand your home cooking adventures. Then, we talk African home cooking with Lerato Umah-Shaylor, author of Africana, and her delicious recipes filled with traditional and modern flavors of African cuisine. From yassa butter to bejeweled aromatic fried rice and her delicious Akà rà ; deep fried bean fritters with ginger & spring onions.
Broadcast dates for this episode:
- May 12, 2023 (originally aired)
- April 26, 2024 (rebroadcast)
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| 1:17.4 | Hey, it's Francis. You know, the episode we did last year celebrating the cookbooks of the spring |
| 1:22.3 | still has us buzzing from an exciting book on modern African food to the flavor-packed home cooking of a Chinese-Indonesian-Australian cook to the poetic Nikki Signet on combining flavors. It's worth checking out again. Have a listen. |
| 1:41.1 | I'm Francis Lamb, and this is The Splendid Table from APM. |
| 1:59.1 | So every year around this time, we put together a gaggle of spring cookbooks we're excited about |
| 2:04.3 | and, you know, asked the authors to come on to talk about them. |
| 2:07.0 | Well, this year we had so many. |
| 2:08.9 | And they all spoke so wonderfully that we actually couldn't fit them all into one show. |
| 2:13.1 | So we'll be hanging out with some new cookbook authors for a while to come. |
| 2:15.9 | But today, we've got some great |
| 2:17.6 | ones. From poetic guide to combining flavors by a celebrated British food writer, to an utterly |
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