782: Vegetarian Summer Cooking with Hetty Lui McKinnon and the Art of Leftovers with Tamar Adler
The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters
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4.3 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 14 June 2024
⏱️ 53 minutes
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This week, we talk to two award-winning food writers about how to make the most of your vegetables and leftovers this summer. First up, award-winning vegetarian writer Hetty Lui McKinnon joins us to talk about her latest book Tenderheart, A Cookbook About Vegetables and Unbreakable Family Bonds. She talks to us about her father’s influence on her early life and how it inspired her vegetarian cooking career. She walks us through some of her favorite Chinese-inspired dishes made with a vegetarian twist, like her Sesame Mushroom Toast and Eggplant Char Siu and she sticks around to answer your cooking questions. Then, Tamar Adler, author of The Everlasting Meal Cookbook, brings fresh eyes to leftovers, from super quick ideas to elevate your cooking, like adding coconut water to your rice, and even ideas on what to do with your overcooked fish and those Cheeto crumbs at the bottom of the bag.
Broadcast dates for this episode:
- June 9, 2023 (originally aired)
- June 14, 2024 (rebroadcast)
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| 1:25.1 | With Summer either here or just around the corner for most of us, we wanted to bring back an episode from last year the couple of our favorite vegetable cooks. |
| 1:33.9 | Hetty McKinnon and Tamara Adler. Check it out. |
| 1:41.1 | I'm Frances Lamb, and this is The Splendid Table from APM. |
| 1:56.7 | Today's guests are two of the most instinctive cooks I know, makers of terrific food, |
| 2:03.8 | not fancy, just real-world stuff that makes you go, wow, that was great on any old Tuesday night, |
| 2:10.1 | if you know what I mean. |
| 2:11.3 | They're all about the joys of using whatever you have on hand. |
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