788: The Shabbat Table with Adeena Sussman & The Art of Rice with JJ Johnson

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

American Public Media

Arts, Food

4.2 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

This week, we dedicate the hour to rest and rice. First, we talk to Adeena Sussman about her Shabbat rituals, from cooking with a sense of spirituality, taking the time to unplug, and connecting with family and friends. She talks about iconic dishes she enjoys making and sharing during Shabbat, like her Jachnun Rolled Yemenite Sabbath Bread, and she sticks around to answer your cooking questions. Her latest book is Shabbat: Recipes and Rituals from My Table to Yours. Then, we enter the world of rice with Chef JJ Johnson, author of The Simple Art of Rice: Recipes from Around the World for the Heart of Your Table. He talks to us about the rice he grew up eating, his research in West African culture, and cooking rice professionally and making it the center of the table, and he sticks around to answer your rice cooking questions. He left us his recipe for Crispy Rice Salad with Quick Pickled Onion.

September 22, 2023 (originally aired)

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0:00.0	Hi, my name is Carol and I give to the Splendid Table because I believe in what they do.
0:05.7	The Splendid Table is inspirational, in kind at heart, and deserves publicly-sourced
0:10.8	support.
0:11.8	Please join me by making a gift to the Splendid Table today.
0:15.4	Go to SplendidTable.org slash donate.
0:19.7	Thank you.
0:23.1	I'm Francis Lamb and this is the Splendid Table from APM.
0:34.3	I followed Adina Susman's career in food for more than a decade.
0:38.6	I remember first reading her restaurant reviews in this magazine called Manhattan and just
0:43.1	thinking, man, who is this?
0:45.2	She's good.
0:46.7	She was that rare restaurant critic who cares about the read and the reader as much as
0:53.1	she cared about the food and service, and she went on to become a first-rate recipe developer
0:58.0	and cookbook co-writer.
0:59.0	We've actually done three books together with our friend Chrissy Teigen and I remember
1:02.2	Adina actually moving in with Chrissy so they could cook together and develop to she's
1:06.4	24-7.
1:07.4	She's such a professional.
1:09.2	Anyway, in that time, she has also become an absolutely wonderful cookbook author of
1:15.4	her own.
1:16.4	Her first book, Sababa, was all about the joy and diversity of the communities that live
1:21.2	in Israel.
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