792: A Chef’s Thanksgiving with Amy Thielen, Eric Ripert, and Pierre Thiam
The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters
American Public Media
4.2 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2023
⏱️ 54 minutes
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This week, we are all about getting you ready for your Thanksgiving feast! First, cookbook author Amy Thielen sets us up with tips on keeping the holiday stress-free and enjoyable. She shares her remarkable thinking around “turkey secrets,” talks us through some of her favorite techniques for stuffing and starters, and leaves us with her amazing alternative to mashed potatoes, Fun House Baked Potatoes. Her latest book is Company: The Radically Casual Art of Cooking for Others. Then, Chef Eric Ripert talks us through simple seafood dishes to stand -in or accompany your turkey, like his Salmon Rillettes, a signature dish from Le Bernardin. His latest book is Seafood Simple. Then Chef Pierre Thiam brings West African flavors to the table with reimagined sidedish options like his Coconut Collard Greens with Butternut Squash. His latest book is Simply West African, Easy Joyful Recipes for Every Kitchen.
Broadcast dates for this episode:
November 17, 2023 (originally aired)
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| 1:19.0 | Thanksgiving is just a week away and we want to get you all set up with tips, inspiration, and some |
| 1:25.2 | simple dishes you're really going to want to put on your table. |
| 1:28.0 | And we're going to start first with the wonderful author Amy Thelen. |
| 1:32.4 | Once a chef in the high-flying New York City, with the wonderful author Amy Thelin. |
| 1:33.0 | Once a chef in the high-flying New York City restaurants, |
| 1:36.0 | she spent the last decade or so back home in northern Minnesota, |
| 1:40.0 | writing absolutely wonderful books about midwestern food. Her new book, |
| 1:44.8 | Company, is all about how to host terrific dinner parties with no fuss or |
| 1:48.8 | stress, which makes her unnatural to help us out today. |
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