792: A Chef’s Thanksgiving with Amy Thielen, Eric Ripert, and Pierre Thiam

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

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Food, Arts

4.2 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2024

⏱️ 53 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)
November 15, 2024 (rebroadcast)

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1:11.8	I'm Frances.com.
1:20.5	I'm Frances Lamb, and this is The Splendid Table from APM.
1:35.6	Thank you. from APM. You know, I'm going to keep it short with the preamble today because we know what this
1:38.9	episode is about.
1:40.1	Thanksgiving is just a week away, and we want to get you all set up with tips, inspiration, and some simple dishes you're really going to want to put on your table.
1:49.5	And we're going to start first with the wonderful author, Amy Thielen.
1:53.5	Once a chef in the high-flying New York City restaurants, she spent the last decade or so back home in northern Minnesota, writing absolutely wonderful books about Midwestern food.
2:04.6	Her new book, Company, is all about how to host terrific dinner parties with no fuss or stress,
2:10.3	which makes her a natural to help us out today.
2:13.4	Hey, Amy, it's great to see you.
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