803: Priya Krishna’s Kitchen Adventures and Snacking Bakes with Yossy Arefi

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Arts, Food

4.2 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

This week, we’re bringing you two guests that will get you excited about cooking and baking. First, New York Times food desk reporter Priya Krishna tells us about her food writing career, building connections through her stories and travels and her most recent book, Priya’s Kitchen Adventures: A Cookbook for Kids. In her book, she draws recipes from different cuisines worldwide and tells us what working with kids as recipe testers was like. She leaves us with a recipe for Life Changing Udon. Then, Baker Yossy Arefi talks us through what it takes to make delicious and simple baking recipes. She talks about making desserts without occasion and finding freedom in combining flavors in her recipes, like her delicious Pink Cookie Bars with cardamom and almond cream cheese frosting. Plus, she sticks around to answer your baking questions. Yossy Arefi’s latest book is Snacking Bakes, Simple Recipes for Cookies, Bars, Brownies, Cakes, and More.

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May 3, 2024 (originally aired)

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0:00.0	I'm Frances Lamb and this is the splendid table from APM.
0:07.0	Kids Food. Kids food does not have to be simple food and simple food doesn't have to be basic
0:19.2	food.
0:20.2	That's the subtext of today's show, though I guess now that I've called it the subtext it's not really the subtext anymore.
0:26.5	But anyway, that's the thought they kept occurring to me while I was going through the wonderful baker
0:30.9	Yasi Arafefi's latest book,
0:32.8	Snacking Bakes.
0:33.8	The treats you can pull together
0:35.3	and have on the table lick be split,
0:37.2	or as she likes to say,
0:39.0	that lets you go from zero to cookie in no time flat.
0:42.1	But it's her creative way with flavors
0:44.0	that will have you baking minutes
0:45.0	after you turn off this episode.
0:47.0	But you've got to have your dinner
0:49.0	before you get to dessert.
0:50.0	And today, that's where my friend
0:52.0	Priya Krishna comes in. Priya is a food person who wears many hats and
0:57.1	who's worked her way through the most influential food publications in America. She was key on the team of the late great magazine
1:04.2	Lucky Peach before becoming a writer and video star at Bonapetee and now she's a
1:09.0	reporter at the New York Times Food Desk. Along the way has written multiple cookbooks, including the bestseller Indianish,
1:16.1	about her family's super delicious, super charming Indian American kitchen.
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