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🗓️ 5 July 2024
⏱️ 53 minutes
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This week, we're all about two summer traditions. First, we meet photojournalist and documentarian Kate Medley to talk about her decade-long project documenting gas stations all across the South. She has stories about the amazing cast of characters, their diverse selection of foods, and their impact on their communities across the South. Kate Medley is the author of Thank You Please Come Again: How Gas Stations Feed & Fuel the American South. Then, we talk to the chefs behind Kismet, an award-winning vegetable-forward restaurant in Los Angeles. Sara Kramer and Sarah Hymanson bring us fresh ideas for your summer cookout, including their modern must-haves for your grill, like their Springtime Chicken Skewers. Sara Kramer and Sarah Hymanson's latest book is Kismet: Bright, Fresh, Vegetable-Loving Recipes.
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July 5, 2024 (originally aired)
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0:43.0 | Okay, so while I was thinking about this episode, of course, it's the middle of summer, and there's nothing more summer to me than cookouts and road trips. |
0:59.2 | And then I thought, man, am I full of it? Because I live in New York City, I don't have a yard to have a cookout in and, you know, we take the subway. |
1:10.0 | So I'd have to really sit and think to come up with the last time I either took a proper |
1:17.4 | road trip or actually had a backyard barbecue. But then you know what, I also realized it doesn't matter. That's because |
1:26.0 | grilling something delicious for a bunch of people and peeling yourself off the |
1:30.3 | seat of a car to go into a gas station for a cold drink and a tasty snack. |
1:33.6 | These are such indelible parts of American life, but just because I don't get to experience those things every |
1:38.8 | day doesn't mean I don't love them just as much. |
1:42.6 | And so today we're going to talk about some great ideas |
1:45.5 | for cookout food with the Saras. |
1:47.9 | And by that it means, Sarah Kramer and Sarah Hyminson, |
1:50.6 | co- chefs behind a terrific hilly restaurant Kismet and authors of the cookbook of the same name. |
1:55.3 | They have the most delicious ways with vegetables especially. And we have Kate Medley. |
2:01.6 | Kate is a photojournalist, not a chef, but as someone who's made |
2:04.6 | photographs all over the south for decades, she has traveled far and wide on local |
2:10.0 | roads and eating countless meals in southern gas stations. You know the deal, the place that has the |
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