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

814: Ottolenghi Comfort with Yotam Ottolenghi and Classic German Cooking with Luisa Weiss

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

American Public Media

Food, Arts

4.2 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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This week, we talk about comfort food around the world. First, Yotam Ottolenghi tells us about his latest book, which is filled with recipes for his favorite comfort foods. He talks about what it is about specific dishes that evoke emotional reactions, from taste to texture to memory like his recipe for “Thousand” Hole Pancake. Yotam’s latest book is Ottolenghi Comfort written with his collaborators Helen Goh, Verena Lochmuller, and Tara Wigley. Then, Luisa Weiss joins us to talk about her deep connection to German food. Growing up between Berlin and the US, she tells us about her favorite hot school lunches, (which are famous in German culture!), “low key dinners” known as abendbrot, and the influences German dishes have gleaned from other countries. Luisa is the author of Classic German Cooking, and she leaves us with her recipe for Käsespätzle, Swabian Noodles with Mountain Cheese and Caramelized Onions.


Broadcast dates for this episode:


  • November 8, 2024 (originally aired)
  • November 7, 2025 (rebroadcast)




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I'm Frances Lamb, and this is The Splendid Table from APM. What's comfort food to you?

1:34.8

You know, it's funny when I think about it because there are so many dishes that are just labeled comfort food that you'd figure they're universal.

1:42.1

But, like, I don't know.

1:43.6

I like mashed potatoes as much as the

1:45.3

next guy, but that's not what I reach for when I need some comfort food. For me, it's much more

1:49.9

likely to be a bowl of noodles or fried rites or something. Well, the great cookbook author Yotam

1:56.2

Otolengi's new cookbook is called Comfort. And it's an exploration of what comfort means,

2:02.8

not just to him as the child of German and Italian parents who grew up in Jerusalem and who now

2:08.2

lives in cooks in London, but also to the members of his team who count Malaysia, China, Australia,

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