817: Holidays with Lisa Kyung Gross and Helen Rosner

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

American Public Media

Food, Arts

4.2 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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This week, we’re all about community and coming together for the holidays. First, we talk to Lisa Kyung Gross, founder of The League of Kitchens, a unique cooking school where women from all over the world, welcome you into their homes and teach you how to make one of their family recipes. She talks about the delicious recipes she has collected in her new book, The League of Kitchens Cookbook: Brilliant Tips, Secret Methods & Favorite Family Recipes from Around the World. She leaves us with an Afghan recipe for Cake Jawari, a delicious yellow cake with rosewater and cardamom. Then, The New Yorker’s food writer Helen Rosner stops by the studio with treats and ideas for your last-minute gifts.

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December 20, 2024 (originally aired)

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1:17.7	I'm Frances Lamb and this is the splendid table from APM.
1:25.3	With the holidays right around the corner, of course we want to give you some inspiration for your celebrations.
1:31.7	Later in the episode, we'll be joined by my great friend Helen Rosner, a staff writer and restaurant critic for the New Yorker magazine.
1:38.3	We'll talk about last-minute gifts from her annual gift guide and a special treat you're going to want to get for yourself even after
1:45.6	the gift-giving is done. But the more we thought about this episode, the more we felt that,
1:52.6	you know, it's pretty important these days to find celebration in the everyday. I mean, yes,
1:58.7	absolutely, this is the time for gatherings, for special touches
2:02.2	and our meals and gifts, but I'm also leaning more than ever on friends, family, community.
2:10.8	And that made me think that some of the most touching experiences I've been able to have in food
2:15.8	were with a company called The League of
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