819: Mediterranean Eating with Suzy Karadsheh & Olive Oil with Claudia Hanna

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Arts, Food

4.2 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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This week, we’re all about the Mediterranean dish. First, we sit down with New York Times bestselling author Suzy Karadsheh. Suzy talks about “eating the Mediterranean way,” growing up in a region with a plant-forward cuisine, Levantine cooking, using dried fruits in savory recipes, and making simplified Mediterranean recipes at home like her Flaky Veggie Phyllo “Pizza.” Suzy is the founder of The Mediterranean Dish.com and the author of The Mediterranean Dish: Simply Dinners. Then, we step into the world of olive oil with olive oil sommelier Claudia Hanna. Claudia tells us how olive oil has become central to Mediterranean culture, and how it’s made, and walks us through a tasting of different olive oils and their uses. She hosts the podcast If This Food Could Talk.

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January 24, 2025 (originally aired)

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1:03.0	I'm Francis Lamb and this is The Splendid Table from APM.
1:29.1	If you are as obsessed with flavor as I am, when you hear the words Mediterranean diet, you probably think of chickpeas and kebabs, spices and sesame, smoking hot grills and amazing fresh vegetables with lemon and sumac or stewed in their own juices.
1:32.8	And you think of olive oil and more olive oil.
1:38.1	Well, it turns out that if you also think of food as the thing that keeps your body working,
1:42.8	well, all those foods are pretty much optimized to keep you kicking around forever.
1:46.1	And that is why Susie Karadche's internet breaks every January. She's the founder of the Mediterranean Dish.com, a beloved
1:52.2	resource for recipes to help you live the Mediterranean diet. And while something like 90% of people
1:58.0	famously forget about their New Year's resolutions by Martin Luther King Day, eating Susie's food is something that I would certainly sign up for
2:05.3	any day of the year. Her new book is called The Mediterranean Dish Simply Dinner.
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