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🗓️ 17 October 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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This week, we’re diving into Italian cooking, from the Pacific Northwest to the Bronx. First, chef and author Joshua McFadden joins us to talk about Six Seasons of Pasta, his love letter to everyone’s favorite food. Known for his hit cookbook Six Seasons: A New Way with Vegetables, Joshua brings that same seasonal sensibility to pasta, pairing local produce with traditional Italian technique, and shares his recipe for Nut Ragu. Then, Bronx-born chef Christian Petroni takes us into the heart of Italian American cooking with his debut cookbook, Parm to Table. From chicken cutlets to clams casino, he celebrates the cozy red-sauce dishes that define Sunday dinners across America and leaves us with his Chicken Scarpariello recipe.
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| 1:00.2 | Okay. and this is the splendid table from APM. Italian food is one of the most beloved cuisines in the world, and definitely one of the |
| 1:04.8 | ones I enjoy eating the most, but one of the most fascinating things about it to me |
| 1:09.6 | are all the different ways it transforms around the globe. |
| 1:14.2 | Some of the best pasta I've ever had was in Melbourne, Australia. |
| 1:18.3 | And I was just talking the other day with a chef who worked in Japan for decades. |
| 1:21.7 | And he is absolutely convinced that the best pizza in the world is in Tokyo. |
| 1:30.2 | But closer to the home, Italian-American food is, to my mind, one of the national cuisines of our country. When we talk about the red |
| 1:35.9 | sauce joints, the eggplant parmesan's, and the tomato gravies, we're talking about a cuisine |
| 1:41.2 | that a person in Italy today might try to say isn't actually Italian food, |
| 1:46.1 | but it's a cuisine in the U.S. that's almost as old as the country of Italy itself. |
| 1:51.7 | We'll be talking about some bread sauce classics with chef Christian Petroni later in the show. |
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