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From WBEZ Chicago, this is NERNAT.

I'm Greta Johnson.

We did it.

We made it to another weekend.

This week, I am so excited to get to hang out with the kitchen shrink, also known as cookbook author and leftovers lover, Tamar Adler.

Tamar, welcome back to the show.

Thank you.

I'm so happy.

Okay, so we set up this idea several weeks ago and we invited

nerdat listeners to call or write in with their kitchen quandaries. And the way you set up this

idea was essentially like you are game to address any like cooking or eating related

questions that people may have.

Yes.

And we got a really delightful abundance of them.

I'm really excited to go through some of them with you.

Let's get into it.

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