A Word: Cooking for the Culture

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🗓️ 28 November 2021

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

The holidays bring out the chef in many of us. For Vallery Lomas, stress-baking through her final year of law school laid the foundation for a career as a chef, and a victory in the Great American Baking Show. This week, she joins host Jason Johnson this week to talk about her unlikely path to celebrity chef status, and her new book Life is What You Bake It. Guest: Vallery Lomas, cookbook author, recipe developer, and creator at @foodieinnewyork on Instagram Podcast production by Ahyiana Angel and Jasmine Ellis You can skip all the ads in A Word by joining Slate Plus. Sign up now at slate.com/awordplus for just $1 for your first month. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The holiday season separates a culinary all stars from the amateur and one woman who
0:06.9	will help you raise your cooking game is Chef Valerie Lomas.
0:10.7	When I was starting out my career, I was kind of warned by other women.
0:16.3	Don't bring baked goods into the office because it's very important for you to be seen
0:22.6	and respected like outside of like, you know, these traditional gender roles of like being
0:27.9	the black woman that's bringing cookies for everyone every week.
0:31.3	Valerie Lomas on holiday cooking and her new book Life is What You Bake It.
0:35.7	Coming up on a word with me Jason Johnson.
0:38.8	Stay with us.
0:39.8	I've entered the Rick and Morty multiverse so many times at all for that I don't know
0:46.0	whether I'm Rick Morty.
0:48.0	Oh myself.
0:49.0	Am I Rick?
0:50.0	Am I Morty?
0:51.0	Am I me?
0:52.0	Am I Rick?
0:53.0	Am I Morty?
0:54.0	Am I me?
0:55.0	I don't know.
0:57.3	Watch now on all four.
0:58.3	The UK's biggest free streaming service.
1:01.2	Watch and re-watch.
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