Adam Conover Ruins Everything
Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio
Milk Street Radio
4.2 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 August 2019
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
This week, Adam Conover, host of the truTV series “Adam Ruins Everything,” challenges the myth of killer Halloween candy, bogus detox diets and the ethics of buying avocados. Plus, David Burtka transforms parties into events; we throw together an amazing Andalusian Tomato and Bread Soup; and Adam Gopnik stumbles across the perfect meal on vacation in Greece.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Chris Kimble from Milk Street. |
| 0:03.0 | You know, when I travel for work, I come across home cooking. |
| 0:06.9 | It's not really exotic per se. |
| 0:08.6 | It's what folks are cooking and eating every day. |
| 0:11.4 | But it's true, the flavors and ingredients techniques |
| 0:13.6 | are new, at least to me. |
| 0:15.8 | But I also relearn many of the basics. |
| 0:18.1 | For example, in Paris, I learned to boil an egg. |
| 0:20.5 | In Mexico City, I learned how to make a cake in a blender |
| 0:23.8 | and chang my Thailand. |
| 0:25.1 | I learned how to grill a chicken. |
| 0:27.4 | It turns out that you are, in fact, a much better cook |
| 0:30.1 | than you think. |
| 0:31.1 | You just need a little bit of inspiration. |
| 0:33.2 | So if you want to learn something old and something new, |
| 0:36.3 | please join us at Milk Street Member dot com. |
| 0:40.0 | For just $1, you get immediate access to everything Milk Street, |
| 0:43.6 | from recipes to videos, from podcasts to TV shows, |
| 0:47.1 | from online classes, to our online store, |
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| 0:53.9 | to tools. |
| 0:55.2 | Once again, please join us at Milk Street Member dot com |
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