Alice Waters Wants to Save the World One Perfect Peach at a Time
Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio
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4.2 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 1 November 2019
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
The Chez Panisse founder discusses the early days of the historic Berkeley institution and the power of taste to change lives. Plus, our trip to Sicily for the real Pasta con Fagioli; Jerrelle Guy talks “Black Girl Baking”; and Dan Pashman of The Sporkful performs an on-air experiment about sound and taste. (Originally aired October 25, 2018.)
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| 0:30.0 | 177Milkstreet.com for our recipes, culinary ideas from around the world, or our latest |
| 0:36.6 | cookbooks. Now, here's this week's show. |
| 0:44.2 | This is Most Your Radio from PRX. I'm your host, Christopher Kimball. |
| 0:49.8 | Today I chat with Alice Waters, the founder of Chez Pines in Berkeley, California. |
| 0:57.5 | Waters and I dig into her new memoir, coming to my senses, |
| 1:00.8 | which details a remarkable life, live not just for food, |
| 1:04.6 | but also for beauty, philosophy, social change, and simplicity. |
| 1:13.7 | I think that when you put a bouquet of flowers on the table in a school, |
| 1:18.3 | children just know something intuitively. |
| 1:20.8 | They know that they're cared about. |
| 1:25.0 | Before we hear from Waters, it's my interview with Terrell Guy. |
| 1:28.4 | Guy's debut cookbook, Black Girl Baking, presents an eclectic mix of recipes from banana smores pizza to cookies inspired by her mom's childhood in Guam to vegan |
| 1:34.8 | baked goods. Jarrell, how are you? I'm doing really well. Thank you. You were born in Lantana, Florida. |
| 1:44.3 | Your father grew up in the South. |
| 1:45.6 | Your mother was from Guam. |
| 1:47.3 | Tell us about Lantana, Florida. |
| 1:49.9 | What was the community like? |
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