Alpine Cooking: A Culinary Adventure at 3,000 Feet
Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio
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4.2 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2021
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Meredith Erickson takes us on an Alpine journey to discover the food and pleasures of the little-known huts and lodges above 3,000 feet. Plus, we chat with Josh Scherer of Good Mythical Morning about the internet’s fascination with taste-test videos; we learn the secrets to the perfect Neapolitan meatball; and Adam Gopnik tells us why sugar sales are declining. (Originally aired January 10, 2020.)
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Rosie, the director of education at Milk Street. |
| 0:03.6 | Viola Buitoni and Marika Contaldo Seguso know everyone, everywhere in Italy. |
| 0:08.7 | If you want to visit a tiny Parmesan producer working with a breed of cows almost extinct, |
| 0:13.6 | Viola's friends with him. |
| 0:15.1 | Have you heard about Venice's most famous and glamorous cookie baker on the colorful island of Burano? |
| 0:23.0 | Marika is welcomed into Carmelina's jewel-like shop like family. Marika and Viola have spent their lives cultivating these relationships, |
| 0:28.9 | and now they're willing to share them with you on our new culinary travel trips. With Marika, |
| 0:33.7 | we visit seven islands in the Venetian lagoon to meet farmers, winemakers, bakers, and fishermen. |
| 0:39.1 | And with Viola, we meet her friends and cook all together in Campania and Emilio Romagna. |
| 0:44.2 | There is exactly one spot left on each of the three trips this fall. |
| 0:49.5 | Join us. Head to www.177Milkstreet.com slash tours to see the full itineraries. |
| 0:58.1 | Hi, this is Christopher Kimball. |
| 1:00.2 | Thanks for listening to Milk Street Radio. |
| 1:02.4 | You can go to our website, 175Milkstreet.com, to get our recipes, to stream our television show, or to get our latest cookbooks. |
| 1:10.0 | Here's this week's show. |
| 1:16.3 | This is MostJat Radio from PRX. I'm your host, Christopher Kimball. Author Meredith Erickson |
| 1:22.7 | has traveled across the entire alpine range, everything over 3,000 feet, visiting many towns and huts accessible only by skis. |
| 1:30.9 | Today, she describes the food of the mountains from Toffelschpitz to dumplings and how anyone can step back in time even in the middle of Europe. |
| 1:40.5 | Being isolated, can in moments, and this is why a lot of people go there, can be a luxury to just focus on making cheese every morning for three hours. |
| 1:51.0 | And that's it. That's all I'm going to do. And I'm going to do it the best. |
| 1:55.3 | Also coming up, we travel to Naples, not for pizza, but for meatballs. And later, Adam Gopnik tells us why sugar sales are |
| 2:02.0 | declining. But first, it's my interview with Josh Shear. He's the food producer of Good |
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