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Not all of us wrote how to cook everything. My thing would be like how to cook

some things just okay and probably not for your kids. That's actually what I wanted to call.

Hey there listeners. Welcome to Dinner SOS, the show where we help you save dinner

or whatever you're cooking. I'm Chris Morocco, food director of boneappetite and

Epicurious. Today we have an incredibly special guest joining me to answer

some questions from our mailbag. It's Mark Bittman. Hey Mark. Oh hi. So exciting. Oh I'm excited.

A few weeks ago I joined Mark and his daughter Kate on his podcast Food with Mark Bittman

and we got into it about recipe development and just generally nerding out about food.

In case you're unfamiliar with his work, Mark wrote the instant classic cookbook How to Cook

Everything 25 years ago. He's also written many many other cookbooks and he was a columnist

and recipe developer at the New York Times for years. After chatting with Mark on his show,

I feel like I know him about a thousand percent better than I did before. But as we sat down to

answer some listener questions together, I still had a few unresolved questions of my own.

How did it come to pass that you wrote so many cookbooks? Like who were you cooking for?

And who was doing the cleanup? Like how many dishwashers have you gone through in your life?

And I mean like the appliance, not, you know, people. It's like Mark Bittman, man of mystery.

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