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Best of Proof: Prepping for the Worst

Proof

America's Test Kitchen

Society & Culture, Food, Arts

4.41.8K Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Preparing for doomsday might not be as crazy as we think. This week, we bring you an episode from 2019 that takes you inside the culinary minds of people who are ready and prepped for the worst. Stockpiling wheat at home? Try making ATK’s recipe for Whole-Wheat Sandwich Bread. Get a 14-day free trial for an America’s Test Kitchen digital subscription at atkpodcast.com.   See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey friends, it's Kevin Paying here.

0:02.3

We're so, so close to finishing producing our upcoming season 15 of Proof.

0:07.1

Until then, we're digging into our archives and unearthing some food podcast gems.

0:13.1

This week, supervising producer Caroline Rickard introduces an episode she worked on in

0:17.7

2019.

0:18.7

It's all about people who stockpile for emergencies.

0:22.7

I live in Oklahoma now, and earlier this year, I was huddled in my bathtub with my two

0:29.4

cats as tornado sirens blared, and I couldn't help but think how unprepared I was if something

0:35.4

bad were to happen.

0:37.7

We came to Oklahoma because my husband is in the military, and they might be the world's

0:42.5

most advanced preppers of all.

0:45.0

Did you hear our episode about that MRE pizza?

0:48.5

Well, this episode is where our coverage of the combat feeding directorate first began.

0:54.5

So this week on Proof hosted by founding host Bridget Landcaster, how a homesteading

0:59.9

housewife and the US military are more similar than you might think.

1:04.8

This is prepping for the worst.

1:11.1

It was the 1990s.

1:13.6

Regis and Kathy Lee were still on the air.

1:15.9

Fusion cuisine was a thing, and boy bands were everywhere.

1:20.4

America and the rest of the world were becoming tech savvy.

1:24.7

Apple had released the brand new teal iMac, people carried Nintendo Gameboys around with

1:29.8

them, plus a whole lot of batteries, and connecting to the internet sounded like this.

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