Hey, this is Mark Bitman. You might know me from How to Cook Everything, or from the New York Times, or from the

Bitman Project. You might say I'm obsessed with everything about food, and that's why I've

started a new podcast called Appropriately A. about food.

I'll tell you more about that in a minute.

But first, here's one of my favorite recipes for Gispatcho.

You core and seed if you want to some juicy

tomatoes cut them into chunks. Then peel and again seed if it's very seed

a cucumber roughly chopped that. could be small or medium.

Peel a clove of garlic.

Take a couple of slices of good bread,

could be white, whole wheat, whatever you want,

and just tear them up. Purure all of that, the tomatoes, the garlic, the cucumber, the bread in a blender with some

salt, some pepper, at least a quarter cup of olive oil you could use a half a cup a splash of vinegar

Cherry vinegar is really good here and just enough water or you could use ice to

get the machine going and thin the mixture. Taste that and adjust the seasoning. Serve it with a little more olive oil and some chopped basil or mint leaves.

Here's an interesting hint if you use peaches or cantaloupe or both instead of tomatoes that's really cool you could even

use them in addition to tomatoes and a couple of anchovies thrown in there adds extra flavor.

That was just a sample of the kind of tips and recipes you'll get on my new podcast, Food. I'll also sit down with guests like Carla Hall, Tom Calicchio, Ted Danson, Jane Goodall,

and important people in the food world you may not know about.

We'll talk about cooking, eating, and how food affects us all, our lives, our health, our planet.

I'll even take your questions, from how to boil a perfect egg, to how to feed your picky toddler to how to increase people's control over

the role food plays in our lives.

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