BraveTart: Stella Parks Reimagines America's Favorite Sweets
Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio
Milk Street Radio
4.2 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 31 May 2019
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Pastry chef Stella Parks talks about the science of baking and the secret history of iconic American desserts. Plus, we learn about barbecue around the world, from boodog to hāngi; Dan Pashman tells the history of LA's Cambodian donut shops; and we offer up a simple and summery Austrian plum cake. (Originally aired August 23, 2018.)
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Christopher Kimble from Milk Street. You know, for most of my career |
| 0:03.5 | I thought the cooking was well about mastering technique, but since I found that Milk Street in 2016 |
| 0:10.5 | have come to understand the cooking is about something a lot more important. |
| 0:14.5 | Seeing the kitchen through new eyes through the experience and knowledge of home cooks from all around the world. |
| 0:20.5 | For example, Pesto with lemon zest and almonds from Amalfi, Italy, a no-need pour in the pan pizza, |
| 0:27.0 | a one-bowl gluten-free Spanish almond cake, a crispy light falafel from the streets of Aman Jordan. |
| 0:33.4 | Here in the Milk Street kitchen we bring you a new repertoire of easy bowl recipes that will revolutionize the way you cook and think about food. |
| 0:42.6 | So if you want to change the way you cook, the way I have, and produce dishes that taste like they were made by the very best home cooks all over the world, |
| 0:51.0 | I invite you to join Milk Street today. Just go to MilkStreetMember.com. That's 12 weeks for just $1.1 more time. |
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| 1:05.8 | Hi, this is Christopher Kimble. Thanks for listening to Milk Street Radio. |
| 1:10.7 | You can go to our website, www.177MilkStreet.com, to get our recipes, to stream our television show, or to get our latest cookbooks. |
| 1:18.3 | Here's this week's show. |
| 1:24.9 | This is Milk Street Radio from PRX, on host Christopher Kimble. |
| 1:30.3 | Yeah, so if you have fudge that you've made, whether it's a successful batch or a failure, |
| 1:35.4 | you can chop it up and melt it into hot milk, and it's like the best hot cocoa in the world. |
| 1:42.4 | That was Stella Parks, past you chef and author of BraveTour. |
| 1:45.5 | Later on the show, Parks will give us a lesson in better baking, along with a real history of the chocolate chip cookie. |
| 1:51.6 | But first they chat with Rose Tucker and Matthew Sally. Their film, Barbecue, spans 12 countries, |
| 1:56.2 | including Whole Roasted Marmot from Mongolia, to Hanging an All Day Pit Barbecue from New Zealand. |
| 2:03.2 | Matt and Rose, welcome to MilkStreet. Thank you for having us. |
| 2:07.2 | Your documentary Barbecue goes all over the world, but some surprising places, |
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