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Nerdette Recaps With Peter Sagal

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4.6 • 924 Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

This week, we are leaning into baking! First, our panelists, senior producer of WBEZ’s Reset Meha Ahmad and the host of WNYC and Futuro Studio’s La Brega podcast Alana Casanova-Burgess, stop by to chat about the decline in college English majors, a study that finds a connection between mask-wearing and self-perceived hotness, and our most recent baking endeavors. Then, Bon Appétit food editor Shilpa Uskokovic stops by to discuss her March cover story all about cakes! We explore her philosophy on food and her secret to the best brown butter. Plus, baker and food stylist Jesse Szewczyk shares four surprising and delicious cookie recipes from his book ‘Cookies: The New Classics.’ You can find all of the recipes mentioned in today’s episode at our website: https://tinyurl.com/35zsvrsv

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0:06.1	watch them. Their television's longest scripted series and have zero reruns. Now let me tell you,
0:12.7	soap operas aren't just some silly art form. They are significant. In this season of making,
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0:56.0	From WBEZ Chicago, this is Nerdette. I'm Greta Johnson. We did it. We made it to another weekend. Coming up, we are going to spend some time talking about cake and cookies because we could not choose between the two. But first, it's our chance to sit back, relax, and unwind from the week that was with two excellent humans. Back this week, we have the senior producer of WBEZ's Midday Talk Show, Risa, Meha, Ahmed.
0:58.5	Mara, hello.
0:59.7	Hey, Greta.
1:00.4	How you doing?
1:01.3	Also here is the host of the podcast La Brega from WNYC Studios and Futuro Studios, Alana Casanova
1:07.5	Burgess.
1:08.1	Alana, welcome to Nerdette.
1:09.4	Hi, hello from Brooklyn.
1:13.1	Yay. Okay, so I want to start this week with a story from The New Yorker. The headline is the end of the English major. This is
1:18.7	arguably not a new story, but it is a pretty interesting one. It's all about how fewer and fewer
1:23.8	students seem interested in majoring in English, and I think you can expand that out to the humanities in general.
1:29.5	It cites a number of different reasons for that, including a changing relationship to work and bigger financial uncertainty for younger generations.
1:37.2	As I said, obviously this isn't new. I do think it's interesting, though, partly because I was an English major and I'm really grateful for that education.
1:43.9	Were y'all humanities people, Alana? Yeah, I was an English major and I'm really grateful for that education. Were y'all humanities people, Alana?
1:46.6	Yeah, I was an English major.
1:48.5	It was actually English and general rhetoric at Binghamton.
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