Bulletproof Recipes
The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters
American Public Media
4.3 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2016
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
This week we talk to Kat Kinsman, editor in chief of Tasting Table, about the ethics of food journalism. We turn to Michael Ruhlman, author of Ruhlman's How to Roast, about the essentials of that cooking technique, and meet Azalina Eusope, a fifth-generation street vendor from Malaysia who is setting San Francisco’s food scene on fire.
Broadcast dates for this episode:
- January 30, 2015 (originally aired)
- January 29, 2016 (rebroadcast)
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| 0:00.0 | Our common nature is a musical journey with Yo-Yo Ma and me, Ana Gonzalez, through this complicated country. |
| 0:08.1 | We go into caves, onto boats, and up mountain trails to meet people, hear their stories, their poetry, and of course, play some music, all to reconnect to nature and get closer to the things we're missing. |
| 0:24.4 | Listen to Our Common Nature from WNYC, wherever you get podcasts. |
| 0:32.3 | It's the splendid table from 8pm, American Public Media. |
| 0:36.8 | I'm Lynne Rosetta Casper. |
| 0:38.5 | Street vending is an ancient occupation worldwide. |
| 0:41.8 | It has a hip persona here, but we're the exception. |
| 0:44.9 | Today we meet a fifth-generation street vendor from Malaysia. |
| 0:48.6 | She's an ethnic mama whose care system dictated that career for her the day she was born. |
| 0:54.5 | Well, I despise my childhood. |
| 0:56.3 | I did not want to be a fifth generation of street vendor. |
| 0:59.3 | But the food that I grew up eating somehow brought me back to the person that I was. |
| 1:04.3 | There was no mama-style street food in San Francisco, |
| 1:08.2 | and I decided to just dive in. |
| 1:13.9 | And I somehow from there had embraced the culture that I so, so don't want to be in and now all I want to do is just talk about Mamat food, |
| 1:19.5 | mom up people and who we are. |
| 1:21.3 | Street vendor Azalina Yusope this hour on the Splendid Table. |
| 1:39.3 | This is The Splendid Table from APM American Public Media, |
| 1:42.3 | the show for people who love to eat. |
| 1:44.2 | I'm Lynne Rossetto, Casper. |
| 1:54.5 | Azalina Yusopi is a street vendor in San Francisco. |
| 1:59.7 | She's a Malaysian Mamak by birth, which means she's a Tamil Muslim. |
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