Carla Hall Reclaims Soul Food
Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio
Milk Street Radio
4.2 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2019
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Chef Carla Hall is here to change the way we think about soul food. Plus, we explore cooking with cannabis; Adam Gopnik tells us how to cope when our favorite restaurants close; and we serve up Mashed Avocados with Sesame and Chili.
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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, |
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| 1:05.8 | Hi, this is Christopher Kimble. Thanks for downloading this week's podcast. You can go to our website, 177MilkStreet.com, |
| 1:14.2 | for our recipes, culinary ideas from around the world, or our latest cookbooks. Now here's this week's show. |
| 1:26.2 | This is Most Get Radio from P.R.X. I'm your host, Christopher Kimble. |
| 1:30.2 | Today we're chatting with Chef Carla Hall about the real soul food. How fried foods became more popular with a great migration north. |
| 1:38.2 | How real soul food is fresher and healthier, and why she says quote, if you're not in a good mood, the only thing you should make is a reservation. |
| 1:47.0 | If you don't feel like making it and you're doing a grilled cheese, the bread will be a skew. The bread is burned before the cheese melts. |
| 1:55.4 | And so that just says, you don't care. |
| 1:58.4 | Also coming up, we present an unusual version of Buckebly and Adam Goptic, the Mones New York City steady drumbeat of restaurant closings. |
| 2:06.4 | But now it's my interview with the author of Bunga Pati, that's Rupa Bhattacharya and Faraday Saadikan. |
| 2:13.4 | Bunga Pati started as a video series by Munchies. Bhattacharya is the editor-in-chief of Munchies, and Saadikan is the culinary director. |
| 2:21.4 | Rupa and Faraday, welcome to Milk Street. |
| 2:25.4 | Thank you. Thank you so much. So happy to be here. |
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