Cheddar

The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters

American Public Media

Food, Arts

4.3 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2017

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

What should we expect from the people who sell us food? We get an opinion from cheesemonger and food retailer Steve Jenkins. Tucker Shaw of Cook's Science reveals some new tips and tricks from America's Test Kitchen. Contributor Von Diaz talks to chef Justin Warner about his theories on flavor pairings. He is author of The Laws of Cooking, which includes the law of peanut butter and jelly and the law of gin and tonic. Walden Hill's Jennifer Milikowsky explains why she brought the European tradition of acorn-finished pork to the U.S., and Gordon Edgar, author of Cheddar, shares the cheese's history.

Broadcast dates for this episode:

January 22, 2016 (originally aired)
January 20, 2017 (rebroadcast)

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0:55.4	I'm in Rosetta Casper.
0:57.2	So how do cooking rules come to be?
0:59.9	The answer is they come to different people in different ways.
1:04.2	Take chef Justin Warner.
1:06.3	It started out as kind of reverse engineering things,
1:09.0	understanding why a great dish that I had made
1:11.2	sense, and then distilling compounds of the dish. For example, a great pizza from, you know,
1:16.9	some Neapolitan place, why does pizza almost always work? Well, you have something fruity,
1:22.2	tomato, you have something rich and fatty, cheese, and then you have something to spread it on.
1:28.4	And then if you look at peanut butter and jelly, it's the exact same thing. And so this kind of combination of fat, fruit,
1:34.7	and something to spread it on is an archetype. It's a law. The laws of cooking, how to evaluate
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