Comfort food — soup, pierogies, Italian cuisine
Good Food
KCRW
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 December 2022
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Soup is delicious, easy to make, versatile, and a great way to use leftovers. But despite its many virtues, it's not terribly chic or exciting. Journalist and cultural commentator Anne Helen Petersen aims to change that. Born of peasant food to become a national dish, food writer and cook Zuza Zak dedicates a new cookbook to the Polish pierogi. Chris Scott, a chef known for his Brooklyn soul food restaurant Butterfunk, draws out the Dutch and German influences in soul food. Italian grandmothers are still waking early to make pasta by hand and author Vicky Bennison is here for it. With a $350 tasting menu and a mere 35 guests a week, Bill Addison crowns Hayato with the top spot on the LA Times 101 Best Restaurants list.
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| 0:00.0 | From KCRW, I'm Nevin Klyman, and you're listening to good food. |
| 0:06.0 | What is your favorite comfort food? |
| 0:08.5 | That's a really hard thing to, I don't know, to pick. but if I have to pick just like one dish it's going to be |
| 0:16.3 | so pitos. My family is from the state of Kolyma where they're known for their |
| 0:21.4 | so pitos and they're much smaller and a lot thinner than what you're going to find all throughout Mexico |
| 0:26.4 | But there are these little fried corn cakes that are topped with like ground beef or shredded beef and all sorts of really good toppings. |
| 0:33.0 | Okay, my favorite comfort food is Lassanya. |
| 0:37.0 | So my favorite thing right now, I'm eating Meyer Lemon Rizoto, |
| 0:40.0 | finished with olive oil and just a touch of basil, wilted into it. |
| 0:45.0 | My favorite comfort food, mashed potatoes. |
| 0:49.0 | Comfort food would be borsch, the best soup on the planet. |
| 0:53.8 | My comfort food really varies. |
| 0:55.4 | I love sweet things. |
| 0:56.6 | My favorite comfort food is a cake, |
| 0:59.0 | preferably chocolate, maybe with a little bit of ganache on top, maybe with a little bit of Ganesh on top, maybe a little bit of candied orange |
| 1:06.5 | inside or maybe a little candied ginger or maybe a little dash of booze in the ganash. |
| 1:16.6 | For me, comfort is a warm tortilla |
| 1:19.7 | with a plate of super lardy beans and a chili or you know a pint of ice cream. |
| 1:25.0 | Lately this crazy Nestle Road ice cream a local LA chef made to be extremely |
| 1:30.9 | specific. But when we thought about putting together a comfort food show, |
| 1:35.7 | our hive mind went immediately to soup, and nobody likes soup as much as our next guest. |
| 1:42.0 | Okay, actually plenty of people do, but she is definitely a |
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