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Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio

Cooking for Space Aliens and Vampire Queens: Meet Food Stylist Janice Poon

Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio

Milk Street Radio

Arts, Food

4.23K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

We enter the world of intergalactic sushi joints and cannibal banquets with food stylist Janice Poon. She tells us about her work on horror and sci-fi films, from feeding vegan vampires to wrangling snails to make arm escargot. Plus, we learn hamburger history with burger scholar George Motz; Bianca Bosker explores the origins of the PB&J; and we make a fragrant beef stew from Vietnam.

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0:00.0

Hi, this is Rosie, the director of education at Milk Street.

0:03.6

Viola Buitoni and Marika Contaldo Seguso know everyone, everywhere in Italy.

0:08.7

If you want to visit a tiny Parmesan producer working with a breed of cows almost extinct,

0:13.6

Viola's friends with him.

0:15.1

Have you heard about Venice's most famous and glamorous cookie baker on the colorful island of Burano?

0:23.0

Marika is welcomed into Carmelina's jewel-like shop like family. Marika and Viola have spent their lives cultivating these relationships,

0:28.9

and now they're willing to share them with you on our new culinary travel trips. With Marika,

0:33.7

we visit seven islands in the Venetian lagoon to meet farmers, winemakers, bakers, and fishermen.

0:39.1

And with Viola, we meet her friends and cook all together in Campania and Emilio Romagna.

0:44.2

There is exactly one spot left on each of the three trips this fall.

0:49.5

Join us. Head to www.177Milkstreet.com slash tours to see the full itineraries.

0:58.2

Hi, this is Christopher Kimball. Thanks for downloading this week's podcast. You can go to our website,

1:04.1

175Milkstreet.com, to stream our television show, get our recipes, or take our free online

1:10.6

cooking classes. Enjoy the show.

1:18.0

This is Most Street Radio from PRX. I'm your host, Christopher Kimball. Janice Poon is the person to

1:24.7

call when you need edible amniotic fluid for the fictional birth of the devil.

1:29.9

As Hollywood's go-to expert for gruesome and sometimes challenging food styling,

1:34.2

she takes us behind the scenes of some of her most famous creations,

1:38.1

such as the 30-foot subway sandwich, fake meat for a vegan vampire,

1:42.7

and arm escargo using real snails.

1:46.1

Yes, there was a snail wrangler. The snails are so... I mean, talk about divas. They want to go

1:52.7

left and you can't make them go right. They were always crawling the wrong direction. It took

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