Cooking in the Age of Infinite Recipes

Culture Study Podcast

Anne Helen Petersen

Fashion & Beauty, Society & Culture, Arts

4.6 • 637 Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

This episode is the Culture Study Podcast’s version of a Just Trust Me. It’s difficult to describe exactly WHY it’s so good, just that after we finished recording (with Lilah Raptopoulos, host of the podcast Life and Art) Melody and I both immediately texted each other with: SO GOOD!!! The episode is ostensibly about figuring out how to cook in the world of infinite recipes, but it’s also about how we pass down recipes (or gatekeep them), recipes as a form of memory making (and retrieval), recipes as heritage… capped off with some practical advice about how to organize the recipes you do have (and how to ascertain if a recipe is “good”).

I can’t wait for you to listen, and if you don’t think you’re a person that invested or interested in recipes: just trust me.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, it's Anne. We're making today's full episode free for everyone. There are no ads and no juicy bits tucked behind a paywall. If you want to join the ranks of paid subscribers so you always get the full ad-free episode, head to culturestudypod.substack.com. It makes it so I can split everything that we make straight down the middle with
0:22.5	Melody, which is how much her work is worth. It also makes it so that we can do whatever we want,
0:28.5	we can talk about whatever we want, we can focus on whatever we want and have whatever
0:34.2	guests that we want without other people telling us what we can and can't do.
0:38.4	And I don't have to read any ads for products that I don't necessarily love.
0:43.0	So if you want to make the show sustainable and support independent media, go to culturestudepod.
0:48.3	Dot substock.com. Thank you so much. Okay, on with the show.
0:52.6	A lot of times I cook recipes because on the podcast we're interviewing somebody,
0:58.5	and so I will go through a cookbook and find something that's unique to me.
1:03.4	So one of the most recent recipes I cooked was a kefda wrapped in grape leaves from Fadi Katan's new cookbook called Bethlehem, which is a
1:12.9	Palestinian cookbook, because the recipe was something that reminded me of something my grandmother
1:19.0	cooked.
1:19.8	Yeah.
1:20.8	What else?
1:21.8	Oh, my boyfriend and I really wanted to make shrimp, so we bought some shrimp, and then we
1:26.9	remembered an old Alison Roman recipe,
1:29.6	shrimp with too much butter. So we just did that. So based on memory a lot of times like,
1:35.1	oh yeah, didn't we do this thing one time? So that was another. And then what else? Oh, my late
1:42.9	Auntie Julie has a tabooly recipe, a very smelly, delicious recipe for kind of an Armenian Bulger-based Tabuli. So I made a cookbook when I, 10 years ago, that's very kind of primitive cookbook. But I pulled that open to find her recipe.
2:05.4	Yeah. primitive cookbook, but I pulled that open to find her recipe. This is the Culture Study podcast, and I'm Anne Helen Peterson.
2:09.4	And I'm Lila Raptopoulos, and I host the Life and Art podcast from the Financial Times.
2:14.8	And I write a lot about how cultural identity is passed down through food
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