Cooking Over Fire: Lessons From the Levant
Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio
Milk Street Radio
4.2 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2021
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
This week, the husband-and-wife team behind London’s Honey & Co. tell us about chasing the smell of smoke through the alleyways of Jordan and the markets of Egypt in search of the secrets of grilled food in the Middle East. Plus, pizza consultant Anthony Falco shares tips for making great pizza at home, Grant Barrett and Martha Barnette explain why we say “soup to nuts,” and we learn to make Honey & Co.’s recipe for Almond-Coconut Cake with Cherries and Pistachios.
Get the recipe for Almond-Coconut Cake with Cherries and Pistachios. https://www.177milkstreet.com/recipes/almond-coconut-cake-honey-co
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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 Mill Street Radio from PRX. I'm your host, Christopher Kimball. |
| 1:23.1 | Surit Packer and Itamar Srullovich, the husband and wife team, behind London's Honey and Co. |
| 1:28.4 | Restaurant, traveled around the Levant to learn about Middle Eastern grilling, from charred |
| 1:32.8 | watermelon to smoke vegetables to rows of kebabs. Today, they share their stories and recipes |
| 1:38.7 | from their travels and tell us that no matter where they went, they were always welcomed |
| 1:43.1 | in the kitchen. |
| 1:45.2 | I can't tell you of one occasion that we were met with anything but |
| 1:49.7 | complete and utter hospitality, generosity, friendliness. |
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