Culinary Tour of Colombia: Sweet Corn Arepas and Brisket Dust
Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio
Milk Street Radio
4.2 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
We explore the cooking of Colombia with Mariana Velásquez, from homemade arepas to sweet panela that tastes like almost-burnt caramel. Plus, we learn about the secret world of creating food emojis with artist Yiying Lu, Adam Gopnik ponders the elements of dinner, and we present a recipe for Spicy and Sour Julienned Potato Salad with Sichuan Pepper. (Originally aired July 23, 2021.)
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Samin Nasrat. |
| 0:01.0 | And I'm Rishi K. Sherway. Together we make a podcast called Home Cooking. You might remember home cooking from back in March 2020 when we launched it to help folks who were stuck in lockdown with their quarantine cooking questions. And now that things are super scary again, we thought maybe it's time to bring the podcast back. We're back with a brand new season of eight episodes. And just like before, we're going to |
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| 1:05.9 | This is Mill Street Radio from PRX. I'm your host, Christopher Kimball. |
| 1:13.1 | Today, cookbook author Mariana Velasquez invites us on a culinary tour of Columbia, including the street food in Bogota, the magical |
| 1:18.8 | river that inspired Gabriel Garcia-Marquez, and the influence of Middle Eastern ingredients |
| 1:23.8 | on Colombian cuisine. We also hear about other traditions that have endured, including |
| 1:28.9 | a passion for radio. In rural towns, in smaller towns, people still go home for lunch. |
| 1:35.5 | People still have a siesta. They take a nap after eating. But Colombia is changing slowly. |
| 1:42.6 | My husband works in radio, |
| 1:44.4 | and we always talk about how the power of radio |
| 1:47.6 | continues to be huge in our country, |
| 1:50.8 | because there's places where literally, like, |
| 1:53.1 | TV signals, hard to get. |
| 1:56.1 | Later on, Adam Gopnik considers adopting new dining habits, |
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