Desperately Seeking Garifuna! The Amazing History, Food and Language of the Garifuna People
Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio
Milk Street Radio
4.2 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2020
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Isha Sumner gives us a primer on Garifuna history, culture and cuisine. Plus, we chat with Ruth Rogers of The River Café in London; we taste the bubbles of summer; and we make spaghetti al limone. (Originally aired June 29, 2018.)
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Mil Street listeners, we're taking our show on the road. Please join us for a special live taping of Melk Street Radio at the Art of Cheese Festival in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 0:09.6 | We'll be at the landmark Orphium Theater on Saturday, September 27th. I'll be hosting cheese trivia, taking your cooking questions with chef Tori Miller, handing out samples of some of the best cheese in the state, |
| 0:21.3 | and my favorite part, even get my fortune read with a block of cheese. You will not want to miss |
| 0:26.6 | that. Tickets are on sale now at artofcheasefestival.com one more time, art of cheesefestival.com, |
| 0:33.9 | and we'll see you there. |
| 0:37.2 | Hi, this is Christopher Kimball. |
| 0:39.1 | Thanks for listening to Milk Street Radio. |
| 0:41.4 | You can go to our website, 177Milkstreet.com, to get our recipes, to stream our television show, or to get our latest cookbooks. |
| 0:49.0 | Here's this week's show. |
| 0:55.8 | This is Milestreet Radio from PRX. |
| 0:57.9 | I'm your host, Christopher Kimball. |
| 1:00.6 | Garif and a woman hardly ever will cook without garlic. |
| 1:05.0 | Fresh garlic is, you know, it's an antibiotic, and it will make the food taste better and smell better, |
| 1:12.5 | but also it will take care of your stomach. |
| 1:17.6 | Hisha Sumner is the founder of Wega, a catering company that serves traditional Garifuna food. |
| 1:23.0 | But before we hear from Sumner, I chat with Ruth Rogers, the chef and owner of the River Cafe. |
| 1:28.0 | Started as a local commissary for a complex of offices on the Thames. |
| 1:32.1 | River Cafe has trained many of the top chefs in Britain and has also popularized simple Italian food. |
| 1:38.5 | Her new cookbook, River Cafe 30, has just been released and features both new and classic recipes from the cafe's long history. |
| 1:46.6 | Ruth, how are you? |
| 1:48.0 | I'm very well. How are you? |
| 1:50.0 | Good. I went to the River Cafe, I don't know, 15, 20 years ago, and it took quite a while to get there on the tube from downtown London. |
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