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Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio

Desperately Seeking the Perfect Peach: Love and Loss on a Family Farm

Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio

Milk Street Radio

Food, Arts

4.23K Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Alice Waters thinks David Mas Masumoto’s peaches could change the world. Today, Masumoto shares his search for the perfect peach and the shocking family secret that changed the history of his farm. Plus, we chat with Nichole Accettola about Scandinavian baking, from cinnamon knots to rye bread, and we learn the language of strawberries. (Originally aired February 1, 2024.)

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0:00.0

Hey, Milk Street listeners. As fall approaches, I've asked Stella Parks to help me answer your baking questions.

0:06.5

So from spice cakes to Halloween candies and much more, we're opening the phone lines to tackle your autumn baking projects.

0:13.9

Please email us at questions at milkstreetradio.com.

0:17.3

One more time, send questions to milkstreetradio.com and we'll be in touch.

0:27.2

This is Mill Street Radio from PRX. I'm your host, Christopher Kimball.

0:32.6

Mas Masamato grows peaches, some of the best peaches in the country. Growing up, his daughter, Noriko, didn't understand just how great they were.

0:41.9

So we took her up to Chez Panisse, and she was stunned to find that what they served for dessert

0:47.5

of when our peaches were in season was simply a peach on a plate.

0:53.1

Today, Moss shares the story of how he came to grow these perfect peaches

0:57.0

and the unexpected discoveries he made about his family farm long away.

1:02.0

Because all families have secrets.

1:04.0

My conversation with Moss is coming up later in the show.

1:08.0

But first, I'm joined by Baker, Nicole Asatola. She's the owner of Canteen, a cafe in the show. But first, I'm joined by Baker, Nicole Ossetola. She's the owner of

1:13.2

canteen, a cafe in San Francisco, also author of Scandinavian from scratch. Nicole, welcome to

1:20.8

Mow Street. Thank you so much, Chris. Let's do a geography lesson because you move all over the world

1:26.4

here. So, Ohio, you start there, okay.

1:29.8

You end up in Boston and you opened up No. 9 Park with Barbara Lynch.

1:34.6

I did. Yes.

1:36.0

That's impressive.

1:37.3

Then you went to Copenhagen and then you ended up in San Francisco, right?

1:42.7

Right.

1:42.9

So what was it like, Copenhagen? The language is not easy,

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