Dorie Greenspan

Your Mama’s Kitchen

Higher Ground

Relationships, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 15 May 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Cookbook author and baker extraordinaire, Dorie Greenspan, joins Michele to discuss the long, winding and unforeseen journey to Dorie’s great baking career. Dorie grew up in a household that did not cook home-cooked meals, and as a young adult, she first pursued an academic PHD. Cooking was not on her radar. But when Dorie’s perceptive husband witnessed how much Dorie loved baking, he encouraged her to pursue it; and Dorie did — with enthusiasm. Today, in addition to having been mentored by food-world icon, Julia Child, Dorie has written 14 cookbooks, won five James Beard awards, and has her very own, prized kitchen in Paris. In this episode, find out how Dorie’s story begins by mistakenly burning down her mother’s kitchen, and ends with Dorie being one of the best bakers in the business – and stay tuned for a lovely soft-shell crab recipe that Dorie loved to share with her mother, on the back steps of her childhood Brooklyn home.

Dorie Greenspan was born in Brooklyn and pursued a PHD in gerontology before becoming an internationally recognized cookbook author and baker. Dorie has been a columnist for New York Times Magazine and The Washington Post. She’s written 14 cookbooks and won five James Beard awards as well as the Cookbook of the Year award from the International Association of Culinary Professionals. Dorie was awarded the Mérite d’Agricole – the Order of Agricultural Merit – by the French Consulate for her writings about France’s food. Today, she lives with her husband Michael in New York City, Westbrook, CT and Paris, France.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone Jordan Rokai here my brand new album the Loop is out now. This album is about parenthood
0:12.0	it sort of made me reflect on the way I was
0:14.3	parented and it's made me reflect a lot on my parenting style and all the issues I face
0:18.8	internally as well and how that may come across and project onto my child so it's a story of parenthood and I can't
0:25.8	wait for you to hear it and I really hope you enjoy it.
0:31.1	I'm Chris Morocco, food director of Bonapete and Epicureus, and this is Dinner S.O.S.
0:37.7	A new podcast from Bonapete.
0:41.2	On each episode, we'll take a call from a home cook facing a real dinner emergency.
0:46.0	Then I'll work with one of our editors or someone from our amazing test kitchen to try and solve it.
0:51.0	Because cooking for the people you love should inspire joy, without a sight of stress.
0:57.0	Make sure you're following dinner SOS wherever you're listening now. So my parents were out to something very fancy and one of my friends said, do you have French fries in the house?
1:25.9	I said, yes, he said, let's make fries.
1:29.7	And so French fries, you had to fry them and the only thing that I knew was that water
1:37.7	boils faster if you put a lid on the pot and so I put a lid on the pot brought it to a boil and
1:46.0	whish flames I mean like ring of fire around the edge of the pond.
1:54.0	Welcome to your mama's kitchen,
1:59.0	the podcast that explores how we're shaped as adults
2:02.0	by the kitchens we grew up in as kids.
2:05.0	Well, who would have guessed that a child who almost burned down their parents' kitchen
2:09.4	would go on to become one of America's most respected and most beloved cooks. I'm talking
2:14.2	about Dory Greenspan. She's my guest today. And in the world of world-class
2:18.8	bakers, you could say she's all that. Dory Greenspan has written 14 cookbook.
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