Dorothy Kalins: ...kitchen memories make up some of my best memories

Nobody Told Me!

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.2 • 671 Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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If you love to cook, or just love to eat, this episode is for you! We’re excited to welcome our guest, award-winning magazine editor Dorothy Kalins. She’s had a long career in food media and has collaborated on the production of many cookbooks. Dorothy was the founding editor of the food and wine magazine, 'Savure', and she’s the author of a great book called, "The Kitchen Whisperers: Cooking with the Wisdom of Our Friends". Her website is https://www.dorothykalins.com/

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0:00.0	Welcome to Nobody Told Me.
0:13.5	I'm Laura Owens.
0:14.4	And I'm Jan Black.
0:15.7	If you love to cook or just love to eat, which is pretty much all of us in this episode
0:20.5	is for you.
0:21.4	We're excited to welcome our guest, award-winning magazine editor, Dorothy Kalins,
0:26.6	who's held top editorial positions at Newsweek and Metropolitan Home.
0:30.9	She's had a long career in food media and has collaborated on the production of many cookbooks.
0:35.9	Dorothy was the founding editor of the Food and Wine magazine, Saviour, and she's the author of many cookbooks. Dorothy was the founding editor of the food and wine
0:38.3	magazine, Saviour, and she's the author of a great new book called The Kitchen Whisperers,
0:44.4	Cooking with the Wisdom of Our Friends. Dorothy, thank you so much for joining us.
0:49.1	Thank you. Who are these Kitchen Whisperers, and why did you decide to write about them? In other words,
0:55.4	how did the book come about? The book came about as I was washing salad greens that I bought
1:03.4	at the farmer's market. And I heard in my head, my publisher thinks that it sounds crazy if you have voices in your head,
1:14.1	so they wouldn't let me have the subtitle, cooking with the voices in your head,
1:19.3	but I know that we have them, and I know that they're there.
1:22.5	So the subtitle is cooking with the wisdom of our friends, which is very safe. But basically, I heard
1:31.0	the voice of a French grandmother, who I knew, saying to me, you must wash your salad greens
1:40.2	three times. And then I thought I started thinking about that.
1:46.0	And I started thinking about how many of the things that I do when I'm alone in the kitchen
1:51.0	and I'm cooking are based on what people have told me, much more powerful perhaps than things that I've read or written or recipes that I've
2:06.6	developed or followed there are certain truths that we that I began to trace back to the people who had told me about them or whom I watched.
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