Eat, Drink, Read: Dwight Garner's Obsession with Word and Table
Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio
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🗓️ 3 January 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
We’re joined by New York Times book critic and author Dwight Garner. He presents food quips from his favorite writers, as well as John Updike’s lunch routine and Hunter S. Thompson’s party tricks. Plus, anthropologist Manvir Singh helps us digest the world of “meat-fluencers” and their all-meat diets; A Way with Words give credit to the Old Norse words lingering in our kitchens; and we prepare a Pakistani-Style Chicken Biryani. (Originally aired January 4th, 2024.)
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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, |
| 0:31.6 | art of cheesefestival.com, and we'll see you there. |
| 0:36.3 | Hey, Milk Street Radio listeners, for a special episode all about Italy, I'm taking your calls |
| 0:41.4 | with Lydia Bastionich. |
| 0:43.3 | From pasta to Pinella and beyond, send us your biggest Italian cooking questions or problems. |
| 0:48.9 | Email us at Questions at Milkstreetradio.com. |
| 0:52.5 | Again, please send your questions about Italian cooking to questions at Milkstreetradio.com. Again, please send your questions about Italian cooking to questions |
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| 1:05.6 | This is Milk Street Radio from PRX and I'm your host, Christopher Kimball. Long lunches, strong cocktails. Writers are |
| 1:13.5 | notoriously reliant on good food and good drink. Take John Updike, for example. He worked |
| 1:19.5 | over a restaurant, and he said he knew when he smelled, when he smelled the aroma of lunch coming |
| 1:23.8 | up, it was time to quit for the day. So he would work from eight until he smelled |
| 1:27.5 | lunch cooking. And don't forget Hunter S. Thompson. When he got drunk, he would just get a garden |
| 1:32.7 | hose and spray everyone down. There were great photos of Hunter sort of terrorizing my wife, |
| 1:37.0 | who was all of five at the time. Today, we're chatting with New York Times book critic, |
| 1:41.2 | Dwight Garner, about books, food, and books about food. |
| 1:46.1 | But first, we're going inside the world of extreme carnivores. |
| 1:51.5 | What up, primals? Lever King here. We just took down a Mongolian yak. And where do you think we're |
| 1:57.4 | going to start? Of course, the liver first, because liver is king. |
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