Finding Beer Where It's Banned

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America's Test Kitchen

Society & Culture, Food, Arts

4.4 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

In Pakistan, alcohol is banned for Muslims, who make up around 97% of the population. But, people drink, and there’s even a renowned beer brewery. How do they get around the ban? Kunwar Khuldune Shahid reports. Looking for both alcoholic and non-alcoholic drink options? Check out ATK’s collection of recipes from How to Cocktail. Get a 14-day free trial for an America's Test Kitchen digital subscription at atkpodcast.com See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey friends, it's Kevin Pang here.
0:02.3	I'm going to take advantage of the fact that I host the show and tell you, dear listener,
0:06.7	about my debut cookbook.
0:08.9	It's coming out October 24th and it's called a very Chinese cookbook.
0:13.4	We've got 104 incredible Chinese recipes that are failproof.
0:17.4	They've been tested in our kitchens again and again.
0:20.5	We've got dim sum, street food from Sichuan, dumplings from Shanghai, noodles from Taiwan,
0:25.7	and American Chinese take out classics.
0:29.0	If you want to hear the backstory of how this improbable cookbook came to be, look
0:33.0	at the back catalog of this proof feed and search for the episode, my father, the YouTube
0:37.5	star.
0:38.5	Anyway, the book again is called a very Chinese cookbook.
0:41.4	It's out October 24th.
0:43.1	Find it at your favorite bookseller.
0:45.2	Please, please, please buy it.
0:46.4	My employment is on the line.
0:48.2	Okay, not really.
0:50.0	But kind of, just a bit.
0:51.6	All right, onto this week's show.
0:55.2	Pakistan is a country of 230 million people and the majority of them, over 97% are Muslim,
1:02.6	religiously and legally for Muslims, alcohol is banned from being sold or consumed.
1:08.4	So what have we told you that Pakistan has a drinking culture and a famous beer brewery,
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