Food & Drink mini-series: Andy Baraghani on finding your home cooking style

Life and Art from FT Weekend

Forhecz Topher

Tv & Film, Arts, Society & Culture

4.6 • 601 Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2022

⏱️ 13 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Welcome to our summer Food & Drink-themed mini-series! Every Wednesday for the next four weeks, an expert will teach us something new. Lilah’s first guest is the chef and well-known food writer Andy Baraghani, who recently came out with a cookbook called 'The Cook You Want to Be'. He teaches us how to take the food that excites us, the food we grew up on and the food that we like now, and build it all into a personal home cooking style.

--------------

Want to stay in touch? We love hearing from you. We’re on Twitter @ftweekendpod, and Lilah is on Instagram and Twitter @lilahrap.

--------------

Links and mentions from the episode:

– Andy’s cookbook is called The Cook You Want to Be

– Andy’s Kuku Sabzi recipe: https://youtu.be/OJFoIfzY7eI

– “I Hid Who I Was for So Long. Until I Became a Cook.” https://www.bonappetit.com/story/andy-baraghani-cooking-and-identity

– The series on Iranian cooking that Andy worked on with his mother for Saveur in 2012: https://www.saveur.com/article/Kitchen/Behind-the-Story-Iran/

—-------------

Special offers for FT Weekend listeners, from 50% off a digital subscription to a $1/£1/€1 trial can be found here: http://ft.com/weekendpodcast

Want to join us at the FT Weekend festival in London on September 3rd? Buy a ticket at ft.com/ftwf. And here’s a special £20 off promo code, specifically for FT Weekend listeners: FTWFxPodcast22

--------------

This episode was produced by Molly Nugent. Original music by Metaphor Music. Mixing and sound design by Breen Turner and Sam Giovinco.

Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	FT Weekend Food and Drink is supported by Plymouth Gin.
0:03.9	Hi, FT Weekend listeners. This is Lila.
0:06.6	I'm here to welcome you to some summer bonus content.
0:10.3	For four weeks, we will be publishing special food and drinks-themed mini episodes,
0:15.3	midweek every Wednesday.
0:17.5	For each one, I'm approaching a different expert that I think is really good at something
0:21.9	and asking them to teach us about that thing.
0:25.4	We'll talk wine trends with one of the world's most influential wine critics, Jansis Robinson.
0:30.8	We'll talk taste and flavor with the chef of one of my favorite restaurants in New York, Aisha Nurgia.
0:36.8	And today, on this very first episode
0:39.3	of the series, I'm joined by Andy Baragani. Andy is a chef and food writer. He's worked in
0:45.7	kitchens from Chez Panisse to Estella, and he spent years developing recipes and making
0:50.6	viral cooking videos for Bon Appetit. This year, Andy came out with a cookbook that I have been leaning on heavily.
0:57.7	It's called The Cook You Want to Be.
1:00.1	And I've had them on to learn exactly how we can build all of our experiences into a personal
1:05.6	home cooking style.
1:07.5	It's a chance to think about what we're choosing to cook and what makes those dishes or styles of cooking specifically feel like ours.
1:17.2	Okay, this is FT Weekend, the podcast special edition.
1:22.3	I'm Lila Raptopoulos.
1:24.6	Here's Andy.
1:27.1	Hi, Andy, Welcome to the show.
1:29.4	Hi, Lila. Thank you for having me.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Forhecz Topher, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Forhecz Topher and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.