Free Your Palate: Ep. 155

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Judaism, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 25 October 2018

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

This week on Unorthodox, we're going fer-mental. Liel and Stephanie sit down with chef David Zilber, the director of the fermentation lab at Noma, the Copenhagen restaurant credited with redefining Nordic cuisine. He and Noma chef and co-owner Rene Redzepi just came out with The Noma Guide to Fermentation, which has everything you could ever want to know about fermenting. He tells us about growing up eating Ashkenazi and Caribbean cuisine in Toronto, seeing Drake and the cast of Degrassi on the subway, and what his favorite Jewish comfort food, latkes, would look like fermented. Sophia talks to journalist Alix Wall, whose March 2018 article about inmate James A. White Jr. in J., the Jewish News of Northern California, may help get the septuagenarian pardoned next month. White, who is serving life without parole for murder and has been incarcerated for the past 37 years, spearheaded programs that give inmates a college education—1,500 men in his prison have since gotten their college degrees. We're heading to Cleveland! Join us Nov. 5 for a live show at the Mandel JCC with special guests David Gilbert, CEO of Destination Cleveland, and former Rock & Roll Hall of Fame president Terry Stewart. Get your tickets here. We'll also be in We'll also be in Houston Nov. 6, at the Evelyn Rubenstein JCC with Rice Jewish Studies professor Joshua Furman and other guests. Those tickets are here. Have a question for Unorthodox? Send it to Unorthodox@tabletmag.com or leave a message at our new listener line: 914-570-4869.

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0:00.0	Those of you who don't like hearing profanity, you might want to leave the room or choose a different podcast.
0:04.2	We hope you don't, though, we hope you stick with us.
0:06.4	This has been your obscenity warning.
0:11.0	This is on Orthodox, the world's leading Jewish podcast.
0:13.2	I am your host Mark Oppenheimer, joined this week by nobody.
0:18.2	We actually weren't going to do an episode this week because we have a lot going on with
0:21.1	the live show Wednesday night,
0:22.5	which has happened already by the time you're hearing this,
0:25.3	and with the Halloween episode next week.
0:27.6	So we were just gonna let this slide
0:29.4	and not give you anything Thursday morning.
0:31.6	But then we realized we had a couple fabulous
0:33.6	interviews in the can already. One with Alex Wall, whose article for a Jewish
0:38.2	weekly newspaper in the San Francisco Bay Area, looks as if it's going to get a lifelong inmate sprung from prison in
0:46.5	recognition of the great work that he's done starting college degree
0:50.1	programs on the inside. So we're interviewing Alex Wall who wrote the article that
0:54.9	brought this Jewish inmate to Governor Jerry Brown's attention. And then we have
0:58.6	this other interview with David Zilber, who is the Canadian Jew, who is head of fermentation at Noma, the internationally
1:06.5	famous restaurant in Copenhagen.
1:08.4	So we didn't want those two interviews to Mulder for too long.
1:11.5	We thought if we don't get them out this week it'll be another
1:14.2	month before you hear them and really it's better to get them out right now. So we thought
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