Full of Pith and Vinegar (with Kate Lebo)

Home Cooking

Samin Nosrat & Hrishikesh Hirway

Arts, Food

4.8 • 4.9K Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

The poet and piemaker Kate Lebo joins us to help discuss her book "The Book of Difficult Fruit," which inspired this episode! We meddle with some medlars and try to make some prickly pears less prickly. Don’t take your pommes for granted!

For recipes, Home Cooking merch, and a transcript of this episode, visit homecooking.show.

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0:00.0	Hello, home cookies!
0:02.2	It's my 46th birthday this weekend,
0:04.6	so to celebrate I'm raising money for Feeding America,
0:08.0	a national network of food banks and pantries.
0:10.9	Help me meet my goal of raising $10,000,
0:13.6	and as a bonus, I'll donate a matching amount
0:15.9	to my local food bank, the Alameda County Community Food Bank.
0:19.3	To learn more and support Samin's fundraiser, visit homecooking.
0:23.6	show slash Samin B-D-D-A-Y. That's homecooking.
0:27.5	show slash S-A-M-I-N-B-D-A-Y.
0:32.5	Thanks so much, friends. Take care.
0:34.7	What am I doing? You are starting our show. Oh, hi, I'm Samin.
0:41.6	Full name, please. Really? That's what you normally do. I do? Yeah. How do you know?
0:47.9	Because we've done this, well, 24 times. Hi, I'm Samin Nassrat.
0:55.3	And I'm Rishi K. Sherway.
0:57.0	And we're home cooking.
1:02.7	And this is episode 25 of our four-part series, and you would think by now Samin knows how the episode starts.
1:05.3	Rishi, what's the best thing you ate recently, or best thing you cooked, even?
1:08.8	Well, I have successfully made Samini's teeny tahini
1:13.1	sardini panini many times. I'm on autopilot. I'm a panini machini. Oh, you're a machini. Okay,
1:19.7	talk us through the recipe. What I do is one tin of sardines, two spoons of tahini, red onions, chopped pickles, cucumbers, just for a mix of pickled and unpickled, some lemon juice, a tiny bit of salt because it's actually pretty salty already.
1:38.7	Salty from the fish, yeah.
	...

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