Heirloom grains, Filipino bakes, Bill Addison picks LA's best restaurants

Good Food

KCRW

Society & Culture

4.5 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Rose Wilde encourages bakers to develop a relationship with heirloom grains and alternative flours. Abi Balingit, a self-described "dork who baked," turned her passion into a cookbook of Filipino desserts.

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0:00.0	From KCRW, I'm Evan Kliman and you're listening to good food. The worker must have
0:07.8	bread, but she must have roses too. In her new book, Bread and Roses, local baker Rose Wild takes inspiration from this famous
0:16.3	line in Labor Union leader Rose Schneiderman's 1912 speech.
0:21.9	A lot of it boils down to the idea that we deserve in this life, sustenance, as well as beauty,
0:29.8	so bread and also roses.
0:32.4	For Rose Wild, sustenance doesn't start with us. It begins with the
0:37.2	soil. By taking us on a global tour of grain, she shows us how to create beauty and maximize flavor from the
0:44.6	bounty of the earth. Hi Rose, congratulations on the book. It's so interesting.
0:49.4	Thank you Describe it as a black sesame, licorish butter cream, coconut whip, cherry jam, and a millet chiffon soaked with cherry syrup and laced with
1:12.3	fermented cherry blossoms. with Cherry syrup and laced with fermented
1:13.2	blossom. I gathered in spring in New York City for my class
1:18.4	at Brooklyn Grange.
1:20.1	Yeah.
1:21.1	Wow.
1:22.1	Can you use this cake to... Yeah, wow. Wow.
1:23.0	Can you use this cake to explain your particular style and the choices you make in creating a cake?
1:30.0	Yeah, I love that you picked that one.
1:34.0	It was a cake I made when we were letting this flavor go for the season.
1:38.8	I'm able to make such things that are ephemeral,
1:42.1	like stone fruit, lasts a little longer because I'm
1:44.8	always preserving things in a house so I think this cake shows that in a couple ways
1:49.7	not only with the jam, but also those beautiful cherry blossoms that I collected from
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