Hell’s French Kitchen: How 7 Days of Cooking Broke Writer Sam Ashworth
Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio
Milk Street Radio
4.2 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2020
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
When Sam Ashworth apprenticed in a French Michelin-starred restaurant, it broke him after just one week. This week, he talks about his experience—which entailed cleaning squid for four hours a night—and why the French brigade system of training chefs and regimenting the cooking process has been so successful. Plus, Dr. Aaron Carroll explains the real environmental impact of eating beef; we talk about hangover cures from around the world; and we discover real Butter Chicken.
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Read “Super Sad True Chef Story” by Sam Ashworth: https://www.eater.com/2019/8/12/20799538/french-brigade-system-stage-chef-michelin-restaurants
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Chris Kimble from Milk Street. |
| 0:03.0 | You know, when I travel for work, I come across home cooking. |
| 0:06.9 | It's not really exotic per se. |
| 0:08.6 | It's what folks are cooking and eating every day. |
| 0:11.4 | But it's true, the flavors and ingredients techniques |
| 0:13.6 | are new, at least to me. |
| 0:15.8 | But I also relearn many of the basics. |
| 0:18.1 | For example, in Paris, I learned to boil an egg. |
| 0:20.5 | In Mexico City, I learned how to make a cake in a blender |
| 0:23.8 | and chang my Thailand. |
| 0:25.1 | I learned how to grill a chicken. |
| 0:27.4 | It turns out that you are, in fact, a much better cook |
| 0:30.1 | than you think. |
| 0:31.1 | You just need a little bit of inspiration. |
| 0:33.2 | So if you want to learn something old and something new, |
| 0:36.3 | please join us at Milk Street Member dot com. |
| 0:40.0 | For just $1, you get immediate access |
| 0:42.2 | to everything Milk Street, from recipes to videos, |
| 0:45.1 | from podcasts to TV shows, from online classes, |
| 0:48.7 | to our online store with over 2,000 unique products |
| 0:52.2 | from pantry to cookware to tools. |
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