How Chefs Holiday at Home
The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters
American Public Media
4.3 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 December 2019
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
This week we're getting ready for the holidays. Pastry superstar Christina Tosi brings us her singular and exuberant take on DIY holiday baked gifts. Chef Victor Albisu of Taco Bamba in Washington, DC teaches Francis how to make a delicious Peruvian pepper potato soup called ajiaco. Matty Matheson, host of Viceland’s It’s Suppertime and Dead Set on Life, fills us in on the Canadian way with the holidays including his must-have Rappie Pie. Journalist Liana Aghajanian tracks the unusual and cunning cross-cultural spread of a particular golden chocolate, and America’s Test Kitchen brings us their favorite gifts for the cook on your nice list.
Broadcast dates for this episode:
- December 14, 2018 (originally aired)
- December 27, 2019 (rebroadcast)
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| 0:40.9 | slash audio. I'm Francis Lamb, and this is The Splendid Table from APM American Public Media, |
| 0:49.6 | the show for curious cooks and eaters. |
| 1:01.0 | Thank you. for curious cooks and eaters. I have to admit, after working for 15 years in food media, |
| 1:05.0 | there are some stories that I just hear over and over and over again, |
| 1:09.1 | and some of which I have been guilty of churning out into the world myself. Sorry. You know, but like stuff like, |
| 1:15.0 | how this chef learned to cook at their grandmother's knee, or how this one week in the Italian countryside changed his chef's life, or, most embarrassingly, what's in this chef's fridge at home? |
| 1:25.6 | Don't bother. It's always a six-pack of beer and a bottle of ketchup, and guess what? |
| 1:29.3 | No one actually cares. |
| 1:30.3 | But something I realized I really do love talking about is what they make at home for the holidays. |
| 1:37.3 | Because that's for one time when their families don't let them clock out. |
| 1:41.3 | And because they're cooking for family, it's usually not about |
| 1:44.7 | showing off. It's about the old traditions they keep and the new traditions they bring to the table. |
| 1:50.5 | So this week, we have a bunch of great conversations and ideas about family holiday cooking and |
| 1:55.9 | gifting, from pastry superstar Christina Tozzi's favorite four-ingredient cookie, to the potato soup that Chef Victor AlbuSoo first tasted in the streets of Peru, |
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