How To Cook at Home Like Sohla El-Waylly

How To! with Mike Pesca

Peach Fish Projects

Education, How To

4.3 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

With takeout prices on the rise, Josh wants to sharpen his home-cooking chops so he can whip up delicious dinners for himself and his wife. But this empty nester doesn't want to spend all day in the kitchen. On this episode of How To!, co-host Courtney Martin consults award-winning chef, food writer, and New York Times Cooking pro Sohla El-Waylly for advice on meal prep, next-level seasoning, and preparing the best rice and beans. Sohla's new cookbook is Start Here: Instructions for Becoming a Better Cook.

If you liked this episode, check out How To 'Chaos Cook' With Samin Nosrat or How To Cook One Perfect Meal.

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0:30.3	My husband's also a chef.
0:32.2	We're two professional chefs and we still will sometimes be like, I can't handle today.
0:38.0	We're having a cassadilla for dinner, like a child. Welcome to how to. I'm Courtney Martin. When I think about
0:47.7	the most romantic moments I have ever experienced in my entire life, you know what comes to
0:53.0	mind? Moments when I didn't have to cook.
0:56.9	I think of this one moment when John, my husband, and I were first falling in love. I remember he
1:02.0	walked me into his living room. He sat me down on his couch and he handed me my book. And then he
1:07.4	went into the kitchen and made this ridiculously rich and delicious truffle pasta
1:12.1	that we ended up eating on his balcony while the fog rolled over San Francisco.
1:17.3	I remember thinking in that moment, I must have done something very right in a past life
1:22.2	to get to eat this pasta with this man and also have my reading time honored. We've been together for about a dozen
1:29.5	years now and things look very different. For many years, he was the only one that cooked,
1:34.6	but that changed during the pandemic. I kind of like accidentally learned to cook. What was I going
1:40.3	to do other than start working my way through the one-pan recipes in the New York Times cooking app?
1:45.0	My eldest daughter and I then started working our way through Melissa Clark's great cookbook for kids,
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