How To Cook One Perfect Meal

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Peach Fish Projects

How To, Education

4.3 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2019

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Jonny is a 26-year-old bachelor whose cooking often leads to heartache (and for one ex-girlfriend, a stomachache). Jonny admits he's a klutz in the kitchen, so we hooked him up with Sam Sifton, cookbook raconteur and head of the New York Times' Cooking section, to see if we can teach our lovelorn millennial to cook one perfect meal. Is romantic bliss just a well-browned chicken thigh away?

(This episode first aired on August 13, 2019)

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0:30.3	Hi, it's Thanksgiving Week.
0:32.7	And so we thought that we would replay one of our favorite episodes, How to Cook the Perfect
0:37.1	Meal, featuring Sam Sifton, who has written our favorite episodes, How to Cook the Perfect Meal,
0:40.7	featuring Sam Sifton, who has written the cookbook on how to win at Thanksgiving.
0:43.8	So sit back, enjoy, have a great Thanksgiving,
0:47.4	and we'll see you next week with a brand new episode.
0:50.5	What's the one thing Johnny can do
0:52.8	that will blow her mind?
0:55.1	The plates that he serves on, they're going to be warm.
0:59.0	Nine times out of ten, ex-boyfriends trying to impress their girlfriends, make their
1:04.4	hot food, and then put it on cold plates.
1:07.4	It's a little shivery, and it's just a bad look.
1:10.6	That and napkins. Napkins? Yeah. I mean, I canivery, and it's just a bad look. That and napkins.
1:12.7	Napkins? Yeah. I mean, I can see in your eyes, Charles, you're making me out as like Alan
1:17.0	Alder here, like Mr. Sensitive, but I'm telling you that a cloth napkins sends a message that you're
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