ICYMI: How Did You Develop Such Amazing Taste? with Sohla El-Waylly

Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness

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Science, Self-improvement, Comedy, Education, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 31 August 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

We’re spending this week cooking up some incredible fall programming. To tide you over, here’s a re-air of our episode with Sohla El-Waylly, all about cooking basics, ancient recipes, and Sohla and Jonathan’s shared affinity for a certain Taco Bell classic that was discontinued at the time of this recording and is now BACK! Sohla El-Waylly is a culinary creator, writer, and community advocate. She’s the guest editor of the forthcoming collection The Best American Food Writing 2022, available for pre-order now. She can also be seen starring in The HISTORY® Channel’s online series Ancient Recipes with Sohla. You can keep up with Sohla’s work on Instagram @sohlae and at www.hellosohla.com. Join the conversation, and find out what former guests are up to, by following us on Instagram and Twitter @CuriousWithJVN. Jonathan is on Instagram and Twitter @JVN and @Jonathan.Vanness on Facebook. Transcripts for each episode are available at JonathanVanNess.com. Love listening to Getting Curious? Now, you can also watch Getting Curious—on Netflix! Head to netflix.com/gettingcurious to dive in. Our executive producer is Erica Getto. Our associate producer is Zahra Crim. Our editor is Andrew Carson. Our theme music is “Freak” by QUIÑ; for more, head to TheQuinCat.com. Getting Curious merch is available on PodSwag.com.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Getting Curious, I'm Jonathan Viennes, and every week I sit down for gorgeous
0:04.0	conversation with a brilliant expert to learn all about something that makes me curious.
0:10.4	This week we're savoring the last days of summer with an episode from our archives featuring
0:16.1	Sola L. Waley. A few important updates since we spoke in May 2021. Sola's now released
0:23.2	three seasons, kind of one, two, three of her history digital series Ancient Recipes with Sola.
0:28.8	She's the guest editor of the upcoming collection Best American Food Writing 2022,
0:34.0	and Taco Bell's Mexican pizzas back on the menu!
0:38.7	We really needed this win and we really needed to re-era this episode because it is such a classic.
0:46.9	We love Sola, we're huge fans, we'll have your first taste of new fall programming next week.
0:52.6	For now, here's our episode with Sola L. Waley where I ask her.
0:56.3	How did you develop such amazing taste?
0:59.0	Welcome to Getting Curious, this is Jonathan Viennes, I'm so excited for this gorgeous guest,
1:04.5	who I have been just like really watching for a hot minute. We love welcome to the show Sola L. Waley,
1:10.8	who is? If you've been living under a rock, a recipe creator, a writer, and a video host,
1:14.6	she's currently a resident expert at Food 52, and a contributor to New York Times cooking,
1:20.5	and the host of Ancient Recipes with Sola. How are you Sola?
1:23.8	I think that's the best intro I've ever had.
1:29.4	I feel so pumped. Oh my gosh, me too in cyber, and this is really just a non-sec order,
1:34.4	it's out of left field, but is this like the nation plaster? Is it wallpaper? It's so pretty,
1:38.9	these like, it's like this soft, turquoisey creamy. This is the office, it's wallpaper.
1:47.3	It's like blue smoke, and we did the ceilings too. It makes me feel like really like,
1:57.0	like really calm. Yeah, yeah, I like to come here and just like, it helps me focus,
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