In a cooking rut? 'Try This.'
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The Washington Post
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🗓️ 3 July 2024
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Learn how to enjoy cooking by identifying parts of your personality outside the kitchen that will set you up for success inside the kitchen.
In the first class in our course on how to enjoy cooking more, host Cristina Quinn teams up with the Washington Post food team to uncover tips for identifying your kitchen personality. Food and dining editor Joe Yonan, food writer and recipe developer Aaron Hutcherson and recipes editor Becky Krystal discuss how to apply personality characteristics — like a tendency to tinker or an adherence to rules — to your cooking experience. The process can make preparing a meal more personalized and therefore more pleasurable.
Find more than 10,000 recipes – sortable by cuisine, course and time it takes to cook – in The Post’s recipe finder. Try one of Cristina’s favorites, Simple Butter Chicken.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's Martine. Today is Thursday, July 4th, and happy Independence Day. I hope you're all |
| 0:09.0 | having a very restful holiday. And on this day, some of you are probably doing a lot of cooking. |
| 0:15.1 | Maybe you're hosting a barbecue or bringing a potluck dish to a friend's backyard. And some of you might be absolutely |
| 0:22.1 | treading that. Because cooking can feel hard and stressful. And not all of us move around the |
| 0:29.3 | kitchen with the ease and confidence of Aina Garden. That is why I wanted to share the new season |
| 0:36.3 | of Try This from the Washington Post. |
| 0:39.1 | Try This is a series of audio courses designed to jumpstart different parts of your life with easy-to-use pointers. |
| 0:46.0 | And this season is about how to change your relationship to cooking, how to actually find more enjoyment in it. |
| 0:53.7 | It's hosted by my sparkling colleague, Christina Quinn, |
| 0:57.2 | and trust me, you will learn so much. |
| 1:00.3 | So today, we're going to play for you the first episode of this series |
| 1:03.6 | about identifying your kitchen personality. |
| 1:07.8 | And after you listen, follow, try this, |
| 1:10.6 | using the link in our show notes, or by searching for it wherever you listen to podcasts. |
| 1:17.0 | Hey, welcome to Try This from The Washington Post. |
| 1:30.5 | Try This is a series of audio courses to help you take on common challenges and learn something new without having to make a big time commitment. |
| 1:38.9 | I'm Christina Quinn. I'm a journalist at The Post and I'll be learning with you. And for this course, we're cooking up ways to inspire you in the kitchen |
| 1:47.0 | to get you out of a dinner time rut |
| 1:49.0 | or remind you that a meal doesn't have to be perfect to be worthwhile. |
| 1:53.7 | If you're new to try this, here's how this will work. |
| 1:57.0 | Each try this course has anywhere from two to five classes, |
| 2:00.2 | or in other words, two to five episodes. |
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