Is Egg the Only Nog? Plus, Discovering the 8th Continent

Every Little Thing

Gimlet

Comedy, Education, Science

4.6 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2018

⏱️ 18 minutes

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How did cold uncooked eggs become a festive beverage? Plus, coquito for the nogged out. And one of the first scientists to hoist herself into the treetops describes life in the canopy. Guests: Chef and food writer J. Kenji López-Alt; Chef and Noshery.com founder Meseidy Rivera. You can find Kenji’s eggnog recipe here and Meseidy’s coquito recipe here. Biologist Meg Lowman, Director of Global Initiatives, Lindsay Chair of Botany & Senior Scientist in Plant Conservation at the California Academy of Sciences. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You have reached the Every Little Thing helpline.
0:05.0	Please leave your Ulltide question after the tone.
0:08.0	Hello, my name is Jeff from Maine, and I was just just curious what exactly is a NOG and is there any other kind besides egg?
0:17.0	Thank you.
0:18.0	Every little seasonal beverage question, we'll investigate.
0:25.0	We have food-celeb, Kenji Lopez-alt here to help with this egg nag inquiry.
0:29.0	I am a food writer.
0:31.0	He's author of the Food Lab a 900 page cooking Bible and he has
0:36.2	done a longitudinal study on eggnog aging. I think it sort of peaks in flavor within
0:42.2	the first few months or so and then it kind of
0:44.6	tapers off and then between a year and two years there's not really that much of
0:48.2	a difference. So are you a big egg nag pan? I am yeah yeah, I definitely am. Like year round, like 365 days a year egg nog?
0:57.0	No, nog is really a Christmas time thing for me. And I am a fan of nog. It's one of those drinks that you get. I mean you drink way
1:05.9	more alcohol and more calories than you realize and it works fast. But it's delicious.
1:13.1	Yeah, I wouldn't say but, and it's delicious.
1:16.8	Okay, Kenji, we're here because of listener Jeff.
1:22.8	Hey Jeff.
1:23.8	Jeff wants to know what is a nog?
1:26.0	What is a nog?
1:28.0	So a modern egg nog is a custard drink, so it's custard and alcohol, so it's cold, uncooked custard drink so it's custard and alcohol so it's cold uncooked
1:33.8	custard with booze in it delish so where did the drink come from was there like a
1:38.6	proto-nog so there's like there were like old drinks called posits which were like milk that were mixed
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