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Eater's Digest

J. Kenji López-Alt and The Cult of The Food Lab

Eater's Digest

Vox Media Podcast Network

Comedy, Food, Arts, News Commentary, Improv, News

4.4902 Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2016

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

For anyone who’s ever asked, “Why?” in the kitchen, J. Kenji Lopez-Alt is your man. After getting his start in restaurant and test kitchens in Boston, Kenji created The Food Lab, a column on Serious Eats dedicated to lassoing the laws of science and riding them to home cooking success every time. In the subsequent six years, the “Kenji method” has blown up, but despite being a cult phenomenon and bestselling cookbook author, Kenji himself is just about as cool and down to earth as you can get. He stopped by the Eater Upsell studios to talk meatloaf, space travel, and how to secretly take a professional phone call from the bathtub. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Oh, hello. I didn't see you there. It's me, Helen, and I want to talk to you for a second about the presenter of today's episode of the eater upsell,

0:08.0

MailChimp. Fourteen million people use MailChimp every day, sending over a billion emails. MailChimp. Send better email, sell more stuff.

0:16.4

Hey friends, Helen here. On today's episode of the E-Upsel, Greg and I are talking with Jay Kenji Lopez

0:24.7

Alt, the man who Ed Levine referred to once as the most important recipe developer to come

0:29.7

along in a generation. Then again, Ed is Kenji's boss. Kenji is the managing

0:34.6

culinary director of serious eats and far more importantly for our purposes

0:37.5

he is the author, creator, and human embodiment of the Food Lab. Before we get to

0:42.0

talking with Kenji, though,

0:43.4

a reminder that, number one, you should definitely

0:46.8

subscribe to the Eater-F Cell

0:48.1

if you haven't already.

0:49.4

Just hit the subscribe button right there

0:51.4

on your listening device, and you will get my voice and

0:53.9

Greg's voice and the beautiful voices of our guests in your ears every week without

0:57.6

having to do anything. You can also visit Eater.com slash Uppsel for transcripts and archives of the entire show.

1:05.0

If you don't want to listen to us, just read us.

1:07.2

Eder.com slash archives.

1:09.1

Subscribe, read, tell your friends.

1:11.8

That's all we want.

1:13.0

And now, Greg and I are going to talk to Kenji Lopez-Alp.

1:20.0

I had a terrible bagel this morning, like terrible, terrible bagel.

1:25.0

That's a classic New York experience.

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