José Andrés: Shorter Walls, Longer Tables
Food with Mark Bittman
Sweetness and Light
4.9 • 947 Ratings
🗓️ 29 March 2023
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
The humanitarian and chef talks to Mark about the way he ate growing up, the dark side of street food, the question of “too much empathy," and, of course, World Central Kitchen.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there everyone, |
| 0:03.8 | welcome to Food with Mark Bittman. |
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| 0:12.8 | answers, criticisms. |
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| 0:36.2 | you can find them at Mark bitman.com. We'll get back to that conversation in a minute, but first I want to talk about something |
| 0:53.4 | that lots of people ask me about when it comes to global cuisines. |
| 0:57.4 | There is something magical about eating a cuisine in the place where it originated. |
| 1:02.0 | One of the reasons for that is that the dishes that the fine cuisine are built around the produce |
| 1:06.2 | that's native to a place. |
| 1:08.1 | It's why the feta and tomato and a Greek salad tastes so perfect in Athens, where the artichokes in olive oil in Rome are to die for. |
| 1:16.0 | They have a certain sweetness and tang that you can get close to but not easily replicate. |
| 1:21.7 | And not surprisingly, one of the best ways to get a sense for how something should taste is to visit |
| 1:28.2 | a region of the world and sample a dish in several forms from lots of different neighboring areas. |
| 1:34.1 | Then you can appreciate the local variations as well. |
| 1:37.0 | And the most efficient way to do that, for me at least, is the first class experience of |
| 1:41.9 | a regent cruise. I was able to do that of a regent cruise. |
| 1:43.0 | I was able to do that on our recent all-inclusive tour of Asia. |
| 1:47.0 | I had a hankering for seafood, well I always do, |
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