Kitchen design, food & identity, marinades, mangos

Good Food

KCRW

Society & Culture

4.5 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Sophie Donelson looks at modern kitchens, leaving plenty of wiggle room for comfort and realistic living. Anya von Bremzen travels to six food capitals in search of the connection between cuisine and identity. Learning the tricks of the trade, journalist Jaya Saxena discovers that performing at a Benihana teppanyaki grill isn't as easy as it looks. Daniel Gritzer lays out the tenets of marinades and discusses whether they're worth the effort. Chef Justin Pichetrungsi of Anajak Thai shops for market mangos for a traditional Thai dessert.

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0:00.0	From KCRW, I'm Evan Kliman and you're listening to good food.
0:05.5	For most of my adult life, I've lived with an uncommon kitchen.
0:10.6	I've had a difficult time committing to a finished space.
0:15.0	In my current iteration, there is no stove,
0:19.0	just a catering burner inside and camping burners outside. There is no oven. The fridge and
0:26.5	the sink are in a separate room from the workspace which houses a single toaster oven
0:31.6	and all the appliances.
0:34.3	For my 70th birthday this year,
0:36.4	I'm giving myself the gift of a renovation,
0:39.2	but I have to say it is terrifying to commit. So when I saw Sophie Donaldson's book
0:45.6	Uncommon Kitchens come across my desk I was intrigued. We don't normally cover
0:50.9	design books but on the precipice of a renovation myself, I thought I'd done
0:56.1	my HD TV hat and invite Sophie to share some wisdom.
1:00.4	Hi.
1:01.4	Hi, Evan, thanks for having me.
1:04.0	You couldn't have come along at a better time.
1:09.0	You say that we have reached Peak Kitchen.
1:12.0	The internet is a wash in kitchen porn. Why did you
1:17.4	feel compelled to write this book? Because I didn't like what I was seeing.
1:23.0	I think we have been taught by media sources and TV and Instagram and now Tik-Tock,
1:30.0	you know, how to make kind of what I say is a
1:33.5	PWK, a perfect white kitchen.
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