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Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio

Lidia Bastianich's Family Table

Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio

Milk Street Radio

Food, Arts

4.42.8K Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Lidia Bastianich grew up under Tito's communist rule, escaped to a refugee camp in Trieste and finally made it to New York City, where she learned to love Spam, Jell-O and Wonder Bread. She talks about the early years on her grandmother's farm, where she slept on a corn-husk mattress, ate pig's blood sausage and fresh fig jam, and realized that the secret to happiness is having less, not more. Plus, we learn about turkey skin ice cream with Salt & Straw's Tyler Malek; discuss the ethics of cooking lobsters; and make molletes. (Originally aired June 14, 2019.)


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0:00.0

Hi, this is Chris Kimble from Milk Street.

0:03.0

You know, when I travel for work, I come across home cooking.

0:06.9

It's not really exotic per se.

0:08.6

It's what folks are cooking and eating every day.

0:11.4

But it's true, the flavors and ingredients techniques

0:13.6

are new, at least to me.

0:15.8

But I also relearn many of the basics.

0:18.1

For example, in Paris, I learned to boil an egg.

0:20.5

In Mexico City, I learned how to make a cake in a blender

0:23.8

and chang my Thailand.

0:25.2

I learned how to grill a chicken.

0:27.4

It turns out that you are, in fact, a much better cook

0:30.1

than you think.

0:31.1

You just need a little bit of inspiration.

0:33.2

So if you want to learn something old and something new,

0:36.3

please join us at Milk Street Member dot com.

0:40.0

For just $1, you get immediate access to everything Milk Street,

0:43.6

from recipes to videos, from podcasts to TV shows,

0:47.1

from online classes, to our online store,

0:50.0

with over 2,000 unique products from pantry to cookware

0:53.9

to tools.

0:55.2

Once again, please join us at Milk Street Member dot com

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