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Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio

Lights! Camera! Action! Food! The history of food photography from Betty Crocker to Gourmet Magazine

Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio

Milk Street Radio

Food, Arts

4.23K Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Also on this week’s show: Homestyle Cooking from southeast India; the best soup in the world; the truth about drinking and health; and grams versus cups. (Originally aired February 22, 2018.)

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0:00.0

Hi, this is Christopher Kimble from Milk Street. You know, for most of my career

0:03.5

I thought the cooking was well about mastering technique, but since I found that Milk Street in 2016

0:10.5

have come to understand the cooking is about something a lot more important.

0:14.5

Seeing the kitchen through new eyes through the experience and knowledge of home cooks from all around the world.

0:20.5

For example, Pesto with lemon zest and almonds from Amalfi Italy, a no-need pour in the pan pizza,

0:27.0

a one-bowl gluten-free Spanish almond cake, a crispy light falafel from the streets of Aman Jordan.

0:33.2

Here in the Milk Street kitchen we bring you a new repertoire of easy bowl recipes that will revolutionize

0:39.7

the way you cook and think about food. So if you want to change the way you cook, the way I have,

0:45.9

and produce dishes that taste like they were made by the very best home cooks all over the world,

0:51.2

I invite you to join Milk Street today. Just go to MilkStreetMember.com. That's 12 weeks for just

0:58.2

$1.1 more time. MilkStreetMember.com. 12 weeks for just $1. Hi, this is Christopher Kimble.

1:08.5

Thanks for downloading this week's podcast. You can go to our website, 177MilkStreet.com,

1:14.3

for our recipes, culinary ideas from around the world, or our latest cookbooks. Now here's

1:20.1

this week's show.

1:50.1

She just passed away a few months after I got married, so it was also one of those last memories of her for me.

1:58.9

Archena Pidatela translated her grandmother's 1974 cookbook, which chronicle the cooking of

2:04.4

Southeast India. From a simple carrot stir fry to a tangy peanut stew and haltemeitos in a spicy

2:10.8

curry, this is a fresh take on regional Indian cuisine that makes perfect sense for the modern

2:15.3

American kitchen. But before we get to my conversation with Archena, I speak with Susan Bright.

2:21.4

Bright's new book is Feast for the Eyes, the story of food and photography,

2:25.2

which explores the history of food photography from recipe booklets and magazine ads

2:29.3

to artists who photographed fried eggs on bathroom floors and fanciful cakes and pastries

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