Mark Bittman: Whatever Looks Good At The Market

Your Last Meal with Rachel Belle

Rachel Belle

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4.4 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Mark Bittman is a veteran food writer and prolific cookbook author known for his unfussy recipes and "How To Cook Everything," a 2,000-recipe tome that's sold more than a million copies. So when it comes to his last meal, Mark stays on brand and keeps it simple. So simple, in fact, he won't actually name a specific dish!

Mark is also a dad. So as a Father's Day treat, host Rachel Belle invited Mark's daughter, Kate Bittman, to join the conversation, to talk about what it was like growing up with a food obsessed dad. The verdict: it was embarrassing.

Former Bon Appetit magazine food director, and current cookbook author, Carla Lalli Music teaches us how to improvise a delicious meal, without a recipe, based on what looks fresh at the market.

And listeners share the delicious, disgusting and darling dishes their dads cooked when they were growing up!

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0:00.0	Alaska Airlines has teamed up with Hawaiian Airlines to create new nonstop international flights.
0:05.8	Go to Alaskaair.com or Hawaiian Airlines.com and I'll tell you more details later in the show.
0:11.6	Cairo, Seattle. I'm Rachel Bell, and this is your last meal, a show about famous people and the stories behind the foods they love most.
0:31.7	Today on the program, prolific cookbook author and food writer Mark Bittman.
0:37.2	Mark is probably best known for his book
0:39.3	How to Cook Everything, a 2,000 recipe tome that has sold over a million copies, won five
0:45.6	prestigious awards, and has basically been gifted to every college graduate in America in the
0:50.7	hopes that they will transition from top ramen to cooking roasted vegetables.
0:55.2	But Mark has written more than two dozen cookbooks.
0:58.0	He wrote about food for the New York Times for 30 years, and he has a new podcast called
1:03.0	Food.
1:04.0	With Mark Bittman, I see that they finally got to you.
1:06.9	It is now the law in America to have a podcast. And so out of fear of being deported,
1:11.3	you have joined the club. It just seemed like the right time. We've actually tried before,
1:17.6	but things didn't work out. But this time it was easy and it's happening and it's doing well.
1:23.2	And we're really happy about it. And I don't know how after all these years of podcasts,
1:27.2	you managed to get the name
1:28.5	food that wasn't taken yet.
1:30.7	No one understands that.
1:32.3	But yes, you're right.
1:33.3	The fact that no one's calling their podcast food.
1:36.4	So I said, well, why don't we call food?
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