Murder mystery dinner menu, processed foods, pathogens

Good Food

KCRW

Society & Culture

4.5 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

When detective-fiction devotee Karen Pierce couldn't find a cookbook devoted to Agatha Christie, she decided to write her own. Professor Chris van Tulleken explores the effects of ultra processed food in a world where profit is the goal and purposeful addiction is part of the recipe. Personal injury attorney Bill Marler chases down offenders in our food chain as they make Americans sick. Food writer and musician Bill Esparza travels to LA's El Salvador Corridor for pupusas, antojitos, and more. Finally, local farmers, butchers, and chefs collaborate on flour tortillas.

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0:00.0	From KCRW, I'm Evan Klyman and you're listening to good food.
0:08.0	And just in time for Halloween, we bring you recipes for murder. Time for
0:14.1	Murder. It's the title of Karen Pierce's new cookbook
0:18.0	inspired by the work of Dame Agatha Christie, the master of the detective novel and who according to the author's website
0:25.2	has been outsold only by Shakespeare and the Bible.
0:30.4	Everyone loves a whodunit, especially me, and Karen Pierce has a particular taste for the genre.
0:36.4	In recipes for murder, she offers us a recipe for each of Christie's works.
0:41.6	Hi Karen, welcome to the show. Thank you for having me. How
0:46.8	deeply rooted is your love of Agatha Christie? It goes way back. I was maybe 10 or 11 when I first discovered an Agatha
0:57.1	Christie paperback on my grandmother's bedside table and having finished around
1:01.7	all the Trixie Belden's and all the Nancy Drew's, I dove in and, you know, never really looked packed.
1:11.0	In my 20s I started collecting them feverishly from secondhand bookstores and they were just always my comfort like if things are gone wrong I'd get in the bathtub and read an Agathichthy Christie.
1:22.2	Yeah, it's very comforting, despite the horror and violence in between.
1:28.0	What inspired you to research and write a recipe for each of her works?
1:34.0	Well, the truth is that I was really looking for the Ag of the Christie cookbook and I couldn't find one.
1:42.0	And I really don't know what gave me the Hoatspa to say I could do it myself but I just
1:47.6	started writing I wondered what it would look like and eventually I came to the idea that it
1:52.1	would really be about her books.
1:54.0	It would be how she used food in the books and
1:57.4	explain some of those really English things that most of us in the rest of the world
2:02.2	don't know about or stuff that's really timely that is no longer done.
2:08.0	So I just thought it would be great fun to look at it and that's what I did. I started with the mysterious
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