My Siberian Adventure: The Joys of Mystery Meat, Power Outages, Evil Spirits and the Stove from Hell
Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio
Milk Street Radio
4.2 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 29 March 2019
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Author Sharon Hudgins writes a love letter from post-Soviet Vladivostok. Plus, IBM’s supercomputer creates flavor combinations; Dan Pashman lies to his kids about food; and we test cooking oils over high heat.
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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. |
| 0:33.4 | Here in the Milk Street kitchen we bring you a new repertoire of easy bowl recipes that will revolutionize the way you cook and think about food. |
| 0:42.6 | So if you want to change the way you cook, the way I have, and produce dishes that taste like they were made by the very best home cooks all over the world, |
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| 1:05.8 | Hi, this is Christopher Kimble. Thanks for listening to Milk Street Radio. |
| 1:10.7 | You can go to our website, www.177MilkStreet.com, to get our recipes, to stream our television show, or to get our latest cookbooks. |
| 1:18.3 | Here's this week's show. |
| 1:25.5 | This is Most Yet Radio from Pierre-Ex, I'm your host, Christopher Kimble. |
| 1:30.7 | Today I'm chatting with Sharon Hutchins, a Texan who moved to Siberia after the fall of the Soviet Union. |
| 1:35.9 | Hutchins love the food, which range from cabbage pies to caviar to kimchi, the people of the culture, and the trans-Siberian railway, despite the dining cars shortcomings. |
| 1:48.3 | They would have a 10-page menu, but there were only two items on the whole menu they actually had. |
| 1:53.1 | You'd say, I want to order this and they go, we don't have it. And then you want to say, I want to order that. |
| 1:57.9 | No, we don't have that either. And so you finally get to the point and say, what do you have? |
| 2:01.9 | And they tell you we've got Goulash, which was some kind of mystery meat, and a pastry brown gravy, and a sauerkraut salad, and that was it. |
| 2:10.7 | Also coming up, we decide which cooking oil is better than the rest. We share a recipe for Lebanese comfort food, Mahadra, which is lentils and rice. |
| 2:20.7 | But now it's my interview with James Prision, chef and author of the Flavor Matrix, the art and science of pairing common ingredients to create extraordinary dishes. |
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