Peppers, Onions & Butter
The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters
American Public Media
4.3 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 21 June 2019
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we look at three amazingly versatile ingredients: peppers, onions and butter. Host Francis Lam visits the home kitchen of Latin food scholar and chef Maricel Presilla. Her latest book is Peppers of the Americas: The Remarkable Capsicums that Forever Changed Flavor. She shows Francis how she makes a few essential pepper-rich sauces and dishes. Speaking of peppers, can't find Hatch green chiles for your chili? Have no fear; America’s Test Kitchen found a fantastic pepper workaround for their Colorado Green Chile recipe. Francis talks about the search for world-class butter with writer Alex Halberstadt. And contributor Joe Yonan talks to Kate Winslow, co-author of Onions, Etcetera, about one of the most underappreciated vegetables of all time. Plus, Francis talks with listeners about cooking anchovy filets, and getting the best out of your cast iron skillet. Splendid Table Video: Francis Lam on how to chop onions.
Broadcast dates for this episode:
- August 11, 2017 (originally aired)
- August 17, 2018 (rebroadcast)
- June 21, 2019 (rebroadcast)
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| 1:01.0 | It's The Splendid Table from APM American Public Media, the show for curious cooks and eaters. |
| 1:08.4 | I'm Frances Lamb. |
| 1:11.6 | Thank you. curious cooks and eaters. I'm Frances Lamb. This week, we've got a whole show on three simple ingredients, peppers, onions, and butter. |
| 1:23.6 | Now you put the three together, and that sounds like fun to me, but really each |
| 1:27.8 | of these foods deserves their own time to shine. So we're going to talk to a writer who |
| 1:31.9 | thinks the best butter maker in the world might be a woman in Vermont who tries to figure |
| 1:36.4 | out how her cows are emotionally. And we'll hear about an entire cookbook devoted to onions. |
| 1:41.6 | But first, we're going to go where chili peppers want to go when they die. |
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