Pickles and Pie Holes: The Secret History of Food Words

Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio

Milk Street Radio

Food, Arts

4.2 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2019

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Grant Barrett and Martha Barnette, hosts of the radio show “A Way With Words,” join us to explore the language of food. They discuss why some restaurant servers ask “Will you be wanting anything else?”—instead of simply “Do you want anything else?” And they explain phrases that seemingly don’t make a lot of sense, such as “in a pickle.” Plus, master spice blender Lior Lev Sercarz teaches us how to transform a meal using spices; we learn the step-by-step rules to perfect curry; and Adam Gopnik ponders climate change and the future of wine.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Chris Kimble from Milk Street.
0:03.0	You know, when I travel for work, I come across home cooking.
0:06.9	It's not really exotic per se.
0:08.6	It's what folks are cooking and eating every day.
0:11.4	But it's true, the flavors and ingredients techniques
0:13.6	are new, at least to me.
0:15.8	But I also relearn many of the basics.
0:18.1	For example, in Paris, I learned to boil an egg.
0:20.5	In Mexico City, I learned how to make a cake in a blender
0:23.8	and chang my Thailand.
0:25.1	I learned how to grill a chicken.
0:27.4	It turns out that you are, in fact, a much better cook
0:30.1	than you think.
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