Pizza, Chocolate Fountains and Mac & Cheese for 5,000 People: Alon Shaya’s Long Road to Chefdom

Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio

Milk Street Radio

Food, Arts

4.2 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Alon Shaya is having a moment—he’s just opened two new restaurants and published his first book. But his success wasn’t always a given. We chat about his circuitous path and the food he ate along the way. Also on this week’s show: Julia Turshen makes magic out of leftovers (tomato sauce becomes tomato soup); secrets to oven-poached salmon; four unexpected ways to use tahini; and Dan Pashman remembers Homer Simpson and food.

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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.
0:33.2	Here in the Milk Street kitchen we bring you a new repertoire of easy bowl recipes that will revolutionize
0:39.7	the way you cook and think about food. So if you want to change the way you cook, the way I have,
0:45.9	and produce dishes that taste like they were made by the very best home cooks all over the world,
0:51.2	I invite you to join Milk Street today. Just go to MilkStreetMember.com. That's 12 weeks for just
0:58.2	$1.1 more time. MilkStreetMember.com. 12 weeks for just $1. Hi, this is Christopher Kimble.
1:08.4	Thanks for downloading this week's podcast. You can go to our website, 177milkstreet.com.
1:14.8	To stream our television show, get our recipes, or take our free online cooking classes. Enjoy the show.
1:26.8	This is Milk Street Radio from Pierre Axe. I'm your host, Christopher Kimble.
1:31.4	Today I chat with chef Alon Shia. We discuss the worst turkey sandwich he ever ate,
1:35.8	why he starts his broth in a pot of ice, and how we finally got the chance to make pizza with Enzo
1:41.3	in par. He taught in a very militaristic style, you know, like four days. I was only
1:49.5	allowed to cut mushrooms, and then I graduated the cheese, and then eventually I was able to like
1:55.2	touch the flour, and then eventually I was able to actually make pizzas there.
2:01.0	Also on today's show, Dan Pashman discusses the food of the Simpsons, and I share my favorite
2:05.2	ways to use tahini. But first, it's my interview with food writer and cookbook author, Julia Turshian.
2:12.4	Julia, how are you? I'm great. How are you doing? I'm really good. Small victories was a fabulous
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