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Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio

Ramen Rock: Cult Band Shonen Knife Sings about Food, Not Love

Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio

Milk Street Radio

Food, Arts

4.23K Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2018

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

This week, NPR’s Maria Godoy reports on pop-punk band Shonen Knife; Milk Street travels to Taipei, to a cooking school that teaches street food; our recipe for shaved zucchini salad; and dry versus sweet wines. Originally aired August 24, 2017.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, this is Christopher Kimball.

0:03.2

Thanks for listening to Milk Street Radio.

0:05.4

You can go to our website, www.177milkstreet.com, to get our recipes, to stream our television

0:10.6

show, or to get our latest cookbooks.

0:13.1

Here's this week's show.

0:16.9

This is Milk Street Radio from PRX.

0:21.4

I'm your host, Christopher Kimball.

0:24.6

The good chef is not necessarily a good teacher.

0:30.1

I find myself always learning the new recipe to teach my student.

0:37.2

That was Chef Changpiao Wang.

0:39.3

For the last 30 years, she's been on a mission to investigate, test, and preserve classic

0:43.3

time in street food.

0:45.0

Her students, many of them professionals, often end up cooking and selling street food

0:48.7

for a living, continuing that long tradition of Taipei.

0:53.2

I'll be speaking to reporter Jason Struther about his trip to Taipei and his interview

0:56.3

with Chef Changpiao Wang in just a bit.

0:59.0

But first, Maria Godoy, senior editor and MPR science desk and also host of the salt,

1:03.9

is here to talk about Shonen Knife, a punk Japanese band that has garnered a cult following

1:08.8

for its songs about food.

1:24.2

Maria, how are you?

1:26.2

Good, how are you, Chris?

1:28.2

So, I guess the pop quiz is which band plays songs entitled Strawberry Cream Pop, Sushi

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