Remembering Marcella, kimchi, pickles

Good Food

KCRW

Society & Culture

4.5 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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With her cookbook “Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking,” Marcella Hazan introduced a legion of Americans to a new cuisine — changing the way many cook and eat. Kimjang is a celebration in Korea. Eric Kim describes the days-long process of making kimchi that has been recognized by UNESCO as an intangible cultural heritage that needs to be preserved. Russian native Vlasta Pilot takes to TikTok, sharing her pickle fetish with the masses. LA Times restaurant critic Bill Addison refers to David Rosoff as the “fun, opinionated wine guru” of Los Angeles, who has taken over a block of Silver Lake. Chef Brian Dunsmoor shops for ingredients for his albacore crudo — a dish that is emerging as his restaurant’s signature dish.

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0:00.0	From KCRW, I'm Evan Klyman and you're listening to good food.
0:06.4	Let's set the scene.
0:08.8	It's 1973.
0:10.8	I was 20 years old, besotted with Italy its cuisine and its culture.
0:16.0	I was in my miniscule kitchen in mid-city LA
0:21.0	cooking for my memories of my time there, from a book called
0:24.4	I'll Talismano de la Félici Ta. When my mother gave me Marcella Hazan's first book,
0:30.0	the classic Italian cookbook.
0:33.0	It was the early 70s when supermarkets didn't stock Italian parsley or fresh basil.
0:40.0	You couldn't find them anywhere.
0:41.0	I struggled to recreate what I remembered of the Italian meals I loved.
0:46.6	As I built my own world of Italian food in Los Angeles, Marcella was firmly by my side. She opened up the world of Italian food to
0:56.6	thousands of American home cooks, but her triumph as the English-speaking
1:01.8	world's queen of Italian food certainly wasn't a done deal.
1:05.0	In fact, she traveled quite a surprising quirky road to get there.
1:10.0	Although Marcella passed in 2013, there's a new 30th anniversary edition of
1:16.9	essentials of classic Italian cooking. Her husband and collaborator noted
1:21.8	wine writer Victor Hazan joins us today.
1:25.0	Hi Victor.
1:27.0	Hello, I'm happy to be talking to you again.
1:30.0	Oh, it's just so lovely to get to spend some time with you. You were born in
1:36.3	Italy but then your parents moved to America you were raised in New York. How did you on Marcella meet?
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