Sidewalk Salad: Foraging with Alexis Nikole Nelson

Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio

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4.4 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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This week, we chat with TikTok star and expert forager Alexis Nikole Nelson about the most delicious weeds in your backyard, the joys of mushroom jerky and her cross-country journey to make seaweed panna cotta. Plus, Kevin Fortey takes us inside the competitive world of giant vegetable growing, J. Kenji López-Alt reveals the secret to perfect French fries, and we make Italian Flourless Chocolate Torta. (Originally aired on August 12, 2021.)

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Rosie, the director of education at Milk Street.
0:03.6	Viola Buitoni and Marika Contaldo Seguso know everyone, everywhere in Italy.
0:08.7	If you want to visit a tiny Parmesan producer working with a breed of cows almost extinct,
0:13.6	Viola's friends with him.
0:15.1	Have you heard about Venice's most famous and glamorous cookie baker on the colorful island of Burano?
0:23.0	Marika is welcomed into Carmelina's jewel-like shop like family. Marika and Viola have spent their lives cultivating these relationships,
0:28.9	and now they're willing to share them with you on our new culinary travel trips. With Marika,
0:33.7	we visit seven islands in the Venetian lagoon to meet farmers, winemakers, bakers, and fishermen.
0:39.1	And with Viola, we meet her friends and cook all together in Campania and Emilio Romagna.
0:44.2	There is exactly one spot left on each of the three trips this fall.
0:49.5	Join us. Head to www.177Milkstreet.com slash tours to see the full itineraries.
0:58.0	Hi, this is Christopher Kimball. Thanks for downloading this week's podcast. You can go to our website,
1:03.7	175Milkstreet.com, for our recipes, culinary ideas from around the world, or our latest cookbooks.
1:12.4	Now, here's this week's show.
1:23.5	This is Most 8 Radio from PRX. I'm your host, Christopher Kimball. With over a million subscribers on TikTok, Alexis Nicole Nelson has turned her lifelong foraging hobby into viral entertainment.
1:30.5	In her videos, she sings about the right way to eat a cattail, and she hunts for mushrooms in the parks around her home in Columbus, Ohio.
1:38.0	Today, she joins us to impart some of her foraging wisdom, including how do you seaweed to make Pamacotta.
1:44.0	Yeah, I've got a cooler of a cooler of seawater and seaweed home from Maine to Ohio.
1:54.0	So then I could use the seawater for pickling and the Irish moss to set a panacotta.
2:01.4	It works.
2:02.5	It was very good panacotta.
2:05.7	Also coming up, we recreate a 19th century recipe for a flowerless Italian chocolate cake,
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