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Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio

Simply Yotam: The Master of Middle Eastern Food Speeds It Up and Pares It Back

Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio

Milk Street Radio

Food, Arts

4.23K Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

We chat with Yotam Ottolenghi about keeping it simple. Also on this week’s show: recipes for a homemade Christmas with Yvette Van Boven; the secret of Taiwan’s beef noodle soup; how to make herb salts; and J. Kenji López-Alt on the science of vinaigrettes.

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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 flavor's the ingredients techniques 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 and a blender and changmai Thailand.

0:25.2

I learned how to grill a chicken.

0:27.4

It turns out that you are, in fact, a much better cook than you think.

0:31.2

You just need a little bit of inspiration.

0:33.2

So if you want to learn something old and something new, please join us at MilkStreetMember.com.

0:40.0

For just $1, you get immediate access to everything Milk Street, from recipes to videos, from podcasts

0:45.8

to TV shows, from online classes, to our online store, with over 2,000 unique products from

0:52.3

pantry to cookware to tools.

0:55.3

Once again, please join us at MilkStreetMember.com and start changing the way you cook today.

1:02.2

Hi, this is Christopher Kimball.

1:04.9

Thanks for downloading this week's podcast.

1:07.0

You can go to our website, 177milkstreet.com, for our recipes, culinary ideas from around

1:13.0

the world, or our latest cookbooks.

1:15.8

Now here's this week's show.

1:22.8

This is Milk Street Radio from PRX, I'm your host, Christopher Kimball.

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