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“Steamed: A Catharsis Cookbook” Explains How To Get Dinner and Your Feelings on the Table

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🗓️ 21 May 2021

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Cuing off the difficult times we are living in, authors Rachel Levin and Tara Duggan have a new, and hilarious, cookbook that encourages readers to put their feelings into making food. Whether you want to pound out your anger on a pork loin to make their “Hammered Schnitzel” or cry over sliced onions for some “Sad French Onion Soup,” “Steamed: A Catharsis Cookbook” has a recipe for you. What’s the dish that you make when you’re “anxiety cooking” -- which, according to the authors, is “stress-eating's more productive cousin”? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Welcome back to Forum. I'm Rachel Meyerow.

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Rachel Levin and Tara Duggan have published a humorous new cookbook that encourages home chefs to pour their feelings onto the kitchen counter.

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Whether you're in the mood to pound out your anger on a pork loin for a hammered schnitzel or cry over sliced onions for sad French onion soup, this cookbook called steamed, a catharsis cookbook, has a recipe for you because

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anxiety cooking, according to the authors, is stress eating's more productive cousin.

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Well, welcome, guys. As we begin this conversation, I want to put a call out right away because

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we do just have 20 minutes for this

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segment. Give us a call at 866733-6786. What's the recipe you like to cook when you're

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feeling your feelings? 866-733-6786. You can also get in touch on Twitter and Facebook're at KQED forum or email your questions to forum at kQED.org.

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Well, you know, Rachel, I have to start with a compliment.

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This book is eminently quotable.

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