Summer Show! Ice Cream, Tomatoes, Watermelon, Corn and Fruit Crostata
Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio
Milk Street Radio
4.2 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2024
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
This week, we’re diving into the foods of summer. Culinary historian Tonya Hopkins tells us about the Black innovators who made ice cream what it is today; Bill Alexander reveals the history and fate of the tomato; artist Ana Inciardi tracks down a tomato from her family's past; Dan Pashman gives us a lesson on his favorite ways to eat watermelon and corn; and we bake up a Fresh Peach and Raspberry Crostata. (Originally aired August 17, 2022.)
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Mil Street listeners, we're taking our show on the road. Please join us for a special live taping of Melk Street Radio at the Art of Cheese Festival in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 0:09.6 | We'll be at the landmark Orphium Theater on Saturday, September 27th. I'll be hosting cheese trivia, taking your cooking questions with chef Tori Miller, handing out samples of some of the best cheese in the state, |
| 0:21.3 | and my favorite part, even get my fortune read with a block of cheese. |
| 0:25.5 | You will not want to miss that. |
| 0:27.3 | Tickets are on sale now at artofcheasefestival.com one more time, |
| 0:31.6 | art of cheesefestival.com, and we'll see you there. |
| 0:39.7 | This is Mel Street Radio from PRX. |
| 0:42.0 | I'm your host, Christopher Kimball. |
| 0:44.6 | It's the height of summer, which means Dan Pashman is rethinking how he eats his favorite summer foods. |
| 0:50.4 | When it comes to watermelon, he has a new theory, a mathematical theory, that is. |
| 0:55.0 | Here's the issue with the watermelon. |
| 0:56.7 | A lot of people are slicing their watermelon wedges too wide. |
| 1:03.1 | The angle at the tip should not be a 90-degree angle. |
| 1:06.1 | Have you determined the exact angle? |
| 1:08.9 | I would say 30 to 33 degrees. |
| 1:14.9 | Plus, Tanya Hopkins sheds light on the culinary innovators who made ice cream what it is today. |
| 1:20.7 | James Hemings, who was Jefferson's chef, learns the different French techniques and brings them back here. |
| 1:26.4 | There are approximately five |
| 1:28.1 | known vanilla ice cream recipes that he came back with. But it turns out he's not the only |
| 1:34.4 | enslaved person of African heritage in Europe training in the culinary arts and making ice cream. |
| 1:42.2 | First up, we consider the tomato. |
| 1:48.6 | I'm joined now by Bill Alexander, author of Ten Tomatoes that Change the World. |
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