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Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio

Tales of a Puerto Rican Kitchen: Von Diaz Mixes Coconuts and Collards

Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio

Milk Street Radio

Food, Arts

4.23K Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

We chat with Von Diaz about the flavors of Puerto Rican cooking and the world’s best breakfast sandwich. Also on this week’s show: Molly Yeh moves to Minnesota and trades Sichuan take-out for hotdish and beet farming; a recipe for chocolate-almond spice cookies; and Dr. Aaron Carroll says “no” to a new study on alcohol.

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0:00.0

Hi, this is Christopher Kimble from Milk Street. You know, for most of my career

0:03.5

I thought the cooking was well about mastering technique, but since I found that Milk Street in 2016

0:10.5

have come to understand the cooking is about something a lot more important.

0:14.5

Seeing the kitchen through new eyes through the experience and knowledge of home cooks from all around the world.

0:20.5

For example, Pesto with lemon zest and almonds from Amalfi, Italy, a no-need pour in the pan pizza,

0:27.0

a one-bowl gluten-free Spanish almond cake, a crispy light falafel from the streets of Aman Jordan.

0:33.4

Here in the Milk Street kitchen we bring you a new repertoire of easy bowl recipes that will revolutionize the way you cook and think about food.

0:42.6

So if you want to change the way you cook, the way I have, and produce dishes that taste like they were made by the very best home cooks all over the world,

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1:05.8

Hi, this is Christopher Kimble. Thanks for downloading this week's podcast. You can go to our website, 177MilkStreet.com,

1:14.2

for our recipes, culinary ideas from around the world, or our latest cookbooks. Now here's this week's show.

1:26.2

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

1:30.2

There's a lot of magic in Puerto Rico. I talk a few times in coconuts and color. It's about cookies,

1:37.4

which are these tiny little frogs that are all over the island, and they make this very sweet little cookie sound.

1:44.2

Kind of the soundtrack of Puerto Rico at night are these little musical frogs making this very sweet sound.

1:50.6

Fondias grew up in Atlanta, Georgia, and spent summers with a grandmother in the suburbs of San Juan.

1:57.4

Today, Diaz and I chat about what to order at a roadside kiasco. Garlic sauce done right in the story behind the world's best homemade breakfast sandwich.

2:07.4

Before we get to the cooking of Puerto Rico, I chat with Molly Ye. Ye spent most of her life in big cities from Chicago to New York.

2:14.6

In 2013, she moved to her husband's beat farm in East Grand Forks, Minnesota. Ye's TV show Girl Meets Farm debuted on the Food Network in June 2018.

2:25.8

Molly, how are you? I'm great, Chris. How are you? I'm good.

2:31.8

So, Jewish Chinese Midwest, brisket meets Sichuan meets hot dish. I've seen a lot of mashups in my time. This is one of the more interesting ones.

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