Thanksgiving, Part 2: Umami and Me (with Tracy Clayton and our families)

Home Cooking

Samin Nosrat & Hrishikesh Hirway

Arts, Food

4.8 • 4.9K Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Happy Thanksgiving! Our special family guests this week include Samin’s younger brothers Pasha & Bahador, Hrishi’s dad Dr Sumesh Hirway, and Hrishi’s niece Asha. Plus, the wonderful Tracy Clayton (@brokeymcpoverty) tells us about the Thanksgiving opinion that could get her excommunicated from her old Kentucky home.

This episode is dedicated to Kanta Hirway, Hrishi’s mom. Without her incredible home cooking and mischievous sense of humor, this podcast (and Hrishi) would have never been. Her Thanksgiving mango pie was the connection point for Samin and Hrishi’s first collaboration, and we hope you’ll try making it in her honor. Words cannot express how much she will be missed, but she expressed her love through food, anyway—so eat well and take care of each other

For recipes, resources, and more, visit homecooking.show/episodes/13.

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0:00.0	Hey there everyone, it's Samin and I have some sad news to share before we get to the
0:06.6	episode.
0:08.8	After Rishi and I finish recording last week, his mom, Kanta Auntie, passed away.
0:16.4	As you can imagine, it's been a terribly heartbreaking time for Rishi and Sumesh Uncle
0:23.4	and the entire hear-way family, and also for me, who's become something of an ancillary
0:30.2	hear-way over the years.
0:32.4	Rishi asked me, our team, and a couple friends to get this episode finished so we could get
0:38.4	it out before Thanksgiving as a tribute to his mom.
0:42.3	And it just so happened that we'd already recorded a bunch of interviews with our family
0:46.6	members, and so there already happened to be several mentions of his mom's cooking in
0:50.7	the episode.
0:51.7	So it feels like a really nice way to honor her.
0:55.2	I also wanted to read you a couple lines from the obituary Rishi wrote about her.
1:00.6	Kanta was an excellent cook and a lover of spicy cuisine from all over the world.
1:07.1	She expressed her love through cooking and insisted on feeding everyone who came into
1:12.0	her house.
1:13.8	When the hear-ways began an annual tradition of hosting Thanksgiving dinner in their
1:17.7	home in Peabody, Kanta would make Indian food alongside the American staples which were
1:23.3	less familiar to her.
1:25.4	A highlight for her family and the friends who came to visit was her mango pie, a hybrid
1:30.6	dessert that would one day be written about in the New York Times, adapted from her recipe.
1:36.6	It was a dish that represented her well, making a home in America, but always connected
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