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The Amazing Adventures of Poppop’s Bread

Proof

America's Test Kitchen

Society & Culture, Food, Arts

4.41.8K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Reporter Halley Bondy came upon an autobiography written by her grandfather, who she called Poppop. His life was astonishing: Poppop grew up in the grips of Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, escaping fascism to create a new life for his family. As part of his new life in America, Poppop brought over a semi-sweet braided bread called vanocka eaten every Christmas Eve. In Proof's holiday episode, an amazing story about family, war, escape, and a very special bread. Proof will be back in January with the last episode of Season 12. In the meantime, please vote for us for Best Arts & Culture podcast and Best Food & Drink podcast for the Signal Awards People's Choice Awards! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Thanks to this season's presenting sponsor, Kohler, they design innovative sinks and faucets

0:06.1

for people who do their best work in the kitchen.

0:19.8

This week's episode of Proof is our Christmas special, and the story you're about to hear,

0:25.0

and I'm not being hyperbolic, is amazing.

0:28.5

I don't say that often.

0:31.2

This story is about bread, a somewhat plain but beloved bread.

0:38.0

It's a story about finding joy in the mundane.

0:41.2

We're going to take you back to Czechoslovakia during World War II, and you'll meet a man,

0:47.2

Pop Pop, who might just be a real life superhero.

0:52.8

Today on Proof from America's Test Kitchen, escape hidden compartments and suitcases

0:58.4

fascism, bread, and Christmas.

1:09.3

I'm Kevin Pang, Veselava Nautse.

1:12.4

That's Merry Christmas and Czech.

1:14.3

Stick around, folks.

1:20.4

Ever get a new kitchen gadget for a tricky recipe and think, um, this is useful in theory,

1:26.5

but none of these buttons make sense, am I going to be able to make this from scratch?

1:32.0

Let the jewel oven's autopilot feature go from proofing to baking and then baking to

1:37.3

broiling all with a single press of a button.

1:41.2

The jewel oven is designed with 13 features from air frying to dehydrating, and the jewel

1:46.9

laps step by step recipe guides, which include recipes from ATK, make it easier to tackle

1:52.6

tricky dishes the first time you make them.

1:56.9

So aim high and make that goat cheese and herb stuffed chicken with confidence.

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