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Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio

The Fish Butcher: Fish Eye Ice Cream, Anyone?

Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio

Milk Street Radio

Food, Arts

4.23K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2026

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Josh Niland is a master of his craft: whole fish cooking, bones and all. He joins us to talk about transforming fish into ice cream and chips, and the tricks he’s played on customers at his Sydney restaurant, Saint Peter. Plus, reporter Sean Cole meets the prison inmate preparing chili and dragon rolls; and Matt Goulding shares the best restaurants you’ve never heard of.

Get this week’s recipe for Skillet-Roasted Chicken with Burnt Shallot Jus here.

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0:00.0

I found a Cooks Magazine back in 1980 in the last, well, 45 years, I've never had the chance to speak openly and frankly about the food world, recipes, travel, and food celebrities.

0:11.4

That is until now. My new substack allows me to speak directly to you, to home cooks, including my own personal recipes, cooking, food science, Vermont, as well as what I'm

0:22.4

watching and reading. Plus, I will be interviewing culinary stars to find out what they are

0:27.4

really like. Payed subscribers get exclusive recipes, some from my travels, others from my own

0:33.0

personal repertoire. Founding members get those recipes, plus direct access to me personally,

0:39.1

plus a tote bag and a signed copy of the Milk Street cookbook. So go subscribe at Christopher

0:45.0

kimball.substack.com. One more time, Christopher kimball.com.com.

0:55.2

This is Mill Street Radio from PRX.

0:57.3

I'm your host, Christopher Kimball.

1:01.1

Josh Nyland is more than a chef.

1:03.6

He's an artist.

1:04.7

And his preferred medium is fish.

1:07.2

Fish has been done the same forever.

1:10.4

It's just, we haven't reimagined what's possible and so that's why I want to try to make

1:16.6

pasta out of the bones and why I want to make ice cream out of the eyes.

1:19.6

It's to say that I can give you something delicious and why should you think it's a problem

1:26.1

if it was derived from an eye rather than an egg?

1:30.2

Josh Nylund cooks fish like you've never had it before.

1:33.7

That's coming up later in the show.

1:35.5

But first, producer Sean Cole brings us a story about how elaborate and resourceful prison cooking can really be.

1:44.6

There's this guy in state prison that I've been talking to for a while now.

1:48.3

Michael Ravenheart.

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