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Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio

The Great Escape: Andrea Nguyen Flees Saigon in April 1975 and Brings Vietnamese Home Cooking to America

Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio

Milk Street Radio

Food, Arts

4.23K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Chef Andrea Nguyen, author of "Vietnamese Food Any Day," uses American supermarket ingredients for an authentic take on the food of Vietnam. Plus, we investigate why the Kinder Surprise Chocolate Egg is illegal here in the USA; we make a simple dump-and-bake Lemon-Almond Pound Cake; and our Paris correspondent, Alex Aïnouz, explains why a good croissant is straight, not crescent-shaped.

For this week's recipe, Lemon-Almond Pound Cake, visit: https://www.177milkstreet.com/recipes/lemon-almond-pound-cake

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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.

0:33.2

Here in the Milk Street kitchen we bring you a new repertoire of easy bowl recipes that will revolutionize

0:39.7

the way you cook and think about food. So if you want to change the way you cook, the way I have,

0:45.9

and produce dishes that taste like they were made by the very best home cooks all over the world,

0:51.2

I invite you to join Milk Street today. Just go to MilkStreetMember.com. That's 12 weeks for just

0:58.2

$1.1 more time. MilkStreetMember.com. 12 weeks for just $1. Hi, this is Christopher Kimble.

1:08.5

Thanks for listening to Milk Street Radio. You can go to our website,

1:12.0

www.177MilkStreet.com to get our recipes, to stream our television show, or to get our latest

1:17.5

cookbooks. Here's this week's show.

1:24.9

This is Most Street Radio from Pierre Axe, I'm your host, Christopher Kimble.

1:29.5

When Andrea Wynn was six years old, she and her family fled Saigon one week before it fell in 1975.

1:36.1

Today, Wynn and I discussed their escape and her introduction to the American supermarket.

1:40.9

It was so wonderful. It was roomy. It was quiet. There were no hawkers screaming, trying to sell

1:48.8

their wares, or there were piles of polished apples and wax oranges. It was this wondrous thing to see

1:57.8

what was available to us to make Vietnamese food here in America.

2:03.6

Also coming up, we talked quite some with Alex I News. We bake up Lemon, almond, pound cake,

2:08.9

and now it's my interview with Andrew Rogers. His documentary Crooked Candy tells the story

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