The Mystery of the $13,500 Melon
Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio
Milk Street Radio
4.2 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2020
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
We explore why Tokyo shoppers spend a fortune on fruits with journalist Bianca Bosker. Plus, Dan Pashman teaches us how to outsmart a buffet; we take a food tour of Lisbon with chef Nuno Mendes; and we share a recipe for Spanish tortillas at home. (Originally aired January 4, 2019.)
Get this week's recipe, Potato and Eggplant Tortilla Española: https://www.177milkstreet.com/recipes/potato-and-eggplant-tortilla-espa%C3%B1ola
Read “Why Should a Melon Cost As Much As a Car?” by Bianca Bosker: https://roadsandkingdoms.com/travel-guide/tokyo/why-should-a-melon-cost-as-much-as-a-car/
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Milkstreet Radio listeners, for our Thanksgiving episode this year, we want to tackle your |
| 0:04.5 | greatest Thanksgiving cooking challenges, savory and sweet. So if you need a new side dish, for example, |
| 0:11.9 | or help with your pie dough, we're here to help. Email us at questions at milkstreetradio.com. |
| 0:17.6 | One more time. Thanksgiving questions, please send them to questions at milkstreetradio.com. Thanks. |
| 0:26.7 | Hi, this is Christopher Kimball. Thanks for downloading this week's podcast. You can go to our website, |
| 0:32.4 | 177Milkstreet.com to stream our television show, get our recipes, or take our free online cooking |
| 0:39.5 | classes. Enjoy the show. |
| 0:46.5 | This is Milk Street Radio from PRX. I'm your host, Christopher Kimball. Today we investigate the |
| 0:52.9 | world of Japan's luxury fruits with journalist Bianca Bosca. She reveals |
| 0:57.8 | that a mango can cost $2,000. Calling them expensive fruit, I think, doesn't even begin to cut it. |
| 1:05.7 | I mean, these bear all but no relation to the fruit that we encounter at the grocery store. |
| 1:10.7 | They are perfect specimens. |
| 1:13.5 | They're almost like Barbie dolls compared to humans. |
| 1:15.7 | They're just flawless in every way. |
| 1:18.9 | Also coming up, we reimagine the Spanish tortilla, |
| 1:22.3 | and we reveal the best way to mellow raw onions. |
| 1:24.7 | But first, it's my interview with Nuno Mendez, |
| 1:27.2 | head chef at London's |
| 1:28.3 | Chiltern Firehouse. Mendez's latest book, My Lisbon, is a love letter to his hometown. |
| 1:35.8 | Nuno, how are you? Yeah, very good. Thank you. Thank you for inviting me to the show. |
| 1:40.5 | Pleasure. My pleasure. Let's get to Lisbon. You say it's the oldest city in Europe. |
| 1:46.5 | Yeah, I mean, it's, it's been around for, well, it's one of the oldest cities. And it's a city full of |
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