The Secrets of China's Tea Mountains
Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio
Milk Street Radio
4.2 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2021
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Tea expert Shunan Teng tells us about tea that costs $1,000 per ounce and the notion that tea is more like wine than coffee. Plus, we learn about forgotten fast-food chains, Alex Aïnouz debunks the myth of hollandaise as a mother sauce, and we learn how to make Vietnamese Braised Lemon Grass Chicken.
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| 0:44.6 | This is Mill Street Radio from PRX. I'm your host, Christopher Kimball. |
| 0:49.5 | Each spring, Shunan Tang, heads deep into the mountains of China to harvest some of the world's most prized tea. |
| 0:56.6 | Today she tells us about her mission to preserve the ancient art of tea making and explains how tea can be just as complex as wine. |
| 1:04.7 | Similar to good wine, you want it to have a structure, but you want this to be an elegant structure. |
| 1:10.7 | So how does the teeth finish? |
| 1:12.3 | Does it finish clean? Does it finish long? Does they leave you angrily or does they kind of just |
| 1:17.9 | quietly leave you be? Also coming up, we've raised chicken with lemon grass and turmeric, |
| 1:24.1 | and Alex Ainuz debunks the five mother sauces of French cuisine. |
| 1:30.8 | But first, it's my interview with Adam Chandler. |
| 1:37.2 | His book, Drive Through Dreams, chronicles America's history with fast food, including several chains that failed. |
| 1:40.8 | Adam, welcome to Milk Street. |
| 1:42.2 | Thanks for having me. |
| 1:44.9 | So for your book, you hit the road. |
| 1:47.8 | Where'd you go and what were you hoping to find? |
| 1:48.8 | Sure. |
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