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Working: How Klancy Miller Designs Recipes for Single People

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4.22K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

This week host June Thomas talks with cookbook author Klancy Miller, whose book Cooking Solo celebrates the joy of making delicious food for yourself. In the interview, Klancy talks about the trial and error of her career journey and how she came to focus on recipe development after studying at the Le Cordon Bleu in Paris. She also discusses her process for designing recipes and why she decided to write a cookbook specifically for single people. Klancy’s latest project is For the Culture, a food magazine that celebrates Black women in food and wine.  After the interview, June and co-host Rumaan Alam talk about their own relationships to food and cooking.  In the exclusive Slate Plus segment, Klancy talks about her sources of inspiration and how she deals with creative blocks.  Send your questions about creativity and any other feedback to working@slate.com or give us a call at (304) 933-WORK. That’s (304) 933-9675.  Podcast production by Cameron Drews. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on Working. It’s only $35 for the first year, and you can get a free two-week trial. Sign up now to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

During World War II, my great-granddad, George Arthur Roberts, was awarded for his bravery fighting fires night after night.

0:08.0

Thanks to him and his fellow volunteers, there was a city to wake up to.

0:12.0

This remembrance, discover your family's wartime story free with ancestry.

0:17.0

Until the 13th of November, enjoy unlimited free searches of all global wartime records.

0:23.4

Visit ancestry and register with just your name and email

0:26.2

to start discovering today.

0:28.1

Offer ends the 13th of November. I wanted to show by example that it is a good and joyful thing to make good meals for yourself.

0:47.0

If I had the intention of expanding horizons, it was really just thinking of yourself as a worthy person to be generous to.

0:57.0

Welcome back to Working.

1:01.0

I'm your host, Ramon Alam. And I'm your other host, June Thomas.

1:06.0

June, we just had Thanksgiving, Christmas looms. We're all kind of trapped at home anyway. This is definitely a time of year when we're all thinking about food and so Clancy Miller is sort of the ideal guest for right now. Can you tell me about her? Yeah, so Clancy Miller, who we just heard from, is a

1:26.6

Cordonbleau trained pastry chef and food writer. In 2016, she published a really appealing cookbook called Cooking Solo.

1:34.7

Did you hear how I said cookbook there?

1:36.5

Because I had to really overcome every part of me that says cookbook.

1:40.9

Her cookbook is called Cooking Solo, The Joy of Cooking for Yourself.

1:44.6

And she's also a journalist, mostly about food and travel.

1:48.6

And I really enjoyed a piece that she wrote for the New York Times last summer

1:52.4

about Georgia Gilmore Gilmore who fed and

1:54.3

funded the Montgomery Buzz boycott which was part of the Times's

1:58.4

overlooked series of obits that they should have published when the person died

2:02.1

but didn't.

2:03.5

And this year Clancy has spent a lot of time launching something new.

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