Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio

This week, we go behind the scenes of French restaurants with writer and former waiter Edward Chisholm to experience the chaotic rush of Sunday brunch, discover where waiters go on their time off and find out what happens to your food before it reaches the plate. Plus, we investigate a street food mystery in India with journalist Barkha Kumari, Adam Gopnik gets in a pickle about fermented foods, and we make the Moroccan beef and chickpea stew harira.Get this week’s recipe for Moroccan Beef, Tomato and Chickpea Stew here.We want to hear your culinary tips! Share your cooking hacks, secret ingredients or unexpected techniques with us for a chance to hear yourself on Milk Street Radio! Here's how: https://www.177milkstreet.com/radiotipsListen to Milk Street Radio on: Apple Podcasts | Stitcher | Spotify Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What could the future food system look like? Food and public health writer Marion Nestle shares her vision, along with stories from her life. We also get a lesson in how to truly taste water from water advocate, sommelier and TikTok creator Martin Riese; J. Kenji López-Alt shares his favorite way to use up leftovers; and we make the best Pad Thai at home.Get this week’s recipe for Pad Thai with Shrimp here.We want to hear your culinary tips! Share your cooking hacks, secret ingredients or unexpected techniques with us for a chance to hear yourself on Milk Street Radio! Here's how: https://www.177milkstreet.com/radiotipsListen to Milk Street Radio on: Apple Podcasts | Stitcher | Spotify Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Author Luisa Weiss offers some of her favorites from Eisenbahnschnitten to Kartoffelstrudel. Plus, journalist Rowan Jacobsen demystifies the truffle, Adam Gopnik talks luxury foods, and we learn how to make a creamy Amalfi-style lemon risotto.Get this week’s recipe for Lemon and Shrimp Risotto with Fresh Basil here.We want to hear your culinary tips! Share your cooking hacks, secret ingredients or unexpected techniques with us for a chance to hear yourself on Milk Street Radio! Here's how: https://www.177milkstreet.com/radiotipsListen to Milk Street Radio on: Apple Podcasts | Stitcher | Spotify Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our Thanksgiving special is here, and we’re ready to help you with the big day! We take your calls with special guest co-hosts Jet Tila and Cheryl Day and share recipes and ideas from J. Kenji López-Alt, Sohla El-Waylly, Mary Giuliani, Stacey Mei Yan Fong, Meathead and Nigella Lawson. The Sporkful’s Dan Pashman makes the case for why you should celebrate on Friday this year, and our friends from “A Way With Words” tell us the best ways to give thanks to the chef. Plus, host Christopher Kimball gives a special lesson in making the best Thanksgiving pie you’ll ever try.Get this week’s recipe for Christopher Kimball’s Double-Crust Apple Pie here.We want to hear your culinary tips! Share your cooking hacks, secret ingredients or unexpected techniques with us for a chance to hear yourself on Milk Street Radio! Here's how: https://www.177milkstreet.com/radiotipsListen to Milk Street Radio on: Apple Podcasts | Stitcher | Spotify Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We chat with Phil Rosenthal, creator of “Somebody Feed Phil,” about eels in Japan, mold at Noma and his most memorable scene from “Everybody Loves Raymond.” Plus, Irina Georgescu gives us a lesson in Romanian baking, from delicious snack pies to her favorite ingredient—fermented dairy. We also make Colombian Cheese Buns, and Alex Aïnouz is on a mission to cut an onion in 20 seconds or less.Get this week’s recipe for Columbian Cheese Buns here.We want to hear your culinary tips! Share your cooking hacks, secret ingredients or unexpected techniques with us for a chance to hear yourself on Milk Street Radio! Here's how: https://www.177milkstreet.com/radiotipsListen to Milk Street Radio on: Apple Podcasts | Stitcher | Spotify Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, the editor of 4 Color Books, Bryant Terry, celebrates the long history of veganism in Black cuisine to tell the real story of soul food. Plus, archaeologist Farrell Monaco reveals what the ashes of Pompeii can tell us about Ancient Roman food, Dr. Aaron Carroll weighs in on whether milk and juice are actually healthy beverages for kids, and we learn to make Orange-Cranberry Soda Bread with White Chocolate Chunks.Get this week’s recipe for Orange-Cranberry Soda Bread with White Chocolate Chunks here.We want to hear your culinary tips! Share your cooking hacks, secret ingredients or unexpected techniques with us for a chance to hear yourself on Milk Street Radio! Here's how: https://www.177milkstreet.com/radiotipsListen to Milk Street Radio on: Apple Podcasts | Stitcher | Spotify Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Before her tour across America, Nigella Lawson returns to Milk Street for a new special episode. She shares her stories from the Dangerous Sports Club, her love for plain cake and why there’s nothing worse than going out for Christmas lunch and finding someone’s done something “interesting.”You can see Nigella live November 2022 on her multi-city tour. For details and dates, visit https://www.fane.co.uk/nigella-lawson#book Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, we’re celebrating the holiday of tricks and treats with Halloween scholar Lesley Bannatyne. She teaches us how to emulate the romping Halloween parties of the Victorian era, complete with matchmaking games and dinners for the dead. Plus, we discuss Cotton Candy Grapes and other new candy-inspired flavors in fruit breeding; Dan Pashman has a suggestion for your trick-or-treat offering this year; and we make a German-Style winter squash bread.Get this week’s recipe for German-Style Winter Squash Bread here.We want to hear your culinary tips! Share your cooking hacks, secret ingredients or unexpected techniques with us for a chance to hear yourself on Milk Street Radio! Here's how: https://www.177milkstreet.com/radiotipsListen to Milk Street Radio on: Apple Podcasts | Stitcher | Spotify Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this special episode, we share some of our favorite listener calls about family recipe mysteries, from recreating a molasses cookie recipe missing half its instructions to fixing the crust on a custard pie found in a great-grandmother's handwritten cookbook. Plus, we introduce you to one of Milk Street's new television series, "Milk Street's My Family Recipe," which premieres on the Roku Channel on October 28.Learn more about Milk Street’s new Roku Originals:https://therokuchannel.roku.com/details/c5cdfb43342f5a53aa31bd8c5c2623e5/milk-streets-my-family-recipehttps://therokuchannel.roku.com/details/280bf41f92bf5e0ea85653837461b70fListen to Milk Street Radio on: Apple Podcasts | Stitcher | Spotify Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Illyanna Maisonet takes us on a culinary journey through Puerto Rico and its diaspora. She reveals the secrets to her guava barbecue sauce, the only flan she’ll ever eat and the best way to cook rice. Plus, Kim Severson tells us about the rise of salvage food stores, we make Aguachile Negro, and Adam Gopnik asks—what do we do when our favorite places close?Get this week’s recipe for Mexican-Style Shrimp in Chili-Lime Sauce here.We want to hear your culinary tips! Share your cooking hacks, secret ingredients or unexpected techniques with us for a chance to hear yourself on Milk Street Radio! Here's how: https://www.177milkstreet.com/radiotipsListen to Milk Street Radio on: Apple Podcasts | Stitcher | Spotify Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.