Podcast Episodes

Bonus Episode: Mashed Potatoes

Season 1 Episode 35

This is a bonus episode that first went out to our premium subscribers in January. We're dropping it in the public feed today so you can hear what bo…

17 hours ago

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Beef Wellington

Season 1 Episode 34

The hardest part of a Beef Wellington isn't the beef. It is getting a crisp pastry shell and a rare, rested center out of one hot oven, both finishin…

2 days, 17 hours ago

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Chicken Piccata

Season 1 Episode 33

Chicken Piccata puts the bird in its title, but the capers run the show. Pull out that hand-harvested flower bud, too precious to come in a normal-si…

1 week, 2 days ago

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Osso Buco

Season 1 Episode 32

The same thing that ruins osso buco is the thing that makes it. The tough silverskin wrapped around a veal shank starts shrinking at about 140 degree…

2 weeks, 2 days ago

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Lobster Rolls

Season 1 Episode 31

Lobster used to be fertilizer. Coastal tribes buried it in the fields, colonists let it wash up in piles two feet deep, and prisoners complained they…

3 weeks, 2 days ago

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Chicken Teriyaki

Season 1 Episode 30

You might think teriyaki is a sauce, but it's a cooking technique. Teri means the shine, yaki means grilled, and the name describes what happens when…

4 weeks, 2 days ago

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Ratatouille

Season 1 Episode 29

The most famous ratatouille in the world isn't a ratatouille. The dish that makes the critic weep in the Pixar film is a confit byaldi, thin sliced a…

1 month ago

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Baja Fish Tacos

Season 1 Episode 28

The Baja fish taco didn't come from a San Diego beach. It was born in the late 1950s at a black market in Ensenada, and the first ones were grilled s…

1 month, 1 week ago

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Bolognese

Season 1 Episode 27

Real Bolognese is a meat sauce that happens to contain a little tomato, not the tomato sauce with meat that most of us grew up on. That's only where …

1 month, 2 weeks ago

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Burgers

Season 1 Episode 26

At least six towns claim they invented the hamburger — and the one the Library of Congress actually crowned still won't serve it on a bun or with ket…

1 month, 3 weeks ago

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