
757: Home Cooking with Pros: J. Kenji López-Alt, Daniel Holzman, and Matt Rodbard
05/19/23 • 49 min
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This week, it's home cooking with the authors of Food IQ: 100 Questions, Answers, and Recipes to Raise Your Cooking Smarts. Daniel Holzman and Matt Rodbard bust food myths about cooking with frozen meat, and extoll the beauty of letting butter brown in the pan. Then, we visit J. Kenji López-Alt’s home where he gives us a lesson on cooking his favorite childhood dish, a super quick Japanese take on the Chinese classic, Ma po Tofu. Kenji is the author of the New York Times #1 Bestseller, The Wok: Recipes and Techniques.
Broadcast dates for this episode:
- May 20, 2022 (originally aired)
- May 19, 2023 (rebroadcast)
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This week, it's home cooking with the authors of Food IQ: 100 Questions, Answers, and Recipes to Raise Your Cooking Smarts. Daniel Holzman and Matt Rodbard bust food myths about cooking with frozen meat, and extoll the beauty of letting butter brown in the pan. Then, we visit J. Kenji López-Alt’s home where he gives us a lesson on cooking his favorite childhood dish, a super quick Japanese take on the Chinese classic, Ma po Tofu. Kenji is the author of the New York Times #1 Bestseller, The Wok: Recipes and Techniques.
Broadcast dates for this episode:
- May 20, 2022 (originally aired)
- May 19, 2023 (rebroadcast)
Donate to The Splendid Table today and we will show our appreciation with a special thank-you gift.
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