Al Roker Dreams of Turkey!
Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio
Milk Street Radio
4.4 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 13 December 2024
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Al Roker is back on Milk Street with family recipes and television stories to share. He recalls celebrity-filled lunches at the NBC commissary and the holiday meal he dreamt of while recovering from surgery. Plus, Ben Mims reveals the secret history of cookies; Grant Barrett and Martha Barnette of “A Way With Words” express holiday gratitude with food-themed compliments; and we prepare Cantonese Sweet-and-Sour Pork.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Milk Street Radio listeners, for a special episode all about Italy, I'm taking your calls with Lydia Bostianich. |
| 0:07.2 | From pasta to Pinella and beyond, send us your biggest Italian cooking questions or problems. |
| 0:12.8 | Email us at Questions at MilkstreetRadio.com. |
| 0:16.5 | Again, please send your questions about Italian cooking to Questions at Milkstreetradio.com, and we'll be in touch. |
| 0:25.0 | And thanks. |
| 0:29.7 | This is Milk Street Radio from PRX, and I'm your host, Christopher Kimball. |
| 0:35.1 | Today, Al Roker makes his return to Milk Street. |
| 0:37.9 | He takes us behind the scenes at the today's show and shares the number one party |
| 0:42.2 | trick he learned from his friend and colleague, Hoda Kotbe. |
| 0:45.3 | Hoda does this thing I call the Haudini, where you're talking to her and she's looking at you, |
| 0:52.1 | but I all of a sudden realize she's actually backing away |
| 0:55.2 | a little bit. Party tricks and favorite recipes with Al Roker. That's coming up later in the |
| 1:00.3 | show. But first, we're uncovering the secret history of the cookie. I'm joined now by food writer |
| 1:06.5 | Ben Mims to discuss his book, Crumbs, Cookies and Sweets from Around the World. |
| 1:13.1 | Ben, welcome to Milk Street. |
| 1:15.0 | Thank you so much for having me, Chris. |
| 1:16.9 | So what is a cookie? |
| 1:19.4 | You know, I've traveled a lot, and a lot of places don't call what I consider a cookie, a |
| 1:25.7 | cookie. |
| 1:26.8 | I know the old Fannie Farmer, you know, had small cakes, |
| 1:30.4 | you know, or something. And a lot of cookies started out, as you say in your book, Crumbs. |
| 1:35.5 | They didn't have much fat in them, so they were designed to be something like hardtack, right? |
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