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Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio

Best Cookbooks 2023: Plus, Charging Friends for Dinner and Pierre Thiam on “Simply West African”

Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio

Milk Street Radio

Food, Arts

4.42.8K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

This week, Pierre Thiam will change the way you cook with his secrets for mafé (peanut sauce), Senegalese barbecue and his favorite ingredient, fonio. Plus, journalist Jen Doll helps explain a puzzling new trend of dinner party hosts charging their friends; Adam Gopnik and Christopher Kimball reveal their favorite food books of 2023; and we make Pasta Rotolo with Spinach and Ricotta.


Get this week’s recipe for Pasta Rotolo with Spinach and Ricotta here.


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0:00.0

Attention at all passengers. You can now book your train tickets on Uber and get 10% back in Uber credits to spend on your next train journey.

0:11.0

So no excuses not to visit your in-laws this Christmas.

0:16.5

Trains now on Uber. T's and I'm your host Christopher Kimball.

0:32.0

Pierre Chombe says that Sunigalese cooking starts with the value of Terenga, a belief that...

0:38.0

When you share with someone your meal, that person is actually someone bringing blessings to you. Today we explore the heart and soul of West African cooking.

0:46.0

It means being intuitive, generous, and in touch with your ingredients,

0:50.0

which is why Pierre says Senegalese cuisine is much like Japanese.

0:55.0

There is so much in common between those two cultures.

1:00.0

The rice, the way they do it in Senegal, the same way they would do it in Japan they would

1:04.0

take a portion of the harvest put it on the altar just to connect these

1:08.3

ingredients to a bigger picture the universe and and to be grateful.

1:13.0

Food and philosophy at the West African table that's coming up later on the show.

1:18.0

But now I'm joined by journalist Jen Dahl who's here to explain a puzzling new trend in entertaining at home.

1:25.0

Her article for the LA Times is called Should You Charge Friends to Eat at your place.

1:31.0

Jen, welcome to Milk Street. Hi, thanks for having me.

1:34.0

So when I read this I was going like,

1:38.0

there's nothing in my life that prepared me for this.

1:42.0

I don't understand this on any level. I find it. I mean, there's

1:46.6

nothing about it that I understand. So I'm a lot older than you are. So take me through this in a way that helps me understand what's going on.

1:55.3

I will but let me first say that I don't even think that it's about your age not

2:01.9

understanding I think that the explosion across the internet

2:06.3

when these things happen and someone complains about it on Reddit is huge and

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