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Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio

Chocolate Flan, Cactus Sorbet and Guava Doughnuts: The Amazing World of Mexican Desserts

Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio

Milk Street Radio

Food, Arts

4.42.8K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

This week, we taste the sweeter side of Mexican cuisine with chef Fany Gerson. Traveling from Mexico City to Veracruz to Oaxaca, we explore regional confections like chili-flavored paletas and guava and cheese doughnuts. Plus, we take a seat at the Noir Bar with writer and television host Eddie Muller, who infuses classic cocktails with a cinematic twist; Martha Barnette and Grant Barrett of “A Way With Words” unpack the history hidden in your spice cabinet; and we prepare a very crispy Korean Fried Chicken.


Get the recipe for Korean Fried Chicken here.


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0:00.0

Hi, this is Christopher Kimble from Milk Street. You know, for most of my career

0:03.5

I thought the cooking was well about mastering technique, but since I found that Milk Street in 2016

0:10.5

have come to understand the cooking is about something a lot more important.

0:14.5

Seeing the kitchen through new eyes through the experience and knowledge of home cooks from all around the world.

0:20.5

For example, Pesto with lemon zest and almonds from Amalfi, Italy, a no-need pour in the pan pizza,

0:27.0

a one-bowl gluten-free Spanish almond cake, a crispy light falafel from the streets of Aman Jordan.

0:33.2

Here in the Milk Street kitchen we bring you a new repertoire of easy bowl recipes that will revolutionize the way you cook and think about food.

0:42.4

So if you want to change the way you cook, the way I have, and produce dishes that taste like they were made

0:48.0

by the very best home cooks all over the world, I invite you to join Milk Street today.

0:53.8

Just go to MilkStreetMember.com. That's 12 weeks for just $1.1 more time. MilkStreetMember.com.

1:02.4

12 weeks for just $1.

1:09.4

This is Milk Street Radio from Pair X. I'm your host Christopher Kimble.

1:14.2

A culinary tour of Mexico usually focuses on tacos, tamales, salsa, and mule,

1:20.0

but for Chef Fanny Gerson, it's all about dessert.

1:23.7

Even when I was researching the book, people would find out what I was doing and they'd say,

1:28.0

you could write a whole book about that. In my mind, I was like, we could write a whole encyclopedia about it.

1:35.2

Later on the show, we're highlighting the sweeter side of Mexican cuisine, but first, a taste of film noir.

1:43.4

I've never seen Thursday be dead or alive. Well, you know me, Spade. If you did it or if you didn't,

1:48.5

you'll get a square deal for me and most of the breaks. Don't know they blame me much. Man,

1:53.0

it killed your partner, but that won't stop me from nailing you. Fair enough.

1:58.4

But I feel better about it if you'd ever drink with me.

2:01.5

That's a scene from the Maltese Falcon. Humphrey Bogart plays Detective Sam Spade,

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