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Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio

Eat, Drink, Read: Dwight Garner's Obsession with Word and Table

Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio

Milk Street Radio

Food, Arts

4.42.8K Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

We’re joined by New York Times book critic and author Dwight Garner. He presents food quips from his favorite writers, as well as John Updike’s lunch routine and Hunter S. Thompson’s party tricks. Plus, anthropologist Manvir Singh helps us digest the world of “meat-fluencers” and their all-meat diets; A Way with Words give credit to the Old Norse words lingering in our kitchens; and we prepare a Pakistani-Style Chicken Biryani.


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0:00.0

I am Charlotte Casaragi and in partnership with the House of Chanel I present to you the

0:07.1

Le Enkontr podcast.

0:09.7

As part of the rendezvous litterer ataire at Recombun, this podcast

0:13.4

Spot Lights the Birth of a Female Writer.

0:16.8

You can listen to the various episodes and their authors

0:20.4

on your preferred streaming platforms.

0:23.0

This is Mill Street Radio from PRX and I'm your host Christopher Kimball.

0:36.5

Long lunches, strong cocktails.

0:38.6

Writers are notoriously reliant on good food and good drink. Take John Updyke for example. He worked over a restaurant and he said he knew

0:46.4

when he smelled the aroma of lunch coming up it was time to quit for the day. So he would

0:51.6

work from eight until he smelled lunch cooking.

0:53.6

And don't forget Hunter as Thompson.

0:56.0

When he got drunk he would just get a garden hose and spray everyone down.

0:59.5

And there are great photos of Hunter sort of terrorizing my wife.

1:02.3

He was all of five at the time.

1:04.2

Today we're chatting with New York Times book critic Dwight Garner

1:07.8

about books, food, and books about food.

1:11.9

But first we're going inside the world of extreme carnivores.

1:16.0

What up, Primals, Liver King here. We just took down a Mongolian yack and where do you think we're going to start of course the liver first because liver is king

1:27.7

That's Brian Johnson better known to his millions of social media followers as the liver king. He and other meat

1:34.6

influencers have gained notoriety for promoting all meat diets. They say that

1:39.2

returning to an ancestral lifestyle has many health benefits.

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