Geraldine DeRuiter: Her Husband's Carbonara

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Rachel Belle

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4.4 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

In her latest book, If You Can’t Take the Heat, Geraldine DeRuiter uses food, humor and her own (often ridiculous!) life to explore the topic of feminism.

Geraldine has a way of, as she puts it, “going bonkers viral.” Millions of people read her James Beard Award-winning blog post, “I Made the Pizza Cinnamon Rolls from Mario Batali’s Sexual Misconduct Apology Letter,” and her essay about a bizarre experience at a Michelin-starred restaurant in Italy inspired a front-page New York Times article.

Over the course of two interviews (host Rachel Belle forgot to ask Geraldine a very important question the first time around), Geraldine and Rachel bond over the strange (read: disgusting) things they ate as children and the absolute best way to make and eat popcorn, plus Geraldine shares her last meal, which is almost entirely cooked by her husband.

Romans take their carbonara very seriously and insist it be cooked using “traditional” ingredients. But Rome-based culinary guide and cookbook author Katie Parla says modern-day Italian carbonara is not as authentic as passionate locals think it is.

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0:00.0	Alaska Airlines has teamed up with Hawaiian Airlines to create new nonstop international flights.
0:05.8	Go to Alaskaair.com or Hawaiian Airlines.com and I'll tell you more details later in the show.
0:19.6	I'm Rachel Bell and this is your last meal. The show where celebrities share stories about
0:25.0	the foods they love most, and we dig into the history, culture, or science of those meals
0:29.2	with experts from around the world. Today on the program, Geraldine Deroider. Author of the new
0:35.9	book, If You Can't Take the Heat, Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury. Geraldine Deroiter. Author of the new book, If You Can't Take the Heat, Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury.
0:41.0	Geraldine won a James Beard Award in 2019 for an essay titled,
0:44.7	I Made the Pizza Cinnamon Rolls from Mario Batali's Sexual Misconduct Apology Letter.
0:49.8	And the essay she wrote about a hilariously bizarre dinner at a Michelin-starred restaurant in Italy
0:54.7	called Bros. Went, as she states it, bonkers viral. Poor Geraldine had to endure two
1:01.9	interviews with me, because I am a complete and utter ding-dong who forgot to ask her about her
1:08.4	last meal the first time she came over.
1:12.2	Thank you for coming back.
1:18.3	I have never forgotten to ask someone the main question of the show.
1:21.4	I think it's a testament to my distracting charm.
1:22.3	I think so too. Yeah.
1:22.9	This is another pasta episode, and this time we are talking about Carbonara, with Rome-based
1:28.5	cookbook author and culinary guide, Katie Parla. Have you ever added garlic to your carbunara?
1:34.4	Cream, peas? You may not have known it, but the entire city of Rome wanted to slap you.
1:39.8	But Katie says the quote, authentic recipe that Romans obsess over isn't actually authentic.
1:46.1	Someone cooked one of the first recipes and she's using like cream and garlic and all
1:50.2	these things and punch it instead of guanchote.
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