Holiday Lollapalooza! Cronuts, Cocktails, Baking Q&A and the Best Books of 2024
Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio
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🗓️ 20 December 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
It’s an all-out holiday hour of Milk Street Radio! We check in with French baker Dominique Ansel about how the invention of the cronut changed his life, his secret trick to a perfect fruit soufflé and why you shouldn’t buy cookies in France. Plus, author Julia Georgallis offers three tips for how to eat (and drink!) your Christmas tree; Adam Gopnik and Chris Kimball reflect on their top food books of the year; J.M. Hirsch provides a festive batched cocktail recipe; Cheryl Day answers your biggest baking questions: and we prepare your new favorite dessert: Paris Flan.
Get this week’s recipe for Paris Flan here.
You can find our Best Recipes of 2024 collection here.
Music credits, courtesy of Artlist:
Bob Hart - O Christmas Tree
The BaldyBrothers - Another Blue
Flint - Peach Jam
Avner Kelmer - Supper West Side
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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. |
| 0:35.2 | Today, we're embracing holiday baking with Dominiqueique Ansel, a French baker who had to travel |
| 0:40.6 | all the way to America just to taste a good cookie. |
| 0:44.1 | I remember the cookies when I was a kid, there were just a few in the pastry case. |
| 0:47.7 | They were dry. |
| 0:48.8 | They were flat. |
| 0:49.6 | They were not good at all. |
| 0:50.9 | French people don't eat cookies. |
| 0:53.3 | Later in the show, it's my conversation with Dominique Ansel, the creator of the Krona. |
| 0:59.9 | But first, we're tackling your holiday questions with my special guest host, Cheryl Day. |
| 1:05.6 | Cheryl is, of course, the author of Cheryl Day's Treasury of Southern baking. |
| 1:10.3 | So, Cheryl, it's the holiday cookie time. |
| 1:13.2 | I know lots of people who spend most of December doing nothing but making cookies. It seems like |
| 1:18.1 | the only time of year they make them. But, you know, I have my favorites, like Moravian, you know, |
| 1:23.6 | cookies. Oh, yeah. Those are good because they're thin and they're spicy. Do you have a cookie that |
| 1:28.7 | most people don't probably make or know about that I should put in my list? |
| 1:33.1 | Hmm. That you, Christopher Kimball, does not know about. Well, I mean, just something that you really |
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