Making pizza at home, taking a dip, eating poison oak
Good Food
KCRW
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 July 2024
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Alexandra Stafford shares her easy techniques for making pizza at home — no kneading or stand mixers required. Alyse Whitney dives into summer with riffs on crowd-pleasing dips that are perfect for communal dunking. Want to make a smooth, creamy queso? Swetha Sivakumar reaches into the medicine cabinet. When Jeff Horwitz wanted to get rid of his allergic reaction to poison oak, he started consuming it. Summer tomatoes have arrived at farmers markets!
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| 0:00.0 | From KCRW, I'm Evan Kliman and you're listening to good food. |
| 0:05.2 | Who doesn't love pizza? |
| 0:07.4 | For many of us, we love it so much that Pizza Night is a thing. |
| 0:11.6 | For me, it was a daily thing that lasted 27 years. For many |
| 0:16.2 | beleaguered home cooks particularly with children it becomes a recurring |
| 0:20.1 | night in the food prep schedule so it's a welcome addition to other items on our |
| 0:25.2 | rotating menus. If you're not making pizza at home on a regular basis, |
| 0:30.3 | Alexandra Stafford's approach will surely convince you that it's totally doable. |
| 0:35.6 | Her new book is Pizza Night. |
| 0:37.8 | Hi. |
| 0:38.8 | Hi, thank you so much for having me. |
| 0:41.2 | Oh, welcome to good food. |
| 0:42.9 | I love talking about pizza. |
| 0:45.6 | I could talk forever about it. |
| 0:48.8 | How did Pizza Night start for you? |
| 0:52.4 | Well, Pizza Night really has been a start for |
| 0:55.0 | as I can't really has been a long-standing tradition for as long as I can remember even from when I was a kid. |
| 1:00.0 | And I talk about this in the introduction, but really the earliest association I have with it is when my parents were getting divorced. |
| 1:07.5 | And when my mom was trying to console my sister and me who were crying, she said, you know, when we move we'll have pizza every |
| 1:15.0 | Friday and we were both like, okay, we're good, like conversation done, we can, you know, move on with |
| 1:20.4 | our lives. |
| 1:22.4 | And then as I was, for inspiration for the book, |
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