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The Sporkful

Reheat: A Brief History Of Cereal And Milk

The Sporkful

SiriusXM Podcasts

Arts

4.6 β€’ 3.8K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 27 September 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

We explore the history of an iconic American food couple β€” cereal and milk β€” with help from New York Times food correspondent Kim Severson and author Mark Kurlansky.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey everyone Dan here with another reheat and I don't know if you noticed this but

0:05.5

cereal has been a big area of focus for us in the last couple months back over the

0:09.4

summary you had a salad spinner episode with Josh Shearer and Nicole Anayetti from Mythical Kitchen.

0:13.7

Talked about the Kelsey Brothers cereal and different kind of cereal mixing techniques.

0:17.0

Then it came up again just a few days ago in our Taco Bell episode when I pitched my

0:20.6

idea for a Baklavas cereal to the product developers from

0:24.2

Taco Bell and She's it. So I figured why stop now let's devote a whole episode

0:28.2

to cereal and milk. In this episode I dive deep into both with Kim

0:32.2

Severson of the New York Times and author Mark

0:34.2

Kurlansky.

0:35.2

Kim of course, I got to hang out with her on stage during my Atlanta event when I was on book tour

0:39.6

and Mark, man, since he came on our show in 2018 to talk about his book Milk, he has written five more

0:45.2

non-fiction books, including one all about salmon. Incredible. As always remember, that there's an episode

0:50.0

you want us to pull out of the deep freezer, send me an email or a voice memo at

0:53.4

hello at sporkful.com include your first name, location, and which episode you'd

0:58.7

like to reheat and why. All right. Enjoy the show.

1:04.0

So when you're eating our bowl of raisin bran, what's your system to maintain optimal

1:07.8

texture throughout the bowl?

1:08.8

Well, what I do, one thing is that it's a ratio.

1:11.0

First of all, make sure you don't have too much milk, but enough milk because you don't want to have not enough milk at the end.

1:16.0

So that's one key thing. The other key thing is I pour the milk on the side of the bowl so you don't pour it over the flakes.

1:22.0

Yes.

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