The Cake Whisperer Solves Your Baking Problems!
Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio
Milk Street Radio
4.4 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 6 December 2024
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
We’re kicking off the holiday season with Rose Levy Beranbaum and Woody Wolston in celebration of the 35th anniversary of “The Cake Bible.” Beranbaum and Wolston reveal their tricks for génoise, their secret ingredient for perfect chocolate cake and their full-throated defense of fondant—yes, fondant! Plus, we explore the delightfully strange world of food miniatures with Emily Kenway, Chris and Sara answer your holiday cooking questions, and we make Almond and Citrus Biscotti.
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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. |
| 0:35.5 | Today we're kicking off the holiday season with a woman who changed the way we |
| 0:39.2 | baked cakes. That's Rose Lovie Baranbaugh. She gives us a masterclass with some |
| 0:44.5 | surprises along the way, including her passionate defense of fondant. Oh, wait until you hear |
| 0:50.5 | this. We have the most fabulous two versions of fondant. Oh my God, it's a whole |
| 0:56.0 | game changer. The Cake Bible with Rose Levy-Berbomb, that's coming up later in the show. |
| 1:03.4 | But first, I'm joined by my co-host, Sarah Moulton, to answer a few of your cooking questions. |
| 1:09.7 | Sarah's, of course, the star of Sarah's weeknight |
| 1:11.7 | meals on public television, also author of Home Cooking 101. So, Chris, I have a question for you. |
| 1:19.1 | What is your favorite thing about entertaining? And what do you hate about entertaining? |
| 1:26.0 | Oh, boy, this is going to be, do I hate entertaining at all? |
| 1:29.9 | I don't like formal entertaining, and I don't like a big crowd of people. |
| 1:35.2 | I just shut down when there's more than like six or eight people in a room. |
| 1:38.3 | I can't deal with it. |
| 1:39.6 | I like intimate entertaining, where it's casual. |
| 1:42.8 | You're not trying to impress anybody, and they're all |
| 1:45.5 | people you know in the conversation as good. So I would say the most important thing to me about |
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