The Dark World of Restaurant Reservations: How to Cheat the System

Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio

Milk Street Radio

Food, Arts

4.4 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Journalist Adam Iscoe takes us inside the underworld of restaurant reservations. Plus, Viola Buitoni teaches us about weeknight Italian cooking, Adam Gopnik shares Mark Twain’s favorite American foods, and Cheryl Day returns to answer baking questions.

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0:00.0	Hey Milk Street Radio listeners for our Thanksgiving episode this year.
0:03.7	I'm taking your calls with Jet Tila and Cheryl Day.
0:07.2	From sides to Pie send it's your biggest Thanksgiving cooking questions.
0:11.3	Email us at
0:15.0	again please send your Thanksgiving questions to questions at milkstreet radio.com
0:21.3	and we'll be in touch. Thanks.
0:25.0	This is mostly radio from PRX. I'm your host Christopher Kimball.
0:31.0	Today viola Butoni is here to teach us weeknight cooking, Italian stop.
0:37.0	If you have a good kind of tomatoes, you can get a tomato sauce ready in about 10 minutes.
0:45.0	Generally, when I make pasta at the Pomodoro,
0:46.7	the tomato and the water for boiling in the pasta
0:48.9	I go up at the same time.
0:50.4	And by the time the water is boiled and the pastaes cooked the tomatoes ready and I put it all together.
0:55.0	Inside viola Bhutani's Italian kitchen, that's coming up later in the hour.
1:00.0	But first I'm joined by Adam Isko to explain why some people are spending hundreds of
1:07.4	dollars on restaurant reservations. His article for the New Yorker is called
1:11.4	Why You Can't Get a Restaurant Reservation.
1:15.0	Adam, welcome to Milk Street.
1:17.0	Chris, thanks so much for having me. It's a delight to be here.
1:20.0	The average diner in New York City is massively disadvantaged.
1:25.0	It's as if they're bringing a knife to a gunfight.
1:28.0	You want to give us a little background on that?
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