The Most Dangerous Wine: A Smuggler's Story

Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio

Milk Street Radio

Food, Arts

4.4 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

We interview Jason Wise about his film “Somm: Cup of Salvation,” which tells the story of winemaker Vahe Keushguerian, who smuggled ancient grapes from Iran to make the first Persian wine in over 40 years. Plus, food scientist Anwesha Sarkar explains how she built a 3D-printed human tongue to study food texture; we cook up the original Spaghetti and Meatballs; and Adam Gopnik shares what’s new with wedding food—from the delightful to the downright absurd.

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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 Mow Street Radio from PRX. I'm your host Christopher Kimball.
0:32.0	Today we share the story of the world's most extraordinary winemaker.
0:36.0	He is the most insanely passionate, hilariously funny, and romantic guy I had ever met.
0:44.1	Vahé Kush Garion crosses boundaries in search of the world's oldest grapes.
0:48.6	Yeah, my middle is dangerous, fine.
0:50.3	I don't mind.
0:51.4	You know, I want to go to prison in Iran or elsewhere? Probably not but anyway
0:56.6	it'll be fine. Yeah.
0:57.8	Yeah.
0:58.8	Yeah.
0:59.8	Finding Forbidden Vineyards that's coming up later in the hour, but first we're taking a tour of the tongue.
1:07.0	Dr. Anwisha Sarkar works in a lab that might remind you of Frankenstein.
1:12.0	Sarkar and her team have been building a three-dimensional synthetic human tongue.
1:17.0	She joins me now, Dr. Sarkar, welcome to Milk Street.
1:20.0	Thank you, thank you for having me.
1:22.0	So let's start by doing some translation here.
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