The Secrets of Salt: History, Science, and Cooking with Naomi Duguid

Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio

Milk Street Radio

Food, Arts

4.4 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

This week, we explore our most essential pantry staple: salt. Naomi Duguid takes us around the world to learn its history, from Cambodia to Basque Country to an underground salt cathedral in Poland, while Alex Aïnouz gets obsessed with making gourmet salt in his lab. Plus, writer Doug Mack tells the odiferous details of the Great Midwest Cheese Duel of 1935, and we make Hungarian Paprika-Braised Potatoes.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Chris Kimble from Milk Street.
0:03.0	You know, when I travel for work, I come across home cooking.
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0:13.6	are new, at least to me.
0:15.8	But I also relearn many of the basics.
0:18.1	For example, in Paris, I learned to boil an egg.
0:20.5	In Mexico City, I learned how to make a cake in a blender
0:23.8	and chang my Thailand.
0:25.1	I learned how to grill a chicken.
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