757: Home Cooking with Pros: J. Kenji López-Alt, Daniel Holzman, and Matt Rodbard
4/17/202650 min
This week, it's home cooking with the authors of Food IQ: 100 Questions, Answers, and Recipes to Raise Your Cooking Smarts. Daniel Holzman and Matt Rodbard bust food myths about cooking with frozen meat, and extoll the beauty of letting butter brown in the pan. Then, we visit J. Kenji López-Alt’s home where he gives us a lesson on cooking his favorite childhood dish, a super quick Japanese take on the Chinese classic, Ma po Tofu. Kenji is the author of the New York Times #1 Bestseller, The Wok: Recipes and Techniques.
Broadcast dates for this episode:
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May 20, 2022 (originally aired)
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May 19, 2023 (rebroadcast)
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April 17, 2026 (rebroadcast)
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[upbeat music] Hey, it's Francis. Let's face it, home cooking advice from chefs is... Well, a lot of the time it's not really home cooking advice. Get your mise en place ready, yeah, yeah, sure, sure. But today we have an episode from a while back about real home cooking with chefs, like how to cook a steak that you forgot to defrost. Check it out. [upbeat music] I'm Francis Lam, and this is The Splendid Table from APM.