817: Holidays with Lisa Kyung Gross and Helen Rosner
12/26/202550 min
This week, we’re all about community and coming together for the holidays. First, we talk to Lisa Kyung Gross, founder of The League of Kitchens, a unique cooking school where women from all over the world, welcome you into their homes and teach you how to make one of their family recipes. She talks about the delicious recipes she has collected in her new book, The League of Kitchens Cookbook: Brilliant Tips, Secret Methods & Favorite Family Recipes from Around the World. She leaves us with an Afghan recipe for Cake Jawari, a delicious yellow cake with rosewater and cardamom. Then, The New Yorker’s food writer Helen Rosner stops by the studio with treats and ideas for your last-minute gifts.
Broadcast dates for this episode:
- December 20, 2024 (originally aired)
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First 90 secondsAna Gonzales0:00
(instrumental music plays) Our Common Nature is a musical journey with Yo-Yo Ma and me, Ana Gonzales, through this complicated country.
Speaker 10:08
We go into caves, onto boats, and up mountain trails to meet people, hear their stories, their poetry, and of course, play some music. All to reconnect to nature and get closer to the things we're missing.
Ana Gonzales0:23
Listen to Our Common Nature from WNYC wherever you get podcasts.
Francis Lam· Host0:29
(instrumental music plays) Hey, it's Francis. It's time to celebrate and indulge a bit, so here's a show from last year all about gift-giving, even if you're just giving it to yourself. Have a listen. I'm Francis Lam, and this is The Splendid Table from APM. With the holidays right around the corner, of course, we wanted to give you some inspiration for your celebrations. Later in the episode, we'll be joined by my great friend Helen Rosner, a staff writer and restaurant critic for The New Yorker magazine. We'll talk about last-minute gifts from her annual gift guide and a special treat you're gonna wanna get for yourself even after the gift-giving is done. But the more we thought about this episode, the more we felt that, you know, it's pretty important these days to find celebration in the everyday. I mean, yes, absolutely, this is the time for gatherings, for special touches in our meals