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Starter episode: “Jon Kung’s Recipe for Spaghetti and Lion’s Head Meatballs”
‘Lecker’
Recorded primarily in house kitchens, this convivial podcast has an intimate really feel that units it other than most interview exhibits. Lucy Dearlove, a radio producer, hosts conversations with cooks, cookbook authors and different foodies, incorporating the sounds of their cookery — paper baggage rustling, components being chopped, oil scorching in a sizzling pan — to create an immersive expertise. In addition to meals and our rituals surrounding it, Dearlove turns a lens on the bodily areas the place we cook dinner, exploring the design of contemporary kitchens whereas incorporating historical past, structure and private narratives. No matter the topic, “Lecker” is a comforting, lovingly made deal with that leaves you feeling heat inside, the best way you are feeling after a very good meal cooked by a pal.
Starter episode: “Moving House, Moving Kitchen”
‘Dinner SOS’
This enjoyable and provoking podcast from Bon Appétit guarantees to “reply determined house cooks’ cries for assist.” Each episode begins with a listener query a couple of culinary disaster, corresponding to how one can cater a dinner party when all your visitors have totally different dietary restrictions, or how one can overcome a concern of cooking a particular ingredient (say, rooster). Other matters are extra recipe-focused — how one can make a brownie that’s not too candy, or a gluten-free pizza that tastes like the true factor. After follow-up questions, Chris Morocco, the Bon Appétit meals director, enlists a rotating panel of meals writers and specialists to recommend options to the issues, which listeners follow and report again on.
Starter episode: “Fancy, on a Budget”
‘Recipe Club’
You know you’re in good palms with this sequence from The Ringer, because it’s hosted by David Chang, the founding father of Momofuku, and Chris Ying, a veteran meals author. Each episode focuses on a single ingredient, which is usually a complete meals like cauliflower or halibut, nevertheless it will also be a branded merchandise like Pillsbury dough or King’s Hawaiian rolls. From there, Chang and Ying agree on one recipe to make with this ingredient, and are joined by a visitor chef in a face-off to make the most effective model of that dish. To add slightly chaos, the cooks are additionally randomly assigned a constraint — make the dish utilizing solely a microwave, put together it in lower than 20 minutes or use solely shelf-stable components. Listening to those execs cook dinner with one arm tied behind their backs is reliably hilarious and academic — you’ll study substitutions, recipe hacks and how one can make the most effective of no matter kitchen state of affairs you end up in.
Starter episode: “Sweet Potatoes”
