ethnic cuisine

Dan and Al plug their microphones in and let the words flow in the latest installment of The Lightning Round. The two podcast hosts known as Dan and Al preview the Super Bowl, banter about Dan's Twitter rebrand, answer Twitter poll questions from earlier in the week, draft their top four favorite ethnic cuisines, talk some financial advice and then come up with new subregions to categorize the United States into.


Audio Intro/Outro: “Pantyhose” by TV Girl
From the Free Music Archive
CC BY NC 4.0

On this week's episode of A Taste of the Past, host Linda Pelaccio is joined in the studio by Krishnendu Ray, Department Chair of the Food Studies program at NYU. A food studies scholar, he is the author of The Migrant’s Table: Meals and Memories in Bengali-American Households (Temple University, 2004). He co-edited Curried Cultures: Globalization, Food and South Asia (University of California Press, 2012). His most recent monograph is The Ethnic Restaurateur (Bloomsbury 2016).

This week on Cooking Issues, Dave complains about his torn arm and his son's dirtbag buddies, before taking some listener questions about Jim Lahey's No-Knead Bread Recipe, home kitchen design, controlling bubble size in carbonated cocktails, and the perception of "highbrow" versus "lowbrow" in ethnic cuisines.