“It’s one thing to be influenced and inspired by a food tradition, but it’s another thing to believe that’s the only way to do it. When I was in Italy I loved so many things about it, but I knew the most Italian thing I could do was to use things in my backyard.” That’s Chris Bianco, award-winning chef and grandfather of artisan pizza in America. He joins us to chat about his new book, Bianco, and how he went from making pizza in the back of a Phoenix grocery store in the 1980’s to one of the top pizza chefs in the country. Along the way, he shares how to be inspired as a home cook, cook for your eaters, and craft something truly simple. Hear us chat with one of the greats in American pizza-making.
Chris Bianco
Pizzeria Bianco website | Instagram
Chris Bianco makes pizza with Jimmy Kimmel & Billy Crystal
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Recipes:
Homemade pizza dough (video) | A Couple Cooks
White pizza with pecorino, scallions and egg | A Couple Cooks
Kale & pistachio pizza | A Couple Cooks
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Pizza tools: Tipo 00 flour | Pizza peel (standard) | Pizza peel (conveyor) | Pizza stone
Feeding yourself is one thing, but feeding other people with various diets and food preferences? It can feel terribly overwhelming. Author and blogger Catherine McCord of Weelicious joins us for this episode to talk about her journey from modeling to culinary school to starting a blog focused on feeding families. We chat about the moment she redefined her career around food, how her son’s health issues disappeared after eating a smoothie per day, and how to adjust to picky eating “seasons”. And, we add few strategies of our own for cooking meals for eaters of all kinds.
Recipes:
Grilled shrimp and vegetable skewers | A Couple Cooks
Refried bean tacos with chipotle cashew cream | A Couple Cooks
Broiled salmon with fruit salad | Weelicious
The Smoothie Project | Weelicious
Catherine McCord
Her cookbooks:
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Food is the great connector—nothing transcends our differences like sharing food around the table. And no one knows that more than Daniel Klein, producer of The Perennial Plate, a James Beard award-winning online documentary series. Daniel has traveled the globe with his filmmaker wife Mirra making short films about sustainable food and the people who make it. He shares his journey from chef to shooting the first season in Minnesota to traveling the word. Along the way, we touch on some big questions: What’s sustainable food, anyway? Should we buy organic? In the current political climate, how do we embrace people different from us and transcend differences? Daniel shares about his latest project telling positive immigrant stories, and we add a story of our own about how sharing food unites us all. All that, and a few new recipes to inspire your kitchen journey.
Recipes:
Herby tomato flatbread with rye cracker crust
Daniel Klein, of The Perennial Plate online documentary series
Watch at: theperennialplate.com