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EPISODE 4: Nerd Heaven, The Awkward Oversight, and Soups to Share
The Level Teaspoon can be found on iTunes, Stitcher, and Google Play – or find it by searching for “The Level Teaspoon” on any other podcast service you may use! You can also hear it through your browser at The Level Teaspoon site.
Review titles:
Cook’s Science by Cook’s Illustrated: 300+ Recipes Engineered for Success, by America’s Test Kitchen (ATK)
How to Bake Everything: Simple Recipes for the Best Baking, by Mark Bittman (HMH)
Soup Swap: Comforting Recipes to Make and Share (Chronicle)
Episode 4 Noteworthy titles
Cake Magic! Mix and Match your Way to 100 Amazing Combinations by Caroline Wright (Workman)
The Ultimate Appetizer Ideabook, by Kiera and Cole Stipovich (Chronicle Books).
Knives & Ink: Chefs and the Stories Behind their Tattoos (with Recipes) Isaac Fitzgerald an Wendy McNaughton (Bloomsbury)
Episode 4 Recipe Tests
Pat is a “medical editor who enjoys eating more than cooking, but sometimes it’s just her turn to cook.”
Book tested: Dinner A.S.A.P: 150 Recipes Made as Easy as Possible
Denny is the husband of Pat (see above!). By day he is a set designer for TV, movies and theater and, he says, he owe his cooking skills to his mom, Graham Kerr (The Galloping Gourmet), Julia Child, and Alton Brown.
Book tested: Eric Lanlard’s Afternoon Tea by Eric Lanlard (Mitchell Beazley)
Episode 4 Music:
“Infrastructure,” by Scott Holmes
“Clean Suit,” by We Is Shore Dedicated
“Kool Kats,” by Kevin MacLeod
“Que te Quiero Yo,” by El Niño del Parking
Sound effects assembled using material from corsica_S. and others hosted at freesound.org. Other sources include soundbible.com, looperman.com, and my own recordings.
The Level Teaspoon’s theme music:
Não me touques, performed by The Bees Knees International Café Orchestra
Hear it all on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play or find it by searching for “The Level Teaspoon” any other podcast service you may use!
The Level Teaspoon can be found on iTunes, Stitcher, and Google Play – or find it by searching for “The Level Teaspoon” on any other podcast service you may use!
You can also hear it through your browser at The Level Teaspoon site.
Review titles:
The Saffron Tales: Recipes from the Persian Kitchen, by Yasmin Khan (Bloomsbury)
Land of Fish and Rice: Recipes from the Culinary Heart of China, by Fuchsia Dunlop (W. W. Norton)
Simple: Effortless Food, Big Flavors, by Diana Henry
Episode 3 Noteworthy titles
Victuals: An Appalachian Journey, with Recipes, by Ronni Lundy (Clarkson Potter)
Dandelion & Quince: Exploring the Wide World of Unusual Vegetables, Fruits, and Herbs, by Michelle McKenzie (Roost Books)
The Book of Lost Recipes: The Best Signature Dishes From Historic Restaurants Rediscovered
by Jaya Saxena (Page Street Publishing)
Episode 3 Recipe Tests
Guest: Christina Barber-Just
Christina is an editor at Smith College and a former dining columnist for Hampshire Life magazine in western Massachusetts. She makes a mean martini and has a weakness for kitchen gadgets.
Guest: Sara Barber-Just
Sara is the English department chair at Amherst Regional High School here in western MA and she loves setting the scene before a dinner party with fanciful linens, show-stopping flowers, and cocktails that make you go, Mmmmmmm.
by André Darlington and Tenaya Darlington (Running Press)
Episode 3 Music:
Avareh by Mamak Khadem
Bossa d’Automne by Thiaz Itch
Sound effects assembled using material from benboncan, audiorichter, saphe, kiddpark, and inspectorj, all hosted at freesound.org. Other sources include soundbible.com, looperman.com, and my own recordings.
The Level Teaspoon’s theme music:
Não me touques, performed by The Bees Knees International Café Orchestra
Hear it all on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play or find it by searching for “The Level Teaspoon” any other podcast service you may use!
It’s here…!!! After 15 years of reviewing cookbooks in print and radio (and 1 frantic month learning all about podcasting), may I present to you my weekly all-cookbooks all-the-time podcast, The Level Teaspoon. You can find it on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play and others.
Is it informative? Is it authoritative? You’ll have to judge. But I promise you won’t find a more irreverent cookbook review podcast anywhere.
WARNING: Listening when hungry may make cause you to eat way sooner than you meant to. Show notes follow.
Episode 1 Review titles:
Samarkand: Recipes & Stories from Central Asia & The Caucasus by Caroline Eden & Eleanor Ford (Kyle Books)
ITSU 20 minute suppers: Eat beautiful with noodles, grains, rice and soups, by Julian Metcalf & Blanche Vaughan (Mitchell Beazley)
All Under Heaven: Recipes from the 35 Cuisines of China, by Carolyn Phillips (10 Speed Press)
Episode 1 Noteworthy titles
Not One Shrine: Two Food Writers Devour Tokyo by Becky Selengut & Matthew Amster-Burton (Thunk Books)
The All New Ball Book Of Canning And Preserving: Over 350 of the Best Canned, Jammed, Pickled, and Preserved Recipes (Oxmoor House)
Ice Cream Adventures: More Than 100 Deliciously Different Recipes, by Stef Ferrari (Rodale Books)
Episode 1 Recipe Test
Book tested: Meathead: The Science of Great Barbecue and Grilling, by Meathead Goldwyn (Rux Martin/HMH)
Episode 1 Music:
Little Lily Swing, by Tri-Tachyon
Ille de Roman Olsun, by Wind of Anatolia
Shange Mountain Song, by Chan Wai Fat
The Level Teaspoon‘s theme music:
Não me touques, performed by The Bees Knees International Café Orchestra
Episode 2 Review titles:
The Vegetable Butcher: How to Select, Prep, Slice, Dice, and Masterfully Cook Vegetables from Artichokes to Zucchini
Cook Korean!: A Comic Book with Recipes
Floyd Cardoz: Flavorwalla: Big Flavor. Bold Spices. A New Way to Cook the Foods You Love.
Episode 2 Noteworthy titles
Cooking with the Muse: A Sumptuous Gathering of Seasonal Recipes, Culinary Poetry, and Literary Fare
The 420 Gourmet: The Elevated Art of Cannabis Cuisine
Ethnic American Cooking: Recipes for Living in a New World
Episode 2 Recipe Tests
Cindy describes herself as “a community organization and community relations type of social worker.” She works at Cancer Connection in Northampton, which provides free services to those dealing with cancer and their loved ones, everything from support groups and one to one guidance to integrative therapies and creativity and exercise classes. Cindy and her family “grew raising our own meat, dairy, and vegetables, picking wild blueberries and raking clams, and cooking off the grid…given that I’m a gardener, we always come back to the simplest most wonderful meals based on vegetables and herbs, good olive oil and cheeses, and our own eggs.”
Book tested: Outlander Kitchen: The Official Outlander Companion Cookbook
Bill Fosher is a New Hampshire farmer raising lamb, beef, pork, chicken, and turkey, and avid home cook. He believes in using good, simple ingredients and techniques to produce flavorful meals. Sometimes quick and dirty, sometimes long and laborious, but usually very tasty. Or spectacular failures. Almost never boring. Yeast confounds him.
Book tested: Master of the Grill: Foolproof Recipes, Top-Rated Gadgets, Gear & Ingredients Plus Clever Test Kitchen Tips & Fascinating Food Science
Episode 2 Music:
As the Night Ends, by Laszlo Harsanyi
Gold Rush, by Kevin MacLeod
The Show Must Be Go, by Kevin MacLeod
Latin Rhythm, by Sunsearcher
The Level Teaspoon’s theme music:
Não me touques, performed by The Bees Knees International Café Orchestra
After 15 years publishing cookbook reviews in print media everywhere (as well as NPR), I’m going to be launching a cookbook podcast next week! It’s called The Level Teaspoon and will feature cookbook reviews and interviews with ordinary folks testing brand-new recipes.
Watch this space!
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