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Special Sauce: Kenji on Smashed Burgers; Susan Spungen on Sprezzatura [2/2]
Special Sauce: Kenji on Smashed Burgers; Susan Spungen on Sprezzatura [2/2]
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Length:
39 minutes
Released:
Jul 16, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
On this week's Special Sauce, Susan Spungen, author of Open Kitchen: Inspired Food for Casual Gathering and other books, regales us with her experiences in Hollywood as a food stylist and culinary consultant for movies like Julie and Julia and Eat, Pray, Love. What's it like to be on set and cooking for the likes of Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, and Amy Adams? Listen and you'll find out. Susan also talks about her terrific new book. She explains that the organizing principle behind the book is "sprezzatura," an Italian word for "studied nonchalance." The book articulates beautifully a relaxed yet rigorous approach to gathering your friends to eat and drink. And, as usual, Kenji gets the episode off to a hot start by explaining the best way to cook his justifiably famous smashed burgers, indoors or out. Kenji on smashed burgers and Susan Spungen on cooking for Meryl Streep and "sprezzatura." It's a Special Sauce that should provide a welcome respite from the insanity we're all living through. -- The full transcript for this episode can be found over here at Serious Eats: tps://www.seriouseats.com/preview?record=454070
Released:
Jul 16, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
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