Cook The Book: Recent Episodes

Steve Cook

For the whole of 2021, I will be cooking Meera Sodha's East, 120 recipes in consecutive order, and podcasting about the process.

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In which I make Meera Sodha’s Thai Salad with Grapefruit and Cashews from her cookbook East.

I also:

Get all Marie-Kondo on my own ass; become a little uptight (Big Neurotic Dilemma) about whether or not to buy a bag of KTC Crispy Fried Onions; do some research on how much perfectly edible food we throw away every year; plot with my brother about how to get this podcast in Meera Sodha's ears; enjoy a few precious, precious moments with a tiny baby named after a weasle-faced Romanian Rapper; throw in a bit of Borges just to show you how meta- and all-round cultured I am (in a quasi-sexy way?); ditto the mention of Ozu's Tokyo Story; invent my own taxonomy for Crap We Keep In One (Or All) Of Our Kitchen Drawers; throw in a few extras through the credits to boost my Google ratings.

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Link to Meera's recipe: https://www.post-gazette.com/life/recipes/2020/11/19/Gretchens-table-Thai-salad-recipe-grapefruit-cashews-vegetarian/stories/202010270108

East: 120 Vegetarian and Vegan recipes from Bangalore to Beijing

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In which I make Meera Sodha’s Mushroom Bao (p. 20) from her cookbook East.

I also:

  1. Go on a socially-distanced, moon-in-Cancer, tier-4 Bumble date on Hampstead Heath
  2. Give Max a bath after he falls into Rickmansworth canal
  3. Advocate for the the delights of the 1970s television programme Sha Na Na.

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Musical links and clips:

Shanana: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2F-8Igo79Kw&ab_channel=TheLostViking

Unchained Melody: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtUTvZOAQas&ab_channel=HarryV%C3%B6lker

Uke for See You In My Dreams: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IQi37t1QSc&ab_channel=guitargalsings

Making Is A Kind of Meditation: http://jamen.do/t/1389168

East: 120 Vegetarian and Vegan recipes from Bangalore to Beijing

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In which I explain why I have chosen to cook Meera Sodha's East, all 120 recipes of it, in consecutive order throughout 2021, avec le podcasting as a way of documenting this process.

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Sound/music credit for this episodes: 

Birds flapping: https://youtu.be/YNgmmdB8Ygg

Bro’s hamper: https://youtu.be/-NyTDmrxhDI

The problem with cookbooks: https://youtu.be/LVhlRJ8BCDs

Silken Tofu recipe: https://youtu.be/foTYfxoyiJk

David Kitson clip “How Mental It Is” from Dot Dot Dot (2020): http://bit.ly/3hpeQ0t

Fight Club clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dC1yHLp9bWA&ab_channel=Movieclips

Baz’s Choiceless Precepts: https://youtu.be/e9cefe-xD04

Credits music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AK2LTAI74s&ab_channel=bonbontv