December 21: Al Mancini, The Joy of Cooking, Amira Makansi

Podcasts

Segment One: Show Preview with Co-Host & Executive Producer Andy Harris
Segment Two: Journalist Al Mancini, Staff Writer, Las Vegas Review-Journal Part One
Segment Three: Journalist Al Mancini, Staff Writer, Las Vegas Review-Journal Part Two
Segment Four: Joy of Cooking’s 9th Edition Authors, John Becker & Megan Scott Part One
Segment Five: Joy of Cooking’s 9th Edition Authors, John Becker & Megan Scott Part Two
Segment Six: Co-Host Chef Andrew Gruel with “Ask the Chef”
Segment Seven: Literary Libations – What To Drink With What You Read by Amira Makansi Part One
Segment Eight: Literary Libations – What To Drink With What You Read by Amira Makansi Part Two

Now an enticing preview of this Saturday afternoon’s scrumptious show. We’re in the Holiday spirit. It’s not, with profuse apologies, for dieters. If we’re successful we will hopefully leave you incredibly hungry and thirsty. In our case that’s probably a pretty good thing… As always, we greatly appreciate you being a part of our loyal listening audience. Truly couldn’t do it without you.

One of our most reliable sources of restaurant news in fabulous Las Vegas is Al Mancini, who is a staff writer for The Las Vegas Review Journal covering food, restaurants and other aspects of entertainment. Al has been working the Vegas food scene since 2003. He was one of the creators of the popular, and widely referenced, Eating Las Vegas restaurant guide series. Al joins us with a report on best of the new restaurant openings in Las Vegas.

For a new generation of cooks, comes a brand-new edition of America’s most enduring and trusted cookbook. Joy of Cooking, the timeless and essential kitchen “bible” that home cooks have relied on for nearly 90 years, has now been updated and revised by the next generation of Joy family home cooks—Irma Rombauer’s great-grandson John Becker and his wife Megan Scott. It is the first edition of Joy of Cooking to be released since the must-have kitchen manual’s bestselling 75th anniversary edition (2006), and the first to be fully revised by the Rombauer-Becker family since the cookbook’s bestselling 1975 edition, edited by Irma’s daughter Marion Rombauer Becker. John Becker and Megan Scott take a brief respite from their busy book tour to chat with us.

Want to know what to drink with all your favorite books? May we suggest Literary Libations – What To Drink With What You Read by Amira Makansi. Now book lovers everywhere can raise the perfect toast to Shakespeare, Austen, Kerouac, Woolf, and more. With drink pairing recommendations for nearly 200 classic and contemporary works of fiction, including non-alcoholic pairings for kids and young adult books, Literary Libations is a necessary addition to bookshelves and bar tops everywhere. Amira comes out from behind the well-stocked bar to mix up the details for us.

All of this and heaping helpings of extra deliciousness on this week’s not-to-miss show!

Al Mancini of the Las Vegas Review JournalOne of our most reliable sources of restaurant news in fabulous Las Vegas is Al Mancini, who is a staff writer for The Las Vegas Review Journal covering food, restaurants and other aspects of entertainment. Al has been working the Vegas food scene since 2003. He was one of the creators of the popular, and widely referenced, Eating Las Vegas restaurant guide series.

Al joins us with an insider’s report on best of the new restaurant openings in Las Vegas. We’ll cover The Strip as well as Downtown Las Vegas. We’ll also look ahead for what’s on the culinary horizon in Vegas for new openings of note in 2020.

John Becker and Megan Scott of the Joy of CookingFor a new generation of cooks, comes a brand-new edition of America’s most enduring and trusted cookbook. Joy of Cooking, the timeless and essential kitchen “bible” that home cooks have relied on for nearly 90 years, has now been updated and revised by the next generation of Joy family home cooks—Irma Rombauer’s great-grandson John Becker and his wife Megan Scott.

It is the first edition of Joy of Cooking to be released since the must-have kitchen manual’s bestselling 75th anniversary edition (2006), and the first to be fully revised by the Rombauer-Becker family since the cookbook’s bestselling 1975 edition, edited by Irma’s daughter Marion Rombauer Becker.

John Becker and Megan Scott have devoted the past nine years toward this classic cookbook’s revision, offering an edition with 600 all new recipes, that brims with food history and science, making Joy of Cooking as rich of a reading experience as a culinary one. It is the first edition of Joy of Cooking to also be available as an eBook.

John Becker and Megan Scott take a brief respite from their busy book tour to chat with us.

“The new edition of Joy of Cooking (2019) has a contemporary voice, informed by culinary tradition, a family’s legacy, an encyclopedic coverage of ingredients and techniques, and an understanding of the science behind the food. For those who remain attached to previous editions of this classic, rest assured that John Becker and Megan Scott have worked to create a seamless marriage of both old and new, striking a considered balance between legacy material and new content without sacrificing any of the beloved personality or sense of history that home cooks have come to know and love from this reliable cookbook.”

“Joy of Cooking remains the gold standard for thoroughly tested recipes, simple and clear directions, and general ease of use for readers. It has been, and continues to be, renowned for its guidance on how to cook virtually everything, maintaining its status as a foolproof instruction manual for both novices and accomplished cooks alike.”

Amira Makansi of Literary LibationsWant to know what to drink with all your favorite books? May we suggest Literary Libations – What To Drink With What You Read by Amira Makansi.

“A bubbly, boozy French 75 with The Great Gatsby. A luscious Chocolatini with Bridget Jones’s Diary. Old vine California Zinfandel with The Grapes of Wrath. Lager (by the pitcher, from your local dive) with Fight Club. Refreshing citrus shandy with Their Eyes Were Watching God. And don’t you dare open Dracula without a Bloody Mary near at hand!”

“Now book lovers everywhere can raise the perfect toast to Shakespeare, Austen, Kerouac, Woolf, and more. With drink pairing recommendations for nearly 200 classic and contemporary works of fiction, including non-alcoholic pairings for kids and young adult books, Literary Libations is a necessary addition to bookshelves and bar tops everywhere.”

“From Homer to Hemingway, Virginia Woolf to Margaret Atwood, comes the first definitive guide to reading and drinking!”

Readers will learn more about the world’s most iconic books while enhancing their knowledge of wine, beer and spirits. The volume is also a guide to crafting modern and classic cocktails.

We continue our spirited conversation with author Amira Makansi.

Podcasts

Segment One: Show Preview with Co-Host & Executive Producer Andy Harris
Segment Two: Journalist Al Mancini, Staff Writer, Las Vegas Review-Journal Part One
Segment Three: Journalist Al Mancini, Staff Writer, Las Vegas Review-Journal Part Two
Segment Four: Joy of Cooking’s 9th Edition Authors, John Becker & Megan Scott Part One
Segment Five: Joy of Cooking’s 9th Edition Authors, John Becker & Megan Scott Part Two
Segment Six: Co-Host Chef Andrew Gruel with “Ask the Chef”
Segment Seven: Literary Libations – What To Drink With What You Read by Amira Makansi Part One
Segment Eight: Literary Libations – What To Drink With What You Read by Amira Makansi Part Two

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