Richard Hart is here with the hottest takes in bread baking and sourdough—why he doesn’t care about your old sourdough starter, what everyone gets wrong about supermarket bread, and why the bread in Paris is, well, lacking. Plus, antique bookseller Don Lindgren reveals the history of community cookbooks, J. Kenji López-Alt discovers the perfect way to cut an onion, and we make Turkish Crescent Cookies with Spiced Walnut Filling. Get the recipe for Turkish Crescent Cookies with Spiced Walnut Filling <a href="https://www.177milkstreet.com/recipes/turkish-crescent-cookies-spiced-walnut-filling?allow_token=98165bd6-083e-4a70-9168-bd2f5d1635e3">here</a>. Listen to Milk Street Radio on: <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/christopher-kimballs-milk-street-radio/id1158889592">Apple Podcasts</a> | <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/7psQrMbKQ0vgx6HeEtK1gM">Spotify</a>

10 Biggest Food Lies

Every week, Milk Street Radio travels the world to find the most fascinating stories about food—a detective who tracks down food thieves and a look inside the most famous (and often scandalous) restaurant kitchens—and interviews with culinary icons such as José Andrés, Padma Lakshmi, Jacques Pépin, and Marcus Samuelsson. And on Milk Street Radio you can always find the unexpected: the comedian who ranks apples using an elaborate 100-point system, the scientists who study if vegetables have souls, and the journalist who reveals the world’s 10 biggest food lies. We also answer our listeners’ cooking questions, find out how to make the perfect cup of coffee, and share how to eat your way through Italy.