Molly and Kate talk with prolific writer Bee Wilson about her new cookbook, The Secret of Cooking. Bee explains how she uses her past experience as an academic in her food writing to showcase its breadth beyond restaurants and recipes and what inspired her to write this cookbook. She shares why she settled on a thematic structure for the book, the recipe writing and testing process along with her varied influences and resources. She talks about bringing the joy back into cooking and why she believes that the golden age of home cooking is still to come.

Hosts: Kate Leahy + Molly Stevens + Kristin Donnelly + Andrea Nguyen

Editor: Abby Cerquitella

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Visit the Everything Cookbooks Bookshop to purchase a copy of the books mentioned in the show

• The Secret of Cooking by Bee Wilson
• Consider the Fork by Bee Wilson
• First Bite: How We Learn to Eat by Bee Wilson
• The Way We Eat Now by Bee Wilson
• 50 Ways to Cook a Carrot by Bee Wilson