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A Cook's Notebook: Chipped Beef

From: Ali Berlow
Series: A Cook's Notebook
Length: 03:12

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Playing: A Cook's Notebook: Chipped Beef
From: Ali Berlow

Default-piece-image-1 A Cook's Notebook - airs weekly on WAMC Chipped Beef was broadcast on Sept. 7, 2005. PROMOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST and can read something like: This is Ali Berlow, join me for A Cook's Notebook - refections on food and cooking in our kitchens and in our lives...

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Piece Description

A Cook's Notebook - airs weekly on WAMC Chipped Beef was broadcast on Sept. 7, 2005. PROMOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST and can read something like: This is Ali Berlow, join me for A Cook's Notebook - refections on food and cooking in our kitchens and in our lives...

Broadcast History

Chipped Beef was broadcast on WCAI, WNAN & WZAI on Sept. 7, 2005.

Transcript

Dennis really did like chipped beef on toast. It was one of the few things he could cook at his home on Zanzibar that would actually taste like it does here in the States. He said that no matter where he traveled or lived in East Africa ? when he made chipped beef ? it tasted like it?s supposed to. And when he told me that ? I looked into those movie star ? blue eyes of his and said that I wasn?t sure if that was a good thing or a bad thing. But we both agreed that it was rare ? because when you?ve got a craving for comfort food in Africa and you can buy the exact same ingredients ? whatever you end up cooking ? whether it?s grilled cheese or chicken potpie ? it never tastes like it does here. And when Dennis came to visit me on his last trip to the States he also let me know that he couldn?t always find dried beef in Zanzibar ? so I loaded him up with a few packages to take back to his...
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