2021-06-08
29 分钟Ted audio collective.
You'Re listening to how to be a better human.
I'm your host, Chris Duffy.
I love to cook.
I love to make a meal and have friends and family over and sit around a table eating and talking and having a great time.
That's one of my favorite things in the world.
But when I first started cooking, there was this period of several years where, as I was learning, I never used the inside of an oven, only the stovetop and the microwave, because turning on the big box full of gas, that felt way too scary and certainly too advanced for a beginner like me.
I was afraid I was gonna make my whole house blow up.
At the same time as I was learning to cook, I was learning alongside my roommate Dave, one of my best friends.
And one time, Dave got his mom's recipe for this traditional persian chicken and walnut and pomegranate stew called fesenjun.
And one of the steps was to process or grind the walnuts into really tiny pieces.
But in the recipe Dave's mom had added correctly, I don't think either of you have a food processor.
So if you don't have a way to grind the walnuts up, you can always just put them in a ziploc bag and then hit it with a boot or roll a wine bottle over it.
And now I first of all, think this is an incredible step in a recipe, put it in a bag and smash it with a boot.
But she was also completely correct.
We did not have any other way to make these walnuts smaller.
And because we didn't know many other recipes, we were just learning.
This was like our one fancy, impressive meal.
So we would end up making fasting quite a lot.
And that means that two or three times a month, we would be in our kitchen smashing a bag of walnuts with the heaviest boot we could find.