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Hey, everybody, it's Marielle.
Consider today's episode a helping hand ahead of July 4.
Because while many of us enjoy the holiday tradition of eating grilled veggies and kebabs and burgers, some of us have never been taught how to do the grilling.
I'm in that category, and so is Ruth Tam.
She's a journalist and she loves to cook, but, well, this was her before she learned how to grill.
All right, time to check on these chicken thighs.
Oh, no, they're burned.
These two are.
This is the sound of failure.
Lucky.
Lucky for us.
Ruth went on a grilling journey after that, and she did an episode for us on today's Life kit, how to level up your food game with grilling.
Enjoy.
This is NPR's life kit.
I'm Ruth Tam.
I love to cook.
Frying, roasting, sauteing, all the cooking ings except for grilling.
Even though I loved grilled food and I love cookouts, grilling just totally stresses me out.
Maybe it's because I've never had the space or the money for a grill, or maybe it's because grilling as an activity has never really been marketed towards me, a woman who lives in the city.