Adam Roberts
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322 appearances
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1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 30 Jun
Adam Roberts’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's sort of like Sex and the City in that it's about her relationship and courtship with her Mr. Big, who is Tad Friend from The New Yorker.
And it's about their disagreements about food and how he puts sweet and low in his coffee and just like all these little minor things.
And then also Nora Ephron, of course, Heartburn.
So there's a common thread to all of this, which is they're all funny.
And I like funny food books.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, she's an underrated gem in terms of her prose writing.
I think a lot of people just think of her for her movies, but she's an incredible just writer and her essays and her novels are incredible.
Yes, Lydia Bastianich.
I cut my teeth watching PBS cooking shows.
I mean, I still watch PBS cooking shows.
Her show, I gotta say, and this is kind of saucy of me, has gotten a little more generic because she's shifted away from just doing Italian, so now she'll do burgers, she'll do grilled chicken, and it's like...
No, I don't want you to do that.
I want you to do like your polenta lasagna with authentic kind of cheese and provolone.
But I learned so much from watching her show and especially making pasta, the way she brings it all together in one pan and shows you how to use the pasta water and how just the sort of the marriage of the pasta with the sauce or whatever you're cooking with.
She makes it look so easy.
And I just love the knowledge that she brings and the authenticity that she brings to her food.
Oh, yeah.
Well, I'll say that I've said this on another podcast, but I'll say it here too, which is that often I fall asleep watching PBS cooking shows.
But the thing is, I think that all the knowledge like seeps into my unconscious mind and makes me a better cook.
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