Episode 42

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2nd May 2022

Boozy Apples, Our One-Minute Cooking Tip, An Interview With Ken Wurtz, Passover Candy & Dinner Parties!

We love apples. And maybe boozy apples even more. That is, hard cider and even vodka distilled from apples. We recently went on a hard cider tasting tour around Ashville, North Carolina. We came back to New England with cases.

We're veteran cookbook authors Bruce Weinstein & Mark Scarbrough. We've published over three dozen cookbooks with several New York publishers. Check out one of our latest, THE INSTANT AIR FRYER BIBLE, here.

This episode is mostly about apples. Not eating them. Fermenting them into hard cider and distilling them into vodka. We love apples in the fall. But we drink them in the summer.

We've also got a one-minute cooking tip about caramelizing onions. And we'll tell you what's making us happy in food this week.

Here are the segments for this episode of COOKING WITH BRUCE AND MARK:

[00:47] Our experiences with the growing number of cideries in the United States.

[14:26] Our one-minute cooking tip: Add a tiny bit of baking soda to the pan to make onions caramelize faster.

[15:54] Bruce's interview with Ken Wurtz of New York's Sauvage distillers, makers of UPSTATE VODKA.

[30:31] What’s making us happy in food this week? Marked-down Passover candy and dinner parties!

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About the Podcast

Cooking with Bruce and Mark
Fantastic recipes, culinary science, a little judgment, hysterical banter, love and laughs--you know, life.
Join us, Bruce Weinstein and Mark Scarbrough, for weekly episodes all about food, cooking, recipes, and maybe a little marital strife on air. After writing thirty-six cookbooks, we've got countless opinions and ideas on ingredients, recipes, the nature of the cookbook-writing business, and much more. If you've got a passion for food, we also hope to up your game once and a while and to make you laugh most of the time. Come along for the ride! There's plenty of room!

About your host

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Mark Scarbrough

Former lit professor, current cookbook writer, creator of two podcasts, writer of thirty-five (and counting) cookbooks, author of one memoir (coming soon!), married to a chef (my cookbook co-writer, Bruce Weinstein), and with him, the owner of two collies, all in a very rural spot in New England. My life's full and I'm up for more challenges!