The Clever Cookstr's Quick and Dirty Tips from the World's Best Cooks
The Clever Cookstr serves up the most timely, relevant tips from the world’s best kitchens. You’ll get a delightful mix of cooking tips from emerging and established chefs and cookbook authors, as well as exclusive insights from bakers, sommeliers, farmers, grocers, and more. Every week, Clever Cookstr provides useful information for aspiring and long-time food lovers— and for anyone who wants to get delicious homemade food on the table. If you’ve been looking for a fun, fast-paced, authoritative source of information on what’s hot in the world of food and cooking, this is it. Clever Cookstr is passionate about helping people learn to cook more, believing that time spent sharing good food is one of the most vital and enjoyable parts of life.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 13 minutes
- Episodes
- 216
- Years Active
- 2014 - 2018
142 CC The Art of Gluten-Free French Pastries
Patisserie Gluten Free: The Art of French Pastry, by Vermont baker Patricia Austin, tackles the challenge of recreating the signature buttery flakiness of French pastries like croissants and eclairs …
141 CC How to Host a St. Patrick's Day Feast
Our guests today are Patrick Taylor and Dorothy Tinman, the author and recipe developer of An Irish Country Cookbook: More than 140 Family Recipes from Soda Bread to Irish Stew. They joined the Cleve…
140 CC How to Create Your Very Own Cookbook
Anna Curran is the founder of a print-on-demand startup Cookbook Create, a site where anyone can make their own perfectly personal cookbooks. Anna joined the Clever Cookstr to talk about her lifelong…
035 CC 5 Rules for Crock-Pot Success
A slow cooker is a fantastic shortcut for revolutionizing your weeknight dinners. Here are five rules for making the best hands-free dishes possible, without slaving away in front of the stove. Visit…
138 CC Justin Warner's Guide to Cooking for Valentine's Day
Justin Warner, author of The Laws of Cooking...and How to Break Them, joins the Clever Cookstr to talk about why you're better off staying home on Valentine's Day than spending it at a pricey restaur…
137 CC How a French Cookie Company Made It in the U.S.
The French cookie company Michel et Augustin began with unconventional business strategies and tons of personality. Now, they've found that those same tactics have served them well in breaking into t…
136 CC 6 Tricks for Stocking Your Spice Cabinet
Stan Gorski is the founder of Madison Park Foods. With over ten years in the spice business, he's here to tell us what to look for when shopping for spices and seasonings. Read the full transcript he…
135 CC What Makes Champagne So Special?
Our guest today is Ellen Crosby, the author of seven novels in the Virginia Wine Country Mystery series, most recently The Champagne Conspiracy. She’s joining us to talk about—what else—champagne! Re…
134 CC Everything You Need to Know About Chile Peppers
We’re joined today by Judith Finlayson, author of many cookbooks including, most recently, The Chile Pepper Bible: 250 Recipes from Sweet to Fiery and Everything in Between. She's telling us about th…
133 CC 6 Surprising Uses for Common Kitchen Items
Justin Chapple, test kitchen senior editor at Food & Wine and star of its award-winning video series, Mad Genius Tips, joins the Clever Cookstr to talk about surprising uses for common kitchen items …
131 CC Which Type of Potato Should You Use?
Raghavan Iyer joins the Clever Cookstr to talk about the glorious potato, its many varieties and uses, the ultimate mashed potatoes around the world, and his new book, Smashed, Mashed, Boiled, and Ba…
130 CC How to Bake Healthier and Tastier Than Ever Before
Genevieve Ko, author of Better Baking: Wholesome Ingredients, Delicious Desserts, joins the Clever Cookstr to dish on baking healthier (and tastier!) treats with alternative flours, good fats, and fr…
129 CC Essential Tips for Weekend Cooking
Cal Peternell, author of the bestselling cookbook Twelve Recipes and now of the cookbook A Recipe for Cooking, joins the Clever Cookstr to talk about his food philosophy in the kitchen, at the dinner…
128 CC Tips for Baking with Alternative Grains
Jeff Hertzberg and Zoë François are the authors of several baking books, most recently The New Healthy Bread in Five Minutes A Day. They joined the Clever Cookstr to talk about baking with ancient an…
127 CC The Key to Turkish Cooking
Jason Goodwin, author of a series of Yashim the Ottoman Investigator novels and now of the cookbook Yashim Cooks Istanbul, tells us about the flavors and techniques in the Turkish recipes in the book…
126 CC Adventures in Macanese Cuisine
Abraham Conlon, co-author of The Adventures of Fat Rice: Recipes from the Chicago Restaurant Inspired by Macao, joins the Clever Cookstr to talk about the Macanese flavor profile and making a differe…
125 CC How to Manage Your Cookbook Collection
Jane Kelly is the co-founder of Eat Your Books, a company started to answer a need that she and many other home cooks were experiencing. Read the full transcript here: http://bit.ly/2fm8heg
124 CC 5 Meal Hacks from One Simple Recipe
Our guest today is Ryan Scott, author of One to Five: One Shortcut Recipe Transformed into Five Easy Dishes. In his new book, Ryan shows you how staple shortcut ingredients—like hardboiled eggs or fr…
123 CC The Art of Japanese Cuisine
Michael Booth, a food and travel writer and journalist whose latest book is called Super Sushi Ramen Express: One Family’s Journey Through the Belly of Japan, joins the Clever Cookstr to talk about e…
122 CC How to Cook Spanish Food in an American Kitchen
Our guest today is Katie Button, the executive chef and co-owner of Asheville, North Carolina restaurants Curate and Nightbell, and author of the new cookbook Curate: Authentic Spanish Food from an A…