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Sohla Is Over Small Salads (You Should Be Too) Food52 5/3/2021
Every month, in
Off-Script With Sohla, pro chef and flavor whisperer Sohla El-Waylly will introduce you to a must-know cooking technique and then teach you how to detour it toward new adventures.
I loved getting lost in a sea of choose-your-own adventure books as a kid. I reread them endlessly, discovering different routes along the way. I also cheated whenever an especially ominous choice was presented, going back and changing my answer if I didn’t like where I ended up.
Being in quarantine really quells my sense of adventure, so making a big salad is my way of inserting some excitement into the day.
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Sam Sanders’ NPR show is a low-key program that isn’t aiming for the prestige podcast pocket, so in a way, it’s the perfect counterprogramming to
Reply All’s “Test Kitchen” series on the so-called racial reckoning at
Bon Appétit (a series that was, ironically, canceled halfway through its run after
Reply All itself faced a similar reckoning). In this episode, Sohla El-Waylly, former
BA chef and now the star of
Off-Script With Sohla, speaks candidly with Sanders about her decision to resign from
BA last summer, insisting that her actions have not led to real change, just real conversation, which is only the tip of the iceberg. “Don’t put a lot of pressure on yourself to try and change something that’s been a problem for hundreds of years,” Sohla advises. Instead, “fight for one story at a time” and make a difference on an individual level. Sanders, meanwhile, speaks to the “crazy-making” that can result from achieving career succ