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Megan McArdle: belief

25 Jan 2017 Conversations with Tyler Chef Mark Miller on Food as the Ultimate Intellectual Exploration

“I mean, there is an editor I know now at Eater, was at Saveur, who said that male cookery was all sort of knives, guts, and fire. “Knives, spice, and fire,” I think, was how she put it.”

— Megan McArdle

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Speaker
Megan McArdle
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Claim type
belief
Recorded
25 Jan 2017
Publisher
Conversations with Tyler

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…Thank you for those wonderful remarks, Mark. With that, I turn the questioning over to Megan McArdle of Bloomberg. You talked about how women and men’s palates are different. How is their cooking different? I mean, there is an editor I know now at Eater, was at Saveur, who said that male cookery was all sort of knives, guts, and fire. “Knives, spice, and fire,” I think, was how she put it. That often seems like a fair characterization. My guy friends really want to load up the heat. I remember having a guy tell me that the secret to really good cooking was just dump Cajun seasoning all over everything. [laughter] How do women cook differently? I mean, we’re not going to get into developmental theory here.…

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