It's a love letter to food in general, foods from all around the globe. It’s not a kids show about healthy eating.ĮT: Waffles and Mochi is a show about a love of food.
O, the friendly grocery store owner, on the show), and some of the unconventional decisions they made. Which is why I jumped at the opportunity to speak to the show’s creators Erika Thormahlen and Jeremy Konner about what went into making the series, what it’s like to work with executive producer and Mrs. I am excited that a show like this exists for kids-and adults!-to learn about the food on their plates and what it takes to get it there. And they meet some really smart and fun chefs along the way, including some of my own cooking idols: Samin Nosrat, Preeti Mistry, Mashama Bailey, and Michael Twitty.
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The show’s title refers to the two puppet stars, who escape the Land of Frozen Food (where everything they cook turns to ice!) and embark on a series of food adventures that take them around the world. If you sign up for our newsletter, you’ll get her letter before everyone else.Īs someone with a deep appreciation for food culture, children’s media, and Michelle Obama, I responded to news of Waffles + Mochi, the new kids show produced by and featuring the former first lady, with a lot of exclamation points and heart-eye emojis. While the 110-page cookbook is now available in stores and online, we’ve got a few of the recipes to hold you over until it makes its way into your kitchen.Every other Wednesday, Bon Appétit executive editor Sonia Chopra shares what’s going on at BA-the stories she’s loved reading, the recipes she’s been making, and more. Picky eater or not, rest assured Waffles and Mochi have traveled the world to find a recipe that both kids and adults will love. “Whether you’ve been cooking and baking for years or you are just starting your culinary adventure, these recipes will allow you to explore the ingredients, techniques, and-most important!-flavors that make cooking fun,” recipe developer Komolafe says in her forward. The book can serve as a tool for kids just getting into the kitchen to help them expand their palates and culinary skills.
Published by Clarkson Potter, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC. Food photography copyright © 2021 by Kelly Marshall. Reprinted with permission from Waffles + Mochi: Get Cooking! by Yewande Komolafe. “None of the recipes are too complicated or require too many tools, and they are for a range of skills so everyone in the family can help-from expertly boiling an egg to whizzing up gazpacho in the blender to roasting mushrooms for the ultimate umami flavor,” Konner and Thomahlen share in the book’s intro. You’ll also find a recipe for an Indian-inspired pani puri filled with ingredients typically found in a Caprese salad that they made with Bay Area chef Preeti Mistry. Adapted recipes come from chefs like Pía León, who was awarded the 2021 best female chef by World’s Best 50, with whom the puppet duo made creamy stews over an open fire in Peru. Nigerian-born chef Yewande Komolafe helped the Waffles + Mochi team create dozens of recipes inspired by the ingredients in the show’s first season. In the book’s introduction, the show’s creators and show-runners Jeremy Konner and Erika Thomahlen share their motto: “If a puppet can cook, so can you.” Now the show is bringing the recipes from the screen into our kitchens with a cookbook made for kids (or really, any fan of cooking alongside the puppets).
On their journeys, they collect recipes from different chefs using all sorts of techniques, tips, and tricks, and bring them back to the store. Here’s the premise: The puppets work at a fictional grocery store run by the former first lady, and Obama sends them on adventures around the world to learn about specific ingredients like pickles, rice, potatoes, tomatoes, and more. The show features a star-studded roster of guest chefs such as Samin Nosrat, José Andrés, Massimo Bottura, and more. The puppets are the stars of hit children’s series, but they’re not the only ones. The stars of Netflix’s cooking show Waffles + Mochi get a hands-on experience of how salt is mined, made into blocks, and used to season a variety of dishes around the world. When two puppets named Waffles and Mochi fly to Peru to visit one of the oldest salt mines in the world, on a mission to find the perfect topping for Michelle Obama’s chocolate chip cookies, they end up with more than just a cookie’s worth.
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