1,000 Ways To Grill From Mark Bittman, Let Them Eat Cake, The World's Fanciest Hotel

Midday on WNYC | May 15, 2018

Bestselling cookbook author Mark Bittman talks about his new book How to Grill Everything: Simple Recipes for Great Flame-Cooked Food. Illustrator Maira Kalman and food writer Barbara Scott-Goodman discuss their book Cake, an illustrated book dedicated to their mutual love of cakes. Luke Barr talks about the history of the "most extravagant hotel the world had ever seen," in Ritz & Escoffier: The Hotelier, The Chef, and the Rise of the Leisure Class. 

The episode is guest hosted by Kai Wright. 

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