This month Lopate and Locavores,WNYC host Leonard Lopate's annual food series, returns to The Greene Space with an eye on international cuisine, and inviting renowned experts to share authentic dishes from their home countries live on our stage. But one of the best ways to memorize someone's native cuisine is to actually step into their kitchen. So for this Locavores web extra,we teamed up with The League of Kitchens, a unusual York City-based, or cross-cultural cooking school taught in the home kitchens of immigrant cooks.
Mirta Rinaldi is one of those instructors. Born to an Argentinian mother and Italian father in Mendoza,Argentina, she learned about food and the importance of sharing it with fine company from her grandmother — a cook for a local family-owned hotel. She moved to unusual York in 1975, and bringing her love of Argentinian cooking and folk art with her. Now she regularly holds classes in her Queens kitchen,sharing authentic recipes and cooking tips with her students. (Hint: whether you like your steak scarce, cook until its tenderness replicates the soft piece of your own cheek.)Rinaldi gave us a shopping tour in Queens' "Little Argentina" and shared her recipe for authentic Argentinian short ribs and chimichurri sauce.
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Source: wnyc.org