Tony Shalhoub (Monk, The Marvelous Ms. Maisel) and his daughter, writer Josie Adams, join Mark and Kate to talk about their new book 'We Thought They’d Never Leave.' It's a memoir centered on the Shalhoub family’s legendary annual Wisconsin reunion, where ten siblings and fifty-some relatives gather every summer to cook, eat, and keep a very complicated spreadsheet. We get into the multiple pounds of fish Tony flew with on his lap, the night the power went out, food on set, and a prop beer bottle story that has to be heard to be believed.

Read an excerpt from 'We Thought They'd Never Leave' on The Bittman Project: bittmanproject.com/tony-shalhoub-we-thought-theyd-never-leave/

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The one and only David Byrne came to talk with us after wrapping the world tour for his new album Who Is The Sky? He's been making work that's like nothing else for 50 years — Talking Heads, solo records, film, theater, and dance. And his new book is called Sleeping Beauties, about great ideas the world forgot and then rediscovered. Kate and Mark talk with David about food, what it was like eating on tour across 150 shows, the South Indian coconut fish curry he got good at during the pandemic, and lots more.

Some things that were mentioned on today's episode:

Sleeping Beauties: Why Good Ideas Go Dormant and How They Wake Up, by David Byrne: https://bookshop.org/a/18956/9780593655276

Marco Canora, of Brodo and Hearth, and Mark making broth and chatting: https://youtu.be/QnW2qQXVArs?si=fxHaRNjCtpDvVM4U

Bittman's rye sourdough: https://bittmans.com/products/rye-sourdough

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Ming-Na Wen is the voice of Mulan, Fennec Shand in The Mandalorian, and, now, a cookbook author. She grew up in her family’s Chinese restaurant in Pittsburgh, the Chinatown Inn, which has been open since 1943 and which her brother still runs today. Her debut cookbook, Have You Eaten Yet?, started as a recipe collection and turned into a memoir she didn’t know she was writing. She talks with Mark and Kate about the two lives her father lived at that restaurant, the chop suey he made for Pittsburgh, the five course dinners he cooked at home, and what the phrase “have you eaten yet?” actually means when someone says it to you.

Get Ming-Na's recipe for 12345 Spareribs at The Bittman Project: https://bittmanproject.com/recipe/ming-na-wens-12345-spareribs/

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