“I like sending the message that, hey, it’s cool for dads to be involved intimately in their kids’ lives,” the food columnist J. Kenji López-Alt says. “And it’s also cool to have a full-time working mom, who’s the one who has the full-time nine-to-five.”
In 2014, López-Alt moved with his wife, Adriana López, a software engineer and cryptographer, from New York to the Bay Area, and in late 2020 they decamped with their young daughter from there to Seattle. López-Alt’s second cookbook, a nearly seven-hundred-page volume titled “,” will publish in March. We spoke recently by phone over several days, as he took walks with his second child, who was born in September.
I don’t think I need to speak as much to the cultural context of meat loaf or mac and cheese to an American audience as I do about dry-style beef chow fun, because I think it’s something that the audience of “The Food Lab” is much more familiar with. Part of the point of that book was: here are these foods, and now I’m going to explain all the different elements of technique and food science that you can think about while you’re cooking them.
The fact that you have a public platform which your partners don’t have means that, even if you say exactly the same thing in exactly the same room, you just end up being louder. There are some people who don’t want to talk. In some cases, people have said, “Yeah, I want to talk about it, but I need to think about this more and I’ll get back to you,” and then haven’t got back to me. People who seem reluctant, I don’t want to force them to talk about something they don’t want to talk about, just for my own benefit. Of the people who do want to talk, and that’s been most of them, it’s been overwhelmingly positive.
You can train yourself, I think, to be a better person just by thinking about it a lot, and acting on those thoughts.Testing it out, like, “Well, maybe beingIf you want to truly pursue the scientific method, I guess that’s the way. When you talk about your partnership with your wife, and the ways that you participate in child care—is that something which you are intentionally trying to communicate to your fans?
I don’t. But, again, it’s because I very consciously decided, when I started doing regular videos, that I was not going to pay attention to what YouTube is telling me to do. I briefly entertained it at the beginning: Should I get sponsors? Should I research what titles work better? There was a brief period where I was, like, “I could win at YouTube,” and then I very quickly realized that I don’t want to win at YouTube.
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