Wiser With Age

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  • Cooking With Granny: Mattar Paneer with Indian Grandma Sahni

    Cooking With Granny: Mattar Paneer with Indian Grandma Sahni


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    Grandma Surinder Sahni about to cook her famous Mattar Paneer

    This is a New York immigrant story cooked into Grandma Surinder Sahni’s mouthwatering mattar paneer (vegetable curry with homemade Indian cheese). Find out how an Indian Sikh family and an Orthodox Jewish family came together in a surprising intersection of their religions in Kew Gardens, Queens. And learn how to make mattar paneer from scratch straight from a Granny master chef.

    A woman with short hair wearing red necklace.Caroline Shin is a multimedia journalist based in NYC. Recently, she launched “Cooking With Granny†– a Web series in which grandmas teach how to cook traditional dishes from their cultures while simultaneously sharing their funny, sad and surprising experiences with immigration and multiculturalism in a world that’s very different from today’s. Shin was previously a video editor at New York Magazine and holds an M.A. from Columbia Journalism School.

  • Cooking With Granny: A Puerto Rican Grandma’s pernil & arroz con gandules

    Cooking With Granny: A Puerto Rican Grandma’s pernil & arroz con gandules


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    Caroline with granny Maria Esposito.

    Almost everything Maria Esposito knows about cooking, she learned from her grandma who raised her back in Puerto Rico. She brought those cooking chops to the Bronx where adaptation was key. Now a grandma herself in Warwick, N.Y., Maria imparts her culinary wisdom to you wonderfully hungry viewers in this DOUBLE-DISH feature on pernil and arroz con gandules (roast pork and rice with pigeon peas) which includes fresh-picked greens from her garden. You’ll need to take a page out of her recipe book (in fact, you can once I finish up the “Cooking with Granny” recipe book!). Enjoy this mouthwatering episode!

    A woman with short hair wearing red necklace.Caroline Shin is a multimedia journalist based in NYC. Recently, she launched “Cooking With Granny†– a Web series in which grandmas teach how to cook traditional dishes from their cultures while simultaneously sharing their funny, sad and surprising experiences with immigration and multiculturalism in a world that’s very different from today’s. Shin was previously a video editor at New York Magazine and holds an M.A. from Columbia Journalism School.

  • Cooking With Granny: Russian stuffed peppers

    Cooking With Granny: Russian stuffed peppers


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    Caroline with Russian granny Nina Iskin.

    As grandma Nina Iskin teaches us how to make stuffed peppers, we also learn her war-torn tale – how she came to survive the Siege of Leningrad during World War II, the deadliest siege in military history, and eventually immigrate to New York City with the help of former Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev and U.S. President George Bush. Watch below!

    A woman with short hair wearing red necklace.Caroline Shin is a multimedia journalist based in NYC. Recently, she launched “Cooking With Granny†– a Web series in which grandmas teach how to cook traditional dishes from their cultures while simultaneously sharing their funny, sad and surprising experiences with immigration and multiculturalism in a world that’s very different from today’s. Shin was previously a video editor at New York Magazine and holds an M.A. from Columbia Journalism School.

  • Cooking With Granny: Greek octopus stew

    Cooking With Granny: Greek octopus stew


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    Barbara Aliprantis digs up a generations-old family recipe for a Greek-style octopus stew in this episode of “Cooking with Granny.” Braised in red wine and cooked with love — in homage to her late husband of 46 years — this fiery red octopus stew gets Barbara and Caroline chatting it up over dismembered octopus parts in the kitchen. Watch below!

    A woman with short hair wearing red necklace.Caroline Shin is a multimedia journalist based in NYC. Recently, she launched “Cooking With Granny†– a Web series in which grandmas teach how to cook traditional dishes from their cultures while simultaneously sharing their funny, sad and surprising experiences with immigration and multiculturalism in a world that’s very different from today’s. Shin was previously a video editor at New York Magazine and holds an M.A. from Columbia Journalism School.

  • Cooking With Granny: Korean style pork belly

    Cooking With Granny: Korean style pork belly


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    Caroline with her grandmother

     

    In the first episode of Caroline Shin’s “Cooking with Granny†series, her adorable grandma, Sanok Kim, shares her simple yet delicious recipe for Korean-style pork belly. During her interview, she is joined by her friend, and together, they recount their dangerous journeys from Soviet North Korea to U.S.-occupied South Korea.

     

    A woman with short hair wearing red necklace.Caroline Shin is a multimedia journalist based in NYC. Recently, she launched “Cooking With Granny” – a Web series in which grandmas teach how to cook traditional dishes from their cultures while simultaneously sharing their funny, sad and surprising experiences with immigration and multiculturalism in a world that’s very different from today’s. Shin was previously a video editor at New York Magazine and holds an M.A. from Columbia Journalism School.