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‘In the Weeds’: Pastry chef Cathy Asapahu reflects on her family’s sacrifices
Cathy Asapahu has a foot in two worlds, or at least two restaurants. Until the pandemic disrupted everything, she was a pastry chef at Providence, the city’s most well-known fine dining establishment.
By Evan Kleiman • • 1 min readCathy Asapahu has a foot in two worlds, or at least two restaurants. Until the pandemic disrupted everything, she was a pastry chef at Providence, the city’s most well-known fine dining establishment. Yet, she grew up in a restaurant family and now she finds herself back in the kitchen alongside her sister Vanda at the family’s lauded restaurant Ayara Thai in Westchester. She joins us for this week’s edition of “In the Weeds.
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Chocolate, blood, Lunar New Year, recipes- 0:00Following recipes to the letter
- 9:00Staging a Valentine’s Day chocolate tasting
- 18:23Getting at the heart of cooking with blood
- 27:48Ushering in the Year of the Ox
- 37:21‘In the Weeds’: Pastry chef Cathy Asapahu reflects on her family’s sacrificesYou’re reading this
- 49:01Heading to the farmer’s market for chicories
The full episode
5 of 6Chocolate, blood, Lunar New Year, recipes- 0:00Following recipes to the letter
- 9:00Staging a Valentine’s Day chocolate tasting
- 18:23Getting at the heart of cooking with blood
- 27:48Ushering in the Year of the Ox
- 37:21‘In the Weeds’: Pastry chef Cathy Asapahu reflects on her family’s sacrificesYou’re reading this
- 49:01Heading to the farmer’s market for chicories