820: Cooking Questions with Lisa Donovan and We The Pizza with Muhammad Abdul-Hadi

This week, food columnist for The New York Times Magazine, Lisa Donovan, joins us to talk about what she's been cooking up recently and help answer our listeners' kitchen conundrums, from making the best tomato paste despite out-of-season tomatoes to using unsweetened chocolate in baking recipes. Lisa is the author of the memoir Our Lady of Perpetual Hunger , and she leaves us with a recipe for a lovely Tarte Tatin to add to our repertoire. Then, we head over to Philadelphia, where we meet the founder and owner of Down North Pizza, Muhammad Abdul-Hadi. Muhammad tells us about his mission-driven restaurant dedicated to helping formerly incarcerated people rebuild their lives. Muhammad's new cookbook is We The Pizza: Slangin’ Pies, and Savin’ Lives and he leaves us with his signature pizza sauce recipe, Norf Sauce. Broadcast dates for this episode: February 7, 2025 (originally aired) February 6, 2026 (rebroadcast) Your support is a special ingredient in helping to make The Splendid Table. Donate today

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820: Cooking Questions with Lisa Donovan and We The Pizza with Muhammad Abdul-Hadi is an episode from The Splendid Table by American Public Media.

This episode is 00:50:18 long.

This episode was published on Feb 6, 2026.

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