Doublestop Magazine

Joshua Bell Cooks

Public Radio show “The Splendid Table” brought together two of my favorite things–cooking and music–when noted violinist Joshua Bell and host Lynne Rossetto Kasper made pasta. While Bell enjoys good food, he is clearly a novice in the kitchen, and so Kasper walks him through the preparation of a dish that could have been made at the time when the Cremonese masters were creating their violins. (Why was Bell on a cooking show? He’s promoting his new CD, the Red Violin Concerto.)

You can listen to the interview on the show’s site. The interview starts about 12:45 in.

One funny moment comes when Bell mentions that he tries “to stay away from knives…and cleaning up plates!”