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New England Meets the Pacific Northwest with this Simple Salmon Chowder | Kenji's Cooking Show

J. Kenji López-AltGrade F· Leftover recipes

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Title

Culinary Mashup + Accessibility

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Title verbatim

"New England Meets the Pacific Northwest with this Simple Salmon Chowder | Kenji's Cooking Show"

Thumbnail

subject left · emotion: none · face none · bright_on_dark · palette: Warm wood tones (background), cream/white (chowder base), golden-brown (garnish and bowl rim), green (fresh herbs), coral/pink text (high contrast pop). The warm-on-warm palette is broken by the bright pink text, which creates the visual punch needed for scroll-stopping.

On-thumbnail text

"SALMON CHOWDER KENJI OPEZ-ALT" (4 words)

Hook

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device: none

First 30 seconds

Does that look good? Yeah. By God, man. It is good. Wicked good chowder. Hey, when it's Kenji, I'm going to make some salmon chowder. Shelled it up. Let's get our panetta in here. Panetta cubes. You know, just a few ounces of them. You could also use um you know, salt pork would be the more traditional New England choice. Um but we are not in New England, as is made evident by the salmon here. You could also use bacon chunks. Um, sometimes I find bacon, the smokiness of bacon to be a little

Short script

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Hook

Does that look good? >> Yeah. >> By God, man. It is good. Wicked good chowder.

Long script

Tutorial

15 retention devices · 7 chapters

Cold open, first 30s

Does that look good? >> Yeah. >> By God, man. It is good. Wicked good chowder. Hey, when it's Kenji, I'm going to make some salmon chowder. Shelled it up. Let's get our panetta in here. Panetta cubes. You know, just a few ounces of them.

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