$4 a Day

The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters

American Public Media

Arts, Food

4.3 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2016

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

This week we talk to Leanne Brown, author of Good and Cheap: Eat Well on $4/Day. Wendy Suzuki, author of Healthy Brain, Happy Life, shares recent evidence that you can benefit your brain by giving it a smell and taste workout. In his latest project, “To Live and Dine in L.A.,” Josh Kun looked at a collection of over 9,000 menus dating back to 1875. And Cathy Erway, author of The Food of Taiwan, shares the distinctive tastes of Taiwanese cuisine.

Broadcast dates for this episode:

August 14, 2015 (originally aired)
August 12, 2016 (rebroadcast)

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0:00.0	Our common nature is a musical journey with Yo-Yo Ma and me, Ana Gonzalez, through this complicated country.
0:08.1	We go into caves, onto boats, and up mountain trails to meet people, hear their stories, their poetry, and of course, play some music, all to reconnect to nature and get closer to the things we're missing.
0:24.4	Listen to Our Common Nature from WNYC, wherever you get podcasts.
0:35.0	It's the splendid table from APM American Public Media on Lynn Rosetta, Casper.
0:41.2	Our sense of smell, otherwise known as our olfactory system, is elusive.
0:46.6	Have you ever wondered why it's so hard to identify a smell?
0:51.3	Here's brain researcher Wendy Suzuki.
0:53.9	It turns out that you have to go through a lot of
0:57.8	synapses, a lot of connections for that olfactory information to get to the language part of our brain,
1:04.9	and that it's very different from visual information for humans. That goes directly to our
1:10.6	language.
1:11.3	Capacity is very easy to describe visual things that we see.
1:15.4	The next time you brew a cup of coffee, inhale, and give your brain a workout.
1:20.5	Lots more coming your way this hour on the splendid table. Splendid Table.
1:42.3	This is the splendid table from APM, American Public Media, the show for people who love to eat.
1:52.0	I'm Winro Setter-Castro-Castro. Can you eat delicious,
1:59.7	healthy food on $4 a day? Lee Ann Brown took on this challenge as what she calls her capstone project for her masters in food studies at NYU.
2:04.2	She created the book, Good and Cheap, Eat Well on $4 a Day.
2:09.0	It began as a free download on her site.
2:11.6	It went viral to the tune of a half a million downloads.
2:15.7	Her Kickstarter campaign got printed copies to 9,000 more folks
2:19.6	who didn't have computers, and now 650 community organizations are getting free or greatly
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