4th of July

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

American Public Media

Arts, Food

4.3 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2000

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

We're dropping in at diverse locales this week as we prepare to celebrate the Fourth of July. Southern food historian John Martin Taylor, author of the newly reissued Hoppin' John's Lowcountry Cooking, takes us to South Carolina's coastal plain for boiled peanuts, Pimiento Cheese and Frogmore Stew.

We'll go down east with Jane and Michael Stern for that epitome of summer, boiled Maine lobster right on the beach, then we head west to discover the birthplace of the hamburger. Josh Wesson reports on a delicious, summery, bargain white wine; Al Sicherman and Lynne taste canned baked beans; and our producers have cooked up a surprise or two.

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July 1, 2000

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0:00.0	How do better cows lead to better grades?
0:04.1	It began in Scotland, where scientists, supported by the Gates Foundation,
0:08.7	worked together to breed cows that give more milk.
0:12.0	Scientists in Kenya adapted the idea for local herds,
0:15.6	helping farmers nearly double their milk and lift family incomes.
0:19.7	And when parents earn more, their kids stay in school.
0:23.8	Better cows, better grades.
0:26.3	The Gates Foundation, partners of human potential.
0:31.4	Our common nature is a musical journey with Yo-Yo Ma and me, Anna Gonzalez, through this complicated country.
0:38.7	We go into caves, onto boats, and up mountain trails to meet people, hear their stories,
0:44.4	their poetry, and of course, play some music, all to reconnect to nature and get closer to the things we're missing.
0:54.5	Listen to Our Common Nature from WNYC, wherever you get podcasts.
1:02.2	It's Lynn Rosetta-Castor with the splendid table.
1:17.1	Today we're celebrating the fourth all over the place.
1:22.8	Hopin-John Taylor, the Southern Food Authority, takes us to the South Carolina Low Country.
1:24.9	This Prince of Tides territory.
1:31.7	Anyway, we're eating Frogmore stew, boiled peanuts, and that epitome of Southern hospitality,
1:33.5	pimento cheese.
1:35.8	This isn't what you think it is, by the way.
1:42.3	Jane and Michael Stern are eating Maine Lobster on the beach at the Five Island Lobster Company. And Wine with Joshua Wesson introduces us to a delicious white wine,
1:47.6	that's would you believe, six bucks a bottle.
1:51.3	It's from South Africa.
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