737: Eating Greek

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

American Public Media

Arts, Food

4.3 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

This week, we're talking about the unique cuisine of Greece. Diane Kochilas, author and star of the public television show, My Greek Table joins us from Athens to talk about Greek regional cooking and explore the history and cuisine of the Greek American community. She also lets us in on her favorite dishes to prepare from her garden. Then, we sit with Tara Q. Thomas, who tells us all we need to know about Greek wine, from her favorite producers to the evolution of the pine resin in retsina wines. Then, we head to Queens to listen in on a Greek American family as they prepare their favorite stuffed cabbage, sarmades.

Broadcast dates for this episode:

July 9, 2021 (originally aired)
July 8, 2022 (rebroadcast)
July 12, 2024 (rebroadcast)

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1:18.9	Well, with the Olympics upon us, we wanted to get back to a past episode on, no, not Parisian food, that would be too obvious.
1:25.9	No, we're going all the way back to Greek food.
1:28.4	I love this episode. I have never actually been to Greece, but whenever I hear it, I feel like I'm one step closer. Give it a listen.
1:36.8	I'm Francis Lamb, and this is The Splendid Table, the show for curious cooks and eaters from APM.
1:47.7	When I was in high school, I was like totally obsessed with these food carts called
1:52.4	the grease trucks. I mean, first of all, who wouldn't be obsessed with something called
1:56.3	the grease trucks? But they were parked in this parking lot on the campus of Rutgers University, the state
2:01.9	University of New Jersey. And I remember they were open all night long, and they were just these
2:07.8	magnificent purveyors of fat. So, you know, kids would come in from their parties at a bar or
2:13.7	from studying or whatever at like two in the morning, and they would be eating these things
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