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

743: Baking with Dorie Greenspan and Everything Grains with Abra Berens

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

American Public Media

Food, Arts

4.33K Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

We sit down with Dorie Greenspan to talk about her newest book, Baking with Dorie. She tells us about her "sweetheart" recipe collection, how she stays inspired after publishing 14 books, and how she dared makeover her famous World Peace Cookies. She left us with a delicious Caramel Apple Crisp recipe, perfect for the season and sticks around to answer your cooking questions. Later, our dear friend Abra Berens joins us to talk about her new book Grist: A Practical Guide to Cooking Grains, Beans, Seeds and Legumes. Soak or not to soak? Water or stock? And the last word on how to cook rice!


Broadcast dates for this episode:


  • October 22, 2021 (originally aired)
  • October 28, 2022 (rebroadcast)
  • September 20, 2024 (rebroadcast)




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0:00.0

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0:23.2

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0:28.1

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0:50.4

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1:16.2

Hey, it's Francis. This week, we're getting back to baking with a favorite episode from a couple years ago with National Treasure Dory Greenspan.

1:28.2

And we talk more grains with my dear friend, Barbara Barron.

1:34.2

I'm Frances Lamb, and this is The Splendid Table from APM.

1:42.0

Hey, I'm just going to say it.

1:43.9

Dora Greenspan is one of the greatest cookbook writers alive.

1:47.4

And I'm saying that not just because her recipes are great and because she has legions of fans

1:51.7

who start clubs to cook through her books every week, but because she does this thing,

1:56.3

where she can make a completely normal, regular old cook or baker, like you or me,

2:01.8

feel totally at home with a recipe from a legendary French chef.

2:06.4

I don't know if she does it, but she does.

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