756: Up Close with Evan Kleiman, Host of Good Food
The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters
American Public Media
4.3 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2023
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
This week, we spend the hour with the pioneering food radio personality, Evan Kleiman. We talk about her life and all the places food has taken her. She tells us about her travels across Europe fresh out of high school, learning to cook alongside her Italian host family, and falling in love with the cuisine. She went on to open one of the most respected Italian restaurants in the country, Angeli Caffe, in Los Angeles and eventually became the host of the award-winning radio food show Good Food.
Broadcast dates for this episode:
- May 6, 2022 (originally aired)
- May 5, 2023 (rebroadcast)
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| 0:47.5 | Hey, it's Francis. |
| 0:53.6 | You know, a couple times a year, we dedicate a whole episode to one long interview with an icon in the food world. |
| 0:56.1 | And this week, we're rewriting a show from last year around this time. We're talking to Evan Kleinman, chef, author, and host of |
| 1:01.5 | good food from KCRW. Check it out. I'm Frances Lamb, and this is The Splendid Table from APM. |
| 1:18.4 | Music this is the splendid table from APF. You know, so the exact birthday of our show is actually kind of lost the history. |
| 1:23.6 | As our producer and co-creator Sally puts it, you know, we never bothered to write it down |
| 1:27.2 | because we were never sure it was going to last anyway. |
| 1:29.4 | But it was certainly sometime in the mid or late 90s. |
| 1:33.9 | It was an unusual little program on Minnesota Public Radio, talking about food and hosted by our dear Lynn Rosetta Casper, an expert in Italian cuisine with a curiosity that spanned the entire universe. Well, |
| 1:45.2 | right around the same time, there's another show, another unusual little program on Southern California |
| 1:50.8 | public radio talking about food and hosted by an expert on Italian cuisine who had a curiosity that spans |
| 1:57.0 | the entire universe. That show is good food from KCRW, and that host is Evan Klymouth. |
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