766: Honoring Family and Heritage with Linda Ronstadt and Natalia Molina

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

American Public Media

Food, Arts

4.3 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

This week, we have the iconic musician Linda Ronstadt and her collaborator Lawrence Downes talking about her love of the culture and food of the Sonoran Desert. We hear about the different Sonoran foods and stories from their travels, and she leaves us with her grandmother’s albondigas recipe. Their book is Feels Like Home A Song for the Sonoran Borderlands. Then we talk to MacArthur Fellow, Professor Natalia Molina about the restaurant her grandmother ran in the 1950s in Los Angeles, El Nayarit, and how a restaurant can be the heart of a community. Her book is A Place at the Nayarit, How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community.

Broadcast dates for this episode:

October 7, 2022 (originally aired)
October 13, 2023 (rebroadcast)

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1:18.1	Hey, it's Francis.
1:19.6	This week, we're bringing back a really wonderful episode from a while back,
1:24.4	featuring the absolutely iconic Andoranstad, and her writing partner, Lawrence
1:29.4	Downs, talking about the food of the Sonoran Desert that she loves so much, and Professor Natalia
1:35.0	Molina talks about her super smart book, A Place at the Naira Reat, about how a restaurant can be
1:41.2	the heart of a community. Check it out.
1:49.1	Music A restaurant can be the heart of a community. Check it out. I'm Francis Lamb, and this is The Splendid Table from APM.
2:08.7	I'm Frances Lamb to say it.
2:12.1	It is pretty wild that I get to introduce our first guest today.
2:14.8	I'm Linda Rodset, and it's nice to be with you.
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