779: Fruits & Veggies with Abra Berens and Sheela Prakash

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

American Public Media

Arts, Food

4.2 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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This week, we promise you will get your recommended dose of fruits and vegetables! Award-winning author Abra Berens takes us on a sweet and savory journey with fruit. From best cooking methods to subtle and exotic pickling methods- think Brined Cherries + Salty Snacks, to advice on picking the best fruit to throw on the grill. She’s the author of three books, Grist, A Practical Guide to Cooking Grains, Beans, Seeds, and Legumes, Ruffage: A Practical Guide to Vegetables, and her latest, Pulp: A Practical Guide to Cooking with Fruit. Then, we turn to vegetables with food editor and author Sheela Prakash. Her new book is Salad Seasons: Vegetable-Forward Dishes All Year. The book is chockfull of imaginative uses for fresh veggies, including an amazing recipe for Spring Carrots with Burnt Butter and Labneh and an every night anchovy salad dressing.

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April 21, 2023 (originally aired)

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1:00.0	I'm Frances Lam and this is the Splendid Table from APM.
1:13.2	So my kid's absolute favorite food in the entire world is her daddy's roasted broccoli.
1:20.0	Cheers!
1:21.0	Hooray!
1:22.0	Has been for years.
1:23.4	Amazing, right?
1:24.4	Well, the problem is that her second favorite food is chocolate.
1:27.8	Her third is french fries, the fourth is candy, the fifth is ice cream and somewhere
1:31.6	down on the line, there are chicken nuggets, nachos and rame.
1:36.4	It's not that she doesn't like fruits and vegetables.
1:39.3	It's just that the siren songs of sugar, salt and the friolator are just a little too
1:45.1	catchy to get out of her head.
1:47.1	And I also imagine that's the case for a lot of kids and adults.
1:50.8	And that's a shame nutritionally, but for enjoyment too, there's nothing like the world
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