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

793: The Secret of Cooking with Bee Wilson and Cassoulet Confessions with Sylvie Bigar

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

American Public Media

Food, Arts

4.22.9K Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

This week, we’re all about discovering the secret of cooking—and exploring an iconic French Dish. First, Award-winning food historian Bee Wilson talks to us about her latest book, The Secret of Cooking: Recipes for an Easier Life in the Kitchen. She talks about how to find the joy in cooking with real-world advice, from embracing your favorite kitchen tool to considering cooking as a remedy. She left us with her recipe for Magic Pasta with Mushrooms, Garlic Cream, and Wine. Then, food writer Sylvie Bigar takes us through an amazing culinary journey, exploring the history and culture of cassoulet and why she became so obsessed with the iconic French dish. Her book is Cassoulet Confessions: Food, France, Family and the Stew That Saved My Soul, and she left us with her recipe for Gateway Cassoulet.


Broadcast dates for this episode:


  • December 8, 2023 (originally aired)
  • December 13, 2024 (rebroadcast)




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0:00.0

The Splendium Table was supported by Vitamix. You know, there are some essential cooking tools that have spanned generations, cross continents, and found their way into kitchens around the world. I'm thinking of the cast iron pam, the rolling pin, the mortar and pestle. But all of those were innovations at one point, and the high-powered Vitamix blender takes its place in that pantheon.

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1:11.8

I'm Frances Lam, and this is the splendid table from APM.

1:26.1

You know, we romanticize food a lot.

1:33.9

We reminisce about meals we've had, like they're major milestones,

1:37.6

and some of us make how much we like to eat, like our whole personality.

1:42.4

But when you're just living your life, sometimes food

1:45.7

is a huge deal and it needs to be, and sometimes it's no big deal, and sometimes that's what it

1:52.0

needs to be. On today's show, we have two wonderful food writers who tell us about how their

1:57.8

outlook on food changed because of a moment or a dish that just demanded it.

2:04.5

The Swiss-American writer Sylvie Begar

2:06.4

takes us into the world of Casule,

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