811: Does This Taste Funny with Stephen and Evie McGee Colbert and Taste in Music with Alex Bleeker and Luke Pyenson

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

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Arts, Food

4.2 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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This week, we sit down with Evie McGee Colbert to talk about her latest book, co-authored with her husband, Stephen Colbert. She tells us about the dynamics in her family’s kitchen, the joys and challenges of cooking together during the pandemic, Charleston food traditions, and we take a listener question from one special caller! Evie’s latest book with her husband, Stephen Colbert, is Does This Taste Funny?: Recipes our Family Loves. She leaves us with her recipe for Salt and Pepper Wings. Then, we hit the road with musicians Alex Bleeker and Luke Pyenson to talk about their latest book, a collection of essays and interviews with musicians about life and eating on the road. They talk about their most memorable meals while on tour and the deep connection between musicians and food. Alex and Luke are the authors of Taste in Music: Eating on Tour with Indie Musicians.

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September 27, 2024 (originally aired)

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0:00.0	The Splendit table is supported by our friends at The Incredible Egg, who challenge you to break a few eggs to make great things happen.
0:06.0	If you're under a time crunch, and many of us are this time of year, eggs can be a great solution for quick fix meals.
0:12.0	This month's contest is all about egg recipes that are simple and make your life on the go a little easier.
0:17.6	Enter your creative recipe and you may win a made in six-piece stainless professional quality non-stick pan set and three cookbooks to set you
0:26.2	on your way.
0:27.5	Get to it and stick around as Chef Nelson Serrano Barry joins me later with more details. I'm Frances Lamb and this is the splendid
1:04.0	I'm Frances Lamb and this is the splendid table from APM. Have you ever dreamt of being on stage playing a concert to adoring fans watching them sing along to every word and knowing that in that moment the only thing that thousands of people care about is your music. Or maybe you've wondered what it would be like to walk out into a theater and know that everyone in the room and
1:10.0	you know millions of people watching at home on TV are hanging on your every word as you charm them with your razor wit and insightful conversation.
1:19.0	Well, I have no idea what either of those things are like, but I do also wonder what do these
1:24.0	these performers eat when they get home or before they get
1:27.3	ready to go on stage.
1:29.4	Well this week we get a little glimpse in all of that.
1:32.4	There's this wonderful new book called Taste and Music by Alex Bleaker and Luke Pienson.
1:37.0	Two musicians who brought together stories about the role of food while on tour
1:42.0	from their peers and icons in the indie rock world,
1:44.4	and we'll top of them later in the show. And first, we're delighted to welcome
1:49.7	Evie McGee Colbert. Evie's a film producer and longtime theater administrator who, for a year, also served as basically
1:57.8	the entire on-set crew of The Late Show when her husband Stephen Colbert taped the show from
2:02.4	home during COVID.
2:03.9	In the evenings, they cooked.
2:05.8	And the cookbook that they wrote together out of that time is called,
2:08.6	Does this taste funny?
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