826: Celebrating 30 Years: Live from Iowa City

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

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Arts, Food

4.2 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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We're celebrating our 30th Anniversary on the road, and this week, we make our fourth stop in Iowa City in partnership with IPR. We talk to bakers, chefs, restaurateurs, and farmers about the food of the heartland. First up, Shae and Anna Pesek of Over the Moon Farm and T.D. Holub of The Garden Oasis Farm talk about their personal experiences with farm life, from agricultural challenges to sustainability and the community and passion that contribute to the success and drive of a farm. Then, we talk to Jamie Powers, owner and executive chef of Deluxe Bakery, and Carrie and Andy Schumacher, owners of the restaurant Cobble Hill, about opening their restaurants in Iowa and how building community is the most important part of their businesses.

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May 30, 2025 (originally aired)

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0:00.0	The Steakhouse Stack, with two layers of delicious beef, crispy onions and peppercorn sauce.
0:04.5	It's the kind of McDonald's you take photos of to put pride of place on the mantelpiece.
0:08.2	Sure, you'll need to make room, but you remember what your wedding day looked like.
0:11.5	The Steakhouse Stack. It's McDonald's and then some.
0:15.6	Available to the 17th of June, served from 11 a.m.
0:17.9	Subjects availability, participating restaurants only.
0:26.7	Hey everyone, I'm Michelle Norris, here to welcome you to your mama's kitchen. Every Tuesday,
0:32.4	we bring you new stories from the childhood kitchens of fun guests like Stephen Colbert, John Legend, Ina Garten, Big Frida, Roy Wood, so many more people. I'll talk to guests who are artists,
0:38.4	actors, chefs, musicians, and more about how the food and the culinary traditions of their
0:43.5	youth shape their lives in interesting and sometimes surprising ways. It's delicious.
0:49.3	Make sure to listen on Apple Podcast, Spotify, IHeart Radio, or wherever you get your podcast.
1:00.8	I'm Francis Lamb, and this is The Splendid Table from APM.
1:18.9	A tour of the country and celebration of our show's 30th year continues this week in Iowa City. Now, you may not know Iowa as a gastronomic capital, but it is absolutely true that America's food really would not look anything like it does today without Iowa.
1:31.7	Iowa produces more corn, pork, and eggs than any other state and is the second biggest producer of soy and oats.
1:39.2	So, yes, many of those are commodity crops often for export.
1:43.6	And the reality is that the vast majority of farms there probably don't look at all like what city folks think of when they think of farms.
1:51.7	But it's also not accurate to think that big farms and little farms are enemies. Farmers farm for many reasons.
2:00.0	And so in a beautiful barn at Celebration Farm in Iowa City, we were thrilled to bring together
2:05.6	some Iowa farmers to this stage to share what they do and why.
2:10.6	Shea and Anna Peschik started Over the Moon Farm in 2019 raising flowers and have since grown
2:16.6	to humanly raise meats, including pork, chicken,
2:19.8	turkey, and duck.
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