A Father's Advice
The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters
American Public Media
4.3 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2015
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
We talk to Mexican food scholar Margarita Carrillo Arronte, author of Mexico: The Cookbook, about what modern Mexican food is really made of, Chez Panisse chef Cal Peternell dreamed up Twelve Recipes, a book to teach his adult sons how to cook, and Lynne tastes her way through the best and worst of vegetable stock.
Broadcast dates for this episode:
- October 17, 2014 (originally aired)
- October 16, 2015 (rebroadcast)
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| 0:00.0 | Our common nature is a musical journey with Yo-Yo Ma and me, Ana Gonzalez, through this complicated country. |
| 0:08.1 | We go into caves, onto boats, and up mountain trails to meet people, hear their stories, their poetry, and of course, play some music, all to reconnect to nature and get closer to the things we're missing. |
| 0:24.5 | Listen to Our Common Nature from WNYC, wherever you get podcasts. |
| 0:32.3 | It's the Splendid Table from APM American Public Media. |
| 0:36.6 | I'm in Rosetta Casper. |
| 0:38.1 | Go to Mexico and you'll see that restaurant kitchens are dominated by men. |
| 0:42.3 | But historically, that wasn't the case. |
| 0:44.5 | As a matter of fact, Mexican women preferred that men stay out of the kitchen. |
| 0:48.6 | Your grandmother had a very funny saying. |
| 0:51.2 | Yes. |
| 0:52.3 | She said, |
| 0:53.9 | Los Homes in the Cuccina, men in the kitchen, |
| 0:57.0 | wueling a quacha of a gaijina. |
| 1:00.0 | Smell like hands, I don't know how to say this, |
| 1:05.0 | a popo de gallina. |
| 1:07.0 | Hands poop. |
| 1:08.0 | Yes, hands poo. |
| 1:10.0 | Because they were not welcome in the kitchen many years ago. |
| 1:13.7 | Men were fed, but men weren't needed to cook. |
| 1:16.7 | Yes. |
| 1:17.5 | That was Mexican food legend Margarita Carrillo Aronte with our friend Patty Hinnich. |
| 1:23.1 | Listen in on their conversation and more this hour on The Splendid Table. |
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