A Hedonist in the Wine Cellar

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

American Public Media

Arts, Food

4.3 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2006

⏱️ 55 minutes

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This week novelist and wine critic Jay McInerney joins us to talk "wine characters" he loves. From the brilliant to the beguiling to the outrageous, it's a look at those folks who are making wine fascinating right now. Jay's latest book is A Hedonist in the Wine Cellar: Adventures in Wine.

Jane and Michael Stern are dining at Hamburger King in Shawnee, Oklahoma, where great burgers with a theme song all their own are the order of the day. Master baker Dorie Greenspan gives us a master class in cookies and chocolate just in time for holiday baking. You'll want her World Peace Cookies, Grandma's Sugar Cookies and Café Volcano Cookies on your table this year. Dorie's latest must-have book is Baking: From My House to Yours.

We go to Bali for the story of how a legendary spice center is struggling with modern times. New York Times columnist Marion Burros talks the latest in grass fed beef. We'll hear about this year's gift for the wine geek who has everything: Custom Curling's corkscrew with royal connections and, as always, Lynne takes your calls.

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December 2, 2006

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0:00.0	Our common nature is a musical journey with Yo-Yo Ma and me, Ana Gonzalez, through this
0:07.0	complicated country.
0:08.7	We go into caves, onto boats, and up mountain trails to meet people, hear their stories,
0:14.4	their poetry, and of course, play some music, all to reconnect to nature and get closer to the things we're missing.
0:24.4	Listen to Our Common Nature from WNYC, wherever you get podcasts.
0:43.7	Selim Ro SETO Kaspper, and you're listening to The Splendid Table, the show for people who love to eat.
0:48.2	Our program is produced by American Public Media and brought to you by Super Target.
0:54.3	Today, wine writer and novelist Jay McEnarney talks the wine characters he's come to love,
0:57.6	like the Oedipus at Hermitage, the ghetto boys,
1:03.2	and the man, Jay says, gave us the liveliest and most pungent wine writing of the 20th century.
1:09.5	That woman who makes baking sounds so doable, Dory Greenspan, gives her master class in cookies.
1:13.0	We go to Bali, where farmers sleep under their vanilla plants to guard them from thieves, and an ancient spice trade is struggling with the 21st
1:18.5	century. Then it's grass-fed beef. New York Times columnist Marion Burroughs has been tasting and
1:23.7	making some interesting discoveries. And as always, in the second half of the show,
1:27.9	we're going to be opening the lines for your calls.
1:30.6	You can get to us at 800, 537-52-52.
1:35.6	So let's roll with Jane and Michael Stern.
1:38.4	They write the Road Food column for Gourmet magazine.
1:53.6	Lynn, you know, many states claim to be the place where the very best hamburgers are made.
1:56.5	I mean, Connecticut claims to be the original place of the hamburger.
1:59.7	Texas has some fabulous hamburgers.
2:02.8	Kansas has terrific hamburgers. But I have to say, I think, the most hamburger conscious state in the nation and the place where you get the best and most
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