A New Chapter
The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters
American Public Media
4.3 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2017
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Lynne Rossetto Kasper shares her retirement announcement with The Splendid Table listeners and welcomes new show host Francis Lam. Writer Lisa Napoli investigates Ray and Joan Kroc, the power couple behind the beginning of the McDonald's empire. Daniel Klein and Mirra Fine take their wonderful online food show The Perennial Plate to Ireland, where they learn about turf-smoked salmon and find themselves in unique situations with chef Katie Sanderson. Tucker Shaw from America's Test Kitchen shares his team's tips for keeping your sink, sponges and refrigerator safe and sanitary. Plus, YouTube sensation Hannah Hart on how she unexpectedly created a online community with My Drunk Kitchen.
Broadcast dates for this episode:
- February 10, 2017
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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. |
| 0:24.4 | Listen to Our Common Nature from WNYC, wherever you get podcasts. |
| 0:30.7 | It's the splendid table from APM American Public Media. |
| 0:35.0 | I'm Lunro SETO-Castro. |
| 0:36.7 | When you've unwrapped those McDonald's burgers and |
| 0:39.2 | fries, you've probably never pondered how Ray Kroc, a salesman of paper cups and milkshake |
| 0:44.6 | machines, turned a single burger stand into one of the largest international brands of the 20th century. |
| 0:51.7 | Writer Lisa Napoli has written the book. |
| 0:57.1 | What they did that the other hamburger stands didn't do is orchestrate or choreographed this hamburger dance |
| 1:00.8 | that allowed the movement of food from creation to you and your mouth very quickly. |
| 1:08.1 | And that's what set them apart from others. |
| 1:10.3 | The speedy system, they called it. |
| 1:12.4 | Ray Kroc looked at this system and said, aha, that's it. Ray and Joan, the story of the man who |
| 1:19.2 | created McDonald's fortune and the woman who gave it all away. And more, this hour on the |
| 1:24.7 | splendid table. |
| 1:38.9 | This is the splendid table from APM, American Public Media, |
| 1:42.0 | the show for people who love to eat. |
| 1:44.0 | I'm Lynne Rossetto Casper. |
| 1:51.1 | Nothing stays the same. |
| 1:55.1 | For some 50 years, and I can't believe I'm saying that, |
| 1:59.9 | curiosity and I'd say probably outright obsessiveness, |
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