All Gone
The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters
American Public Media
4.3 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 15 November 2013
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
It's our annual get-ready–for-the-feast broadcast with writer and comedian Mo Rocca; journalist Alex Witchel, author of All Gone: A Memoir of My Mother’s Dementia. With Refreshments; and David Leite, of Leite’s Culinaria, takes on the carving knife.
Broadcast dates for this episode:
- November 17, 2012 (originally aired)
- November 15, 2013 (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. |
| 0:24.4 | Listen to Our Common Nature from WNYC, wherever you get podcasts. |
| 0:32.0 | It's the splendid table from APM, American Public Media. |
| 0:44.4 | Thank you. from APM, American Public Media. I'm Lynn Rosetta, Casper. You know, with Thanksgiving comes, if you're lucky, |
| 0:49.1 | some new traditions, like our year of the naked bird. We just moved to Denver, and we were adopted by our neighbors, the Goodman family. |
| 0:57.6 | Well, my husband was innocently carving the turkey until the Goodman women descended to practice their family tradition. |
| 1:05.0 | That was, strip the bird bear, and nibble up every bit of roasted skin. |
| 1:10.3 | He was roaring in shock, they were roaring in laughter, |
| 1:13.6 | and so the feast of the naked bird was initiated. |
| 1:17.8 | Not a magazine cover moment. |
| 1:20.5 | Stick around for much more this hour on the splendid table. |
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| 2:00.1 | This is the Splendid Table from APM American Public Media, |
| 2:03.1 | the show for people who love to eat. |
| 2:04.9 | I'm Lynne Rosetta, Casper. |
| 2:18.9 | But whether we like it or not, we're heading into the high season of family and friends. |
| 2:23.2 | So we thought it might be a good time to check in with our friend Mo Rocca. |
| 2:27.6 | Now, he's someone I consider to be a perpetual student of life. |
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