American Modern
The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters
American Public Media
4.3 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2011
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
This week, we're talking tradition with one of the last remaining limburger cheese producers; and how to keep Asian culinary traditions at home as well as in the restaurants. Interior designer and author of American Modern, Thomas O'Brien walks us through his vision of what a kitchen should be. Also on the show, The Dinner Party Download guys bring back the ice breaker, The Sterns go back to Milwaukee for some hoppel poppel, and we'll check in with Daniel Delaney, who is discovering the world's best street food, one bite at a time.
Broadcast dates for this episode:
- May 1, 2010 (originally aired)
- April 30, 2011 (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. |
| 0:32.1 | It's the splendid table from APM American Public Media. |
| 0:44.7 | Thank you. table from APM American Public Media. I'm Lynne Ro Seder-Castro-Castor. |
| 0:46.5 | We're deep into writing another book and the due date's looming and every spare moment is buried in recipe testing, |
| 0:53.2 | which is this very exacting process. So you have to |
| 0:56.8 | imagine my guilty pleasure when my husband developed an upset stomach, and he needed a soothing |
| 1:02.2 | meal. It freed me. I could just improvise, and it didn't matter if I made one note or if anybody |
| 1:08.9 | could ever do it again. Well, chicken in a pot happened. |
| 1:12.6 | I had lots of ginger in it for its tummy and lots of good vegetables and it was great. So it made |
| 1:18.6 | me think, is it great when you just can let your imagination and your instincts take over? |
| 1:24.0 | Stick around. There's lots more this hour on the Splendid Table. |
| 1:33.3 | This week's Splendid Table is a repeat of an earlier |
| 1:35.2 | broadcast. This is the Splendid Table from |
| 1:38.8 | APM American Public Media, |
| 1:41.2 | the show about life's appetites. |
| 1:43.6 | I'm Lynn Rossetto, Casper. |
| 1:51.8 | Rockfoot and Greer and slippery-free. |
| 1:55.6 | All of these cheeses, they happen to me. |
| 2:00.0 | Oh, please. Rough and cheese. they happen to me Oh please |
| 2:01.6 | Rough becarino and Moody Rams Hall |
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