Andy's Steamed Fish
The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters
American Public Media
4.3 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2013
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
This week in The Key 3, it's Thai food expert Andy Ricker. Jane and Michael Stern are at Sylvan Park in Nashville, Tenn. We take on homemade mustards with Los Angeles Times reporter Noelle Carter, and we look at the food world through its knives with Allegra McEvedy, author of Bought, Borrowed & Stolen.
Broadcast dates for this episode:
- February 4, 2012 (originally aired)
- February 2, 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. |
| 0:32.3 | It's the Splendid Table from APM American Public Media. |
| 0:44.8 | Thank you. table from APM American Public Media. I'm Lynne Rocetto Casper. |
| 0:46.9 | Today we premiere the Key Three, our new project. |
| 0:50.7 | I'm going to be taking you into the kitchens of the most interesting cooks I know. |
| 0:55.3 | Now, we're going to learn what they feel are their three most essential recipes, |
| 0:59.9 | and they're going to show us how to pull them off. |
| 1:02.5 | Now, aside from this being a collection of great cooking classes for us, their choices are |
| 1:07.3 | pretty revealing. |
| 1:09.1 | Take this week's guest. |
| 1:11.1 | Thai genius, and I don't say that lightly, Andy Ricker. |
| 1:14.4 | His key three are not what you'd expect. |
| 1:17.9 | So stay with us for your calls and lots more this hour on the splendid table. Table. |
| 1:43.7 | This is the Splendid Table from APM American Public Media, the show for people who love to eat. |
| 1:46.1 | I'm Lynne Rosetta Casper. |
| 1:52.5 | This week, we're starting out with our series, the key three, conversations with good cooks about the three recipes they think every good cook should know. It's a fun project to put |
| 1:58.5 | together and interestingly revealing about the cook. |
| 2:02.5 | Take this week's guest, Andy Ricker. |
| 2:04.8 | He fell for the street food of northern Thailand in his backpacking days. |
| 2:09.0 | He learned the language, made contacts with Thai cooks, and started to bring back ingredients. |
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