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The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters
American Public Media
4.3 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2016
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Ruth Reichl joins us with the backstory of her latest book, My Kitchen Year, and we talk to Emeril Lagasse about the recipes he finds essential. His latest book is Essential Emeril. Chef Lidia Bastianich shares what she cooked for the pope, and Jane and Michael Stern are at the Garnet Café in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho.
Broadcast dates for this episode:
- October 9, 2015 (originally aired)
- October 21, 2016 (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. |
| 0:24.5 | Listen to Our Common Nature from WNYC, wherever you get podcasts. |
| 0:30.6 | It's the splendid table from APM, American Public Media. |
| 0:34.2 | I'm Sally Swift in this week for Lynn Rosetta Casper, a superstar magazine editor, |
| 0:39.0 | a best-selling author, and overnight unemployed. That is exactly the scenario Ruth Reischel faced |
| 0:44.3 | when Gourmet shuttered in 2009. The magazine closed, and I was in a really bad way. I mean, |
| 0:50.9 | Gourmet magazine was almost 70 years old. It closed on my watch. 60 people |
| 0:55.0 | lost their jobs. And it was like losing your family. I never saw it coming. And the reality |
| 1:00.1 | hit me. What am I going to do with the rest of my life? I'm 62 years old. I don't have a job. |
| 1:05.5 | Who's going to hire me? And who am I? I mean, I'd had a day job for my whole adult life. |
| 1:12.4 | I felt guilty and depressed. |
| 1:15.1 | And I did what I always do when I'm sad, lonely. |
| 1:19.4 | I started cooking. |
| 1:20.9 | Ruth Reischel's accidental cookbook |
| 1:22.7 | and Emerald Lagasse's Essential Reci's Essential Recipes. |
| 1:25.3 | That's the sour on the splendid table. |
| 1:33.5 | Music Legossi's essential recipes. That's this hour on the Splendid Table. This is the Splendid Table from APM, American Public Media, the show for people who love to eat. |
| 1:39.5 | I'm Sally Swift, in for Lynn Rosetto Casp with this week. |
| 1:53.4 | Gourmet Magazine was unceremoniously shuttered in 2009, and no one was more surprised than its editor-in-chief, Ruth Reischel. |
| 1:55.9 | That was the start of a very rough period for a woman with a very public persona. |
| 2:00.5 | Surprisingly, what emerged from that time was a cookbook. |
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