Apples

The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters

American Public Media

Arts, Food

4.3 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2000

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

They've been linked to some pretty serious temptation and trouble—they did, after all, play a key role in that messy Garden of Eden business—but the illustrious apple still came out on top as the world's most popular fruit according to our guest Frank Browning. As the author of Apples and co-author of the cookbook, An Apple Harvest: Recipes and Orchard Lore, Frank has studied nearly every dimension of the fruit, from myth to science. He'll share a bit of the apple's uncommon and surprising history and give us a recipe for Braised Chicken, Norman Style.

Who but Jane and Michael Stern would report on chocolate hair brushes and angel food in Manitowoc, Wisconsin? Kitchen designer Deborah Krasner has been checking out food sites on the Web and stops by with some fabulous finds. Al Sicherman and Lynne taste drive-through hamburgers with an 11-year-old boy named Sam, and we check in with Philip Yi, director of America's first Sushi Academy. And, as always, Lynne will take your calls.

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September 30, 2000

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0:31.4	Our common nature is a musical journey with Yo-Yo Ma and me, Anna Gonzalez, through this complicated country.
0:38.7	We go into caves, onto boats, and up mountain trails to meet people, hear their stories,
0:44.4	their poetry, and of course, play some music, all to reconnect to nature and get closer to the things we're missing.
0:54.5	Listen to Our Common Nature from WNYC, wherever you get podcasts.
1:00.8	It's Lynne Rosedetto Casper with the splendid table.
1:17.2	Today it's the primeval apple, the fruit that is the master of spin.
1:24.2	In spite of the bad press after the Garden of Eden incident, the apple is now the world's most popular fruit.
1:29.8	Apple Authority, Frank Browning, revealed the myths and the odyssey. The apple began in Kazakhstan, but its future may depend upon an orchard in Ohio. Jane and Michael
1:35.8	Stern have uncovered delectable sweets in a Wisconsin candy store. Kitchen designer Deborah
1:40.9	Krasner is checking out great food sites on the web.
1:44.7	We taste fast food burgers and we hear about America's first sushi academy.
1:50.0	All this and your calls coming up on the splendid table.
1:56.7	But first this.
2:04.8	Thank you. But first, this. Hi, it's Lynne Rosetta Casper with Kitchen Chronicles, where knowledge is power and cooking
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