Artisan Bread
The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters
American Public Media
4.3 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 7 March 2014
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Jeffrey Hertzberg, the best-selling co-author of The New Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day, joins us with the newest take on bread making for the home cook, we look at Muslim-Chinese cuisine with Jason Wang of New York City's Xi'an Famous Foods, we head to Tallahassee, Fla., with the Sterns to Olean's Cafe for first-rate soul food and hear about how vegetarians are taking on the congressional lunchroom.
Broadcast dates for this episode:
- March 7, 2014
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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. |
| 0:34.5 | It's The Splendid Table from APM American Public Media. |
| 0:38.3 | I'm Lynne Rosetta Casper. |
| 0:41.8 | So guess what the big food trend is in the Bay Area right now? |
| 0:46.9 | Toast. |
| 0:47.7 | Yeah, you heard me. |
| 0:49.0 | Toast. |
| 0:49.9 | Well, actually, they call it artisanal toast, which means it costs about four bucks a pop. |
| 0:56.2 | Now, to be clear, this is not a slice. |
| 0:58.6 | It's more like a slab, but it's still $4. |
| 1:02.1 | Julita Corelli, a woman who tattooed freckles on her cheeks, started this toast thing at her shop, Trouble Coffee, and Coconut Club. |
| 1:12.8 | Now, for her, each item has meaning. |
| 1:19.9 | Toast is comfort, coffee is speed and communication, and coconut is survival because you can live on it. There's nothing run of the mill here. Stay with us for lots more this hour on the splendid |
| 1:26.6 | table. Stay with us for lots more this hour on The Splendid Table. |
| 1:40.7 | This is The Splendid Table from APM, American Public Media, |
| 1:43.5 | the show for people who love to eat. I'm Lynn Rossetto, Casper. |
| 1:51.2 | A couple of years ago, a man called in to get advice on a dream that I think a lot of people |
| 1:56.9 | who love to cook have. Have a listen. We have Jeff calling. Jeff, what do you want to talk about? |
| 2:03.3 | Well, my question is about how an unknown like me breaks into the cookbook market with a book |
| 2:08.5 | that I've written about a bread recipe I've taken 12 years to develop. So you've written the book? |
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