Asian Tofu

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

American Public Media

Arts, Food

4.3 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2013

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

This week, we talk to Andrea Nguyen about her latest book, Asian Tofu. Jane and Michael Stern are on the Eastern Shore of Virginia at the Exmore Diner. We get a smell tour of Seattle with researcher Victoria Henshaw, and we talk to Renee Shepherd of Renee's Garden about the newest in culinary seeds.

Broadcast dates for this episode:

March 3, 2012 (originally aired)
March 2, 2013 (rebroadcast)

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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.
1:02.3	It's the Splendid Table from APM, American Public Media.
1:16.3	Thank you. I'm Lynne Rosetta, Casper.
1:23.2	Do you have one friend who can take a handful of chips and happily quit eating, while another one just can't stop?
1:45.0	While Washington University in St. Louis may have found out why this happens, your first friend could have more of the newly discovered CD-36 receptor, which means he can resist fat. The second friend may have less CD-36. But for me, the key discovery in the study was that the more fat any of us eat, the less we can resist it, which is terribly unfair.
1:49.0	Well, stick around for better news and great eats this hour on the splendid table from APM American Public Media, the show for people who love to eat.
2:13.0	I'm Lynn Rossetto, Casper.
2:20.5	Well, this week it's how to romance the soybean into silken allure,
2:26.2	aka tofu, as you have never known tofu.
2:30.4	Trust me on this one.
2:32.1	Stringing out the Asian theme, I'm putting supermarket soy sauces to the test
2:36.8	with a blind tasting, and we will name names. We're getting our hands in the dirt with Master
2:42.8	Gardner and heirloom pioneer Renee Shepard. She's got her picks of the top seeds to plant this year,
2:49.1	and there's a new experience to be had in your own backyard.
2:53.8	You've probably been on a sightseeing tour, eating tours, maybe sipped your way through a bar crawl
2:59.8	or two, but have you ever done a smell tour that is sniffed your way around town? This is
3:07.3	Dr. Victoria Henshaw's way of discovering a place.
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