Bananas
The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters
American Public Media
4.3 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2016
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
This week we hear about the eating strategies of the world’s healthiest people with Dan Buettner, author of The Blue Zones Solution: Eating and Living Like the World’s Healthiest People. We look at the past, present and future of the most popular fruit, the banana, with Nicole Vitello, president of Equal Exchange Bananas. Chef Rick Bayless gives us a lesson in the Mexican way with vegetables. His latest book is More Mexican Everyday. Nongkran Daks, author of Nong's Thai Kitchen, shares how to make curry paste at home, and research scientist Heidi Appel says plants can hear when they are being eaten.
Broadcast dates for this episode:
- June 5, 2015 (originally aired)
- June 3, 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. |
| 0:31.0 | It's the Splendid Table from APM, American Public Media. |
| 0:35.2 | I'm Lynne Rosetta Casper. |
| 0:36.8 | So the Pesto didn't work. |
| 0:38.6 | Have you ever thought that your basil may be out of sorts? |
| 0:41.8 | This week, we meet a scientist, the University of Missouri's Heidi Apple, who studies whether plants can feel. |
| 0:48.9 | Plants are able to sense the same things in the environments that we do. |
| 0:51.9 | But the systems they use to sense things usually aren't in specialized organs like us. |
| 0:57.0 | So for example, you know, we're all familiar with the seedling growing towards the light on our kitchen window sill. |
| 1:03.0 | And that's because they can detect light. |
| 1:05.0 | They can detect odors. |
| 1:08.0 | They can also detect sound vibrations. And previous work showed that they can |
| 1:13.6 | distinguish the vibrations of caterpillar feeding from wind and other noises in the environment |
| 1:18.1 | and get defenses ready. I'm not sure how vegans are going to interpret this information, but lots |
| 1:24.3 | more this hour on the Splendid Table. |
| 1:31.8 | Hi, it's Lynn Rosetta, Casper. |
| 1:34.3 | Spring brings wonderful new tastes. |
| 1:36.8 | And during our Splendid Table fundraiser, |
| 1:39.6 | I've assembled four of my favorite spring recipes, |
| 1:41.0 | especially for you. |
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