Behind the Restaurant

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

American Public Media

Arts, Food

4.3 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

This is a show about restaurants, but not necessarily about the chef. It's about the lives of kitchen workers, their triumphs and troubles, and the extended family they often find on the line. We talk to Amy Thielen, author of Give a Girl a Knife, about what life was like for her working in some of the great kitchens in NYC. In 'Chefs With Issues,' Kat Kinsman offers a place for kitchen and service industry workers to gather online to share their stories of dealing with mental health issues. We visit an old-school Indian restaurant in London, The India Club. It is a place frozen in time and facing an uncertain future. And Molly Birnbaum of America’s Test Kitchen teaches us the chef-y but surprisingly simple technique of the salt-cured egg yolk.

Broadcast dates for this episode:

February 2, 2018 (originally aired)
January 18, 2019 (rebroadcast)

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1:04.3	It's the Splendid Table from APM American Public Media,
1:10.6	the show for curious cooks and eaters.
1:13.3	I'm Frances Lamb.
1:19.5	I love restaurants. The first job that ever made me excited to show up for work was in a restaurant.
1:25.3	The first job where it felt like all the people that mattered were standing right next to me was in a restaurant. And the first job that ever made me
1:31.7	feel like I was really in over my head, sort of in a good way, was in a restaurant. Now, I was never
1:38.8	a chef, and I have total respect for what chefs do, but I've always felt that restaurants were much more than just the chef.
1:47.3	They're the cooks, the dishwashers, the hosts, the servers, and they're the people who gather at them.
1:53.2	So this week, our show is all about restaurants and their people.
2:03.6	We'll start with Amy Phelielen. She's the author of a memoir called Give a Girl a Knife, that's about her path from
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