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

Billionaire's Vinegar

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

American Public Media

Food, Arts

4.33K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2010

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

This week we've a modern wine mystery with Benjamin Wallace author of The Billionaire's Vinegar: The Mystery of the World's Most Expensive Bottle of Wine. Jane and Michael Stern are noshing donuts at Round Rock Donuts in Round Rock, TX, Sally Schneider author of The Improvised Life website introduces us to the allure of Orange Flower Water, and David Rosengarten, the man behind the opinionated Rosengarten Report talks about how gazpacho is made on its home turf of Spain.


Broadcast dates for this episode:


  • August 30, 2008 (originally aired)
  • May 15, 2010 (rebroadcast)

Transcript

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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.

0:32.8

It's Lynn Rosetta-Castor with the Splendid Table.

0:44.3

Thank you. It's Lynn Rosetta Casper with the splendid table. Today it's the bottle of wine that sold for $156,000.

0:49.1

The story seemed too good to be true.

0:51.3

A 1787 bottle of Chateau Lafitte carved with the initials of Thomas Jefferson

0:56.4

found in a bricked up Paris wine cellar. Well, Benjamin Wallace tells the tale in his book

1:01.5

The Billionaires Vinegar, the mystery of the world's most expensive bottle of wine. While the

1:07.0

Stearns have found a donut worth the journey in Round Rock, Texas.

1:13.8

Sally Schneider talks summer fruit's secret friend,

1:15.4

its orange flower water,

1:20.4

100% authentic Spanish gazpacho is David Rosengarten's passion,

1:22.6

and a bridegrews her own wedding. All this and your calls coming up on The Splendid Table.

1:35.7

This week's Splendid Table is a repeat of an earlier broadcast.

1:42.6

Hi, it's Lynn Rosetta, Casper, and you're listening to The Splendid Table, the show for people who love to eat.

1:48.2

Our program is produced by American Public Media and supported by Just Bear Chicken,

1:54.7

all natural with a simple commitment to natural food and respect for both animals and the planet.

1:57.3

Just Bear Chicken, go minimal.

2:00.7

You can learn more at justbearchicken.com. Well, today it's the story of the wine

2:03.4

world's longest running mystery. We're talking the priciest and maybe the most provocative

2:09.6

bottle ever sold. Our guest is Benjamin Wallace. He's author of the billionaire's vinegar,

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