Bonus: Shane Mitchell Extended Interview
The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters
American Public Media
4.3 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 12 April 2017
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
This Splendid Table Sides bonus podcast features an extended interview with Shane Mitchell, author of Far Afield. Contributor Shauna Sever talks with Mitchell about her global travels with photographer James Fisher to document stories of hospitality for the book. The discussion includes more details of their visit to a refugee camp known as The Jungle in Calais, France. Shane Mitchell also gave us her recipe for Mullah Robe, a lamb and yogurt stew inspired by a dish made for her in The Jungle by a Sudanese refugee named Rasha.
Broadcast dates for this episode:
- April 12, 2017
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| 0:00.0 | Our common nature is a musical journey with Yo-Yo Ma and me, Ana Gonzalez, through this |
| 0:07.0 | complicated country. |
| 0:08.7 | We go into caves, onto boats, and up mountain trails to meet people, hear their stories, |
| 0:14.4 | 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. |
| 0:30.1 | Hey, it's Francis Lamb. |
| 0:32.5 | In this bonus episode, we're bringing you contributor Shauna Severs' extended interview with |
| 0:37.0 | author Shane |
| 0:37.6 | Mitchell, her far-reaching explorations and writing her book Far Afield. We couldn't |
| 0:42.7 | fit the entire interview into the show, but we thought you'd enjoy hearing more of Shane's |
| 0:46.3 | adventures. Journalist Shane Mitchell has toured the globe filing reports for magazines like |
| 0:55.6 | Sever and Travel and Leisure. |
| 0:58.0 | Her food stories from remote places have inspired her to take a closer look, not just |
| 1:02.6 | at what people eat around the world, but how they share it with each other. |
| 1:07.2 | Shane's book, Far Afield, is the result of more than 10 years of stories and is a stunning look at the meaning of hospitality around the world. |
| 1:15.2 | Our contributor, Shauna Seaver, found out more. |
| 1:18.4 | Hi, Shane. Thanks so much for talking with us. |
| 1:21.4 | It's a pleasure. |
| 1:22.7 | Well, I have to say that the book is really stunning. |
| 1:25.5 | I mean, just the look of it and the scope and the depth is really impressive. |
| 1:29.9 | And the focus is food but also hospitality. |
| 1:33.8 | So I'm curious to know what is it about that connection or what you had seen in these different parts of the world that made you feel like there was a book there to be written. |
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