Buffalo for the Broken Heart

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

American Public Media

Arts, Food

4.3 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2003

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

This week it's a saga of money, ecology and a struggle to survive on the South Dakota prairie. Dan O'Brien, author of the autobiographical Buffalo for the Broken Heart, is a cattle rancher who asked some difficult questions and found some unexpected answers. One led to the restoration of life to his Black Hills ranch.

Jane and Michael Stern recently returned from South Dakota where they found irresistible homemade potato chips. Savored right from the bag or crumbled atop a comforting Perfect Tuna Casserole, one is never enough.

Kitchen designer Deborah Krasner stops by to explain why she believes proper seating is the key to kitchen happiness.

From her book A Thousand Days in Venice, American journalist, chef and woman in love Marlena de Blasi tells the story of leaving her native Saint Louis to follow her Italian fiancé to Venice. There she prepared for her wedding and embarked on a romantic journey of discovery. Fresh Pasta with Roasted Walnut Sauce is a dish from her early days with the man who is now her husband.

Broadcast dates for this episode:

June 8, 2002 (originally aired)
May 31, 2003 (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.
0:33.2	Hi, it's Lynn Rosetta Casper, and you're listening to The Splendid Table, a show for people who love to eat.
0:39.6	Our program is produced by Minnesota Public Radio for PRI.
0:44.2	Today we go to the Broken Heart Ranch at the foot of the Black Hills in South Dakota to meet one of the men who raises our food.
0:51.6	He is Dan O'Brien, a cattle rancher who's come to believe cows don't
0:56.6	belong on the prairie. His book is Buffalo for the Broken Heart, Restoring Life to a Black Hills
1:02.7	Ranch. Kitchen designer Deborah Krasner rethinks sitting in the kitchen. It all started
1:07.9	when Italian cook Marcella Hazan wanted to sit and look out the window while she worked.
1:14.2	Then it's a thousand days in Venice.
1:17.0	Writer and cook Marlena de Blasie tells of the struggles with love and culture when she follows her Italian fiancé to Venice.
1:25.3	And as always, in the second half of the show, we're going to be open in the lines for your calls,
1:30.1	and that number is 800, 537-52-52.
1:34.7	Well, Jane and Michael Stern are stepping up to the mic.
1:37.5	They write the road food column in Gourmet Magazine.
1:50.0	So Jane, Michael, rumor has it you've been in the Midwest?
1:54.0	Better than that. We have been in Yankton, South Dakota. And as far as the Midwest, or Great Plains goes, whatever you call Yankton, we have eaten extremely well, and it was actually by accident.
2:02.7	We were driving through town just the other day, and the windows were rolled down because it was a
2:07.3	beautiful day, and we suddenly, both of us, got the whiff of frying potatoes so strong that the car
2:14.5	virtually pulled itself over to the side of the road to investigate.
2:17.8	It was magnetic.
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