Candyfreak

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

American Public Media

Arts, Food

4.3 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2005

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

This week it's the story of a life-altering sweet tooth. Our guest, Steve Almond, author of Candyfreak, has lived his entire life for candy and surely knows more about candy history than Mars and Hershey combined. The Sterns are choosing between democracy and dictatorship at Hallo Berlin, a sausage cart on the streets of New York.

Travel writer Anya Von Bremzen reports on world food markets worth a trip. Sally Schneider talks the garlic of the moment and shares a recipe for Warm Goat Cheese Salad with Roasted Garlic. Al Sicherman reports on "the unfortunate pantry: a taste test." Citysearch brings us a new way to find good eats when we're on the road, and Lynne shares her recipe for Sweet and Pungent Sicilian Sauce.

Broadcast dates for this episode:

May 29, 2004 (originally aired)
June 18, 2005 (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.
0:30.9	It's Lynn Rosetta-Castro with the splendid table.
0:33.8	Music table.
0:47.3	Today it's candy freak, or how the candy bar can become a demi deity.
0:51.7	Our guest is Steve Amund, a man with a life-altering sweet tooth.
0:55.5	Steve's lived his entire life for candy. He knows more about our candy history than Maras and Hershey put together. While the Stearns are choosing between
1:00.1	democracy and dictatorship at a sausage cart on the streets of New York, then Anya von Bremsen has
1:05.8	markets worth the trip. Forget France and Italy. Think Brits and Incas. Sally Schneider talks the garlic of the moment.
1:12.7	It's in season for about 45 minutes and you eat the whole thing. And supermarket guru Al Sikerman
1:18.6	brings us the unfortunate pantry, a taste test. All this and your calls coming up on the splendid table.
1:26.5	But first this. I'm going to be....
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2:03.6	I'm Bhopal
2:18.3	I'm
2:20.3	Bhop
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