Charcuterie
The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters
American Public Media
4.3 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2005
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
This week we're talking all things salted, cured and smoked with food writer Michael Ruhlman, co-author of Charcuterie. In Europe, charcuterie is high craft, done by masters. Here, it's the latest thing in the artisan food movement. Michael has tips for making your own home-cured meats and seafood and shares his recipe for the ultimate party food: Pâté de Campagne.
The Sterns are at Becky's Diner, beloved by locals in Portland, Maine. The food is delicious and Becky makes you feel like you've come home to mom.
Wine wit Joshua Wesson suggests wines to sip with fruitcake. Can they redeem the much-maligned gateau? Dorie Greenspan brings a French twist to the holiday cookie exchange with Anise Cookies and Lemon Butter Cookies from her wonderful book, Paris Sweets: Great Desserts from the City's Best Pastry Shops
Our New York food guy Mike Colamecco returns to talk pure romance: Christmas in New York. He names restaurants and food shops that serve up holiday magic along with great food.
Robert Tinnell, author of Feast of the Seven Fishes, tells the story of the comic strip inspired by a Christmas Eve date, and, as always, the phone lines will be open for your calls.
Broadcast dates for this episode:
- December 17, 2005
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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. |
| 0:31.6 | It's Lynn Rosetta, Casper, with the splendid table. |
| 0:36.7 | Music with the splendid table. |
| 0:47.6 | Well, today it's one of my favorite books of the year and the ultimate party food, |
| 0:53.6 | the Cinderella Meatloaf, or Making Your Own paté, with a little help from our guest, Michael Roman. |
| 0:56.0 | He's co-author of Sharkouterie, |
| 0:59.1 | the craft of salting, smoking, and curing. |
| 1:02.6 | Well, the Stearns have found a place that's like going home to Mom. |
| 1:07.4 | Josh Wesson does fruitcake triage, the wines that can save the gato. |
| 1:12.4 | Dory Greenspan brings a French twist to the cookie exchange. New York food guy Mike Colomeco talks holiday eating in the city, and then it's the kid who had to have a date |
| 1:17.4 | for Christmas Eve and the comic strip it led to, the Feast of the Seven Fishes. All this and your |
| 1:23.9 | calls coming up on the splendid table. But first this. |
| 1:33.8 | Have yourself a merry little Christmas. |
| 1:42.8 | Let your heart be light |
| 1:47.0 | From now on our troubles will be out of side Have yourself |
| 2:14.4 | Make the you |
| 2:19.3 | time game |
| 2:21.3 | From now on |
| 2:27.3 | our troubles |
| 2:31.3 | will be much |
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