Cheap Eats in San Francisco
The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters
American Public Media
4.3 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2001
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Dan Leone tells us how to eat out and eat well for under $10 in San Francisco, a city known for restaurants with break-the-bank prices. He knows where you'll find the perfect bowl of noodles, or a turkey dinner at midnight, and leave with your credit card intact. Dan is the author of Eat This, San Francisco and the popular "Cheap Eats" column in the San Francisco Bay Guardian.
The Slow Food Movement recently concluded their annual Salone Del Gusto in Italy. Reporter Scott Haas was there, and has news of the vast array of artisan foods from around the world that tempted the thousands of participants. Jane and Michael Stern deliver their highly-researched dissertation on onion rings, kitchen gadget queen Dorie Greenspan talks juicers, and we'll hear from a competitive eater who is the current Carnegie Pickle Eating Champion.
Broadcast dates for this episode:
- February 23, 2001
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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. |
| 0:30.7 | It's Lynn Rosetta-Castor with the Splendid Table. |
| 0:33.5 | Music table. |
| 0:46.4 | Today, it's a poor man's guide to eating well in a very pricey place. |
| 0:47.4 | San Francisco. |
| 0:51.7 | Our guest is a local restaurant critic who claims to have been born with a plastic spoon in his mouth. |
| 0:53.2 | Dan Leone, his cheap eats column is all about eating for $10 or less. |
| 0:58.4 | Our road food duo, Jane and Michael Stern, are presenting their doctoral dissertation on the onion ring. |
| 1:04.4 | Equipment Maven Dory Greenspan has had a religious conversion of sorts to juicers. |
| 1:10.2 | Reporter Scott Haas is back from Food Lovers Paradise, |
| 1:13.2 | the slow food meeting in Italy, |
| 1:15.2 | and we get training tips from a new kind of athlete, |
| 1:18.5 | a professional competitive eater. |
| 1:21.0 | All this and your calls coming up on the splendid table. |
| 1:26.4 | But first, this. |
| 1:34.5 | Hi, it's Lynn Rosetta, Casper, with Kitchen Chronicles, where knowledge is power and cooking |
| 1:40.2 | is pleasure, a practical guide for nourishing ourselves and the people we care about. |
| 1:46.0 | I was roaming the supermarket last night, and I started thinking about how many bottled |
| 1:52.2 | dressings there are and how a lot of them don't deliver an awful lot of good taste. |
| 1:58.4 | So I thought maybe a single, simple, homemade dressing concept might be |
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