Chefs' Obsessions
The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters
American Public Media
4.3 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2016
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
This week we talk to David Gelb, creator of the Netflix series Chef's Table. We get indoor gardening advice from Elizabeth Millard, author of Indoor Kitchen Gardening. Diana Henry shares ideas for cooking chicken, and Tara Whitsitt explains Fermentation on Wheels, her mobile fermentation project. We also revisit a piece about Nikolai Vavilov, a Russian botanist who collected seeds, with author Gary Nabhan.
Broadcast dates for this episode:
- April 24, 2015 (originally aired)
- April 22, 2016 (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. |
| 0:32.0 | It's the splendid table from APM, American Public Media. I'm Lynne Roaceto-Castor. |
| 0:39.7 | That banana you nibble at your desk, |
| 0:45.1 | your supper salad, a lot of the plants we eat, and our notions of healthy eating, |
| 0:51.5 | all owe their existence to one little-known man, the Russian botanist Nikolay Vavlov. |
| 0:57.3 | He was a world's greatest plant explorer. He collected more seeds and tubers and fruits from around the world than any person in human history. And he started out collecting |
| 1:04.4 | seeds in about 1916 and worked up until his arrest in the early 1940s and imprisonment by Stalin. |
| 1:13.2 | That was ethnobotanist Gary Nabhan. |
| 1:16.1 | Lots happening here today. |
| 1:17.5 | We have the creator of Netflix chef's table |
| 1:19.6 | and chicken, every which way, |
| 1:21.8 | with Britain's Diana Henry. |
| 1:23.7 | That's this hour on the splendid table. |
| 1:35.3 | Music That's this hour on The Splendid Table. This is The Splendid Table from APM, American Public Media, the show for people who love to eat. |
| 1:43.0 | I'm Lynneetto, Casper. |
| 1:50.3 | Some stories remind us of the extraordinary things that one person can accomplish, |
| 1:55.7 | and they bear repeating. |
| 1:57.6 | Gary Nabhan, the ethnobotanist, brought us this kind of story a while ago. |
| 2:02.0 | And looking back on our 20 years on air, it still stands out. |
| 2:06.6 | First a little about Gary. |
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