Chicken of Tomorrow

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

American Public Media

Arts, Food

4.3 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2016

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

We are looking at the history of the chicken with Andrew Lawler, author of Why Did the Chicken Cross the World? Lynne blind tastes California olive oils, and Edd Kimber explains the proper way to make scones. In honor of our 20th anniversary we’re revisiting a 2008 interview with David Lett, the groundbreaking American winemaker behind The Eyrie Vineyards.

Broadcast dates for this episode:

February 27, 2015 (originally aired)
February 26, 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.
0:24.4	Listen to Our Common Nature from WNYC, wherever you get podcasts.
0:32.5	It's the Splendid Table from APM, American Public Media.
0:36.8	I'm in Rosetta Casper.
0:38.3	It's so good to get reassuring news for a change.
0:41.4	Like this week, I learned that there are more chickens on the planet than rats.
0:45.6	This, according to the author of Why Did the Chicken Cross the World?
0:49.6	It's an epic saga, full of intriguing facts.
0:52.9	For instance.
0:53.9	The chicken that we have today in America,
0:56.1	99% of the chickens that you can buy, whether it's in a McDonald's or an expensive restaurant,
1:01.2	or in whole foods, or in some other supermarket, they all descend from the Chicken of Tomorrow
1:07.0	contest. And as a result, the chicken that we have has large breasts and grows very quickly,
1:12.5	but the downside is that it is often very dry and tasteless compared with chickens in other
1:17.8	parts of the world. Andrew Lawler, author of Why Did the Chicken Cross the World? Stick around.
1:24.4	More's coming your way this hour on the splendid table.
1:34.8	Music Stick around. More's coming your way this hour on the Splendid Table. This is the Splendid Table from APM American Public Media,
1:39.7	the show for people who love to eat.
1:42.6	I'm Lynn Rossetto, Casper.
1:52.4	Music show for people who love to eat. I'm Lynne Rosetta Casper. It's a classic joke set up. Why did the chicken cross the road? Well, apparently,
1:58.2	the chicken didn't just cross the road, it crossed the planet. More than two
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