Christmas Past and Present

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

American Public Media

Food, Arts

4.3 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 December 2009

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

What does a world-class chef cook for the family Christmas? This week we meet up with Grant Aschatz of Chicago's famed Alinea, Jane and Michael Stern are at the Silvermine Tavern in Norwalk, CT, Sally Schneider, author of The Improvisational Cook, teaches us the easy way to make homemade chocolates, Martha Holmberg, author of Puff introduces us to simplest of fancy ingredients, puff pastry, and mixologist Dale DeGroff, author of The Essential Cocktail joins us with his take on holiday imbibing.

Broadcast dates for this episode:

December 20, 2008 (originally aired)
December 25, 2009 (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.
0:34.4	Hi, it's Lynn Rosetta, Casper, and you're listening to The Splendid Table, the show for people who love to eat.
0:41.0	Our program is produced by American Public Media and supported by RumenBord,
0:45.8	handcrafted furniture for your home at RumenBord.com.
0:49.6	Well, today we talk with chef Grant Ackett.
0:52.2	He and his Alinea restaurant in Chicago have racked up every best award out there.
0:58.2	His food is what I think of as culinary science fiction, yet it's stunningly intimate and delicious.
1:06.0	We talk inspirations and holidays of long ago and now.
1:10.7	Well, Sally Schneider, that slick streamliner of all good things,
1:14.4	has a how-to for a lush homemade gift, your own homemade chocolates.
1:19.0	Cocktail expert Dale DeGroff brings us up to date on the Great Cocktail Renaissance.
1:24.1	And as always in the second half of the show, we're going to be opening the lines for
1:27.7	your calls. The number is 800, 537-52-52. So let's get started with Jane and Michael Stern.
1:35.9	They write the Road Food column in Gourmet Magazine.
1:51.0	So Jane, Michael, with all your travels, what puts you in the holiday spirit?
2:01.1	When I think of dining out for the holidays, I think of a really comfortable, friendly, old-fashioned inn.
2:04.3	And we've got a couple to talk about today.
2:09.3	One is the Silver Mine Tavern, which is not far from where we live in Connecticut.
2:10.5	It's in New Canaan, Connecticut.
2:14.9	It's been around since, well, actually the buildings have been around for several hundred years,
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