Christmas with Nigella
The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters
American Public Media
4.3 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2004
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
This week it's Christmas with England's Nigella Lawson, the lustiest, yet pragmatic, cook we know. She'll talk the feast, with ideas for taking the pressure off and having some fun. She leaves us her recipes for Bread Sauce and Easy-Action Christmas Cake from her latest book, Feast.
The Sterns feast at El Farolito, an adobe hut in the middle of nowhere about 40 minutes from Santa Fe.
Andrea Immer talks dessert wines and shares her recipe for Bittersweet Chocolate-Cassis Truffles from her latest book, Everyday Dining with Wine. What could be better than nibbling truffles while sipping a late bottled vintage Port by the fire? For stuffing stockings, Chris Kimball suggests some Cook's Illustrated favorite kitchen gadgets, all mercilessly tested, of course.
Thomas Matthews recommends bottles from The Wine Spectator's Top 100 list. The good news is they're affordable! Poet Maya Angelou tells of a boy's first dish for his mom and shares the recipe for Bread Pudding from her new book, Hallelujah! The Welcome Table. And Lynne gives us the recipe for the Apple Citron Turnover that often appears on her holiday table.
Broadcast dates for this episode:
- December 18, 2004
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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. |
| 0:31.2 | It's Lynn Rosetto Casper with the splendid table. |
| 0:43.0 | Music splendid table. Today, it's Christmas with the domestic goddess. |
| 0:46.2 | But she's a goddess who breaks the rules. |
| 0:48.5 | I'm talking about England's Nigella Lawson, the most lusty yet pragmatic cook we know. |
| 0:57.0 | Now, she talks the feast, but her key to success, |
| 1:04.5 | it's not all about us. It's Christmas in New Mexico with the Stearns there in an Adobe hut up in the hills. Andrea Emmer of TV's Simply Wine fame talks sipping the sweet ones, wines to eat dessert by. |
| 1:11.5 | Chris Kimball from America's Test Kitchen brings us his mercilessly tested gadget picks, |
| 1:16.7 | and we talk a boy's first dish for his mom with poet Maya Angelou. |
| 1:21.9 | All this and your calls coming up on the splendid table. |
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