Cooking for Kings

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

American Public Media

Arts, Food

4.3 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2005

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

This week it's a look at Antonin Carême, the world's first celebrity chef. Abandoned by his family at age nine to starve on the streets of Paris, Carême overcame impossible odds to achieve wealth, fame and an unheard of independence. In the process he reshaped French cuisine. His biographer Ian Kelly, author of Cooking for Kings, tells the story. Carême's recipe for Orange Flower and Pink Champagne Jelly takes us back to the 19th century when he cooked for kings.

The Sterns have discovered an anomaly at Burgerville, a restaurant chain in the Pacific Northwest. Christopher Kimball of Cook's Illustrated tested ice cream makers and came up with some worth having. We'll go to Seattle for an oyster dating service, and Lynne gets a lesson in pairing wines with oysters. Our man in Athens calls in with the scoop on what the athletes are eating, and we have the latest solution to cork taint - the Vino-Lok.

Broadcast dates for this episode:

August 21, 2004 (originally aired)
August 20, 2005 (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.
0:31.1	It's Limerocet of Casper with the splendid table.
0:41.7	Music splendid table. Today it's the first star chef of the Western world.
0:45.2	Two centuries before food TV, one man shaped a new destiny for cooks.
0:50.3	Starting out dirt, poor, unlettered, and alone, Antonin Kerem achieved wealth, fame, and an unheard-of independence.
0:58.1	In the process, he reshaped French cuisine.
1:01.0	Well, the Stearns have found a surprise, a dynamite restaurant chain, Burgerville in the Northwest.
1:06.6	It's the best ice cream makers tested and attested to by Christopher Kimball of Cooks Illustrated.
1:12.0	We go to Seattle for a dating service of sorts, the great wine oyster match,
1:17.8	and our man in Athens calls in with what those training tables are really like.
1:22.3	All this and your calls coming up on the splendid table.
1:26.1	But first this.
1:30.3	The next to Quietly you say to me, the time has come for you to be alive again.
2:00.6	So you say and turn away and you must wait another day outside again
2:07.2	summer's coming and I'd like a review
2:13.8	summer's coming and I'd like a review
2:16.5	some is coming and I'd like a review some is coming and in it like a review summer's coming
2:18.0	and I'd like a review
2:19.1	summer's coming in it like a review
2:19.1	so that's coming
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