Cradle of Flavor

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

American Public Media

Arts, Food

4.3 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2007

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

When our guest, Saveur magazine executive editor James Oseland, was 19, he spent a summer in Indonesia. He returned home but his heart and appetite stayed behind. After 23 years of exploring the region, James has written Cradle of Flavor: Home Cooking from the Spice Islands of Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore. He joins us for a look at an enchanting cuisine and a world of new flavors and traditions. The recipe for Beef Rendang is from his new book.

Extra crispy fried chicken has Jane and Michael Stern clucking at Price's Chicken Coop in Charlotte, North Carolina. Wine maverick Josh Wesson claims boxed wines rock and so do ones in cans! He shares his picks. Dorie Greenspan brings us a baking pro's prime secret: goodies you never knew you could make ahead and freeze. Cocoa-Buttermilk Birthday Cake comes from Dorie's latest must-have book, Baking: From My Home to Yours. Joanna Pruess, author of Seduced by Bacon: Recipes & Lore About America's Favorite Indulgence, reviews the lush new bacons showing up in the market and shares an intriguing recipe for Pecan-Brown Sugar and Bacon Ice Cream.

Seth Kugel reports on the New York City Pushcart Awards. He writes the "Weekend in New York" column for The New York Times and is co-author of Nueve York: The Complete Guide to Latino Life in the Five Boroughs.

Broadcast dates for this episode:

November 11, 2006 (originally aired)
November 24, 2007 (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.
0:30.0	Support for the Splendid Table podcast provided by the Muir Glen Organic Soup Collection,
0:35.1	gourmet recipe soups made from premium garden fresh ingredients online at mirrorglen.com. Hi, it's Lynn Rosetta, Casper. In this week's podcast, you're going to find something new. From now on, we're bringing you the entire hour of the splendid table in podcast form. Here it comes. Hope you enjoy. Hi, it's Lynn Rosetta, Casper, and you're listening to The Splendid Table, the show for
1:02.2	people who love to eat. Our program is produced by American Public Media and brought to you
1:07.7	by Super Target. When James Osland was 19, he spent a summer in Indonesia
1:13.2	with a classmate's family. He returned home, but his heart and his appetite stayed behind.
1:19.8	Now, after 23 years of exploring the region, James has written Cradle of Flavor, home cooking
1:25.9	from the spice islands of Indonesia, Malaysia,
1:28.8	and Singapore. Wine Maven Josh Wesson picks the best of the boxes and cans. Baking expert
1:35.7	Dory Greenspan has the info that could save your holidays, all the unexpected goodies that you can
1:41.4	freeze ahead. The author of Seduced by Bacon brings us the strips worth tracking down, and it's the best of
1:49.0	street cart dining in New York City.
1:51.8	And as always, in the second half of the show, we're going to be opening the lines for your
1:55.8	calls.
1:56.3	You can get to us at 800, 537-52-52. So let's roll with
2:02.5	Jane and Michael Stern brought to you by
2:04.7	AG Edwards, caring for nest eggs for more than
2:08.0	118 years. The Stearns
2:10.6	write the road food column in Gourmet magazine.
2:25.6	Jane, Michael, there have been rumors that you too have been in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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