Cuban Christmas
The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters
American Public Media
4.3 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 25 December 2010
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Chef Douglas Rodriguez joins us with a Cuban take on the Christmas feast. The legendary Paula Wolfert joins us with her book Mediterranean Clay Pot Cooking. And we have a tale of a childhood gingerbread house gone mad from Augusten Burroughs, author of You'd Better Not Cry: Stories for Christmas. Emeril Lagasse brings us holiday recipes inspired by his mother.
Broadcast dates for this episode:
- December 18, 2009 (originally aired)
- December 25, 2010 (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. |
| 0:32.6 | It's Lynn Rosetta-Castor with the splendid table. |
| 0:44.8 | Thank you. Lynn Rosetta Casper with the splendid table. Stone broke. Our first Christmas, and there wasn't a penny for gifts. But we did have |
| 0:50.9 | flowers, so it was bred for presents, And we let everybody know what was coming. |
| 0:56.2 | Well, that holiday was amazing. |
| 0:58.1 | Everybody gifted something they dreamt up. |
| 1:00.8 | There was an ornament carton filled with red apples. |
| 1:03.9 | One friend made a milkbone dog biscuit with our dog's name in sparkles. |
| 1:08.7 | Another showed up with old-fashioned palmanders. |
| 1:11.5 | So do I remember the Christmas of the beautiful watch? |
| 1:14.3 | Sure. |
| 1:15.0 | But that first Christmas, the one where dysfunction stayed outside in the snow, |
| 1:19.4 | that's the one. |
| 1:20.6 | Holiday spirit coming your way, this hour on the splendid table. on The Splendid Table. |
| 1:38.0 | This episode of The Splendid Table is brought to you by the new 2011 Hyundai Equus. |
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| 1:53.9 | This week's Splendid Table is a repeat of an earlier broadcast. |
| 1:58.7 | Hi, it's Lynn Rossetto, Casper, and you're listening to The Splendid Table, |
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