Dr. Ernst Loosen
The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters
American Public Media
4.3 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 7 July 2007
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
This week it's contemporary food's most friendly wine: Riesling. We're in Germany on the fruity, classy little gem's home turf with our guest, award-winning Riesling master Dr. Ernst Loosen.
The Sterns are multi-tasking in El Paso, eating Huevos Rancheros and Menudos while watching their car go through the cycle at H & H Car Wash. Smart cook Sally Schneider turns dross into gold with her smart saves for so-so vinegars. She leaves us her ideas for Vinegar Improvisations and a recipe for Peppery or Bitter Greens with Seasonal Fruits and Roasted Nuts
American food historian, Andy Smith, takes us back to the birth of lunch. It was all about being a worker or a woman. Otherwise, you did "dinner."
We have another round of our wildly popular refrigerator game, Stump the Cook, with guest Stump Master Christopher Kimball. Larry Wu, consumer strategist for Iconoculture, talks "conscientious consumption." He claims it drives our choices in the market. Lynne has recipes for A Classic Pesto of Genoa, and an Old Time Bar Lunch Sandwich in honor of Andy Smith's discussion of the beginnings of lunch in America. And in the second half of the show, the phone lines will be open for your calls.
Broadcast dates for this episode:
- July 8, 2006 (originally aired)
- July 7, 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. |
| 0:31.5 | It's Lynn Rosettocaster with a splendid table. |
| 0:45.2 | Well, finally, it's okay. |
| 0:49.1 | You can admit you like your wine a little sweet and you won't get drummed out of the wine shop. |
| 0:50.1 | Those big brews or chardonnays are giving way to classy, fruity little reeslings, but we get the |
| 0:55.2 | Riesling guide from one of the world's leading producers, Dr. Ernst Lotzin of Germany. |
| 1:00.0 | The Stearns are into multitasking, a place in El Paso where you can eat great chicken moly while |
| 1:04.6 | getting your car washed. Smart cook Sally Schneider turns garbage into gold, as in clever saves |
| 1:10.6 | for so-so vinegars. |
| 1:12.2 | Who knew simple lunch could harbor sexism and class distinctions? |
| 1:16.1 | Well, food historian Andy Smith has the tale. |
| 1:18.9 | And we've got a new round of Stumpf the Cook with Celebrity Stumpmaster Christopher Kimball. |
| 1:23.3 | All this and your calls coming up on the splendid table. |
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