Eat This Or Die
The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters
American Public Media
4.3 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 3 January 2004
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
When your career involves chowing down on things like fries cooked in bacon fat with a steak chaser, what do you do when your health hits the wall? John Hodgman, food and drinks columnist for Men's Journal, found out. He stops by to tell the funny story of how he navigated the bumpy road to healthy eating.
The Sterns, ever faithful to fats, have a bologna find in Pella, Iowa. And, to get us back on the healthy track, Sally Schneider, author of A New Way to Cook, shares ideas for quick composed soups.
It's New Delhi restaurant picks from adventurer Anya Von Bremzen of Travel & Leisure magazine; then novelist Timothy Taylor morphs chefing and sourcing into primeval adventures from his new book, Stanley Park. Finally, we'll hear from a British chef trained in classical French cuisine who's making a fortune selling deep-fried Twinkies in a Brooklyn fish and chips shop.
Broadcast dates for this episode:
- January 11, 2003 (originally aired)
- January 3, 2004 (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. |
| 0:24.5 | Listen to Our Common Nature from WNYC, wherever you get podcasts. |
| 0:33.3 | Hi, it's Lynn Rosetta, Casper, and you're listening to The Splendid Table, the show for |
| 0:37.4 | people who love to eat. |
| 0:39.4 | Our program is produced by Minnesota Public Radio and brought to you by Super Target. |
| 0:44.3 | Today, it's the story of how a man devoted to guy food, you know, steaks, barbecue, fries, |
| 0:50.5 | navigated the bumpy road to healthy eating. |
| 0:53.5 | John Hodgman is Food and Drinks columnist from Men's Journal magazine. |
| 0:57.9 | He calls his story, eat this or die. |
| 1:01.2 | Speaking of healthy eating, cookbook author Sally Schneider has a new technique for fast healthy soups on a global scale. |
| 1:08.1 | Travel and Leisure Magazine's on Yvonne Brimson reports on the new wave cooks of New Delhi India. |
| 1:14.2 | From Vancouver, novelist Timothy Taylor turns the idea of local food into a story of a chef, the homeless, and the forest primeval in his book called Stanley Park. |
| 1:25.8 | And as always, in the second half of the show, |
| 1:27.8 | we're going to be opening the lines for your calls. |
| 1:30.3 | The number is 800, 537, 5252. |
| 1:34.8 | So let's get things rolling with Jane and Michael Stern. |
| 1:38.1 | They write the Road Food column in Gourmet Magazine. |
| 1:40.5 | Music magazine. |
| 1:53.0 | Lynn, one of the great joys of traveling the back roads of the Midwest is finding these little communities that have a really powerful ethnic identity. |
| 1:58.5 | One of the best of them is Pella, Iowa, a Dutch ancestor town where you get |
| 2:04.2 | not only Pella windows, which happened to be made there, but culinarily speaking, you get Pella |
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