Episode 157: Marcus Samuelsson, Cheryl Strayed, and (Breaking) Bad Romances
The Dinner Party Download
American Public Media
4.6 • 821 Ratings
🗓️ 12 July 2012
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
This week, star chef Marcus Samuelsson dishes on his tough-but-tender training… WILD author Cheryl Strayed (aka “Dear Sugar”) offers free therapy… Anna Gunn of “Breaking Bad” lists her favorite fictional dysfunctionals… Author Chris Cleave spins gold from Olympic competition… We toast Warhol with a pop-art cocktail… and Woody Guthrie turns 100. Plus: vacationing with Hemingway, author Karen Thompson Walker’s slow fiction, and new music from the Dirty Projectors.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the dinner party. This is your icebreaker. |
| 0:05.0 | I'm going to give you a joke in Swedish. |
| 0:08.0 | Two swelze swelze, |
| 0:10.0 | it's quite a good thing. |
| 0:12.0 | Thank for me. |
| 0:13.0 | Hey. |
| 0:14.0 | Hopefully that was family friendly. |
| 0:19.0 | I'm Rico Galliano. I'm Rico Galeano. |
| 0:21.9 | I'm Brendan Francis Nuneum, and from APM American Public Media, |
| 0:26.0 | this is the dinner party, the culture show that gives you an edge in your weekend conversations. |
| 0:30.3 | You just got a joke from the Swedish-raised Marcus Samuelson, star chef at the Red Rooster in Harlem. |
| 0:35.9 | That'll help break the ice if you are at a dinner party in Sweden. |
| 0:39.0 | And lucky you if you are. |
| 0:40.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:40.3 | Later, we will speak with Marcus about his new book, Yes, Chef. |
| 0:43.7 | Also coming up, Anna Gunn from TV's Breaking Bad is here. |
| 0:47.4 | Novelist Chris Cleve talks about his new cycling theme book, |
| 0:50.5 | just in time for the Tour de France. |
| 0:52.6 | And Cheryl Strayed, best-selling author of the book Wild |
| 0:55.1 | is here to answer your etiquette questions all coming up after this news ah but dear podcasters |
| 1:01.1 | we honor you by skipping what would be the outdated NPR news and going straight to more show |
| 1:10.7 | I'm Brendan Francis Nuneum. |
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