Episode 229: The 2013 All-Food Episode
The Dinner Party Download
American Public Media
4.6 • 821 Ratings
🗓️ 29 November 2013
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Thanksgiving is kind of a national dinner party, so we wanted to bring our contribution: an ALL-FOOD EPISODE of the show. We know it comes a day late, but everybody loves leftovers, right? Lidia Bastianich on freedom food… Michael Pollan’s kosher barbecue … The Arctic Monkeys play a little dinner music … Eddie Huang vs. […]
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Dinner Party Download. This is your icebreaker. |
| 0:05.0 | All right, here's a joke. What's the difference between a folk singer and a pepperoni pizza? |
| 0:10.0 | A pepperoni pizza can feed a family of five. |
| 0:18.0 | I'm Rico Galliano. I'm Brendan Francis Nune, and from APM American Public Media, |
| 0:23.8 | this is the Dinner Party Download, the culture show that helps you win your dinner party. |
| 0:28.4 | You just got a joke from folk singer and storyteller Todd Snyder. That'll help break the ice. |
| 0:32.9 | We started the show with that joke because, A, it makes us laugh, and B, it is about food. |
| 0:38.3 | And so is the rest of the show. It's our annual post- Thanksgiving all-food episode. |
| 0:42.3 | Yay! |
| 0:43.3 | Featuring some of our favorite conversations about food from past shows. |
| 0:46.3 | We imagine you all listening as you construct sky-high sandwiches out of your Thanksgiving leftovers. |
| 0:51.3 | And then we imagine you sharing some with us, and then we all watch football together. |
| 0:55.5 | Except me. |
| 0:56.3 | Except Brandon. |
| 0:57.4 | It's nice for me, anyway. |
| 0:58.9 | Coming up, we will hear from Food Writer extraordinaire Michael Pollan. |
| 1:02.5 | Also, etiquette advice from chef and PBS host, Lydia Bastianich. |
| 1:06.3 | But first, as at any dinner party, we start with small talk. Here's one of our favorite mini conversations with regular guest Richard Lawson, who, by the way, was named VanityFair.com's Hollywood Calmness this week. |
| 1:17.2 | Good going. |
| 1:17.8 | He gave us small talk about some big food. |
| 1:22.9 | Richard, what story are you going to be talking about at your dinner parties this weekend? |
| 1:26.6 | I will be talking about a new jalapeno pepper that was scientifically created so we can have |
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