Extreme BBQ
The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters
American Public Media
4.3 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2007
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
This week we're grilling with all-American ingenuity, or what our guest, Dan Huntley, calls "contraption cooking." It's all about a special league of cooks who have cobbled together brilliant and often wacky cooking rigs. Dan leaves us his recipe forPyro's Burnt Endsfrom his bookExtreme Barbecue: Smokin'Rigs and Real Good Recipes.
The Sterns are eating soul food with local preachers at Niecie's in Kansas City, Missouri. Karan Feder takes us back to the 1950s when Liberace, that era's king of bling, was playing outrageous excess to the hilt and cooking the same way. The recipe for In Italian, Zucchini Means Italian is from Karan's book Joy of Liberace: Retro Recipes from America's Kitchiest Kitchen.
Journalist Scott Huler lampoons the always prolific zucchini and Lynne offers her recipe for Crisp Fried Zucchini Flowers as an antidote to that summer garden excess. It's street food paradise in Penang, Malaysia with reporter Maria Bakkalapulo and Dan Barber, chef and co-owner of Blue Hill in New York, talks new technology for farmers.
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- August 25, 2007
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| 0:00.0 | Sean has had some good ideas over the years, but using Canva was a really good one. |
| 0:08.0 | Sean designed some social posts to promote his friend's car boot sale. |
| 0:13.0 | They looked good, really, really good. |
| 0:17.0 | Next thing he knows, someone came and bought the loft, including the car. |
| 0:24.5 | Now Sean doesn't know how he's going to get home. |
| 0:28.0 | Thanks, Canva. |
| 0:36.2 | Hi, it's Lynne Rosetta, and you're listening to The Splendid Table, the show for people who love to eat. |
| 0:42.4 | Our program is produced by American Public Media and brought to you by Super Target. |
| 0:47.2 | Well, today it's grilling with the Mavericks. |
| 0:49.3 | Our guest, Dan Huntley, tracked the country's free thinkers of the backyard grill, the visionaries who see |
| 0:55.5 | beyond the Weber. They build their own cookers with things like tin cans, 39 Chevys, or |
| 1:01.9 | even shopping carts. Dan's book is Extreme Barbecue, Smoking Rigs, and Real Good recipes. |
| 1:09.0 | We meet up with the King of bling, Liberace. |
| 1:12.2 | Now, he was the 50s superstar who played himself and excess to the hilt. |
| 1:17.3 | And evidently, he cooked the same way. |
| 1:19.4 | Then it's Malaysia's Street Hawkers Heaven, the food stalls of Penang, and as always in the |
| 1:25.0 | second half of the show, we're going to be opening the lines for your calls. You can reach us at |
| 1:29.1 | 800, 537, 52, |
| 1:31.9 | 52. So let's |
| 1:33.5 | roll with those experts of |
| 1:35.3 | sleeves-up cuisine. Jane and |
| 1:37.2 | Michael Stern, they write the road food column |
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