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The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters

American Public Media

Arts, Food

4.3 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2015

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

This week we talk to comedian Jim Gaffigan about vegetables. Journalists Jane Black and Brent Cunningham spent 7 months in Huntington, West Virginia, the town whose food system Jamie Oliver tried to remake. Contributor David Leite talks to Andrea Slonecker, author of Pretzel Making at Home, and we visit Thai Park, a market/picnic in a Berlin park that serves authentic Thai food that flies in the face of German code and culture.

Broadcast dates for this episode:

October 31, 2014 (originally aired)
October 30, 2015 (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.
0:30.5	It's the splendid table from APM, American Public Media.
0:34.9	I'm Lynn Rosetta-Castor.
0:36.7	Committee and Jim Gaffigan won my heart with all of
0:39.8	his takeoffs on the Great American Diet. In fact, his new book is Food, a Love Story. And it all
0:46.4	started in his childhood. Growing up, my father loved steak, and he would make an announcement
0:52.5	that would make you assume that Abraham Lincoln was coming
0:55.9	over for dinner. He'd be like, we're going to have steak and me and my brothers would be like,
0:59.7	who cares? But now I love going to a steakhouse. I love the way they're darkly lit and the rituals
1:06.2	in a steakhouse. I love when they wheel out the raw cuts of meat and they kind of thrust the pieces of
1:12.7	meat at the table. They're like, you can get this
1:15.0	and you can get this. And men are so visual, we kind of
1:18.4	drool and go, yeah, that one, that one.
1:20.8	So I love all those elements of steak.
1:23.4	Comedian Jim Gaffigan
1:24.7	and lots more this hour
1:26.6	on the splendid table. Music comedian Jim Gaffigan, and lots more this hour on The Splendid Table. This is The Splendid Table from APM, American Public Media, the show for people who love to eat. I'm Lynn Rossetto, Casper.
1:56.4	Jim Gaffigan is a comedian who loves to eat.
2:00.7	In fact, he wrote a hilarious best-selling book on parenting called Dad is Fat.
2:05.9	And he has five kids, by the way, so he knows what he's talking about.
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