Fat
The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters
American Public Media
4.3 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 7 October 2016
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
This week we have a conversation between Michael Ruhlman, author of The Book of Schmaltz, and celebrity chef Andrew Zimmern about cooking with fat, the Sterns join us with their take on the best regional American pizza, Bon Appétit’s Adam Rapoport teaches us a simplified duck confit recipe, and travel and food writer Anya Von Bremzen talks about her memoir, Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking.
Broadcast dates for this episode:
- October 4, 2013 (originally aired)
- October 10, 2014 (rebroadcast)
- October 7, 2016 (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. |
| 0:33.2 | It's the splendid table from APM, American Public Media. |
| 0:37.7 | I'm Lynn Rossetta, Casper. |
| 0:40.3 | You say fat and the cringing begins. |
| 0:43.8 | Say butter, pan juices. |
| 0:46.2 | Everything changes. |
| 0:48.1 | Too much of a good thing may be glorious and unhealthy, |
| 0:51.5 | but a little of a great thing can satisfy big time. |
| 0:55.5 | Example. |
| 0:56.7 | Melt to stick of butter with some brew spices. |
| 0:59.6 | Cinnamon, all-spice, pepper, cloves. |
| 1:02.9 | Cook it until it's fragrant. |
| 1:04.5 | Strain it. |
| 1:05.5 | Three tablespoons of that over a bowl of potatoes or parsnips, feed six. |
| 1:12.2 | Roasting a chicken, great pan juices, spoon up some of those pan juices and toss them with your salad. |
| 1:18.9 | Terrific. Stick around. There's lots more this hour on the splendid table. Table. |
| 1:41.8 | This is the Splendid Table from APM American Public Media, the show for people who love to eat. |
| 1:43.2 | I'm Lynne Rosetta, Casper. |
| 1:48.8 | Ask the man with one of the bravest pallets in the country, |
| 1:52.5 | he eats tarantulas for fun, |
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