Feeding Family
The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters
American Public Media
4.3 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 13 April 2018
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of The Splendid Table, host Francis Lam takes a look at what it means to feed your family. Molly Wizenberg and Matthew Amster-Burton, from the podcast Spilled Milk, muse about why we take what our kids will eat so very personally. We talk to Pableaux Johnson, a man who has been cooking red beans and rice in his house for guests every Monday night for more than 15 years. Self-confessed cork dork Bianca Bosker delivers a commentary on the family she found within the deeply-obsessed world of sommeliers. And David Leite joins us to discuss his struggles and triumphs with food and family from his new book, Notes on a Banana: A Memoir of Food, Love and Manic Depression. Francis also answers listener questions about using raw and cooked asparagus in the kitchen, and he gives suggestions on how to use saffron.
Broadcast dates for this episode:
- April 21, 2017 (originally aired)
- April 13, 2018 (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 |
| 0:07.0 | complicated country. |
| 0:08.7 | We go into caves, onto boats, and up mountain trails to meet people, hear their stories, |
| 0:14.4 | their poetry, and of course, play some music, all to reconnect to nature and get closer to the things we're missing. Listen to Our Common Nature from WNYC, wherever you get podcasts. Hi, I'm Frances Lamb. Thank you for downloading this week's podcast. If you ever want more on anything you hear today, you can always find |
| 0:38.2 | it at splendidtable.org. You'll find recipes, videos, giveaways, and lots of info on all our |
| 0:44.3 | guests and their work. That's splendid table.org. And here's this week's show. |
| 1:01.6 | This is the Splendid Table from APM American Public Media, the show for curious cooks and eaters. |
| 1:17.8 | I'm Francis Lamb. Pablo Johnson has a table. |
| 1:19.1 | I've sat at it. |
| 1:20.8 | It's big and made of wood, |
| 1:23.3 | and to the naked eye, it may not seem very special, |
| 1:25.6 | but this table belonged to his grandmother. |
| 1:31.1 | And on it, she fed her eight kids, plus whoever was around, every night. |
| 1:36.5 | And so, for the last 15 or so years, he's had that table with him in New Orleans, |
| 1:40.5 | he's used it to feed whoever's around every Monday. |
| 1:44.8 | Red beans and rice, cornbread, whiskey for dessert. |
| 1:46.2 | And here's the thing. |
| 1:48.7 | It's never been the same group twice. |
| 1:54.5 | It's old friends, friends are friends, friends he's just meeting as they shake on some hot sauce, |
| 2:00.2 | strangers passing through town, but for well over a decade, that table has been a landing pad for new New Orleans, a political |
| 2:02.8 | salon, an emotional anchor, a place of new and very old friendships. |
| 2:08.5 | And as we were thinking about a show of stories about feeding family, I kept thinking back to |
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