Fire Your Wine Shop
The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters
American Public Media
4.3 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2001
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
If a snooty wine dealer has ever treated you badly, tune in this week for advice and anti-intimidation tactics you can use the next time it happens. Our guests, Dorothy Gaiter and John Brecher, write The Wall Street Journal's "Tastings" column and are the authors of The Wall Street Journal Guide to Wines. They have definite opinions about what we should expect from a wine shop and tips for finding bargains.
Jane and Michael Stern are eating Spiedies at Sharkey's in Binghamton, New York. Matthew Goodman says the Jewish specialty kreplach doesn't get the respect it deserves and hopes to change that with his recipe for Sweet Potato-Stuffed Kreplach. Meat expert John Willoughby is back to talk mystery meats and give us a recipe for Lime-Soaked, Cumin-Crusted Grilled Skirt Steak with Green Olive-Chile Relish, and we'll visit a public school cafeteria in Boston where Chef Paul Correnty revamped the food, threw out the deep fryer, and the kids love fresh vegetables.
Broadcast dates for this episode:
- March 3, 2001
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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. |
| 0:31.4 | Our common nature is a musical journey with Yo-Yo Ma and me, Anna Gonzalez, through this complicated country. |
| 0:38.7 | We go into caves, onto boats, and up mountain trails to meet people, hear their stories, |
| 0:44.4 | their poetry, and of course, play some music, all to reconnect to nature and get closer to the things we're missing. |
| 0:54.5 | Listen to Our Common Nature from WNYC, wherever you get podcasts. |
| 1:01.0 | It's Lynne Rosetta Casper with the splendid table. |
| 1:18.1 | If a snooty wine dealer ever treated you like a half-wit, you're going to enjoy today's guests. |
| 1:23.1 | Dorothy Gator and John Bredcher write the tastings column in the venerable Wall Street Journal. |
| 1:26.1 | They say you can fire your wine shop. |
| 1:31.6 | It's anti-intimidation guerrilla tactics and tips for where to find some great wine bargains. |
| 1:36.0 | Jane and Michael Stern are in Binghamton, New York, eating speedies at Sharkey's. |
| 1:40.3 | Writer John Willoughby wants to talk mystery meats, the cuts we're missing. |
| 1:44.9 | Matthew Goodman, who writes about Jewish food, takes a stand on the creploc. |
| 1:50.1 | And we go to a public school cafeteria where the deep friar is banned and the kids love to eat their veggies. |
| 1:51.7 | All this and your calls coming up on the splendid table. |
| 1:56.8 | But first, this. |
| 2:04.5 | Hi. But first, this. Hi, it's Lynne Rosetta Casper with Kitchen Chronicles, where knowledge is power and |
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