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

American Public Media

Arts, Food

4.3 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2003

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Kelly Brownell, director of the Yale Center for Eating and Weight Disorders, joins us this week for a look at how TV commercials shape our eating habits. His take on how advertising may be affecting our health raises all sorts of questions. Should junk food be controlled like alcohol and tobacco ads?

On the opposite side of the health issue, Jane and Michael Stern are eating Butter Burgers at Solly's Grille in Milwaukee. Only in Wisconsin would they figure out how to add butter to a burger.

Joshua Wesson has great buys in Spring wines to go with Lynne's Spring Fling menu and recipes. Patty Volk, author of Stuffed, delivers a soliloquy on dieting, David Rosengarten evaluates pasta, and it's space food for the astronauts on the International Space Station.

Broadcast dates for this episode:

April 20, 2002 (originally aired)
April 12, 2003 (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.
0:24.5	Listen to Our Common Nature from WNYC, wherever you get podcasts.
0:32.9	Hi, it's Lynn Rosetta Casper, and you're listening to The Splendid Table, a show for people who love to eat.
0:38.9	Our program is produced by Minnesota Public Radio for PRI.
0:43.7	Today we have one expert's take on how commercials may shape our eating habits.
0:48.4	Our guest is Dr. Kelly Brownell, director of the Yale Center for Eating and Weight Disorders.
0:54.3	His look at how our eating is changing raises all kinds of questions.
0:59.2	For instance, should junk food be controlled like guns and tobacco?
1:03.9	Well, focusing on the pleasure principle, Wine Maverick Joshua Wesson has some great buys and spring wines, and I've thrown in a menu to go with them.
1:13.6	Patty Volk, the author of Stuffed, examines, dare I say, the loopy sides of dieting.
1:19.2	David Rosengarten, he of the expert and critical palate, has been evaluating pastas, and has come up with some winners.
1:26.9	Then it's what the astronauts get for dinner on the space station.
1:31.0	And as always, in the second half of the show,
1:33.4	we're going to be opening the lines for your calls.
1:35.9	That number is 800, 537.575252.
1:40.4	So let's get rolling with Jane and Michael Stern.
1:43.6	They write the road food column in Gourmet magazine.
1:53.7	You know, Lynn, Michael and I were just in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
1:58.0	It's one of my favorite cities, but I'm always amazed that people live over 30 years old
2:03.1	because the classic meal to eat in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is a butterburger, followed by a dish of custard.
2:13.1	Well, and the butterburger must be accompanied by a nice, tall milkshake.
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