Food From Faraway Places
The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters
American Public Media
4.3 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 28 September 2018
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of The Splendid Table, we are looking at food from faraway places with host Francis Lam. Top Chef contender chef Sheldon Simeon talks cooking the home food of Hawaii. Francis recalls a trip to the remote Faroe Islands and the efforts of chef Leif Sørensen to bring fine dining to an area known traditionally for a subsistence diet. Contributor Melissa Clark explores the rise of British food with Aleksandra Crapanzano author of The London Cookbook. And we find unexpected hospitality in a refugee camp in Calais, France with journalist Shane Mitchell, author of Far Afield: Rare Food Encounters from Around the World. Plus, America's Test Kitchen is serving up the perfect poached egg.
Broadcast dates for this episode:
- April 7, 2017 (originally aired)
- March 23, 2018 (rebroadcast)
- September 28, 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. |
| 0:24.4 | Listen to Our Common Nature from WNYC wherever you get podcasts. |
| 0:35.3 | This is The Splendid Table from APM American Public Media, the show for curious cooks and eaters. |
| 0:43.3 | I'm Francis Lamb. |
| 0:49.3 | So if you're the kind of person who travels to eat, you probably don't end up vacationing much in very touristy places, like Hawaii, where the tourist industrial complex sets it up so you leave the resort beach as little as humanly possible. |
| 1:04.2 | You know, you wake up, you get your eggs Benedict, you have a couple teaky drinks at dinner, and a week later, you've got a great tan, but barely |
| 1:11.1 | remember what you ate. |
| 1:12.8 | You have dined on the cuisine of nowhere. |
| 1:16.0 | But of course, Hawaii food goes way deeper than that. |
| 1:19.2 | And so we wanted to talk to Sheldon Simian today, a proud Filipino son of Hawaii, and a finalist |
| 1:23.9 | on Top Chef Charleston. |
| 1:25.8 | Chef, great to have you here. Thank you for having me. |
| 1:29.0 | I was stoked to be here. |
| 1:31.3 | So first of all, congratulations on all your success in Top Chef. |
| 1:35.3 | And I actually want to ask you a question that occurred to me while I was watching the show. |
| 1:39.2 | There was a moment that struck me. |
| 1:40.9 | It was actually before we got to the finale and all that. |
| 1:43.8 | And there was an episode where the challenge was for you to reflect on the time you spent |
| 1:48.3 | cooking in Charleston. |
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