Food, Sex, and Foraging
The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters
American Public Media
4.3 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 28 August 2004
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
This week it's food and the sexes. Naturalist Susan Allport, author of Primal Feast, examines how gender shapes food behavior for humans and other animals. It's an interesting take on food, foraging, and sex in the animal world.
The Sterns are into Hot Truck, a deeply local specialty of Ithaca, New York. Wine maverick Josh Wesson has advice for wines to drink with sweet corn. Dorie Greenspan checks out the best gadgets for saving leftover wine.
We'll hear the story of a local hero and his giant tomato, and Dave Hirschkop, author of Crazy from the Heat, tells us about his chili sauce creation that was so hot it was banned from the fiery food show.
It's tomato season, the time of year that's sheer bliss for Lynne. She's been in the kitchen concocting a Big Tomato Sweet-Sour Salad and "Drippy" Mexican Sweet Corn.
Broadcast dates for this episode:
- August 16, 2003 (originally aired)
- August 28, 2004 (rebroadcast)
Transcript
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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. |
| 0:31.0 | It's Lynn Rosetta, Casper, with the splendid table. |
| 0:43.0 | Thank you. table. Today it's the true difference between the sexes. |
| 0:47.0 | So are females always the nurturers and males always the hunters and gatherers? |
| 0:51.7 | Our guest is naturalist Susan Alport. She is author of primal feast, |
| 0:56.3 | food, sex foraging, and love. Well, the Stearns are into Hot Truck, a deeply localized |
| 1:02.2 | specialty of Ithaca, New York. Wine Maverick Josh Wesson talks a crucial wine and food combo, |
| 1:08.8 | what to drink with corn on the cob. Then Dory Greens fan checks out the best ways to save that wine you couldn't finish, and we have the story of a local hero and its giant tomato. |
| 1:19.7 | All this and your calls coming up on the splendid table. |
| 1:26.6 | But first this |
| 1:28.0 | Now sit up straight cake |
| 1:33.1 | It's time to eat peep |
| 1:37.3 | Have a banana, Hannah |
| 1:39.2 | Try the salami Tommy |
| 1:42.0 | Get with the gravy Davey |
| 1:46.0 | Everybody eats when they come to my house |
| 1:49.0 | Try a tomato plato |
| 1:52.0 | Here's catchotori dory |
| 1:54.0 | Taste the bologna tony |
| 1:57.0 | Everybody eats when they come to my house |
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