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

Food Supply of the Future

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

American Public Media

Food, Arts

4.33K Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2011

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

We're pondering the food supply of the future with Raj Patel author of The Value of Nothing, Jane and Michael Stern are at The White Hut in Springfield, MA, and we ask the question – why are there no famous female chefs?


Broadcast dates for this episode:


  • April 24, 2010 (originally aired)
  • April 2, 2011 (rebroadcast)

Transcript

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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.

1:02.1

It's the Splendid Table from APM, American Public Media. Hi, I'm Lynne Rosetta, Casper.

1:17.1

So how would you feed 9 billion people?

1:19.9

Well, that's the World Bank's tally of how many of us are going to be on the planet by 2050.

1:25.3

All right, immediately I think of how many onions I've got to chop, but there

1:28.8

are bigger issues here and a worldwide debate on the answer. For one thing, I wonder if our new

1:33.7

cooking stars in 2050 are going to be home cooks and whether they're going to be from countries

1:38.3

that we think of as having little to work with. Well, writer, activist, and scholar Raj Patel

1:43.7

believes we need to overhaul from the ground up, starting with how democracy should work. We'll hear from him, talk with you, and much more, this hour on the Splendid Table is a repeat of an earlier broadcast.

2:06.9

This is the Splendid Table from APM, American Public Media, the show about life's appetites.

2:13.9

Hi, I'm Lynn Rossetto, Casper.

2:16.1

Well, for all the warm fuzzies of how food breaks down barriers and opens up opportunities,

2:21.7

there are flip sides.

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