Fred Kirschenmann

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

American Public Media

Food, Arts

4.3 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2007

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Fred Kirschenmann of The Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture joins us this week to talk why America lost touch with her food source—the farm—and looks at the resurrection taking place, right now, on farms across the land. The Sterns are at the final stretch of the famed Route 66 in Stroud, Oklahoma.

Our wine wizard Josh Wesson is back and this time he's debunking all those wine myths, starting with sulfites. Bee scientist Dennis Van Englesdorf joins us to investigate the mystery of the vanishing honeybees and the impact on crop pollination.

Gourmet magazine's John Willoughby, author of Let the Flames Begin, has ideas for Easter lamb and ham, new party cuts to try, and a recipe for Mensaf (Lamb in Spiced Yogurt Sauce with Rice and Bread.) Stanley Feder of Simply Sausage, Inc. tells of cooking paella for 3,000 in Spain. It's a story that gives new meaning to cooking for a crowd.

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April 7, 2007

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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.
0:36.7	Hi, it's Lynn Rosetta, Casper, and you're listening to The Splendid Table, the show for people who love to eat.
0:42.7	Our program is produced by American Public Media and brought to you by Super Target.
0:47.5	Now, this hour to mark Easter and spring celebrations, we're talking about the place where rebirth is literal, the American farm, the source of our food.
0:56.9	Our guest brings a unique perspective. He's Fred Kirshman, a North Dakota wheat farmer, a leader in
1:03.0	sustainable agriculture, and a professor of religion and philosophy. Our caped wine crusader, Joshua Wessesson debunk's wine myths.
1:11.6	Now, take sulfites.
1:13.0	Did you know that there were more sulfites in your morning, OJ, than in your evening Merlot?
1:18.0	Hmm.
1:19.0	We investigate the new mystery of the vanishing honeybee.
1:22.3	Now, without them, crops can't be pollinated.
1:24.5	And then gourmet's John Willoughby talks lamb and ham. Some new party cuts to try.
1:29.9	And as always, in the second half of the show, we're going to be opening the lines for your calls.
1:34.4	You can get to us at 800, 537, 527-52. So let's get started the way we do every week with Jane and Michael Stern.
1:43.1	They write the road food column for Gourmet Magazine.
1:51.9	Guys, what's the latest discovery?
1:54.9	We found probably the best CFS in America.
1:59.9	I beg your part?
2:00.7	It's chicken fried steak.
2:02.7	You know, they didn't give me that memo.
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