Fred Plotkin's Italy

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

American Public Media

Arts, Food

4.3 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2007

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

We're off to Italy this week with Italian food and culture authority Fred Plotkin. He takes us to the luscious and evocative region of Marche, an area little known to Americans where the charm rivals Tuscany but you aren't likely to run into your neighbor. The recipe for Scampi al Prosciutto is from Fred's book, Italy for the Gourmet Traveler.

It's Chicago but no hot dogs for the Sterns. This time they're tucking into chicken with 18 soulful vegetables at Feed. That master chef of the herb garden, Jerry Traunfeld, is back and he's talking herbal cocktails. His refreshing Sage Rush is from his latest book, The Herbal Kitchen: Cooking with Fragrance and Flavor.

Cynthia Zarin shares a vacation memoir of trying to blend a family over the broken fantasy of an island in Maine. Stump Master Christopher Kimball presides over a new round of "Stump the Cook," we have the scoop on a new perfume that will have you smelling like a cheese tray, and Lynne takes your calls.

Broadcast dates for this episode:

August 5, 2006 (originally aired)
August 18, 2007 (rebroadcast)

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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.
1:01.4	It's Lynn Rosetta Casper with the splendid table.
1:15.3	Today it's Italy beyond Tuscany.
1:18.9	We're going to a region that's evocative, luscious, and unknown.
1:22.5	Guaranteed, you're not going to run into your Pilates instructor over dinner.
1:28.7	Our guide is Italian Food and Culture Authority, Fred Plotkin, owner of the famed Plotkin Nose.
1:34.3	It's Chicago for the Stearns, but no hot dogs. This time they tuck into a Wunderkin chicken with 18 soulful vegetables. The master chef of the herb garden has new herbal cocktails. Then it's
1:41.1	a vacation memoir, trying to blend a family over the broken fantasy of an island in Maine.
1:47.2	We have a new round of Stump the Cook, and it's a new perfume, as in smelling like your cheese tray.
1:53.0	All this and your calls coming up on the splendid table.
1:57.4	But first, this.
2:36.0	Music But first this. Just this. Just before our love got lost, you said, I am as constant as a northern star and I said, constantly in the darkness, where's that at? If you want me, I'll be in the bar.
2:55.6	In the back of a cartoon coaster, in the blue of a TV screenlight, I drew a map of Canada Oh Canada
2:58.6	With your face sketched on it twice
3:08.3	You're in my blood like holy wine
3:15.3	You're so bitter and so sweet
3:19.3	I could drink a case of you.
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