Fresh Water
The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters
American Public Media
4.3 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 August 2017
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Polar explorer and adventurer Ann Bancroft's latest journey took her to the Ganges River in search of fresh water. She tells Lynne Rossetto Kasper all about it. Plus, Sabrina Ghayour chats with Russ Parsons about simplifying Persian and Middle Eastern cooking traditions, Holly De Ruyter shares the history of Wisconsin supper clubs with Shauna Sever, and No. 7 Sub's Tyler Kord stands up for vegetables in sandwiches. In addition, Jekka McVicar gives us the lowdown on celery leaf, and America's Test Kitchen reviews portion scoops (they're for more than just ice cream).
Broadcast dates for this episode:
- August 5, 2016 (originally aired)
- August 4, 2017 (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. |
| 0:24.5 | Listen to Our Common Nature from WNYC wherever you get podcasts. |
| 0:30.1 | Hey, it's Frances Lamb. Thanks so much for downloading this week's podcast. And if you |
| 0:34.7 | ever want more info on anything you hear on our show, you can always find it |
| 0:38.5 | at splendid table.org. Recipes, videos, more on our guests, and you can subscribe to our weekly |
| 0:45.0 | newsletter, Weeknight Kitchen. It's all about getting you good things they eat and make on weeknights. |
| 0:50.6 | But right now, here's this week's podcast, hosted by Lynn Rosetta Casper. |
| 1:00.7 | This is the splendid table from APM, American Public Media, the show for people who love to eat. |
| 1:08.6 | I'm Lynne Rossetto Casper. |
| 1:16.0 | Yeah. who love to eat. I'm Lynne Ro Settro, Casper. Here's something for us to ponder. |
| 1:18.4 | All the water on Earth is here, right now. |
| 1:22.0 | There's no more coming to the rescue if we mess up. |
| 1:25.5 | Did you know that every six person on the planet can't get safe |
| 1:29.3 | water? That's 1.1 billion people. Half the people in hospital beds in developing countries |
| 1:35.9 | are sick because of contaminated water. Well, these facts are what put Anne Bancroft, a school |
| 1:42.5 | teacher turned Arctic Explorer, atop a glacier |
| 1:46.0 | in northern India. |
| 1:48.1 | With her was a team of six women from six continents. |
| 1:52.7 | The water trickling out of that ice was the start of India's mother river, the Ganges, |
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