Gin Craze

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

American Public Media

Food, Arts

4.3 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2004

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

The gin craze in eighteenth-century London was a 30-year reign that both elevated and devastated an era. We'll hear the story from Jessica Warner, author of Craze: Gin and Debauchery in an Age of Reason.

The Sterns are traveling New Mexico's Turquoise Highway and dining among peahens, wild turkeys, and peacocks at the San Marcos Café in Cerrillos. John Willoughby of Gourmet magazine thinks a bottle of Vietnamese fish sauce belongs in every cupboard—and it's essential in his recipe for Spicy Cabbage Salad with Chile-Rubbed Flank Steak.

Nancy Silverton, the high priestess of bread baking, has ideas for what to do with those stale loaves lurking in the pantry. Sort-Of Frisée Lardon from her new book, Nancy Silverton's Sandwich Book, is a delicious way to use the last of that $5 loaf you bought last week. Food writer David Leite tells the tale of a man and his stove. And Lynne shares her recipe for Luxury Scrambled Eggs recently featured in our newsletter, "Weeknight Kitchen.""

Broadcast dates for this episode:

April 5, 2003 (originally aired)
March 27, 2004 (rebroadcast)

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1:01.9	It's Lynn Rosetta-Castor with the splendid table.
1:17.1	Today it's how a drink defined and then devastated an era.
1:21.0	I'm talking about gin in England in the 18th century.
1:27.3	As gin became the poor man's drug of choice, it also became an answer to the rich man's prayers. Our guest is Jessica Warner. Her
1:29.4	book is Craze, Gin and debauchery in an age of reason. While the Stearns are at a cafe in New
1:35.3	Mexico where the matrily was a chicken, Gourmet Magazine's John Willoughby has the skinny on that
1:40.8	funky seasoning Vietnamese fish sauce. Then Baker Nancy Silverton takes on stale bread.
1:46.6	Don't even think of tossing it.
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