Good News for Chicken & Post-Wildfire Foraging
The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters
American Public Media
4.3 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 1 March 2019
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
For all the bad news in our world today, we're happy to report there is some good news on the food front. In this episode, we consider some of the positive things that are happening. In her book, Big Chicken, journalist Maryn McKenna says the chicken industry is largely to blame for our enormous overuse of and exposure to antibiotics. But, as she explains to Francis Lam, she's found real reasons for hope for the future. Forager Pascal Baudar talks with contributor Russ Parsons about the restorative result of recent destructive California wildfires on some of his favorite wildcraft spots. Barton Seaver is an award-winning chef whose work now focuses on sustainability in the fish and seafood industries. He talks with Francis about how certain species of fish come in and out of favor with fisherman and cooks. The increasingly popular beet salad gets an upgrade thanks to Molly Birnbaum from America’s Test Kitchen. And restaurant owner Alpana Singh was the youngest woman to pass the Master Sommelier exam when she did so in her mid-20s. She talks with Shauna Sever about the struggles going on in her life that made passing the exam essential to her livelihood.
Broadcast dates for this episode:
- March 2, 2018 (originally aired)
- March 1, 2019 (rebroadcast)
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| 1:23.6 | the show for curious cooks and eaters. |
| 1:32.3 | Thank you. the show for curious cooks and eaters. You've heard the mantra. |
| 1:33.3 | Know where your food comes from. |
| 1:36.3 | So for a lot of people, that's a command to get to know farmers and cooks |
| 1:39.3 | and come home with cage-free eggs, |
| 1:41.3 | but I often think of it as the key to finding stories. |
| 1:46.0 | Because everywhere you look up and down the food chain, you can find fascinating, world-changing |
| 1:52.0 | details. And later this hour, we'll talk with a forager who harvests wild plants for food, |
| 1:57.0 | but really does it to figure out the character of the place where he lives. We'll learn how some fish get hot or not. |
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