Handmade Knives

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

American Public Media

Food, Arts

4.3 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2010

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

This week we're meeting up with one of the world's master blade smiths, Bob Kramer, the Sterns are at Pizzeria Lauretano in Bethel, CT, and we look at the new world of edible landscapes with Rosalind Creasy, author of Rosalind Creasy's Recipes from the Garden.

Broadcast dates for this episode:

April 25, 2009 (originally aired)
April 3, 2010 (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 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. Listen to Our Common Nature from WNYC, wherever you get podcasts. It's Lynn Rosetta-Castor with the splendid table.
0:50.6	Today it's the cook's dream knife. Now, a perfect knife is no simple thing. Start by imagining a blade that's a special recipe of steel worked into 3,000 layers. It's designed
0:56.9	so the blade sharpens itself as you use it. We learned the making of a dream from master
1:03.4	blade smith Bob Kramer. Well, the Stearns are doing first-class Neapolitan Pizza at Pizzeria
1:09.5	Loretano in Bethel, Connecticut.
1:12.2	We've a great-tasting, fast-cooking, cheap grain that I'll bet you've not tried,
1:16.8	and then it's edible landscaping, as in you don't need a garden to grow dinner.
1:21.3	And poet Todd Boss reads Apple Slices.
1:24.6	All this and your calls coming up on the Splendid Table.
1:32.4	This week's Splendid Table is a repeat of an earlier broadcast. Hi, it's Lynne Rosetta
1:38.4	Casper, and you're listening to The Splendid Table, a show for people who love to eat. Our program is produced by American
1:45.6	Public Media. Today, it's how to make the perfect knife, the cook's knife. Now, it's not
1:51.8	all that different from building a Formula One race car. Performance is everything. Master
1:57.7	Bladesmith Bob Kramer's knives are the stuff of chef's dreams.
2:01.5	Well, today he tells us how he does it.
2:04.3	With all the attention budget grains get now, I'll bet you haven't given Bulger a shot.
2:10.0	Forget to bully. I mean, it's so much more than that.
2:13.2	It's wheat, it's fast, it's good, and food writer Janet Fletcher has the skinny.
2:18.6	Gardening expert Rosalind Creasy talks edible landscaping, as in don't dig a garden, plant around what you've got.
2:25.9	Then we talk tastes and tracings of memory with poet Todd Boss.
2:30.5	And as always, in the second half of the show, we're going to be opening the lines for your calls.
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