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

Hmong Kitchen

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

American Public Media

Food, Arts

4.33K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2010

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

We're in Lynne's kitchen to learn about one of our most elusive immigrant cuisines, that of the Hmong people of Southeast Asia. Our guides are the authors of Cooking From the Heart: the Hmong Kitchen in America. Jane and Michael Stern are eating pancakes near the fountain of youth at the Old Spanish Sugar Mill in De Leon Springs, FL, and we get the perfect summer sauce from Michael Ruhlman, author of Ratio: The Simple Codes Behiond the Craft of Everyday Cooking.


Broadcast dates for this episode:


  • July 11, 2009 (originally aired)
  • July 10, 2010 (rebroadcast)

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0:00.0

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day,

0:03.4

followed by elevensies, brunch, lunch or dinner, then tea or dinner, or supper, depending where you're from.

0:10.7

Look, can we at least agree that breakfast is the most important meal of the day?

0:15.1

That's why Warburton's, the family bakers, teamed up with organisations like Magic Breakfast

0:19.6

to donate millions of breakfast this year

0:22.0

to schools in the UK. Good stuff. It's baked in at Warburton's. To find out more, search Warburton's

0:29.2

Good Stuff. Our common nature is a musical journey with Yo-Yo Ma and me, Anna Gonzalez, through

0:36.8

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.

1:02.8

It's Lynne Rosetta Casper with the splendid table.

1:20.7

Okay. Today it's a cuisine and a people few of us know, yet in a sense we are their homeland.

1:26.5

The Hmong people of Southeast Asia have no separate country of their own. Many brought their heritage here.

1:31.9

Well, today I learned to cook mung with the authors of Cooking from the Heart,

1:33.8

The Mung Kitchen in America.

1:37.6

For the Stearns, it's the Fountain of Youth and Great Pancakes.

1:41.2

At the Old Spanish Sugar Mill in De Leon, Florida.

1:43.7

We've got your summer cook kit,

1:47.0

the one recipe that morphs into nearly everything you're going to want to eat.

1:48.2

Then it's the all-revealing what we eat when nobody's around.

1:52.5

All this and your calls coming up on the Splendid Table.

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