Honey Bees
The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters
American Public Media
4.3 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2012
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
This week, Lynne is out of the studio and into the world of honey bees with researcher Marla Spivak. Travel + Leisure Magazine's Peter Jon Lindberg has unearthed good food in unlikely places, and British horticulturalist Jekka McVicar brings us her pick of unusual culinary herbs to grow in your back yard.
Broadcast dates for this episode:
- May 28, 2011 (originally aired)
- May 12, 2012 (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. |
| 0:24.4 | Listen to Our Common Nature from WNYC, wherever you get podcasts. |
| 0:32.0 | It's the Splendid Table from APM American Public Media. |
| 0:44.8 | Thank you. from APM American Public Media. I'm Lynn Rosetta, Casper, and today it's the great bee mystery. |
| 0:49.9 | Did you know that a third of our crops won't grow unless bees pollinate them? |
| 0:55.0 | Well, the mystery began several years ago. |
| 0:57.5 | Suddenly, great numbers of pollinator bees started leaving their hives to do their daily work, |
| 1:03.6 | but they would never return. |
| 1:05.8 | Scientists were stumped, and growers, needless to say, worried. |
| 1:10.1 | Well, today we're going to put on the bee suits |
| 1:12.0 | and we're going to meet the bees that may be the answer to the mystery. And we're going to |
| 1:16.5 | meet the scientists behind them. Stay with us, super bees and more, this hour on the splendid |
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| 1:44.3 | and use offer code Splendid Table 5. |
| 1:48.1 | This week's Splendid Table is a repeat of an earlier broadcast. |
| 1:52.9 | This is the Splendid Table from APM American Public Media, |
| 1:56.7 | the show for people who love to eat. |
| 1:59.4 | I'm Lynn Rossetto, Casper. |
| 2:04.4 | Well, today we're going to introduce you to two queens, Sciences Queen of the Bees and England's Queen of Herbs. Neither |
| 2:11.0 | one delivers what you might expect. But before we get to them, I want to check in with our |
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