Hooked
The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters
American Public Media
4.3 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 October 2007
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
This week it's the story of an illegal fish and two ships stalking each other in the waters off Antarctica. Our guest, Bruce Knecht, author of Hooked: Pirates, Poaching and the Perfect Fish, shares the saga of one of the longest and most dangerous sea chases in history.
Jane and Michael Stern tuck into corned beef sandwiches of iconic proportions at Jake's in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Food & Wine magazine's senior editor Ray Isle wants us to stash the Margarita mix and rinse out the good glasses because he's bringing us the latest status tequilas—the ones you drink straight up.
Scholarly hedonist Fred Plotkin has us eating and sipping our way through Santiago, Chile, and then it's another round of Stump the Cook with Stumpmaster Christopher Kimball. Are we ready for wines with names like Fat Bastard, Hair of the Dingo, White Trash White and The Laughing Magpie? Peter May, author of Marilyn Merlot and the Naked Grape, celebrates unusual wines from around the globe.
Broadcast dates for this episode:
- November 4, 2006 (originally aired)
- October 27, 2007 (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 |
| 0:07.0 | complicated country. |
| 0:08.7 | We go into caves, onto boats, and up mountain trails to meet people, hear their stories, |
| 0:14.4 | their poetry, and of course, play some music, all to reconnect to nature and get closer to the things we're missing. |
| 0:24.5 | Listen to Our Common Nature from WNYC wherever you get podcasts. Hi, it's Lynne Rosetta Casper, and you're listening to The Splendid Table, the show for people who love to eat. |
| 0:45.3 | Our program is produced by American Public Media and brought to you by Super Target. |
| 0:49.9 | Today we've got a sea chase. It's the good guys versus the bad guys, depending on whose side you're on. |
| 0:55.7 | They're dodging icebergs along the coast of Antarctica, and it's all for a fish that was considered trash 20 years ago. |
| 1:02.8 | It's a story of Chilean sea bass from Bruce Neck, author of Hooked, Pirates Poaching and the Perfect Fish. |
| 1:09.8 | Well, Food and Wines, Ray Isle has the latest shishi hoo-ha sipping liquors, the new tequila. |
| 1:15.3 | Fred Plotkin, the self-described pleasure activist, tours us into the deep south, |
| 1:20.2 | as in eating and sipping her away through Santiago Chili. |
| 1:23.4 | I'm challenged in a new round of Stump the Cook with Celebrity Stumpmaster Christopher Kimball, |
| 1:27.9 | and then we talk Marilyn Merleau and the naked grape, weird wines with even stranger's stories. |
| 1:34.3 | And as always in the second half of the show, we're going to be opening the lines for your calls. |
| 1:38.0 | You can get to us at 800, 537-52-52. |
| 1:42.7 | So let's roll with Jane and Michael Stern. |
| 1:45.3 | They write the road food column in Gourmet Magazine. |
| 1:51.6 | So you two, where have you been? |
| 1:53.8 | What's the latest discovery? |
| 1:55.8 | I'll tell you exactly where we've been, |
| 1:58.1 | 1634 West North Avenue in Milwaukee. |
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