How Pleasure Works

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

American Public Media

Food, Arts

4.3 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2011

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

This week we're looking at why we find things pleasurable with Paul Bloom, author of How Pleasure Works, The New Science of Why We Like What We Like. Jane and Michael Stern are at The Orange Inn in Laguna Beach, CA, and tea authority Bill Waddington introduces to the first brand-new strain of tea ever developed, Ruby 18.

Broadcast dates for this episode:

January 8, 2011 (originally aired)
December 31, 2011 (rebroadcast)

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0:31.4	Our common nature is a musical journey with Yo-Yo Ma and me, Anna Gonzalez, through 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 Lynn Rosetta Casper with the splendid table.
1:18.5	Thank you. It's the first blush of the new year, and here's some questions to mull.
1:23.7	Will all the school lunch conscious raising of the past two years come to fruition?
1:28.8	Will some mind-meld expert convince the House in the Senate that farmers who raise real food deserve a hunk of cash from the farm subsidy treasure chest? And how about this? Will
1:35.2	the latest discovery about overeating, that is, if we think in exacting detail about enjoying a
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1:52.0	Ah, so many questions.
1:53.7	Well, stay with us for so many answers this hour on the Splendid Table.
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2:27.5	Hi, it's Lynn Rosetta-Casper, and you're listening to The Splendid Table,
2:31.5	The Show for People Who Love to Eat.
2:36.5	Our program is produced by American Public Media. Well, this week, the holiday haze lifted, and I faced my future. Winter. And in
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