Hunger
The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters
American Public Media
4.3 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2007
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
"Hunger is a country we enter every day, like a commuter across a friendly border," says nature writer Sharman Apt Russell. She joins us this week with a look at the subject through a new prism—hunger as art, hunger as power, and hunger as revelation. Ms. Russell's book is Hunger: An Unnatural History. The Sterns dine on succulent Italian roast pork sandwiches at Tony Luke's in Philadelphia.
Darryl Beeson, American editor of www.wineontheweb.com, roams the globe reporting on wine, spirits, food and travel. He stops by to talk good values among the wines of Texas. It's a look at sustainable meat with Bill Niman, a rancher who turned a wild piece of coastline into a sustainable model. The recipe for Grilled Pork Tenderloin Salad is from The Niman Ranch Cookbook.
It's flying Fritos or any other snack of your dreams from Washington, D.C.'s unique solution for midnight cravings: www.dcsnacks.com. Reporter Jule Gardner has the story. Nigel White, secretary of the British Cheese Board, reports on a study the Board has dubbed "Cheese and Dreams," and, as always, Lynne takes your calls.
Broadcast dates for this episode:
- May 27, 2006 (originally aired)
- May 5, 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 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. |
| 0:31.5 | It's Lynn Rosetta Casper with the Splendid Table. the splendid table. |
| 0:47.4 | Today, it's hunger as art, hunger as hope, and hunger is revelation. |
| 0:52.2 | Now, we may think famine and denial when hunger comes up, but our guest, nature writer Charmin Aft Russell, turns over the subject in |
| 0:55.0 | unexpected ways. Her book is hunger, an unnatural history. Well, the Stearns are doing plush Italian |
| 1:01.6 | pork and bitter greens at Tony Luke's in Philadelphia. Wine expert Darrell Beeson takes us to the |
| 1:07.3 | land of Chateau Bubba. We've got Bill Nyman, the man who turns six orphan calves and a wild piece of coastline |
| 1:13.7 | into a model for sustainable meat. |
| 1:16.2 | Then it's Washington, D.C.'s unique solution for midnight munchies |
| 1:20.1 | and how cheese unlocks your wildest dreams. |
| 1:23.5 | All this and your calls coming up on the splendid table. |
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