In Defense of Food

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

American Public Media

Food, Arts

4.3 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2010

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

We're talking to food activist Michael Pollan, author of In Defense of Food about the intersection between sustainable foods, and our real life pocketbooks. Jane and Michael Stern have been researching the green chile cheeseburger in New Mexico and we look at the origins of the American potato chip with Dirk Burhans author of Crunch, A History of the Great American Potato Chip.

Broadcast dates for this episode:

July 18, 2009 (originally aired)
July 3, 2010 (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.
0:32.8	It's Lynne Rosetta Caspers with the splendid table.
0:44.8	Thank you. It's Lynne Rosetta Casper with the splendid table. Today it's real food advocate Michael Pollan
0:48.0	and the real question behind the local, sustainable, and organic way of life.
0:53.9	Can we afford it?
0:55.7	That's the dilemma for the man who penned the undivores dilemma.
0:59.7	Well, the Stearns expound on the high art of the New Mexican green chili cheeseburger.
1:04.5	We've got a Facebook take on free food, the L.A. gang of artistic foragers who map out fallen fruit, then it's the hotbed of
1:13.2	the Great American Potato Chip, aka Chips Worth a Road Trip, and Star Chefs take on the lunch
1:20.2	truck. All this and your calls coming up on the splendid table. This Weekend Table.
1:35.5	This week's Splendid Table is a repeat of an earlier broadcast.
1:43.2	Hi, it's Lynn Rosetta, Casper, and you're listening to The Splendid Table, the show for people who love to eat.
1:46.1	Our program is produced by American Public Media. Today we talk with Michael Pollan, author of the Omnivore's Dilemma and in Defense of Food.
1:53.2	I ask him the question of our time. How can the ideal of local, organic, and sustainable
1:59.9	be sustainable, if only a few can afford it?
2:03.9	You know those fruit trees you see around town with all that ripe goodness going to waste?
2:09.0	Well, a group of L.A. artists is doing something about it.
2:12.5	Did you know that there is a potato chip region in the United States?
2:16.3	I mean, just like barbecue country.
2:18.8	Well, we get a personal tour of the old-time chipsters
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