Inspiring Thirst
The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters
American Public Media
4.3 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 7 January 2006
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
San Francisco wine merchant and importer Kermit Lynch joins us this week with the story of how he entered the wine world through the back door and ended up a leader in the exquisite and the little known. His new book is Inspiring Thirst: Vintage Selections from the Kermit Lynch Wine Brochure.
It’s meat-and-three for the Sterns at Zarzour’s, a Chattanooga favorite so elusive it’s only listing in the phone book is under the name of the owner’s mother-in-law! Joshua Wesson cracks the code for teaming booze with stews, and Lynne shares her recipe for Emilia-Romagna Braised Pork Ribs, a luscious dish from Ferrara just right for a wintery evening.
Steve Jenkins talks bargain cheeses, and Nigel Slater, author of Toast: The Story of a Boy’s Hunger, remembers a mother straining to cook with love but always missing the mark. For winemaker wannabes we have the scoop on the Crushpad, a new idea for home winemaking, and Lynne takes your calls.
Broadcast dates for this episode:
- January 8, 2005 (originally aired)
- January 7, 2006 (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. |
| 0:31.3 | It's Lynn Rosetta-Castor with the splendid table. |
| 0:42.6 | Thank you. splendid table. Today it's a cult wine man. |
| 0:45.0 | San Francisco wine merchant and importer, |
| 0:47.3 | Kermit Lynch, backed into the wine world and ended up being a leader in the little |
| 0:52.0 | known and exquisite. |
| 0:54.0 | He even braved the wine merchant's kiss of death, Rose. |
| 0:58.0 | Well, he has a new book of his adventures. |
| 1:00.2 | It's called Inspiring Thirst. |
| 1:02.7 | Well, the Stearns are into luscious but elusive in Chattanooga. |
| 1:06.6 | Wine Maven Joshua Wesson cracks the code for teeming booze with stews. |
| 1:10.8 | Steve Jenkins talks cheese on the cheap, ah, but without compromise. |
| 1:15.2 | And British writer Nigel Slater remembers a mother straining to cook with love, but always missing the mark. |
| 1:21.3 | All this and your calls coming up on the splendid table. |
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