Irish Cuisine
The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters
American Public Media
4.3 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2010
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
We're looking at the country cooking of Ireland with award-winning writer Colman Andrews. And this week, the Sterns are introducing us to the cousin of the Po'Boy in New Orleans.
Broadcast dates for this episode:
- January 30, 2010
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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 Lynn Rosetta Caster with The Splendid Table. |
| 0:44.2 | Thank you. Lynn Rosetta-Castor with the splendid table. Let me tell you what a fine truffle can do. It's sort of a shaggy dog story, so stay with me. |
| 0:49.5 | It was 7 a.m. It was opening day of the truffle market and white truffles central. That's the town of |
| 0:55.2 | Alba in northern Italy. People were milling around in this little shopping arcade, age range |
| 1:00.8 | maybe 14 to 99. Each person was clutching a crumpled brown paper bag to his bosom, and each would |
| 1:08.3 | tell me just about any secret except where they found their |
| 1:11.7 | truffles. So why all this fuss? Well, great truffles grow where they please, not where we please. |
| 1:19.6 | Hunting down truffles needs a nose. That's this hour on the splendid table. Splendid Table. |
| 1:41.0 | Hi, it's Lynne Rochetto, Casper, and you're listening to The Splendid Table, the show for people who love to eat. Our program is produced by American public media. |
| 1:46.7 | Well, you know, for the most part, I'm a law-abiding person, but once I was kicked off a bus in Italy, |
| 1:52.5 | and it was because of a truffle. It was an alba in the early 90s, and unbeknownst to me, |
| 1:58.5 | there was a law that you couldn't carry an unsealed truffle on a public |
| 2:02.8 | conveyance. That's how intense they smell. In Italy, it's often the white truffle. In France, |
| 2:09.3 | it's the black truffle. And here in the States, it's both kinds. Wherever they are, they're |
| 2:14.9 | prized and therefore quite valuable. |
| 2:21.0 | Now, if you've got a pooch and you're wondering how to refill the coffers, |
| 2:26.3 | how about putting the pup to work sniffing for the mushroom with the big paycheck? |
| 2:31.8 | European truffles run $600 to $700 a pound. |
| 2:36.1 | Now, the pooch is going to need training, and this is where Jim Sanford comes in. |
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