Iron & Wine's Sam Beam: A Stack of Tomato Sandwiches, Boiled Peanuts & White Burgundy

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Rachel Belle

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🗓️ 26 September 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Iron & Wine sounds like a band but, in fact, there is just one man behind the music: a soft spoken, North Carolina singer songwriter named Sam Beam. Sam is the ideal conversation partner: he laughs generously and speaks with a warm southern drawl. He also happens to have excellent taste in food and drink.

A true southern boy, Sam wants a stack of tomato sandwiches for his last meal. Just ripe, summer heirlooms, squishy white bread and mayonnaise. A simple summer snack so sacred in North Carolina, locals get good and riled up at the mere mention of adding bacon or lettuce to the mix. We called upon a couple North Carolina culinary queens to talk about the do's and don'ts of the tomato sandwich: veteran food journalist Kathleen Purvis and chef, restaurateur and cookbook author, Vivian Howard. And sticking with the southern theme, food historian Robert Moss joins the show to tell the true history of the boiled peanut.

Lucky for us, tomatoes are still hanging heavy on the vines, because you'll be hankering for a tomato sandwich by the end of this episode.

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0:00.0	Alaska Airlines has teamed up with Hawaiian Airlines to create new nonstop international flights.
0:05.8	Go to Alaskaair.com or Hawaiian Airlines.com and I'll tell you more details later in the show.
0:11.6	Cairo, Seattle. I'm Rachel Bell, and this is your last meal, a show about famous people and the stories behind the foods they love most.
0:31.7	Today on the program, one of my favorite musicians, Iron and Wine.
0:35.7	I'm out for the building a mansion on the mountain. favorite musicians, Iron and Wine.
0:47.0	You're listening to Iron and Wine with Calyxico from their new album, Years to Burn.
1:12.1	Iron and Wine sounds like a band, but it's actually one man. His name is Sam Bean. It was some kind of supplement. Is that right? Yeah. I found this stuff on the shelf called beef, iron, iron, and wine, you know, just passing through the shell. It's just, like, what a strange collection of words.
1:18.7	Sam's Last Meal is so southern and so summery, it's going to make you homesick for last week.
1:21.1	You know, last week when it was still summer.
1:24.9	And I called on a couple of North Carolina's most knowledgeable food sources.
1:29.5	Chef, author, and TV personality, Vivian Howard, and food journalist Kathleen Purvis. When you're North Carolina food writer, people are usually asking you about
1:35.0	pomeino cheese, barbecue, or tomato sandwiches. We are going to talk about the latter, and we'll
1:42.0	learn the history of boiled peanuts with culinary
1:45.0	historian Robert Moss. But first, my interview with Sam Beam of Iron and Wine.
1:50.3	We read the writing on the wall, brace each other for the fall. There's only one way of a mountain
1:59.8	after all. Most famous artists, whether they're Most famous artists, whether they're actors or musicians,
2:05.9	have a very similar rags to Rich's story.
2:08.8	They were struggling artists for years.
2:10.8	They lived in cramped apartments with too many roommates.
2:13.6	They played to empty clubs.
2:15.0	They worked as bartenders and babysitters to pay the rent.
2:18.3	All of this until they finally got their big break.
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