Judgment of Paris
The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters
American Public Media
4.3 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2006
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
This week it's a French moment back in 1976 that turned the tide for California wine. Our guest is former Time magazine correspondent George Taber, author of Judgment of Paris. He reports on that moment when the earth moved in the Napa Valley. The Sterns are eating at Harmon's Lunch, a monomaniacal luncheonette in Falmouth, Maine with a two-item menu; and Lynne reports on her own "Sterns' moment" at Polehna's Meat Market in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Gourmet magazine's John Willoughby has tasty ideas for that wunderkind of the Pacific - the coconut - including a recipe for Fish Masala. We'll go to Decorah, Iowa for a look at real grassroots biodiversity in practice at Seed Savers Exchange. New Orleans journalist Pableaux Johnson, author of Eating New Orleans: From French Quarter Creole Dining to the Perfect Po'Boy, talks food folks and a culinary heritage surviving Katrina.
Lynne shares the recipe her luscious Fresh Heirloom Tomato Soup with Cream and the phone lines will be open for your calls.
Broadcast dates for this episode:
- September 24, 2005 (originally aired)
- September 30, 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. |
| 0:30.8 | It's Lynn Rosetta-Castor with the splendid table. Today it's the four paragraphs that change the American wine industry. I know, another one of those |
| 0:47.8 | sweeping statements, but this one has legs. California wine got a huge kickstart because of one |
| 0:53.4 | event in Paris in 1976. |
| 0:56.6 | Our guest is former Time Magazine Paris correspondent George Tabor. |
| 1:00.7 | He's author of Judgment of Paris. |
| 1:03.7 | For the Stearns, it's a monomaniacal luncheonette in Falmouth, Maine. |
| 1:07.6 | Gourmet Magazine's John Willoughby has the Coconut Chronicles. |
| 1:11.2 | Then it's Eden in Iowa, Seed Savers Farm, where a living museum is literal. |
| 1:16.5 | And we talk New Orleans, it's patrimony. |
| 1:19.0 | Can a culinary heritage survive a Katrina? |
| 1:22.0 | All this and your calls coming up on the splendid table. |
| 1:26.3 | But first, this. Oh, father time. |
| 1:29.3 | Oh, father time checked so that'd be no doubt. |
| 1:51.0 | Call on a north wind to come on out. |
| 2:00.0 | Then cupped his hands |
| 2:03.6 | So proudly to shout |
| 2:06.6 | La-de-da-da-da-da-da-da-dum |
| 2:11.6 | To his autumn |
| 2:13.6 | The trees say they're tired |
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