Life on the Wedge
The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters
American Public Media
4.3 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2010
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Lynne takes us deep into the issues facing independent cheese producers with Gordon Edgar, author of Cheesemonger, A Life on the Wedge. She also discusses local dairies and small-scale farming with Tracey Ryder. Also on the show, the Sterns have found first-rate seafood at Sting Ray's in Cape Charles, VA, Sally Schneider re-uses her kitchen cabinets, and Scott Hule tells us why it's not so bad to break a wineglass. And of course, a healthy dose of Lynne's expert advice on your kitchen questions.
Broadcast dates for this episode:
- May 22, 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. |
| 0:32.9 | It's Lynn Rosetta Casper with the splendid table. |
| 0:44.7 | Thank you. It's Lynn Rosetta Casper with the splendid table. You know that mind twist that you can do |
| 0:47.6 | where you go from feeling overwhelmed by what you can't accomplish |
| 0:51.6 | to flipping it over, and then it becomes this puzzle that's fun to solve. |
| 0:57.3 | Take kitchen cabinets, for instance. |
| 0:59.4 | Where is it written that they have to be built in and stuck to the floor? |
| 1:02.9 | And that unless we've got a pot of money, we have to be stuck with what we've got. |
| 1:07.8 | Sally Schneider turns this idea around. |
| 1:10.2 | Now, she thinks way beyond the usual HGTV fix, and it works, whether you rent or you own. |
| 1:17.8 | So, stick around for ingenuity and some new ideas this hour on the Splendid Table. |
| 1:42.9 | Hi, it's Lynn Rosetta, Casper, and you're listening to The Splendid Table, the show for people who love to eat. |
| 1:48.4 | Our program is produced by American public Media and supported by Just Bear Chicken, |
| 1:56.2 | all natural with no antibiotics, vegetable fed, cage-free, traceable to the family farm where raised. |
| 1:58.5 | Just Bear Chicken, go minimal. |
| 2:01.9 | You can learn more at justbearchicken.com. |
| 2:21.7 | Did you know that when you rent an apartment in Europe, it's not unusual to find that the kitchen's empty, and I mean literally empty to the walls, because people often take their |
| 2:27.5 | cabinets with them. Now, granted, this isn't an American concept, but maybe it should be. Sally Schneider, who's creator of the |
| 2:35.5 | Improvised Life website, goes one better with this idea. |
| 2:40.0 | Sally, welcome. Hi, Lynn. Great to be here. So tell me, what did you find out when |
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