Living in a Foreign Language
The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters
American Public Media
4.3 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 11 October 2008
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
This week we peek at the fantasy life of a house in Tuscany with Michael Tucker, author of Living in a Foreign Language, A Memoir of Food, Wine and Love. Sally Schneider author of A New Way to Cook gives us a fresh take on pears, and Seattle chef Tom Douglas explains the trials and tribulations of becoming a "gentleman" farmer.
Broadcast dates for this episode:
- October 3, 2007 (originally aired)
- October 11, 2008 (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. |
| 0:24.5 | Listen to Our Common Nature from WNYC, wherever you get podcasts. |
| 0:35.3 | Hi, it's Lynn Rosetta, Casper, and you're listening to The Splendid Table, the show for people who love to eat. |
| 0:41.8 | Our program is produced by American Public Media and brought to you by Room and Board. |
| 0:47.1 | Handcrafted furniture for your home at room and board.com. |
| 0:51.4 | Well, today, it's what happened when two actors, Michael Tucker and Jill Eichenberry, |
| 0:56.7 | took a leap into the unknown in Italy. It all started with the food. Michael tells the story. |
| 1:03.1 | His book is Living in a Foreign Language, a memoir of food, wine, and love in Italy. Well, |
| 1:09.8 | slick cook Sally Schneider tells us all about one of her survival recipes, |
| 1:14.8 | roast a pair her way with all of her improvs, and you've got a season's worth of dinner sewn up. |
| 1:20.8 | The go-to man for New York City is Mike Colomeco, and he's got the go-to tapas bars in town. |
| 1:28.4 | Then it's new and economical ways of reworking that old kitchen. |
| 1:33.7 | Architect Sarah Sousenka has the brief. |
| 1:36.4 | And then Seattle chef and empire builder Tom Douglas has bought the farm, literally. |
| 1:42.0 | And as always in the second half of the show, we're going to be opening the lines for your calls. You can reach us at 800, literally. And as always in the second half of the show, |
| 1:46.5 | we're going to be opening the lines for your calls. |
| 1:50.5 | You can reach us at 800, 537-52-52. |
| 1:53.3 | So let's roll with Jane and Michael Stern. |
| 1:56.1 | They write the Road Food column in Gourmet Magazine. So last week, Michael and I returned to one of our favorite places in Vermont, the P&H truck stop, |
| 2:11.2 | and it was as perfect as it always was, except for the fact that they used to have wallpaper that showed semi-trucks on it |
| 2:20.0 | and probably was purchased in the 1950s. And the owner of the P&H said they can't get the |
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