Mad Hungry
The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters
American Public Media
4.3 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 31 October 2009
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
This week, we talk about feeding a bunch of guys with Lucinda Scala Quinn, author of Mad Hungry: Feeding Men and Boys; and we're learning about the relationship between food and gangster movies with Rebecca Epstein. Plus, Lynne talks with Andrea Nguyen, who shares her techniques for mastering Asian Dumplings. The Sterns are eating huge portions at Rocky & Carlo's Restaurant in Chalmette, LA. Plus your calls, our weekly trivia question, and a rousing edition of Stump the Cook!
Broadcast dates for this episode:
- October 31, 2009
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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. |
| 0:36.4 | Hi, it's Lynn Rosetta, and you're listening to The Splendid Table, the show for people who love to eat. |
| 0:43.1 | Our program is produced by American Public Media. |
| 0:46.8 | I used to watch my three teenage nephews eat big family dinners. |
| 0:52.2 | Then, as they did the dishes, they'd polish off the hefty leftovers, |
| 0:56.3 | and an hour later, they headed out for burgers. That trio made the Great White Shark look like it was |
| 1:02.4 | doing a cleanse. Well, this is the world of Lucinda Scala Quinn. She's got three sons and a husband. |
| 1:11.2 | All love to eat a lot and often. |
| 1:14.5 | Lucinda, good to have you with us. |
| 1:16.8 | Hi, Lynn. |
| 1:18.0 | Boy, you describe it so well. |
| 1:20.3 | Yeah, well, you know, I don't have kids of my own, but I've never forgotten those three kids. |
| 1:25.8 | It was like non-stop. It's an urgent situation. So is there |
| 1:32.2 | really a difference between feeding boys and men and feeding women? In some ways, yes and |
| 1:40.9 | some days, no, Lynn. I maintain that once you have more than one hungry male, you're on the way to an emergency. |
| 1:49.6 | And I find that females are a little different, although we do share a lot in common, of course. |
| 1:56.0 | But, for example, us females will eat salads that are mediocre salads because we think we need to eat salads. But a guy's not eating a salad unless it's a darn good salad. So, yeah, there are a few differences. I really think there are. But overall, we all, you know, I just want everybody to get to the table and eat good healthy food, really. Yeah, I must say. I mean, from the way you write, and what I've seen personally, it seems that boys are like baby birds. They have to eat seven times their |
| 2:22.6 | weight every day, and yeah, they just go at it. Now, you happen to have this career in food. Why don't |
| 2:29.2 | you explain to everybody what you do? Yeah, so I'm the food director for Martha Stewart Living |
| 2:33.4 | Omnamedia, which basically |
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