Mark Twain: Tastemaker

The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters

American Public Media

Arts, Food

4.3 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2012

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

This week, we are reintroduced to one of America's greatest tastemakers: Mark Twain. Andrew Beahrs, author of Twain's Feast, joins us. We'll figure out something to do with all that zucchini your friends have been bringing over, and Jane and Michael Stern have found freshly shucked clam pizza at Zuppardi's Apizza in West Haven, Conn.

Broadcast dates for this episode:

August 28, 2010 (originally aired)
August 18, 2012 (rebroadcast)

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0:00.0	I'm going to tell you exactly what you need to do.
0:02.1	Dominate your finances.
0:04.3	Sunday morning, listening to questionable financial advice from the Fintock Bros on his social feed.
0:11.0	Drowning in green.
0:12.7	Scale, scale, scale, scale, scale, scale.
0:14.8	This is the moment Isaac chose to search Barclay's life skills, get some better money intel, and save up for that new skateboard.
0:22.4	We're helping young people become money confident.
0:25.4	Search Barclay's life skills.
0:27.5	Barclays, make money work for you.
0:30.6	How do better cows lead to better grades?
0:33.9	It began in Scotland, where scientists, supported by the Gates Foundation, worked together to breed
0:40.0	cows that give more milk. Scientists in Kenya adapted the idea for local herds, helping farmers
0:46.5	nearly double their milk and lift family incomes. And when parents earn more, their kids stay in
0:52.8	school. Better cows, better grades.
0:56.5	The Gates Foundation.
0:58.0	Partners of Human Potential.
1:02.2	It's the Splendid Table from APM American Public Media. I'm Lynne Rosetta Casper.
1:17.9	Today we eat with Mark Twain and get a reminder of what American food has always been.
1:24.3	Forget that snobbish nonsense of America having bad food until recently. Twain would say
1:29.9	hogwash. He had a voracious appetite and he loved the food of America. He gloried in it. From the
1:36.2	Atlantic to the Pacific, he was a locovore of the first order. And if he were writing about food
1:41.5	today, he'd be one of our culinary rock stars.
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