Mexican Jewish Traditions
The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters
American Public Media
4.3 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2011
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
We're looking at Mexican–Jewish food traditions with Chef Patricia Jinich, of PBS's Pati's Mexican Table, New York Time's columnist Melissa Clark introduces us to her very suave and very easy recipe for Shrimp Bisque, Jane and Michael Stern are at Cupcake Royale in Seattle, WA and Steve Almond, author of Candyfreak: A Journey Through the Chocolate Underbelly of America wants us to consider endangered candy!
Broadcast dates for this episode:
- March 27, 2010 (originally aired)
- March 19, 2011 (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. |
| 0:32.6 | It's Lynn Rosetta, Casper, with the splendid table. |
| 0:44.8 | Yeah. Lynn Rosetta Casper with the splendid table. Indies cigarettes. |
| 0:46.2 | This is one of my favorite things as a kid. |
| 0:48.6 | They tasted like sweet chalk and we would suck on them |
| 0:51.3 | imitating movie stars. |
| 0:53.2 | I mean, there is nothing like a seven-year-old |
| 0:55.2 | trying to look like Audrey Hepburn and breakfast at Tiffany's. Well, apparently, those |
| 1:00.1 | regional American candies are being wiped out by large companies. So here's my question. Where are the |
| 1:07.0 | slow food and locovore gangs when we need them? I mean, resuscitate local breweries, cheesemakers, and antique apples. |
| 1:14.7 | Are we too elitist to support the local American candy maker? |
| 1:18.7 | Think about it. |
| 1:20.0 | We talk with you and a lot more this hour on the splendid table. on The Splendid Table. |
| 1:35.6 | This week's Splendid Table is a repeat of an earlier broadcast. |
| 1:42.8 | Hi, it's Lynn Rosetta, Casper, and you're listening to The Splendid Table, the show for people who love to eat. |
| 1:45.8 | Our program is produced by American Public Media. |
| 1:52.6 | These days, we try to save a lot of local traditional foods, but you've got to wonder if some snobbery hasn't entered the picture. I mean, for instance, regional candy bars, they're a dying |
| 1:58.4 | breed. And this is from the Wall Street Journal. The mom and pop businesses that have conjured regional candy bars. They're a dying breed. And this is from the Wall Street Journal. The mom and pop |
| 2:02.1 | businesses that have conjured regional candy bars since before Washington Cross the Delaware |
| 2:07.7 | are being wiped out by big business. Now, they were the stuff of everyday American life. |
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