Monterey Bay Aquarium
The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters
American Public Media
4.3 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2007
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
This week we journey to Monterey, California for an in-depth look at one of the culinary world's biggest issues: healthy and sustainable seafood. It's politics at the grass roots level as we examine how the fishing industry is influenced by what chefs choose to serve in their restaurants. The show was recorded live at the Monterey Bay Aquarium's Cooking for Solutions weekend.
Be sure to check out Jennifer Dianto's Seafood Watch program at the aquarium. It's a valuable resource for making choices about seafood that are healthy for our oceans.
Dr. Steve Palumbi, a marine biologist at Stanford University, has put together a short video of him and Lynne taking DNA samples from supermarket fish to find out what's really in the package.
Broadcast dates for this episode:
- June 24, 2006 (originally aired)
- June 23, 2007 (rebroadcast)
Transcript
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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. |
| 0:31.6 | It's Lynn Rosetta Casper with the splendid table. |
| 0:36.5 | Music with the splendid table. |
| 0:47.3 | Today we're looking at one of the most political issues in the kitchen, seafood. |
| 0:51.6 | Do we eat chili and sea bass and farm-raised salmon or not? |
| 0:57.5 | Well, we went after some answers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium's Annual Sustainable Foods Institute. |
| 1:00.0 | Now, it's complicated to say the least. |
| 1:04.3 | We get hands-on dining advice from the aquarium's seafood watch program. |
| 1:08.9 | A scientist from environmental defense decifers the controversy of fish farming. |
| 1:11.9 | We do DNA sleuthing with supermarket fish, |
| 1:14.3 | is what's on the label, really in the package. |
| 1:18.4 | And we see the near pristine Baja Peninsula in Mexico through the eyes of one of its finest chefs. |
| 1:21.6 | All this and your calls coming up on the splendid table. |
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