Nora Ephron
The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters
American Public Media
4.3 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 29 December 2007
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Writer and Director Nora Ephron, author of the best-seller I Feel Bad About My Neck, joins us this week with observations on life and the American food scene, including a provocative take on how the duo of the birth control pill and Julia Child shaped the social history of the late 20th Century.
The Sterns report that the endangered chicken in a pot bubbles proud and free at the Chutzpah in Fairfax, Virginia. Sally Schneider, author of The Improvisational Cook, has her usual effortless take on great hors d'oeuvres, including her recipe for Pancetta Tartines. It's gifts for wine geeks from a master geek himself, The Wine Spectator's Matt Kramer. His latest book is Matt Kramer's Making Sense of Italian Wine.
Fred Plotkin, our pleasure activist and author of Italy for the Gourmet Traveller, talks Vienna, the perfect winter destination, and lines up the must-do coffeehouses. We'll take a look at the new nanny nutrition dilemma, and, as always, Lynne takes your calls
Broadcast dates for this episode:
- December 16, 2006 (originally aired)
- December 29, 2007 (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. |
| 0:36.5 | Hi, it's Lynn Rosetta, Casper, and you're listening to The Splendid Table, a show for people who love to eat. |
| 0:43.1 | Our program is produced by American Public Media. |
| 0:46.7 | Today, Nora Ephron reminisces not about her writing and directing stints, but about the other longtime loves of her life. |
| 0:54.2 | Eating and Cooking. |
| 0:55.4 | Nora's new book is I feel bad about my neck and other thoughts on being a woman. |
| 0:59.9 | I'll forget those fussy hors d'oeuvres. |
| 1:01.7 | Sally Schneider has streamlined them down to easy and still elegant. |
| 1:05.9 | We get gift picks for the wine geek from a most reliable source, |
| 1:09.6 | the wine spectators Matt Kramer, |
| 1:11.7 | that hedonist with a scholarly streak, Fred Plotkin, tours us through the essential Vienna. |
| 1:17.1 | Then it's the new nanny nutrition dilemma. Is she supposed to be a health expert or a babysitter? |
| 1:22.8 | And as always, in the second half of the show, we're going to be opening the lines for your calls. |
| 1:26.5 | You can get to us at 800, 537-52-52. So let's roll with Jane and Michael Stern. They write the Road Food column in Gourmet Magazine. |
| 1:41.2 | You know, Lent Hanukkah causes us sometimes to ponder our Jewish heritage. |
| 1:48.8 | Ah, dreidel, dreidel, dreidel, I made it out of clay. |
| 1:52.8 | You may think of dreidels. |
| 1:54.2 | I think of food. |
| 1:55.1 | For me, Jewish heritage is all about the food. |
| 1:57.8 | And actually, Lynn, I say this because we recently found a deli, a real |
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