One-Pot Cooking
The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters
American Public Media
4.3 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 31 December 2015
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Chinese chef Ming Tsai joins us with his Asian-influenced take on one-pot cooking. His book is Simply Ming One-Pot Meals. The Sterns are in Atlanta at Mary Mac's Tea Room, Tom Owen of the coffee website Sweet Maria's shares his guide to home roasting and Harold McGee talks pasta. Plus James Oliver Cury shares highlights from his vintage food- and drink-themed record collection.
Broadcast dates for this episode:
- January 15, 2011 (originally aired)
- January 14, 2012 (rebroadcast)
- December 31, 2015 (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. |
| 0:31.7 | It's the splendid table from APM American Public Media. I'm Lynne Rosetta Caspers. |
| 0:38.1 | This week, it's home-roasted coffee, perhaps the ultimate and most satisfying DIY. |
| 0:45.1 | And one of the cult figures is Tom Owen. He's got the Sweet Maria's coffee site. |
| 0:49.8 | You basically just have to tend to it, especially in the last 30 seconds or so, because it turns from |
| 0:54.9 | green to a golden yellow, to a light brown, darker brown, and then you hear the first crack, |
| 1:02.4 | which is a popping sound, like popcorn, but a little more subtle. And anything from first crack on |
| 1:08.4 | is ready, depending on your taste. |
| 1:13.8 | French roast is left longer in the heat source, |
| 1:20.2 | and what we call city roast or light roast is right after that first crack or first pop ends. |
| 1:22.6 | Tom Owen of Sweet Maria's. |
| 1:23.8 | Stick around. |
| 1:26.7 | There's more for this hour on The Splendid Table. |
| 1:40.2 | This is The Splendid Table from APM American Public Media, |
| 1:42.3 | the show about likes, appetites. |
| 1:44.2 | I'm Lynne Rosetter, Casper. |
| 1:54.5 | Well, I don't know about you, but I've been in low gear all week. |
| 1:57.5 | I could barely turn the oven on to 325. |
| 2:04.6 | So I decided to think of it as one big slow roaster. Well, it turns out a lot of people are thinking the same way right now. I mean, you say easy one-pot meal and visions of crockpots |
| 2:11.1 | and starting tonight's dinner while you're eating your granola at 7 a.m. this morning come to |
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