Padma Lakshmi

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

American Public Media

Food, Arts

4.3 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2008

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Our guest this week is Padma Lakshmi, host of TV's reality show, "Top Chef." Her famous line is "please pack your knives and go." Padma packed her knives, cooked her way around the world, then came home to write her new book Tangy Tart Hot Sweet: A World of Recipes for Every Day. Her food, including Two Hens Laughing, is some of the most alluring to come along in some time.

Great smoked fish lured Jane and Michael Stern to Duluth, Minnesota (in the winter, no less) and the Northern Waters Smokehaus. Also in Duluth, the Damiano Center is feeding hundreds of folks every day with perfectly good food that stores, restaurants and farmers throw away. It's the kind of good-news story we love.

Zoe Francois and Jeff Hertzberg stop by to tell us how we can make our own artisan bread in five minutes a day (no kidding). Five-Minute Artisan Bread is from their book Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day: The Discovery that Revolutionizes Home Baking.

Christopher Kimball of Cook's Illustrated fame is back for another round of Stump the Cook, and David Wallechinsky, author of The New Book of Lists, reveals the one he claims isn't yet complete.

Broadcast dates for this episode:

December 15, 2007 (originally aired)
December 27, 2008 (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.
0:34.6	Hi, it's Lynn Rosetta, Casper, and you're listening to The Splendid Table, the show for people who love to eat.
0:41.0	Our program is produced by American Public Media.
0:44.4	Well, today we talk with Padma Lakshmi.
0:46.6	Now, as host of TV's reality show Top Chef, her famous line is, Pack Your Knives and Go.
0:54.7	But from what I can see in her new cookbook, this woman's packed your knives to cook her way around the world.
1:00.4	Padma's book is tangy, tart, hot, and sweet.
1:04.9	This year, most of us are going to waste about 180 pounds of food. That's pretty stunning. Yet at least one community
1:14.4	center is salvaging the food that we toss. They turn it into good eating, and more importantly,
1:20.2	they feed hundreds a day. The center's cost is 32 cents a meal. We've got this story.
1:30.6	There is a way that you can have homemade bread whenever you feel like. We talk with the authors of artisan bread in five minutes a day. And then we play
1:37.4	the refrigerator game, Stump the Cook. And as always, our celebrity stuntmaster is Christopher
1:42.2	Kimball. He hosts America's Test Kitchen on PBS.
1:46.1	And we are going to be opening the lines for your calls in the second half of the show,
1:50.5	the way we do every week, numbers 800, 537, 527, 52, 52.
1:55.7	So let's get rolling with Jane and Michael Stern.
1:58.5	They write the Road Food column in Gourmet magazine.
2:09.5	Lynn, we've been up north, and I mean really up north to Duluth, Minnesota, where we are
2:15.7	told in the winter the wind chill is 120 below zero.
2:21.0	But we went in the relatively mild weather.
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