Peanut
The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters
American Public Media
4.3 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 2 September 2006
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
This week it's an often-overlooked gem that food snobs never take seriously: the great American peanut. Our guest, food writer Wendell Brock, takes us back to his roots in Georgia's peanut country for a look at the caviar of goobers. His fiery Chile Peanuts take bar snacks to a new level.
For the Sterns it's a classic 1950's style drive-in with a California twist at Taylor's Refresher in St. Helena. Stephen Beaumont talks Belgian Trappist Ales and foods to pair with them, and the music guy who cooks, Bob Duskis, has new music to grill by.
We'll hear about New York City's efforts to wipe out trans-fats in restaurants, and Lynne takes your calls.
Broadcast dates for this episode:
- August 27, 2005 (originally aired)
- September 2, 2006 (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. |
| 0:31.3 | It's Lyn Rosetta Casper with the splendid table. |
| 0:47.4 | Today it's the grand American nut, the snubbed grand American nut. |
| 0:52.2 | Well, we're talking the peanut, the blue collar in a nut world of white tie and tails. |
| 0:54.6 | People don't take the peanuts seriously. |
| 0:56.1 | And I say, enough. |
| 0:59.6 | Food writer Wendell Brock grew up on a Georgia peanut farm, |
| 1:02.0 | and he's unearthed the caviar of goobers. |
| 1:05.6 | For the Stearns, it's a drive-in with a California twist. |
| 1:09.5 | Napa Valley's Taylor's Refresher, as in Chardonnay with that. |
| 1:12.2 | Beer authority's Stephen Beaumont has strong blondes, chocolate and spice, |
| 1:14.3 | and a wine lover's beer, all from |
| 1:16.1 | monks in Belgium, and then it's new music |
| 1:18.5 | to party and clean up by |
| 1:20.2 | from World Music Guy Bob Duskis. |
| 1:22.9 | All this and your calls |
| 1:24.4 | coming up on the splendid table. |
| 1:27.1 | But first, this. I'm not going to be.... |
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