Per Se
The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters
American Public Media
4.3 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 31 December 2005
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
This week it's the mother of all kitchen tours. Thomas Keller is repeatedly named the best chef in the country. When he set out to duplicate his famed California restaurant, The French Laundry, in New York City, he dictated every design element, but for unheard of reasons. The result is Per Se, the hottest restaurant in the country right now. Chef Keller leads the tour and shares his recipe for Mussels with Saffron and Mustard from his fabulous new book Bouchon.
The Sterns are forking into classic cowboy steak at Sleepy Hollow in Oklahoma City. Wine maverick Joshua Wesson talks Mourvedre, the new muscle man grape that produces a big bruiser of a red. Sally Schneider, author of A New Way to Cook, suggests vanilla beans to rescue a dish. Her recipe for Vanilla Bean Syrup kicks up the natural flavors of fruit. We have new food games - the SmartsCo flash cards - for trivia at the dinner table, and Lynne takes your calls.
Broadcast dates for this episode:
- December 11, 2004 (originally aired)
- December 31, 2005 (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. |
| 0:31.0 | It's Lynn Rosetta-Castro with the splendid table. |
| 0:46.4 | Today it's how a great restaurant is made, literally. |
| 0:50.7 | How a chef repeatedly named the best in the country rethinks his kitchen. |
| 0:56.0 | Thomas Keller of French Laundry fame tours us behind the scenes of his new New York hit, per se. Now, I say, forget the dining room, wait to get to the kitchen. The Stearns are in Oklahoma |
| 1:02.1 | City in a place where choice is not an option. We have cookbook picks for rookies and thrill-seekers. |
| 1:08.5 | Then Wine Maverick Josh Wesson talks the new muscle man grape, Merved. |
| 1:13.3 | And crack cook Sally Schneider has a rescue ingredient that can save a dish, the vanilla |
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| 1:19.8 | All this and your calls coming up on the splendid table. |
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