Plays With Food
The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters
American Public Media
4.3 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 29 October 2011
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
British chef and maverick, Stefan Gates plays with his food and brings glow-in-the-dark jello to parties. Gates teaches us the art of the interactive meal with his new book, The Extraordinary Cookbook: How to Make Meals Your Friends Will Never Forget.
Mexican chef, Pati Jinich, host of PBS's "Pati's Mexican Table" shares the traditional celebration of The Day of the Dead. Roadfood experts, Jane and Michael Stern bring us a Chicago classic from Hot Doug's Encased Meat Emporium. And, from the darkside, Joel Levy covers poison from his book Poison: A Social History.
Broadcast dates for this episode:
- October 29, 2011
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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. |
| 0:32.4 | It's the splendid table from APM American Public Media. |
| 0:44.8 | Thank you. Landed Table from APM, American Public Media. I'm Lynne Roocenter, Casper. |
| 0:47.0 | We have a study in gullibility in honor of Halloween. |
| 0:50.2 | It's black water, a bottled drinking water. |
| 0:53.4 | Very chic. It has to be because it's endorsed by the real housewives of New Jersey. |
| 0:58.9 | In fact, one of them sells it, and she claims the blackening ingredient folvic acid is healthy and it makes you glow. |
| 1:05.7 | Well, let's take a moment. Fulvic acid is related to humus, aka dirt. |
| 1:11.5 | Now, I may be oversimplifying, but folks pay money for tap water and dirt? |
| 1:18.4 | Yeah. |
| 1:19.9 | Stay with us. |
| 1:21.1 | More is coming your way this hour on the splendid table. Splendid Table. |
| 1:43.6 | This is the Splendid Table from APM American Public Media, the show for people who love to eat. |
| 1:45.3 | I'm Lynneetta Caspers. |
| 1:55.0 | If we lived in the UK and liked to laugh at our food, we'd probably watch Stefan Gates on the telly. He has a streak of the Maverick in him, and he's got a new book out. The Extraordinary |
| 2:00.5 | Cookbook, How to Make Meals Your Friends |
| 2:02.7 | Will Never Forget. A quick thumbing through the book made it clear that we're taking ourselves |
| 2:08.2 | far too seriously on this side of the Atlantic. We don't do vegetable orchestras at our parties |
| 2:13.8 | or glow-in-the-dark jello. Stefan Gates does. |
| 2:18.9 | And he's with us from London. |
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