Polish Revival
The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters
American Public Media
4.3 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2014
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
This week journalist Anne Applebaum, author of The Polish Country House Kitchen, joins us with tales of food and life in Poland, and we head to Kansas City for an Austrian-Germanic take on the cocktail with the bartender from Grunauer.
Broadcast dates for this episode:
- January 26, 2013 (originally aired)
- January 17, 2014 (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. |
| 0:32.1 | It's the splendid table from APM American Public Media. |
| 0:44.3 | Thank you. table from APM American Public Media. I'm Winrocerto Casper. |
| 0:46.7 | You've heard about the happy fork, right? |
| 0:48.8 | The invention from Happy Labs, which creates happy science. |
| 0:52.8 | This electronic fork is supposed to make you healthier and |
| 0:56.0 | thinner. Now, here's the deal. When the fork thinks that you've eaten too much, it vibrates. |
| 1:02.4 | When the fork thinks that you're eating too fast, LED lights go off. A great help with overeating, |
| 1:09.0 | right? Yeah. |
| 1:17.4 | Great potential for being stomped to bits by eaters driven over the edge by flashing lights and vibrations. |
| 1:18.9 | Definitely. |
| 1:21.6 | I just wonder what their return policy is. |
| 1:36.5 | Well, stick around for much more this hour on The Splendid Table. This is The Splendid Table from APM American Public Media, |
| 1:41.0 | the show for people who love to eat. |
| 1:44.0 | I'm Lynn Rossetto, Casper. |
| 1:50.9 | Well, we may have an undiscovered culinary destination for you today, Poland. |
| 1:57.5 | Anne Appelbaum is a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and journalist who has covered Poland and Eastern Europe since 1988. |
| 2:05.7 | Then she was reporting on the disintegration of communist Poland. |
| 2:10.0 | Well, Poland is now her second home, specifically in what was a wreck of an old farmhouse that her family's restored. |
| 2:17.2 | She's lived through Poland's |
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