Robert Parker Jr.

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

American Public Media

Food, Arts

4.3 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2008

⏱️ 52 minutes

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This week it's the story behind the wine world's most revered and feared critic. One bad review from him can take a wine down. He's Robert Parker, Jr. and his power is both rare and absolute. We'll find out what shapes and informs his legendary palate. Look for the 7th and latest edition of his classic Parker's Wine Buyer's Guide in bookstores now.

Who but the Sterns would go for apple pancakes with potato pancakes on the side? They're at the Northside Grill in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Christopher Kimball of America's Test Kitchen stops by with this year's crop of top kitchen gadgets just in time for holiday gifting.

Food scientist to the pros and award-winning author Shirley Corriher is back and she's talking cookie control - what we need to know for successful baking that no one else tells us. Her wonderful book, BakeWise: The Hows and Whys of Successful Baking, is hot off the press.

Tea merchant Bill Waddington shares some interesting tea customs, and Hillary Carlip (www.hillarycarlip.com), author of A la Carte: The Secret Lives of Grocery Shoppers, lets us in on an unusual kind of culinary collectible.

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December 6, 2008

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1:04.4	Hi, it's Lynn Rosetta, Casper, and you're listening to The Splendid Table,
1:08.3	the show for people who love to eat.
1:12.6	Our program is produced by American Public Media and supported by Rumenboard, handcrafted furniture for your home at
1:18.6	room and board.com. Today, it's wine critic Robert Parker. He wields rare power in the world of wine.
1:31.1	Many winemakers actually build their wines to cater to his palate. Well, we ask what's informed that palette and what has shaped Robert Parker's
1:37.5	taste. To me, most kitchen gadgets are a waste of money, but Christopher Kimball, he of PBS's
1:43.7	America's Test Kitchen and
1:45.4	Cook's Illustrated magazine, has his top five gadgets of the year. And Chris thinks I'll love
1:51.2	them. Cookie season is here. Food scientist Shirley Currier has the success secrets that
1:57.4	nobody ever tells us. They're from her new book, Bakewise. We talk proper taking of
2:02.9	teas with our favorite tea expert, Bill Waddington, like, is milk and sugar a sacrilege? And as
2:09.7	always in the second half of the show, we're going to be opening the lines for your calls. You can
2:13.6	get to us at 800, 537, 5252.52.
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