Salt Sugar Fat
The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters
American Public Media
4.3 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2014
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
This week we talk to award-winning journalist Michael Moss about the food giants that decide what we eat. He is the author of Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us. Chopped's Ted Allen has advice on how to get out of our food ruts and we look at the stirrings of a movement in the wine world, natural wine.
Broadcast dates for this episode:
- May 11, 2013 (originally aired)
- May 2, 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. |
| 0:32.6 | It's the splendid table from APM American Public Media. |
| 0:36.9 | I'm in Rosetta Casper. |
| 0:38.6 | Today it's the politics and evils of salt, sugar, and fat. |
| 0:43.3 | We're up against a very smart, cunning, if you will, formulation and marketing machinery of the process industry. |
| 0:52.0 | And it's not a fair fight. |
| 0:53.1 | This is Michael Moss, author of Salt, Sugar, Fat, How the Food Giants Hooked Us. |
| 0:58.7 | Salt, Sugar, Fat, to them is the holy grail. |
| 1:03.0 | And that trio has a past, several thousand years worth. |
| 1:07.3 | They were power foods, salt preserved foods, so controlling it was everything. There were |
| 1:12.3 | salt taxes, salt currency, sugar. Everybody wanted it, and only the rich could have it. And fat? |
| 1:18.9 | People were fat poor. They sold their oil in lard to survive. Fried foods were the be-all |
| 1:24.9 | and end-all. Stay with us. There's lots more. |
| 1:28.2 | This hour on The Splendid Table. |
| 1:36.8 | This is The Splendid Table from APM, American Public Media, |
| 1:41.4 | the show for people who love to eat. |
| 1:45.7 | I'm Lynne Rossetto, Casper. |
| 2:02.4 | Culinary Mind Free stalks us all. |
| 2:07.0 | One day you realize that for weeks you had the same takeout salad and the same dressing for lunch |
| 2:08.8 | and the same boneless, skinless chicken breast with balsamic vinegar for supper. |
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