Salted

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

American Public Media

Arts, Food

4.3 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2011

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

This week we talk with Mark Bitterman author of Salted, A Manifesto on the World's Most Essential Mineral, with Recipes. We get a look at the world of a wine importer—with boutique importer Terry Theise—author of Reading Between the Wines and the Sterns are back in Santa Fe at Bobcat Bite.

Broadcast dates for this episode:

November 6, 2010 (originally aired)
October 8, 2011 (rebroadcast)

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0:31.4	Our common nature is a musical journey with Yo-Yo Ma and me, Anna Gonzalez, through this complicated country.
0:38.7	We go into caves, onto boats, and up mountain trails to meet people, hear their stories,
0:44.4	their poetry, and of course, play some music, all to reconnect to nature and get closer to the things we're missing.
0:54.5	Listen to Our Common Nature from WNYC, wherever you get podcasts.
1:02.8	It's Lynn Rosetta-Cter with the Splendid Table.
1:21.1	Thank you. I've been getting ready for a guest this week who's going to be talking about the new artisan salts, and it got me reading.
1:27.5	Now, we know that salt meant survival for early humans, but then it started to be traded.
1:30.5	And many of those early roads were salt routes.
1:31.8	Now they're major highways.
1:33.6	Salt was power.
1:36.4	Kings decided who got it and who didn't.
1:39.8	Salt taxes helped build the Great Wall of China. And salt taxed by the British started Gandhi's famous march to the sea,
1:44.4	and that was the beginnings of passive resistance.
1:48.4	Pretty incredible for a shaker of salt.
1:51.0	Stay with us, your calls, and much're listening to The Splendid Table, the show for people who love to eat.
2:13.3	Our program is produced by American Public Media and supported by the Wall Street Journal Weekend,
2:18.6	with four sections of ideas, information, advice, and destinations designed to help get more out of the weekend.
2:25.9	The Wall Street Journal weekend is available at newsstands every Saturday.
2:29.8	The wine segments on the splendid table are supported by the farm families of Cabot Creamery.
2:43.0	Oh, those moments when the hook is set. You're clueless that anything's happening, but some
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