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

Schnapps

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

American Public Media

Food, Arts

4.33K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2012

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

This week, New York Times columnist Matt Gross explains why he has fallen in love with schnapps. We're talking to Hal Herzog, author of Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat, about our sometimes puzzling relationship with meat. And Diana Henry, author of Plenty, brings us a decidedly British take on leftovers.


Broadcast dates for this episode:


  • February 5, 2011 (originally aired)
  • March 10, 2012 (rebroadcast)

Transcript

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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. from APM American Public Media. I'm Lynne Rocetto, Casper.

0:46.4

I was at a Minnesota Organics conference recently, and I heard an idea worth passing on.

0:51.7

A woman told about her company trying to cut health care costs by getting

0:55.5

employees to eat more fruits and vegetables, and doing it by encouraging them to join a CSA.

1:01.5

That's community-supported agriculture. You know, where you buy a share of a local farm and

1:06.1

every week get the produce of the moment? Well, instead of the anticipated four or five shares, employees were

1:12.6

so enthusiastic the company got 10 shares. Well, wouldn't it be interesting if a company matched

1:18.8

the shares? I wonder where that would take us. Well, stay with us for much more and your calls

1:24.9

this hour on the Splendid Table.

1:38.4

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1:45.6

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1:49.6

This week's Splendid Table is a repeat of an earlier broadcast.

1:54.2

This is the Splendid Table from APM American Public Media,

1:58.2

the show for people who love to eat.

2:00.8

I'm Lynn Rossetta, Casper.

2:13.0

Well, in our dedication to bring you all the possible ways to enjoy comestibles,

2:19.4

we have asked the profound question.

2:23.6

Could there still be a drink that we, the food media, haven't critiqued, dissected,

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