Sedaris Family Dinners
The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters
American Public Media
4.3 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 26 June 2015
⏱️ 53 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
David Sedaris joins us this week with his stories about family dinners. His latest book is Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls. We look at an alternative and ancient way to bake -- on the grill -- with Paula Marcoux, author of Cooking with Fire, and learn the art of pairing beer with cheese from Steve Jones, owner of Cheese Bar in Portland, Oregon.
Broadcast dates for this episode:
- June 27, 2014 (originally aired)
- June 26, 2015 (rebroadcast)
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Support for this show comes from OnePassword. |
| 0:04.0 | If you're an IT or security pro, managing devices, identities, and applications can feel overwhelming and risky. |
| 0:12.0 | Trellica by OnePassword helps conquer SaaS sprawl and Shadow IT by discovering every app your team uses, managed or not. |
| 0:21.2 | Take the first step to better security for your team. |
| 0:24.7 | Learn more at onepassword.com slash podcast offer. |
| 0:29.3 | That's onepassword.com slash podcast offer, all lowercase. |
| 0:38.5 | Support for this show comes from OnePassword. |
| 0:41.6 | If you're an IT or security pro, managing devices, identities, and applications can feel overwhelming and risky. |
| 0:49.7 | Trellica by OnePassword helps conquer SaaS sprawl and shadow IT by discovering every app your team uses, managed or not. |
| 0:58.0 | Take the first step to better security for your team. Learn more at OnePassword.com slash podcast offer. |
| 1:06.4 | That's OnePassword.com slash podcast offer, all lowercase. |
| 1:15.6 | It's the splendid table from APM American Public Media. |
| 1:20.4 | I'm Lynne Rosetta Casper. |
| 1:22.5 | This week, it is the singular David Sedaris. |
| 1:26.3 | David writes and David is funny. The sideways take is his |
| 1:30.7 | thing, like with family dinners. Oh, God, I thought, as did everyone else at the table. But when it was |
| 1:37.5 | dinner time and someone came calling, it was always our father who insisted on answering the door, |
| 1:43.8 | and on telling whoever it was |
| 1:45.2 | very firmly that it was not a good idea to interrupt people while they were eating. |
| 1:50.5 | But when that door was flung open, everyone on the other side of it wore the same expression, |
| 1:56.1 | a startled, quizzical look that translated in that gentler, more polite time to, |
| 2:00.8 | Where are your pants, sir? David. quizzical look that translated in that gentler, more polite time to, |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from American Public Media, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of American Public Media and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.