Sex, Sleep, Eat, Drink, Dream

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

American Public Media

Food, Arts

4.3 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2008

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Science writer Jennifer Ackerman joins us this week for a scientific take on how our bodies use food and drink. What really controls our appetite and hunger? We'll have some answers. Jennifer's new book is Sex, Sleep, Eat, Drink, Dream: A Day in the Life of Your Body. The Sterns' fondness for prison gift shops led them to some great hush puppies and shredded pork sandwiches at Hocutt's Carolina Barbecue. It's right across from the Big House in Moundsville, West Virginia.

Culinary improviser Sally Schneider, author of The Improvisational Cook takes the intimidation out of the soufflé. Her cheese soufflé recipe is a step-by-step guide to perfect results. Wine writer Natalie MacLean is always game for a new wine experience. When she became a restaurant sommelier for a night she came away with some good tips to share. Natalie is the author of Red, White, and Drunk All Over: A Wine-Soaked Journey from Grape to Glass.

Professor Steven Kaplan, a man who has French bakers shaking in their shoes, stops by to talk French bread. We'll hear about an oyster shell recycling program from Sabrina Varnum of the North Carolina Department of Marine Fisheries, and, as always, Lynne takes your calls.

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January 12, 2008

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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.
0:24.5	Listen to Our Common Nature from WNYC, wherever you get podcasts.
0:36.4	Hi, it's Lynn Rosetta, Casper, and you're listening to The Splendid Table, the show for people who love to eat.
0:42.8	Our program is produced by American Public Media and supported by Room and Board,
0:47.9	handcrafted furniture for your home at room and board.com.
0:52.9	Today we talk with science journalist Jennifer Ackerman about what drives our relationships
0:58.1	with food.
0:59.7	It's new science playing into ancient rhythms.
1:02.9	Jennifer's book is Sex, Sleep, Eat, Drink, Dream, a day in the life of your body.
1:08.8	Sally Schneider, that master of cooking logic, takes all the
1:12.1	intimidation out of the souffle. Natalie McLean tells how the worst job in the castle, tasting
1:17.7	the king's food for poison, became a gig you can win awards for. Then we learned how to check
1:23.3	out a fine French bread from the man who has made it his life's work. Professor Stephen
1:28.4	Kaplan is called the world's preeminent French bread scholar. And as always, in the second
1:33.5	half of the show, we're opening the lines for your calls. You can get to us at 800, 537, 5252. So let's
1:41.9	begin with Jane and Michael Stern. They write the Road Food column in Gourmet magazine.
1:54.1	Hey, Jane, Michael, you've been in one of my favorite states, West Virginia. What have
1:59.1	he turned up? We were in Moundsville, West Virginia, and we came
2:03.8	across one of those restaurants that just sets our heart singing. It's called Ho-Cut's Barbecue,
2:10.3	and it has many, many things to recommend it, but one of the very best things on the menu is
2:15.9	hush puppies. And I asked Travis Hocut to tell us about his hush puppies.
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