Sowing for the Apocalypse

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

American Public Media

Food, Arts

4.3 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2008

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

We're looking at global seed banks with journalist John Seabrook, author of The New Yorker article, Sowing For the Apocalypse. Jane and Michael Stern are at Short Sugar's BBQ in Reidsville, NC, wine wit Joshua Wesson takes us to Italy's premier wine event, Vin Italy, and Jill Carle, co-author of College Cooking: Feed Yourself and Your Friends, has ideas for breaking out of the popcorn and noodle cup rut.

Broadcast dates for this episode:

September 15, 2007 (originally aired)
September 6, 2008 (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.
0:24.5	Listen to Our Common Nature from WNYC, wherever you get podcasts.
0:34.9	Hi, it's Lynn Rosetta, Casper, and you're listening to The Splendid Table, the show for people who love to eat.
0:41.7	Our program is produced by American Public Media and brought to you by Room and Board.
0:46.5	Handcrafted furniture for your home at room and board.com.
0:51.0	Well, today it's a brain teaser.
0:52.4	Can you imagine 10,000 years of human ingenuity gathered in a single building and preserved in objects no bigger than a kernel of corn?
1:02.5	Well, if you thought Seed Bank, you got it right.
1:05.4	Our guest is journalist John Seabrook.
1:07.6	He talks about his New Yorker article.
1:09.9	It's called Sewowing for Apocalypse,
1:12.2	The Quest for a Global Seed Bank. Vin Italy. This is the wine show where everything Italy has
1:19.3	made from the grape is in the show-off mode. Wine Maverick Joshua Wesson was there, and he's got
1:25.0	some great finds. We play Stump the Cook, a new challenger, will be calling me out.
1:30.6	Our final judge is Celebrity Stumpmaster Christopher Kimball, editor of Cook's Illustrated magazine.
1:37.6	And as always, in the second half of the show, we're going to be opening the lines for your calls.
1:42.0	You can reach us at 800-5 53752. So let's get things
1:47.0	rolling with Jane and Michael Stern. They write the Road Food column in Gourmet Magazine.
1:59.6	Hey, Jane, Michael, where have you been?
2:01.9	Well, Lynn, if you could sniff our clothes, you would know, because our clothes smell of pork.
2:08.7	Our clothes smell of pork and hickory smoke.
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