Spaces for Entertaining
The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters
American Public Media
4.3 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 3 September 2005
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
This week we're creating spaces for entertaining. It's not about remodeling, it's about working with what you already have. Our guest is architect Sarah Susanka, whose latest book is Home by Design: Transforming Your House Into a Home.
The Sterns are eating Cuban sandwiches and mango milkshakes at Margon in Times Square. Cheese monger Steve Jenkins is back and wants us to try fresh summer cheeses.
Anya Von Bremzen wanders the world as a food journalist, but Spain draws her back again and again. She joins us to talk Spanish food, including the ultimate Classic Andalusian Gazpacho. We'll hear the backstory on Terroir estate coffee from George Howell, founder of Boston's Coffee Connection. Dan Lowenstein fills us in on PlayDine, a new take on family-style restaurants, and Lynne has a recipe for Iced Summer Peaches.
Broadcast dates for this episode:
- July 24, 2004 (originally aired)
- September 3, 2005 (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. |
| 0:31.0 | It's Lynn Rosetta-Castor with the splendid table. |
| 0:42.4 | Music table. Today it's changing your house, creating spaces for entertaining. No, we're not talking a |
| 0:47.9 | remodel. We're talking working with what you've got. Maverick architect Sarah |
| 0:52.2 | Susanka has tricks from making your guests feel great. It's all |
| 0:56.2 | in light and shadow. Her book is home by design transferring your house into home. Well, |
| 1:02.4 | the Stearns have found a hole-in-the-wall place for dynamite Cuban sandwiches in the middle of |
| 1:06.7 | Times Square. Steve Jenkins, the cheese obsessed, says, forget the girls of summer, go for the cheeses. |
| 1:13.1 | We get the skinny on the ultimate gazpacho from Spain obsessed on Yvonne Brimson, |
| 1:18.1 | and we hear what estate coffees are really all about. |
| 1:21.6 | All this and your calls coming up on the splendid table. |
| 1:25.1 | But first, this. |
| 3:01.6 | Thank you. coming up on the splendid table. But first, this. I'm Milder's Even through the darkest face, be it thick or thick or thin, always someone marches brave here beneath my skin and constant craving has always been. Maybe a great magnet pulls all souls to watch true watch truth. Or maybe it is life itself. |
| 3:08.3 | It's raised up to do with you. |
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| 5:25.6 | constant cravings always men as always men. As always been. as always will |
| 6:13.6 | As always |
| 6:15.6 | There's always Hi, it's Lynn Rosetta Caspers, and you're listening to The Splendid Table, the show for people who love to eat. |
| 6:40.4 | Our program is produced by American public media and brought to you by Super Target. |
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