Supersize Me
The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters
American Public Media
4.3 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2004
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
"We're fat, we're sick, and it's all your fault!" was the essence of a lawsuit brought by two teenagers against McDonald's. They denied it. Filmmaker Morgan Spurlock set out to find the truth by eating three meals a day for a month at the Golden Arches and documenting the process in his movie Supersize Me. He tells us what he learned.
The Sterns visit D.Z. Akins in San Diego to find out if there's sublime Jewish deli beyond New York. Josh Wesson says bargain-priced Pinot Noir isn't necessarily an oxymoron. He's found good ones under $15!
Gourmet magazine executive editor John Willoughby, co-author of How to Cook Meat, talks cuts of lamb kindest to our wallets, and shares his recipe for Grilled Lamb Shoulder Chops Greek Style. Novelist Eleanor Lipman muses about building great literary character at the table. Her latest novel is The Pursuit of Alice Thrift.
Tucker Shaw, author of Flavor of the Week, tells of photographing everything he eats in 2004. By year-end he expects to have about 2500 pictures representing the good, the bad, and everything in-between in one man's diary of a year eating in New York City.
Broadcast dates for this episode:
- May 15, 2004
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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. |
| 0:30.8 | It's Lynn Rosetto-Castor with the splendid table. We're fat, we're sick, and it's your fault. That was the essence of a lawsuit |
| 0:47.3 | against McDonald's by two teenagers. MacD's response was, our food is okay. Our guest, filmmaker |
| 0:54.0 | Morgan Spurlock, set out to see who was right. |
| 0:56.8 | He ate three meals a day for a month at the Arches. His film is supersized me. The Stearns answer the |
| 1:03.1 | pressing question, does sublime Jewish deli travel, like to San Diego? It's chic, it's tasty, it's |
| 1:10.0 | pricey, it's Pinot Noir, but Josh Wesson has bargains. |
| 1:14.8 | John Willoughby talks lamb on the cheap and novelist Eleanor Lipman muses about how foodbills great literary character. |
| 1:22.5 | All this and your calls coming up on the splendid table. |
| 1:26.7 | But first, this. |
| 1:31.3 | Now sit up straight, Kate. |
| 1:33.5 | It's time to eat peat. |
| 1:37.4 | Have a banana, Hannah. |
| 1:40.2 | Try the salami, Tommy. |
| 1:43.1 | Get with the gravy Davey. |
| 1:46.1 | Everybody eats when they come to my house. |
| 1:49.1 | Try a tomato plato. |
| 1:52.2 | Here's catcheroy, dory. |
| 1:54.8 | Taste the bologna tony. |
| 1:57.7 | Everybody eats when they come to my house. |
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