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

Susanna Foo

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

American Public Media

Arts, Food

4.33K Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2006

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Award-winning chef Susanna Foo shook up the traditionalists at her Philadelphia restaurant by marrying international cooking techniques and American ingredients. The result is delicious food that's fresh, light and approachable while staying true to Chinese culinary traditions. An example is Mandarin Potato Salad with Cellophane Noodles from her new book, Susanna Foo Fresh Inspiration: New Approaches to Chinese Cuisine.


At the White River Fish Market in Tulsa the Sterns prove that great fresh fish in the middle of the Great Plains isn't an oxymoron. Josh Wesson has the dirt on biodynamic wines. It's the new wave in winemaking that's all about stewardship of the land and environmentally aware production practices.


We'll meet David Ansel, a guy with a big pot and a bike named Old Yellow who became the Soup Peddler of Austin. He leaves us his recipe for Bouktouf from his new book, The Soup Peddler's Slow & Difficult Soups: Recipes and Reveries.


Stump the Cook is back! The popular segment from a few years back has Lynne trying to turn five things from your fridge into a great dinner dish. Who will win? Jim Leverentz, owner of Leeners, talks things fermented and preserved, and Lynne takes your calls.


Broadcast dates for this episode:


  • November 12, 2005 (originally aired)
  • November 25, 2006 (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 Lynne Rosetta Casper with the splendid table.

0:47.3

Well, today it's the Chinese chef who makes great Chinese food without Chinese ingredients.

0:52.9

Our guest award winner Susanna Fu shook up traditionalists with her Philadelphia restaurant.

0:56.4

Her book is Susanna Fu, Fresh Inspiration.

0:59.6

Well, the sterns are proving that rules are meant to be broken at the White River Fish Market in Tulsa.

1:02.5

Wine Maverick Josh Wesson talks the new wave in wine making, biodynamics.

1:07.1

We meet the guy who with a bike named Old Yellow and a Big Pot became the soup peddler of Austin, Texas,

1:13.0

and our refrigerator game is back.

1:15.4

Stump the cook, five things from your fridge, can I turn them into a great dish?

1:19.7

Our guest stump master, Christopher Kimball, will decide.

1:23.1

All this and your calls coming up on the splendid table.

1:26.7

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