Swanksgiving
The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters
American Public Media
4.3 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 November 2013
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
It’s our get-ready-for-the-big-feast broadcast with best-selling author Mollie Katzen, author of The Heart of the Plate. Mollie takes on the vegetarian feast while Food & Wine’s Ray Isle deals with the wine, Mexican chef Pati Jinich, author of Pati’s Mexican Table, bring us her Mexican way with a turkey (swaddled in banana leaf), and Cheryl Day of Back in the Day Bakery in Savannah, Ga., covers the pies.
Broadcast dates for this episode:
- November 22, 2013
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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. |
| 0:31.9 | It's the splendid table from APM American Public Media. |
| 0:36.2 | I'm Lynne Rosetta, Casper. |
| 0:38.6 | Well, today it's Thanksgivings for All, from the Vores, as in the Bejivores, Carnivores, |
| 0:44.4 | to the legions of first-timers. Let's face it, I mean, who cooks 20 pounds of bird on a regular basis? |
| 0:52.1 | It's intimidating. Well, for newbies, no white knuckling your |
| 0:56.2 | way through this turkey day, because easy is the middle name of every menu and idea you're |
| 1:02.0 | going to hear today. For old hands, we've got new adventures. For example, an amazingly fragrant |
| 1:08.8 | Mexican turkey, slow-cooked in banana leaves. |
| 1:12.6 | The vegetarian Grand Dame Molly Katzen has a feast for everyone. |
| 1:16.6 | The gang at the kitchen blog delivers a swanky do-ahead menu. |
| 1:20.6 | We've got magical pie crust and perfect wines and lots more. |
| 1:24.9 | So stay with us for all this and your calls, |
| 1:29.3 | this hour on The Splendid Table. |
| 1:40.6 | This is The Splendid Table from APM American Public Media, |
| 1:43.2 | the show for people who love to eat. |
| 1:45.0 | I'm Lynne Rosetto, Casper. |
| 1:58.3 | Molly Katzen is one of the best-selling cookbook authors of all time. |
| 2:03.2 | She has 6 million volumes in print to prove it. So what does she write about? Well, vegetarian cooking. Starting 40 years ago, Molly raised the consciousness of an |
| 2:09.7 | entire generation. That's when she helped found the Moosewood Collective in Syracuse, New York. |
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