Sweet Maria's

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

American Public Media

Arts, Food

4.3 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2011

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

We meet up with Tom Owens, the founder of the cult-status coffee website Sweet Maria's, journalist John Willoughby introduces us to the allure of dried Persian limes; and the Sterns are eating whitefish livers at Maggie's in Bayfield, WI.

Broadcast dates for this episode:

July 24, 2010 (originally aired)
July 16, 2011 (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.
0:24.4	Listen to Our Common Nature from WNYC wherever you get podcasts.
0:32.3	It's the splendid table from APM American Public Media.
0:44.8	Thank you. table from APM American Public Media. I'm Lynne Ro Seder-Kasper.
0:47.0	If you've been lusting after some $300 coffee maker that's touted as making coffee for the gods,
0:56.7	lust no more. Evidently, the perfect cup lies not in a chunk of change, but in how you twist your wrist. Now, this is from the
1:01.7	brains of the man behind Sweet Maria's. This guy has made coffee his life. Now, be careful,
1:08.8	because this is one of those discussions that can take you from curious to
1:12.1	driven. So DIY rides today with building your own bread oven, brewing that good cup, and making
1:18.4	new summer fruit desserts. That's this hour on the splendid table. This week's Splendid Table is a repeat of an earlier broadcast.
1:36.7	This is the Splendid Table from APM American Public Media, the show about life's appetites.
1:43.1	I'm Lynne Rossetto Casper. Well, it's all hands-on today. A sculptor
1:47.9	has us building a backyard bread oven, a self-proclaimed coffee geek has the how and the surprising
1:54.3	why of brewing the ideal cup, and our road food duo, Jane and Michael Stern are on Lake Superior
2:00.5	with a local specialty that might not sweep the country.
2:05.3	More from them in a bit, but let's get started with our friend and comrade in food obsession, John Willoughby.
2:11.8	John, good to have you back.
2:13.2	It's great to be back.
2:14.7	John, you did a piece on dried limes.
2:38.9	What the heck do you do with dried limes? No, because they are the funkiest looking things. Aren't they? I mean, for years and years, I just walked right past them because they, I mean, they look like little weird rocks, you know, slightly larger than ping pong balls. Sometimes they're black, but usually there's this kind of dusty brown. And then you pick them up and they don't weigh anything.
2:44.5	They're like just this like little piece of giant fluff. So I was just put them back down and walked away. But then a couple of years ago, somebody recommended that I tried them and I started using
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