Thanksgiving '04
The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters
American Public Media
4.3 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2004
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
It's our annual Thanksgiving show and we're doing the big bird, big time. Famed San Francisco chef Judy Rodgers, author of The Zuni Café Cookbook, shares a Thanksgiving Menu that's at once modern and homey. For those who prefer reservations on Thanksgiving, the Sterns have turkey three ways, in three states!
Josh Wesson suggests bubblies and after-dinner sippers to take along when you're a guest, then Lynne has ideas for the vegetarians at your table, including her Golden Celebration Pie of Winter Vegetables.
Julie Hauserman takes us to Florida for Thanksgiving in potluck nation. We'll hear the remarkable story of Lilla Eckford from her great-granddaughter Frances Osborne, author of Lilla's Feast: A True Story of Food, Love, and War in the Orient. And Southern novelist Pat Conroy talks about his life at the stove and shares the recipe for Cocktail Pecans from his new book The Pat Conroy Cookbook: Recipes of My Life.
Broadcast dates for this episode:
- November 20, 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. |
| 0:31.0 | It's Lynn Rosetta Casper with the splendid table. |
| 0:47.4 | Today it's the Big Bird Big Time, our annual Thanksgiving show. |
| 0:52.1 | We've got one of America's great cook, San Francisco star chef Judy Rogers. |
| 0:56.0 | She's got a modern yet homey menu packed with little tricks to get the most out of every forkful. I take on Thanksgiving Sandsberg, a meatless feast. For those |
| 1:02.9 | who make reservations, the Stearns have turkey three ways in three states. For those who toot, |
| 1:08.9 | Wine Maverick Josh Wesson has great bargain bubbly and after-dinner |
| 1:12.6 | sippers. We have Thanksgiving |
| 1:14.5 | in Potluck Nation, Florida, |
| 1:17.0 | and Southern novelist Pat Conroy |
| 1:18.6 | talks his life at the stove. |
| 1:20.8 | All this and your calls coming |
| 1:22.6 | up on the splendid table. |
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