Thanksgiving
The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters
American Public Media
4.3 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 19 November 2005
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
It's our annual Thanksgiving show and we're bringing you a banquet of recipes, stories, a cut of history, and new looks at feasting inside and outside our borders. Food authority Joan Nathan talks real American food today from home kitchens across the country. Her recipe for Braised Butternut Squash with Mustard Seeds, Chili, Curry Leaves, and Ginger is from her new book, The New American Cooking.
Who but the Sterns would find popcorn missing from the Thanksgiving table? They fill the void at Yoder Popcorn in Topeka, Indiana. Lynne has a new rule for the big feast and a whole do-ahead menu designed for one oven. It could change how you do Thanksgiving dinner from now on.
Sally Schneider is back tackling side dishes and the big pumpkin question: fresh or canned? Her delicious Cranberry-Walnut Conserve is one side dish you'll want on your table! Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio tell of going inside the kitchens and lives of families from Greenland to Chad to photograph what they eat in one week. It's all documented in their book, Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
You'll hear about a coronation feast with a spine-tingling twist from Nichola Fletcher, author of Charlemagne's Tablecloth, and one urban activist tells the political side of dumpster diving.
Broadcast dates for this episode:
- November 19, 2005
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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. |
| 0:31.1 | It's Linner-Resetter-Castor with the splendid table. |
| 0:42.7 | Thank you. blended table. Today it's over the river through the woods to Feast Central. |
| 0:46.7 | It's our annual Thanksgiving special. |
| 0:49.0 | Now we've got recipes, stories, a cut of history, and new looks at feasting inside and outside our borders. |
| 0:56.1 | While the Stearns are retrieving the long-lost treasure of the first Thanksgiving, |
| 1:00.9 | Joan Nathan goes into American Home Kitchens and discovers the new ethnic calling card. |
| 1:06.1 | Then it's the world's home food, what families eat in a week, |
| 1:10.6 | photographed by the authors of Hungry Planet, |
| 1:13.1 | crack cook Sally Schneider gets real with Thanksgiving sides, |
| 1:16.4 | and we have a political side to dumpster diving. |
| 1:19.4 | All this and your calls coming up on the splendid table. |
| 1:26.7 | But first, this. |
| 1:28.3 | I don't want French fat potatoes, red ripe tomatoes. |
| 1:52.6 | I'm never satisfied. |
| 1:55.7 | I want the frim, fram sauce with the oz and Faye with Shafafah on the side |
| 2:02.6 | I don't want pork chops and bacon |
| 2:06.6 | that won't awaken |
| 2:08.6 | my appetite inside |
| 2:10.6 | I want the frimp, frimp, |
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