The Art of Food Styling
The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters
American Public Media
4.3 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2011
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
This week, Lynne guides us through the world of food styling with one of the masters, Delores Custer, author of Food Styling: The Art of Preparing Food for the Camera. Jane and Michael Stern are eating Polish Boys in Cleveland, Food & Wine magazine's Ray Isle has some wine suggestions for summer sipping, Susan Loomis tells us about "pistachio music," Sheila Bowman tells us which seafood to avoid, and as always, Lynne answers your kitchen questions.
Broadcast dates for this episode:
- June 5, 2010 (originally aired)
- June 4, 2011 (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. |
| 0:32.1 | It's the splendid table from APM American Public Media. |
| 0:44.5 | Thank you. table from APM American Public Media. I'm Lynn Rosetta, Casper. |
| 0:46.6 | Do you know that pistachio nuts actually make a sound when they ripen? |
| 0:52.3 | It's a single moment when they finally grow that extra bit and they |
| 0:56.2 | burst their skins and shells. Susan Loomis writes about it in her book on nuts. She says in |
| 1:02.3 | Syria, farmers listen for tiny puffs of air, little poofs. And those puffs sweep from tree to tree |
| 1:10.2 | across orchards. |
| 1:12.2 | In one night, acres of nuts can open up. |
| 1:15.9 | Susan calls it pistachio music. |
| 1:18.3 | Well, stay with us. |
| 1:19.8 | There's much more coming your way this hour on the splendid table. This podcast. |
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| 1:46.0 | Splendid Table. This week's Splendid Table is a repeat of an earlier broadcast. |
| 1:53.5 | This is the Splendid Table from APM American Public Media, the show about life's appetites. |
| 2:00.9 | I'm Lynn Rossetto, Casper. Wine lovers who live for the next great sip usually go into morning during the summer. |
| 2:27.6 | The big serious wines do not get on with heat and humidity. |
| 2:31.8 | The thought of a 99-rated cabernet next to a grilled steak may be enticing, |
| 2:36.8 | but if it is 99 in the shade with humidity to match, that cab is going to flatten you. |
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