The Breath of a Wok

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

American Public Media

Food, Arts

4.3 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2006

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Chinese food authority Grace Young joins us this week with the story of China's famous pot and shares tips on how to achieve the perfect stir-fry. She leaves us a recipe for Chinese Broccoli with Ginger Sauce from her new book, The Breath of a Wok: Unlocking the Spirit of Chinese Wok Cooking Through Recipes and Lore.

It's old-world Eastern European fare for the Sterns at Polonez in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Andrea Immer tells us how to stock a wine closet on the cheap and shares her recipe for Coconut Milk-Curry Shrimp Soup from her new book, Everyday Dining with Wine. Patricia Schultz, author of the fascinating book 1,000 Places to See Before You Die, names three places to eat before you die.

Zanne Stewart, executive food editor of Gourmet magazine, tells what it was like testing the 1,000 recipes featured in the new The Gourmet Cookbook. The Rumaki recipe is one to remember for upcoming holiday parties. We'll hear about the healthy vending machine program from Stonyfield Yogurt, and Lynne takes your calls.

Broadcast dates for this episode:

November 6, 2004 (originally aired)
January 21, 2006 (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.
0:31.0	It's Lynn Rosetta Casper with the splendid table.
0:45.7	Today it's a new way to say masterful in Chinese.
0:50.7	Chinese Food Authority Grace Young introduces us to walk hay, meaning the perfect melding of energy and food, the ideal stir fry.
0:54.6	And she tells us how to achieve it.
0:56.6	Her book is The Breath of a Walk, unlocking the spirit of Chinese wok cooking.
1:01.6	Well, the Stearns are into old-time Polish feasting at Milwaukee's Polonaise.
1:05.8	Wine Maven Andrea Emmer tells us how to stock a wine closet on the cheap.
1:10.2	The author of A Thousand Places to See Before You Die has three places to eat before you die.
1:15.4	And then it's Gourmet Magazine's greatest hits.
1:18.2	Sixty years of gourmet recipes with food editors, Zand Stewart.
1:21.8	All this and your calls coming up on the splendid table.
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