The Connoisseur's Guide to Sushi
The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters
American Public Media
4.3 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 29 September 2007
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
This week it's everything sushi—the things you didn't know you need to know, like what should not be in your soy sauce, and the big clue to whether the sushi maker is a master or not. Our guide is Dave Lowry, author of The Connoisseur's Guide to Sushi: Everything You Need to Know About Sushi Varieties and Accompaniments, Etiquette and Dining Tips and More. It's burgoo and mutton barbecue for Jane and Michael Stern. They're dining at George's in Owensboro, Kentucky.
Paris food critic Daniel Young takes us to the City of Lights for a look at where the locals go every night: the bistros, brasseries, and wine bars. Choucroute Garnie with Salmon is from his latest book, The Bistros, Brasseries, and Wine Bars of Paris. Sylvan Brown, co-author of The Slow Food Guide to San Francisco and the Bay Area: Restaurants, Markets, Bars, has advice about where to eat in the City by the Bay.
Our refrigerator game, Stump the Cook, is back with Lynne and Christopher Kimball, our celebrity stump master. Lynne has some new Italian wines to try—winners of the Gambero Rosso® Three Glasses Award for 2006, and we'll hear about Marshmallow Peeps and Peep Research currently underway.
Broadcast dates for this episode:
- April 15, 2006 (originally aired)
- September 29, 2007 (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. |
| 0:31.3 | It's Lynn Rosetta Casper with the splendid table. |
| 0:43.1 | Thank you. splendid table. Today it's sushi and the things you didn't know you needed to know, like what should not be in your |
| 0:49.4 | soy sauce, and the big giveaway to whether the sushi maker is a master or not. |
| 0:54.7 | Our guest is Dave Laurini's author of The Connoisseur's Guide to Sushi. |
| 0:59.1 | Well, it's Kentucky burgu and mutton barbecue at Georgia's with the Stearns. |
| 1:03.6 | Paris food critic Daniel Young talks local favorites, the bistroseries, and wine bars. |
| 1:09.5 | We have the slow food guide |
| 1:10.9 | to San Francisco. |
| 1:12.5 | Would you believe |
| 1:13.2 | a must-have meal |
| 1:14.1 | in a Thai temple? |
| 1:15.3 | And we play |
| 1:16.3 | our refrigerator game. |
| 1:17.8 | Stump the Cook |
| 1:18.5 | with Chris Kimball |
| 1:19.5 | of Cooks Illustrated. |
| 1:21.1 | All this and your calls |
| 1:22.5 | coming up on the splendid table. |
| 1:27.1 | But first, this. I'm I'm I'm |
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