The Kitchen Diaries
The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters
American Public Media
4.3 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2006
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Britain's beloved columnist Nigel Slater joins us this week to reflect on cooking at home. He talks a kinder, gentler English Christmas and shares his Christmas Day Roast Goose, Juniper Sauce and Apple and Lemon Purée from his latest book, The Kitchen Diaries: A Year in the Kitchen with Nigel Slater.
The Sterns report from Las Cruces, New Mexico, where they're digging into warm tortilla chips with "Christmas" sauce and stacked enchiladas at Nopalito. Cheese expert Steve Jenkins says skip the cookies and leave a plate of cheese for Santa this year. Steve's picks and go-with sips will put Santa is a very good mood indeed
Amy Sedaris, author of the hysterical I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence, has entertaining tips, including how to make money at your parties! She leaves us her recipe for Cluster Haven's Pepper Mill Cheese Ball. Beer historian Alan Eames shares a curious Norwegian fairytale about a young woman brewmaster and her journey with a large barrel of Christmas ale, and the phone lines will be open for your calls.
Broadcast dates for this episode:
- December 23, 2006
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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. |
| 0:24.5 | Listen to Our Common Nature from WNYC, wherever you get podcasts. |
| 0:29.9 | Support for the Splendid Table podcast provided by MureGlen Organic Tomatoes, |
| 0:34.5 | sun-sweetened, picked in late, and canned the same day to preserve their |
| 0:38.2 | fresh, fine, ripened flavor. Online at Muroglen.com. |
| 0:46.3 | Hi, it's Lynn Rosetta, Casper, and you're listening to The Splendid Table, the show for |
| 0:50.3 | people who love to eat. Our program is produced by American Public Media and brought to you by Super Target. |
| 0:57.0 | Well, today it's an English Christmas. |
| 0:59.1 | No Tiny Tim, but we have got the roast goose, the trimmings, and a man with an especially |
| 1:03.4 | mellow approach to cooking. |
| 1:05.6 | He's the observer's food columnist Nigel Slater, and his book is The Kitchen Diaries |
| 1:10.7 | A Year in the Kitchen with Nigel Slater. and his book is The Kitchen Diaries A Year in the Kitchen |
| 1:11.9 | with Nigel Slater. |
| 1:13.8 | Well, Santa's going to leave extra stuff when he gets a taste of our cheese picks for his |
| 1:18.2 | snack plate. |
| 1:19.6 | Cheese guy Steve Jenkins presides. |
| 1:21.9 | Strangers with Candy Star, Amy Sederis, counsels us on party etiquette, like stuffing |
| 1:26.6 | your medicine cabinet with marbles for those guests who love to snoop. |
| 1:30.9 | A beer fairy tale comes with a life lesson, and as always, in the second half of the show, we're going to be opening the lines for your calls. |
| 1:37.3 | You can get to us at 800, 537-52-52. |
| 1:42.6 | So let's roll with Jane and Michael Stern. They write the road food column in Gourmet |
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