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

The Lost Art of Real Cooking

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

American Public Media

Food, Arts

4.33K Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2011

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

This week we're talking with Ken Albala author of The Lost Art of Real Cooking. Jane and Michael Stern are eating at Menches Brothers in Uniontown, OH. And Melissa Clark, author of In The Kitchen With a Good Appetite brings us her take on autumn pie-making; plus we'll hear the latest on international tipping from Travel & Leisure's Mark Orwoll.


Broadcast dates for this episode:


  • October 2, 2010 (originally aired)
  • November 26, 2011 (rebroadcast)

Transcript

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0:00.0

Sean has had some good ideas over the years, but using Canva was a really good one.

0:08.0

Sean designed some social posts to promote his friend's car boot sale.

0:13.0

They looked good, really, really good.

0:17.0

Next thing he knows, someone came and bought the loft, including the car.

0:24.5

Now Sean doesn't know how he's going to get home.

0:28.0

Thanks, Canva.

0:31.4

Our common nature is a musical journey with Yo-Yo Ma and me, Anna Gonzalez, through this complicated country.

0:38.7

We go into caves, onto boats, and up mountain trails to meet people, hear their stories,

0:44.4

their poetry, and of course, play some music, all to reconnect to nature and get closer to the things we're missing.

0:54.5

Listen to Our Common Nature from WNYC, wherever you get podcasts.

1:02.1

It's the splendid table from APM American Public Media.

1:15.9

I'm Lynne Rosetta, Casper.

1:19.9

The next time you're in a market, take a new look at the produce section.

1:21.6

Carrots, for instance.

1:24.7

They're chilled in displays that are powered by electricity,

1:27.2

and they're wrapped in petroleum-based plastic. Basically, what those grocers are doing are attempting to duplicate what a root cellar has been doing for ages.

1:34.3

Now, a root cellar is a space with low temperatures and high humidity.

1:39.3

It's where you can stash a winter's worth of food on the cheap.

1:42.3

It could be an insulated mound of dirt in the backyard,

1:46.0

or it could be a closet in your apartment. Well, there's more from the lost arts of eating well,

1:52.6

so stick around for this hour on the Splendid Table.

2:05.6

This week's Splendid Table is a repeat of an earlier broadcast.

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