The Napa Valley
The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters
American Public Media
4.3 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2001
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
It's a bargain hunter's guide to the Napa Valley wine country this week with valley insider Antonia Allegra, author of Napa Valley: The Ultimate Winery Guide. Antonia assures us we don't have to cash in the IRA and take out a bank loan to visit this pricey destination. She takes us where the locals go for superb budget dining, to a winery offering free classes, and shares her sources for good wines at reasonable prices. Would you believe bottles for less than $7? Tune in and we'll tell you where to find them.
Jane and Michael Stern are relishing Big Butts in Robertsdale, Alabama. Herb genius Jerry Traunfeld is back talking mint and sharing his recipe for Zucchini Strands with Mint. We'll find out how to banish house and garden pests with Slug Bread & Beheaded Thistles, and the phone lines will be open for your calls.
Broadcast dates for this episode:
- August 19, 2000 (originally aired)
- August 11, 2001 (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. |
| 0:30.8 | It's Lynn Rosetta, Casper, with the splendid table. |
| 0:42.3 | Yeah. table. Today we have a bargain hunter's guide to the Napa Valley Wine Country. |
| 0:47.1 | Our guest is Antonia Allegra, a food authority and a valley insider. |
| 0:52.2 | Napa is gorgeous, but it ain't cheap. |
| 0:55.2 | Winery tours can run 30 bucks ahead, |
| 0:57.6 | and you may need a bank loan to go out for dinner. |
| 1:00.7 | But Tony has great bargain restaurants and wineries |
| 1:04.3 | that you don't find in the guidebook. |
| 1:06.6 | Our road food duo, Jane and Michael Stern, |
| 1:09.0 | are in Alabama checking out big butts. |
| 1:12.6 | That's genius with herbs. |
| 1:14.2 | Chef Jerry Trounfeld talks mint, and we learn how slug bread and beheaded sistles can deal with house and garden tests. |
| 1:22.4 | All this and your call coming up on this splendid table. |
| 1:26.5 | But first, this. |
| 1:34.7 | It's Lynn Rosetta, Casper, with Kitchen Chronicles, where knowledge is power and cooking |
| 1:39.7 | is pleasure, a practical guide for nourishing ourselves and the people we care about. |
| 1:46.0 | This is the time of year that you could start thinking about cool soups. |
| 1:50.0 | Now the main cooking rule here is you don't turn on the stove. |
| 1:55.0 | One of the things I love about cool soups is the variety. |
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