The Secret Life of Lobsters
The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters
American Public Media
4.3 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 30 July 2005
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
This week, our guest Trevor Corson, author of The Secret Life of Lobsters, takes a new look at endangered sea life. It's story of underwater feminism, renegade scientists, and amorous crustaceans!
The Sterns are road tripping into fried pie country where they've found a gem called Family Pie Shop.
Rick Bayless picks wines to drink with Mexican food, and shares a recipe for Garlicky Grilled Portobello Mushrooms with Smoky Tomato-Chile Salsa from his book Mexico One Plate At A Time. Smart cook Sally Schneider talks how to waste nothing and be ready for anything. It's all in how you use your freezer. Keep her Fool-Proof Flaky Butter Pastry on hand for a spur-of-the-moment fruit pizza or pie. B-52 rocker Kate Piersen tells about her retro Lazy Meadow Motel in the Catskill Mountains, and Lynne takes your calls.
Broadcast dates for this episode:
- July 17, 2004 (originally aired)
- July 30, 2005 (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. |
| 0:31.1 | It's Lynn Rosetta Casper with the splendid table. |
| 0:42.3 | Thank you. table. This week it's the secret life of lobsters, the book by journalist Trevor Corsen. |
| 0:47.3 | Now, it reads like a novel, but it is nonfiction, a new take on possibly threatened |
| 0:52.3 | sea life, a story of feminism underwater, |
| 0:55.5 | renegade scientists, and amorous crustaceans. Well, the Stearns are road-tripping into |
| 1:00.2 | fried pie country. Mexican food guy Rick Bayliss says with Mexican eats, you got to go for the |
| 1:05.7 | grape, not the brew. Smart cook Sally Schneider talks how to waste nothing and be ready for anything. It's all in how you play your freezer. And we hear from B-52 rocker Kate Pearson. She's got a groovy hideaway motel that is pure retro. All this and your calls coming up on the splendid table. But first, this. |
| 1:33.6 | So food. |
| 1:36.4 | Talking about soul food, |
| 1:38.9 | candy cans. |
| 1:41.2 | Hot biscuits, |
| 1:43.6 | and big fat, juicy hands. So, boo! |
| 1:47.0 | Talking about soulful food, call her dreams. |
| 1:52.0 | Hot corned red and fat, sack, swimming in beans. |
| 1:57.0 | I just found a woman, She ain't nothing for looks |
| 2:02.6 | But up in the kitchen |
| 2:05.6 | She tends to business and goods |
| 2:08.6 | Talking about sole foods |
| 2:12.6 | Plenty of goods |
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