The Spice Coast
The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters
American Public Media
4.3 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2002
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
This week we're off to the Spice Coast of southern India where the air is fragrant with cinnamon and pepper, the people are gracious, and the food is grand. It's the family home of our guest, Maya Kaimal, author of Savoring the Spice Coast of India, and hospitality is a way of life. Maya's recipe for Steamed Mussels in Coconut Milk is an example of the exotic fare you'll encounter here.
Jane and Michael Stern have stumbled upon a family feud at Manganaro's, one of their favorite places in New York City. Food expert John Willoughby is back with some good news about sea scallops, and sculptor Kiko Denzer says you can build your own wood-fired oven for little money by using mud! His book, Build Your Own Earth Oven tells us how. The idea has Lynne so excited we hear she's attempting to thaw the earth in her backyard and start construction. In the second half of the show, it's open lines for your calls, and Lynne tells us how to cook Effortless Polenta.
Broadcast dates for this episode:
- January 27, 2001 (originally aired)
- January 12, 2002 (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. |
| 0:30.9 | It's Lynn Rosetta Casper with the Splendid Table. |
| 0:33.6 | Music table. |
| 0:44.5 | Today, it's get out of that rut. |
| 0:50.4 | We are luring you into a world that's fragrant with spices, peopled with gracious folk, and where the food is just plain grand. |
| 0:53.7 | Our guest is Maya Kamal, and she's taking us to the land of her family, the little-known |
| 0:59.1 | spice coast of southern India, a new travel destination for us. |
| 1:03.8 | Jane and Michael Stern have stumbled upon a family feud in Hell's Kitchen. |
| 1:07.7 | Food expert John Willoughby has the scoop on the great comeback |
| 1:10.8 | of the sea |
| 1:11.5 | scallop. |
| 1:12.4 | And sculptor |
| 1:13.1 | Kiko Denzer says |
| 1:14.3 | if you can |
| 1:15.0 | make mud pies, |
| 1:16.0 | you can |
| 1:16.3 | build your own |
| 1:17.0 | wood-fired |
| 1:17.7 | oven for |
| 1:18.4 | next to |
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