The Ten Restaurants That Changed America
The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters
American Public Media
4.3 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 29 September 2017
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Paul Freedman gives Lynne Rossetto Kasper the names of the ten restaurants that changed America. Lynne also talks with Melanie Dunea about the latter's conversation with Sylvia Weinstock, who is still making artisan cakes at 87 years old. In addition, Noelle Carter chats with author Michelle McKenzie about a unique use for fig leaves, David Leite gets the lowdown on turmeric from Julie Sahni. And Bridget Lancaster, host of America's Test Kitchen, introduces what may be your new favorite grill recipe - Grilled Lamb-Stuffed Pitas!
Broadcast dates for this episode:
- September 30, 2016 (originally aired)
- September 29, 2017 (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 |
| 0:07.0 | complicated country. |
| 0:08.7 | We go into caves, onto boats, and up mountain trails to meet people, hear their stories, |
| 0:14.4 | their poetry, and of course, play some music, all to reconnect to nature and get closer to the things we're missing. |
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| 0:44.9 | week's podcast, hosted by Lynn Rosetta Casper. |
| 0:53.9 | This is the Splendid Table from APM, American Public Media, the show for people who love to eat. |
| 1:01.6 | I'm Lynne Rosetta, Casper. |
| 1:16.9 | That old saying, tell me what you eat, and I'll tell you who you are. |
| 1:21.1 | Well, that's true, but how about historian Paul Friedman's take? |
| 1:25.5 | Show me your restaurants, and I'll show you what's shaping your community. |
| 1:28.6 | Take New York City in the 1830s. |
| 1:33.2 | A new country, lots of new money, the era of more is more, |
| 1:36.3 | as in the palatial restaurant Del Monaco's, |
| 1:41.0 | where as the matriads seats you, he tucks a silk pillow at your back. The pillow is embroidered with your initials. |
| 1:59.7 | Then he hands you the menu. It's printed in gold leaf on satin. Well, this is how Paul Friedman, the Yale historian, opens his story of 10 restaurants that changed America. Paul, good to have you back. I'm delighted to be with you again. |
| 2:02.1 | So, 10 restaurants. |
| 2:03.8 | Which ones did you choose? |
| 2:10.0 | So in the order of the chapters that I devoted to them, and it's roughly chronological, |
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