The Tenth Muse

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

American Public Media

Food, Arts

4.3 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2007

⏱️ 52 minutes

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This week it's a look at the pivotal cookbooks of our time with Judith Jones, the woman who brought them to print. She didn't set out to edit cookbooks. Then she discovered Julia Child, Marcella Hazan and a clutch of other "greats." The rest is history. Judith's recipe for Frenchified Meatloaf is from her latest book, The Tenth Muse: My Life in Food.

Jane and Michael Stern stop by with their report on Lupie's in Charlotte, North Carolina. They say the squash casserole is worth a trip.

Consummate cookbook author and baker Dorie Greenspan simply cannot resist testing kitchen gadgets. It's led to some great stocking stuffers. Gail Monaghan, author of Lost Desserts, takes a look at antique desserts. Her recipe for Red Wine Jelly is a stunner no one has seen for at least a century.

We have the story of Will Scott, one of California's last African American farmers, and the chef who carries on his cultural and culinary traditions at Farmerbrown restaurant in San Francisco. Author and photographer Melanie Dunea tells us about a perfect gift for all the chef groupies on your holiday shopping list: her book titled My Last Supper: 50 Great Chefs and Their Final Meals and, as always Lynne takes your calls.

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December 8, 2007

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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.
0:24.5	Listen to Our Common Nature from WNYC, wherever you get podcasts.
0:36.2	Hi, it's Lynne Rosetta, and you're listening to The Splendid Table, the show for people who love to eat.
0:43.2	Our program is produced by American Public Media.
0:46.4	Today we talk with the Doyen of cookbook editors, Judith Jones.
0:50.6	Now, Judith didn't set out to edit cookbooks, yet she discovered Julia Child,
0:55.0	Marcella Hazan, and a clutch of other greats. Her new memoir is The Tenth Muse, My Life in Food.
1:02.9	Well, consummate cookbook author and baker Dory Greenspan has an Achilles heel. She can't resist
1:09.0	testing gadgets, and it's led to some good gift picks.
1:12.5	Then it's a culinary detective whose unearthed dessert recipes from bygone eras. Remember baked Alaska?
1:19.5	And as always, in the second half of the show, we're going to be opening the lines for your calls.
1:23.8	The number's 800, 537, 5252. So let's get things rolling with Jane and Michael Stern.
1:31.6	They write the road food column in Gourmet magazine.
1:42.2	Jane, Michael, I think this is about the time of year you head south, am I right?
1:47.6	Yeah.
1:48.0	I mean, we head south all the time, but yes, Lynn, this is when we head south.
1:54.0	And let me tell you about what we found on our most recent trip at a place called Loopies in Charlotte, North Carolina, was absolutely
2:03.6	fabulous squash casserole, which is a very, very southern dish. Do you know what? Do you know what I mean?
2:12.2	No, I don't. Squash casserole is prepared in a number of different ways, but at Loopies is the traditional way, which is slices of yellow crook squash with cheese sauce and cornbread crumbles on the top.
2:31.7	And it's one of those dishes that people who hate vegetables suddenly
2:36.6	realize they love vegetables because you can't taste the vegetable at all. You just taste the cheese
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