The Vietnamese Kitchen

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

American Public Media

Arts, Food

4.3 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2006

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

This week our guest, Andrea Nguyen, takes us to Vietnam for a look at the culture and lore behind a cuisine that began 4,000 years ago with a prince from the sea. Andrea leaves us her recipe for Chicken and Cellophane Noodle Soup from her gorgeous book, Into the Vietnamese Kitchen: Treasured Foodways, Modern Flavors.

The Sterns' penchant for prison gift shops led them to some great hush puppies and shredded pork sandwiches at Hocutt's Carolina Barbecue. It's right across from the big house in Moundsville, West Virginia. We have the obscure but excellent in holiday mail order gifts from Francine Maroukian, author of Chefs' Secrets: Insider Techniques from Today's Culinary Masters; then, we flip to inside a food mail order warehouse — Zingerman's — where the rush reins and it's all about controlled chaos.

Ray Isle, senior wine editor for Food & Wine magazine, reports in with his favorite wines and spirits of 2006, including a knockout red for $7.00! Dan Oko ponders the doggie bag dilemma (the original commentary appeared in the November/December issue of Mother Jones), and Lynne shares some olive oil picks, passes along the recipe for Ernie Crippin's Lefse, and takes your calls.

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December 9, 2006

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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.
0:29.9	Support for the Splendid Table podcast provided by MureGlen Organic Tomatoes,
0:34.5	sun-sweetened, picked in late summer and canned the same day, to preserve their
0:38.3	fresh, fine, ripened flavor. Online at Muroglen.com.
0:46.0	It's Lynne Rosetta Casper, and you're listening to The Splendid Table, the show for people
0:50.3	who love to eat. Our program is produced by American Public Media and brought to you by Super Target.
0:56.7	Well, today it's eating Vietnamese, but getting more from the experience by digging into
1:01.5	its lore, as in going back 4,000 years to a prince from the sea.
1:06.9	Our guest is Andrea Nguyen, author of Into the Vietnamese Kitchen.
1:11.4	Esquire Magazine's Francine Marukin has new takes on mail-order favorites.
1:16.1	The coffees, chocolates, and condiments you might not find on your own.
1:20.4	Next, we really get into mail-order food, as in inside the warehouse in the middle of the holiday rush.
1:27.4	Food and Wine magazine has tallied up the exciting new wines and spirits of 2006.
1:33.3	And as always, in the second half of the show, we're going to be opening the lines for your calls.
1:38.2	The number is 800, 537-52-52.
1:42.4	Oh, hey, we want to welcome a new station, Washington, D.C.,'s WAMU. Hey, it's good to have you
1:47.6	with us. Okay, let's roll with Jane and Michael Stern. They write the Road Food column in Gourmet
1:52.6	magazine.
2:00.4	Hey, Jane, Michael, you've been in one of my favorite states, West Virginia.
2:04.7	What have you turned up?
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