The Way We Garden Now
The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters
American Public Media
4.3 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2007
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
This week it's vegetable gardening for the horticulturally challenged. Gardening expert Katherine Whiteside, author of The Way We Garden Now, stops by with short cuts to instant gratification (hard labor is not for her) and a recipe for Rhubarbaritas.
Mike Colameco, host of Colameco's Food Show on New York's PBS Channel 13, is back with tips for picnics in New York City. Keeping to the theme, Lynne shares a recipe for Roasted Asparagus Potato Salad.
Self-described pleasure activist Fred Plotkin, author of Italy for the Gourmet Traveler, returns to the show to talk what we don't know about Helsinki: the unforgettable seafood, the strawberries, those intriguing Fins!
Broadcast dates for this episode:
- April 21, 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. |
| 0:32.3 | Hi, it's Lynn Rosetta, Casper, and you're listening to The Splendid Table, the show for |
| 0:40.6 | people who love to eat. Our program is produced by American Public Media and brought to you by Super Target. |
| 0:47.4 | Today, it's Garden Rebel Catherine Whiteside. Now, she's the gardening authority with more |
| 0:52.4 | shortcuts to a great vegetable garden |
| 0:54.3 | than you can shake a stalk of rhubarbat. Her book is the way we garden now. You know about |
| 1:00.3 | going to New York for the restaurant scene, but how about going to New York for the picnic scene? |
| 1:05.4 | It's a great picnic town, and Mike Colomeco tells us how to have Thomas Keller cater our lunch in the |
| 1:10.5 | park. |
| 1:11.6 | Self-described pleasure activist Fred Plotkin talks what we never knew about Helsinki, |
| 1:17.4 | like the unforgettable seafood, the strawberries, and those intriguing fins. |
| 1:22.4 | And as always, in the second half of the show, we're going to be opening the lines for your calls. |
| 1:26.7 | You can reach us at 800-537-52-52. So let's get started, the way we do every week, with Jane and Michael |
| 1:35.4 | Stern. They write the road food column in Gourmet Magazine. Do you guys get to Portland, Oregon much? |
| 1:48.3 | Because that is a city I have always felt I need weeks to really, you know, explore for the possibilities. |
| 1:55.6 | Isn't it fabulous? |
| 1:57.1 | It's one of my favorite cities in the country. |
| 1:59.9 | And every time we go there, we find a new discovery. |
| 2:04.7 | And our latest discovery is a place called voodoo donuts. |
| 2:09.7 | Wait a minute. |
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