The Women's Pages
The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters
American Public Media
4.3 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2018
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Chef Amanda Cohen is an outspoken critic of food media and sexism in the food industry. She and Francis Lam discuss the changes that need to be made in the restaurant industry to order to get more women excited about and active long-term in professional kitchens. Food writer and journalist Hanna Raskin introduces the groundbreaking women who made American food writing before anyone called it "food writing," by way of the women's pages in popular newspapers. Correspondent Abigail Leonard takes us inside a Buddhist monastery in Japan to learn how Japanese monks are teaching a new generation of chefs to use seasonal ingredients – and zen principles – to elevate their cooking. When it comes to setting it and forgetting it, not all slow cookers can be trusted to get the job done correctly. Lisa McManus from America's Test Kitchen has the results of a recent equipment review. Plus, chef Daniel Patterson talks about his relationship with vegetables -- and meat -- in his vegetable-centric restaurant Coi.
Broadcast dates for this episode:
- March 9, 2018
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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. |
| 0:24.5 | Listen to Our Common Nature from WNYC, wherever you get podcasts. |
| 0:30.2 | Hey, it's Francis Lamb. |
| 0:32.5 | Thanks so much for downloading this week's podcast. |
| 0:34.8 | You know, we hope you love the show and that you'll want more, more, more, more. |
| 0:38.3 | Well, never fear. |
| 0:39.3 | You can find more info on everything you hear at splendid table.org. |
| 0:43.5 | Recipes, videos, info on all of our guests and their books, and you can subscribe to our newsletter, Weeknight Kitchen. |
| 0:50.7 | It's all about getting you delicious things to make on weeknights. |
| 0:53.5 | But right now, here's this week's podcast. |
| 1:00.2 | I'm Frances Lamb, and this is The Splendid Table from APM American Public Media, the show for curious cooks and eaters. |
| 1:19.9 | This week, we're diving into a master's take on cooking with vegetables with Michelin-starred chef Daniel Patterson. |
| 1:22.3 | We look at Buddhist cooking in Japan, and starting things out this hour, we're going |
| 1:26.4 | to do some thinking about women in the |
| 1:28.3 | kitchen. Amanda Cohen is the chef owner of dirt candy in New York City, where the food is |
| 1:34.1 | playful, punny, and creative. But on top of her chef cred, Amanda is a sharp-eyed and hilarious |
| 1:41.1 | critic of celebrity chefs, the food media, and most pointedly, sexism in the food world. |
| 1:47.0 | A few years back, she took on Time magazine when they did a cover story called The Gods of Food, |
| 1:53.0 | which included a hundred chefs, not a single one of them women. |
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