Tomatoland
The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters
American Public Media
4.3 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 August 2012
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
We look at the surprising politics of Florida's winter tomatoes with investigative journalist Barry Estabrook, author of Tomatoland. Jane and Michael Stern take on the South's favorite cocktail accompaniment, pimento cheese. And Francis Lam, the features editor at Gilt Taste, joins Lynne to talk about how to do great things with what we usually throw out.
Broadcast dates for this episode:
- August 20, 2011 (originally aired)
- August 4, 2012 (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 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. |
| 0:24.4 | Listen to Our Common Nature from WNYC, wherever you get podcasts. |
| 0:32.3 | It's the splendid table from APM American Public Media. |
| 0:44.3 | Thank you. table from APM, American Public Media. I'm Lynne Roocet or Casper. |
| 0:46.5 | Did you buy any chance read Bill Buford's book, Heat? |
| 0:49.9 | Part of it's about him cooking in one of Mario Patali's restaurants. |
| 0:54.2 | One night he sees Mario ream out his cooks for tossing celery stalks and leaves into the trash. |
| 1:00.2 | And to make his point, Mario cooks up a dynamite pasta dish with those stalks and leaves. |
| 1:05.7 | Well, call this a cook who can't stand waste, or call it frugality flipped over into ingenuity. But either way, |
| 1:15.1 | stick around because we're going to be doing some great things with what we usually throw out. |
| 1:20.8 | And there's much more this hour on the Splendid Table. |
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| 1:50.0 | This week's Splendid Table is a repeat of an earlier broadcast. |
| 1:57.7 | This is the Splendid Table from APM American Public Media, the show for people who love to eat. |
| 1:59.4 | I'm Lynne Rossetto-Casper. |
| 2:17.2 | We're in tomato nirvana. Local tomatoes are going full tilt. We're eating so many homegrowns. We're practically turning red. |
| 2:19.8 | But with all this romping around, there's a side of the tomato you don't hear about. |
| 2:24.9 | Barry Estherbrook is an investigative journalist. His website is Politics of the Plate. |
| 2:30.7 | In 2009, he set out to get the answer to a question we've all asked, why can't we get a |
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