Travels in Spain

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

American Public Media

Food, Arts

4.3 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2001

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

We're traveling and eating in Spain this week with journalist Anya Von Bremzen. Anya says Spain is the most exciting place in Europe to eat these days. The chefs there are rethinking the very foundations of food and a culinary revolution is happening. Along the way we'll stop off in Bilbao to visit the new Guggenheim Museum, the site of an architectural revolution.

Jane and Michael Stern are in the California desert eating apple pies at theJulian Pie Company. Jewish-food authority and writer Matthew Goodman is back to tell us of the surprising origins of fish and chips and leaves us with the recipe for Fish & Chips from London's Upper Street Fish Shop.

Still have that old fondue pot from the 1970s lurking in the attic? Dust it off and get ready for a fondue lesson from Switzerland with our hungry reporter Scott Haas. We'll meet food sculptor Peter Anton, a man with a different take on the hungry artist theme, and the phone lines will be open for your calls.

Broadcast dates for this episode:

December 9, 2000 (originally aired)
October 20, 2001 (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.
0:30.6	It's Lynn Rosetta-Castor with the splendid table.
0:41.8	Thank you. table. You've probably heard of the new Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, designed by Frank Gehry.
0:48.0	Well, if you call Geary's rippling architecture original, our guest believes you have to call
0:53.9	what's happening to food in Spain
0:55.3	downright wild.
0:57.3	Journalist Anya Van Bremsen of Travel and Leisure Magazine thinks that Spain has the most
1:01.8	revolutionary food in all Europe.
1:04.9	Jane and Michael Stern have discovered the paragon of pie in California.
1:10.0	Fish and chips will take on a whole new identity after you hear from writer Matthew Goodman.
1:14.8	We get a fondue report from a home kitchen in Switzerland, and we meet a man with a new take on the hungry artist theme.
1:22.0	All this and your calls coming up on the splendid table.
1:26.4	But first, this.
1:34.4	It's Lynn Rosetta Caspers with Kitchen Chronicles, where knowledge is power and cooking
1:39.4	is pleasure, a practical guide to nourishing ourselves and the people we care about.
1:45.1	Today, let's talk about new ways of creating great-looking tables.
1:50.2	A little imagination goes a long way, whether it's for a weeknight dinner, a dress-up
1:54.9	supper party, or a casual buffet.
1:58.0	Anybody can go out and spend a fortune on brand new table stuff and end up with something
2:02.4	that looks good, but it's a lot more fun and a lot cheaper to use what you've got or what you
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